Published by The Museums at Stony Brook. Long Island. 1979, 1979
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1979). 1979 1st edition. Oblong 8vo paperback (260 x 176mm). Pp152. Colour and b/w photographs, map, bibliography. Grey card covers with duck silhouette and blind-stamped circles representing shot. Slight browning but a very good copy. An illustrated catalogue of decoys in the Museums at Stoney Brook, Long Island, containing much anecdote and history of the days of commercial waterfowling, as well as sporting wildfowling and snipe shooting. Chapters include: The sporting life; The working life; Duck hunting on Long Island - battery shooting, whistler hunting, how to cook a coot, black duck country yields to mallard drives; Snipe hunting on Long Island; Getting geese and Brant; Paradise lost - banning spring hunting., .and feather hunting, ending the commercial sale of wildfowl in New York, The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, against the law; Decoys - a short history; Long Island decoy carvers - Gelston, Bowman, Verity, Lemuel Ackerly, John H.B. Boyle, Wilbur R. and Wilbur A. Corwin, George Eberhardt, Frank Kellum, William H. 'Will' Smith, William J. Southard, Eugene 'Gene' Wells; Map of Long Island; Catalog of The Museums Decoy Collection - key to the Catalog, marsh duck, diving duck, sea duck, merganser, goose, brant and swan, shorebird, miscellaneous. Appendices are: William Bowman; Obediah Verity. .
Published by The Museums at Stony Brook, 1979
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo softcover volume in grey paper wraps. 152 pages are tight and very clean. Box 5004.
Published by The Museums at Stony Brook,, 1979
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 152 pp. LCCN 79-90551 Oblong Book: Bears two generations of small gold foil ownership stickers of noted Long Island Carver family George Combs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The Museums at Stony Brook,, 1979
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 152 pp. LCCN 79-90551 Oblong. Display copy with a few rub marks to rear cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Museums at Stony Brook (1979), Stony Brook, NY, 1979
Paperback. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator). Stony Brook, NY: Museums at Stony Brook. G/No Dustjacket. (1979). . Paperback. Oblong 12mo., 152 pp., holes halfway punched through cover, edges rubbed .
Condition: New.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Condition: New.
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
£ 109.48
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Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
£ 113.50
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Add to basketCondition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Condition: New.
Published by The Museums at Stony Brook (1979), [Stony Brook, New York], 1979
Seller: Brick Walk Books, Orleans, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Fine in stiff wrappers. Profusely illustrated catalog which documents the history of the gunners and the decoys employed. Uncommon.