Hunting & Fishing

Elinskas, Robert J. A Deer Hunter's History Book. Pure Adirondack Reading from the Regions of Indian Lake, Blue Mountain Lake & Raquette Lake, NY. New York: The Author, 2005. xii, 316 pages. Bibliography. Photographs. Signed by the author. 'The guides, residents, seasonal hunters, businesses that cater to hunters, all have their story to tell. This book describes 'What went on' in and around the Blue Ridge Wilderness area in the 20th century.' - Rear cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0977101703. #26485. $65
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Kalman, James M., illustrations, and text by C. Meade Patterson. A Pictorial History of U.S. Single Shot Martial Pistols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Copy 2050 of an edition of 2500, of which 2375 are for sale. Oblong folio (very large book). [4], 44 colored plates with text on facing pages. Bibliography. Signed by both illustrator and author. Good hardcover in worn and frayed dust jacket in library acetate cover. Exlibrary: Spine labels, bookplate on front flyleaf, blind stamp on lower corner of title page and rear leaf; stamps, barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper. Lower corner of front jacket flap missing, not affecting text; lower third of rear jacket flap missing, affecting some text. #24028. $30
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Paulsen, Gary. Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods. Illustrations by Ruth Wright Paulsen. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. 1st printing. xiii, 159 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. ISBN 0385320531. #27924. $35
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Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st printing. xi, 369 pages. Photographs. Fair hardcover, brown cloth with gilt title and lion's head device, front and rear hinges quite weak, spine partially chipped and repaired with tape, top and bottom of backstrip chipped, some dampstains along top margin and out margins of first 63 pages. #25482. $70
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Smith, Harry Worcester, 1865-1945, and Frederick Gustavus Skinner. A Sporting Family of the Old South, with which is included Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Company, 1936. xvii, 477 pages. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Frontispiece. Added title page: A Sporting Family of the Old South: The Story of Five Generations of Sportsmen, Starting with John Stuart Skinner, 1788, and Ending with His Great-great-grandson, 1936 - John Stuart Skinner, Frederick Gustavus Skinner, Frederick Stuart Green, Francis Thornton Greene. Included in this volume are The Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman and Other Articles by Frederick Gustavus Skinner. Published for Private Subscription. Good hardcover, pictorial endpapers. Exlibrary: spine label, stamp on top edge, stamp inside front cover; barcode label and pocket on rear flyleaves. #28282. $35
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Virgines, George E. Famous Guns and Gunners. Illustrated by Tom Berger. Foreword by Jerome Rakusan. West Allis, Wisconsin: Leather Stocking Books, in association with Pine Mountain Press, 1980. 4to (large book). 113 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Part I: Guns and Gunners That Made the West; Part II: Guns and Gunners That Sold the West. Very good large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover). ISBN 0897690095. #25496. $15
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