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WAM-DUS-KY: A DESCRIPTIVE RECORD OF A HUNTING TRIP TO NORTH DAKOTA
by [Tuttle, James H.]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis: Hall, Black & Co., 1893.. 178pp. Photographic frontispiece plus thirty-one photographic illustrations by Adelaide Murphy in the text, one line illustration. Photographic titlepage vignette. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered "Wam-dus-ky" on upper cover. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Hinges neatly reinforced, contemporary date note in blue pencil on front fly leaf. Publication date neatly effaced from titlepage and copyright page. Very clean internally. Near fine. Few copies of this account of a late 19th-century hunting trip in North Dakota were printed and, according to Tuttle, none were for sale. "An entertaining and well written account, with some good photographs and sketches of a duck and goose hunting trip to North Dakota in the fall of 1892" - Streeter. In the preface, Tuttle states that some 600 ducks were shot on the excursion, as well as a number of geese and prairie chickens. "Printed for the members of the party only....A hunting and shooting narrative of the first importance" - Eberstadt. Howes states that a total of thirty-five copies were printed. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.392. OWES T440, "aa." EBERSTADT 110:305. STREETER SALE 4113.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Reese Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM62248
- Title
- WAM-DUS-KY: A DESCRIPTIVE RECORD OF A HUNTING TRIP TO NORTH DAKOTA
- Author
- [Tuttle, James H.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hall, Black & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1893.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
William Reese Company
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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