Ralph S Norris (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, x + 188 pages with intertextual illustration, color past-down photo on black cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear, minor cover edge soiling, binding tight, paper white. Without dust jacket as issued. Without dust jacket (none issued.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Perma-Bound. First Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tight binding, clean interior. Black boards with bright copper lettering; moderate wear and scuffing, spine bumped, some faint soiling on back cover. Interior is unmarked, lots of photos. 188 pages. McCollough, Mark (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. - FIRST EDITION- This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a reprint edition- BINDING is dark gray cloth hardcover with pictorial paste-downs on front and back covers, and with titles in gold on covers and spine; binding and text are very neat, clean, bright and solid, NF. Overall, an EXCELLENT COLLECTOR COPY of a SCARCE HUNTING HANDBOOK with much USEFUL INFORMATION covering the STATE of MAINE. from the FAMILY FARM in LIVERMORE FALLS, MAINE to a RANCH in DIMMIT COUNTY, SOUTH TEXAS (hunting's famous GOLDEN TRIANGLE), to FAVORITE HUNTS in the ROCKY MOUNTAINS (wilderness above timberline), RALPH S. NORRIS (former HUNTING GUIDE and STATE of MAINE GAME WARDEN), is considered to be ONE of AMERICA'S TOP HUNTERS. The contents includes: HISTORY of the WHITETAIL DEER, TROPHY BUCK SECRETS, HUNTING TECHNIQUES and STRATEGIES, SCOUTING, BIG BUCKS I HAVE HUNTED, RATTLING-CALLS-LURES and DECOYS, JUDGING TROPHY BUCKS, HUNTING a FOOD SOURCE, TRACKING, MEASURING and SCORING a DEER, and much more! 188 pages complete with COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS throughout. Overall, an EXCELLENT COLLECTOR COPY of a SCARCE DEFINITIVE HUNTING HANDBOOK written and SIGNED by RALPH S. NORRIS. A real TROPHY in HUNTING LITERATURE.…