Klapp Milnor Editor (5 results)

Embossed Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Engravings (illustrator). Reprint. Light shelf wear, else immaculate and tight, gift quality copy; 286p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very fine. Sand Lake Press, Salem, 1988, one of 200 copies, reprint of the 1853 edition, with a new 3 pp introduction by Worth Mathewson. Illustrated with two b&w plates. 5.5" x 8.5". Brown cloth. 292 pp. Very fine.

Hardcover. Condition: About Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Apparent First. The most important aspect of this book is 4 separate pieces of original art, two signed "O. Pooley, '93." and two unsigned. The first is a sketch of a dog in pencil (unsigned, p. 39], the second a line drawing of a snipe at the end of the chapter on snipes (signed O. Pooley, '93,' the thrid is of a mallard landing on a lake with cattails and background executed in color pencils (signed O. Pooley, '93), and final sketch on page 286 with two shotguns crossed, and a mallard below that, done in colored pencil and probably pen (unsigned). The last two are the more important pieces. I have not found any information on O Pooley, and it appears to have been done 40 years after the book was published. The cloth is dark green, has an intricate embossed design front and back, and gilt lettering on the spine. There is significatn fraying and rounding of the tips. Front pastedown has an autograph of "John A. Gausche, Eden Park, July 1853" the front fly leaf ahs a tipped in clipping about using a compass in the woods and a bookplate (circa 1960s, as I had the same one) of a prior owner. Frontis of a dog is detached, tissue guard present. After the text there is a plate advertising "John Krider, Gun Maker, N.D. Cor. of Second Walnut Sts. Philadelphia," showing a hunter and a couple hunting dogs. This is followed by 6 pages of ads by John Krider. An interesting piece. This book is likely to require extra postage for overseas shipping which can be very high, so before ordering , contact me so that the postage rate can be agreed upon. ID# NS700.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hart, Philadelphia, 1853, first edition. Illustrated with 2 b&w plates, one of which is an engraved label, which Krider pasted inside the cases for guns he manufactured and sold. 6" x 8.5". Rebound with a modern brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, marbled endpapers. 292 pp, including 6 pp of ads for sporting equipment. Upland game bird and waterfowl shooting, including woodcock, plover, snipe, pigeon, grouse, rail, ducks, geese, including a long account of battery shooting at Havre de Grace on the Chesapeake, and information on sporting dogs. "All on game birds and wildfowl. An excellent work of the period" (Phillips). An important early American sporting book. Very good in a new binding.

A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, Philadelphia, 1853, first edition. Worn green blind embossed cloth. Worn, but good.