Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Roland V. Shutts (illustrator). 315 pp. Tightly bound. Text free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: (1) On the second and third page in there is a small stain to the paper from an old paper clip that left a rusty mark. (2) There is foxing to the page edges. (3) The top corners are lightly bumped. This is an "acceptable to good" reading copy of the original 1936 publication. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
Published by Philadelphia: Penn, 1936, 1936
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Shutts, Roland V. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Original Cloth. Ex-library. First Ed. Lacks frontispiece; spine cloth coming loose; back cover hanging precariously by the threads of the bottom half of the hinge; binding worn, especially at extremities, with some soil; spine tips and corners worn; interior has soil, mostly in margins; reading copy. 315 p., with black and white illustrations and seven charming color plates.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Roland V. Shutts (illustrator). Second Printing. 318 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Faint discoloration to binding. Light foxing to endpapers. DJ lightly soiled and foxed w/ light chipping and few short tears to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ color plates and b/w text drawings. Contents nice.
Language: English
Published by The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1936
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Roland V. Shutts, Illustrator (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean first edition. Unfaded brown boards pressed with feather design, gold mallard rising from water; gold lettering on cover and spine. Light surface wear to spine ends, no fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with red top-stained upper page edges; clean illustrated endpapers; previous owner name neatly penned on half-title page. Full color frontispiece illustration; many lovely full color and b&w illustrations by Roland V. Shutts. 315 pages. All about breeding and raising game birds, including ducks, pheasants, quail, wild geese and more.
Hardcover.