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NY: D. Van Nostrand Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. DJ edgeworn/sl tanned. Drawings ; Signed by author. Green cloth hardback. Author's worldwide hunting adventures ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xiv + 189 pages; Signed by Author .
SPORT IS WHERE YOU FIND IT; LIMITED EDITION 247 OF 1475 by PHILIP K. CROWE - 1953
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SPORT IS WHERE YOU FIND IT; LIMITED EDITION 247 OF 1475
by PHILIP K. CROWE
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NEW YORK: D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY, INC., 1953 NEAR FINE BOOK SIGNED BY AUTHOR. LIMITED FIRST EDITION 247 OF 1475. NICE GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT OF HORSE RIDER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, DUST COVER VERY GOOD CONDITION. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT.
12 CHAPTERS INCLUDING HUNTING FOREFATHERS, SAHIBS OF INDIA, BEAGLING IN AMERICA, HORSE AND GUN IN CHINA, HOUNDS AND RETREIVERS MARYLAND, SLADAND AND TIGER IN INDO CHINA, HARE HUNTING NANTUCKET, PUCKERIDGE HOUNDS, OTTER AND HARE ENGLAND, WAR TIME HUNTING ENGLAND, STAG HUNTING EUROPE, TROUT SALMON MAHSEER. NICE INDEX.
Philip Kingsland Crowe (January 7, 1908 - November 16, 1976) was an American journalist, author, intelligence officer and career diplomat.
Crowe was a journalist at the New York Evening Post, traveled in French Indochina and ran big game hunt before working on ads in the magazines Life and Fortune. During World War II, he worked in the Office of Strategic Services where he was the secret intelligence officer in charge of an area, covering China, Burma and India.
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- Date Published 1953
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Sport is Where You Find It
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Sport Is Where You Find It
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D. Van Nostrand Company, 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1 of 1475 numbered copies. Signed by author. Cloth hardcovers are clean. Interior clean and tight. Dustjacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn with few small tears. . 8vo. Signed by Author Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.
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Sport is Where You Find It (SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION)
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New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1953. Book. Illus. by Brown, Paul. Very Good. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Van Nostrand, 1953. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION (750/1475). First edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, gilt decoration189 pp. Inscription on free front endpaper. No dustjacket. Boards scuffed, a little bowed. Very good..
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Sport Is Where You Find It
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New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1953. ltd.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. SIGNED. 189 pages including index. No.1050 of a printing limited to 1475. SIGNED BT CROWE on front flyleaf. Previous owner namestamp inside front cover. Dust jacket shows some edgewear; water damage to bottom half-inch of back cover. Internally very good. Record # 501746
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New York: Van Nostrand, 1953. Book. Illus. by Paul Brown, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. Clean limited edition (this being number 184 of 1475 numbered copies), SIGNED by author, in dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with small gold horse and rider on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Signed "Philip K. Crowe" on front free endpaper, with tasteful custom previous owner bookplate below author signature. Splendid illustrations throughout by Paul Brown. 189 pages with Index. Clean dust jacket is price clipped, has shallow chipping at top spine edge, slight edge wear and one closed tear (1-1/2"); nice photo of author mounted on his horse with foxhounds on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The author's preferred sport was fox hunting, but he also takes the reader along to trout streams worldwide and tiger hunting in Indo China, stag hunting…
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SPORT IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
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NY: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1953. 189pp. Copy #940 of 1475. Inscribed by author to Marjorie Baum, photographer and artist, and address stamp. Slight rubbing of book edges and corners. Jacket browned at spine and folds, corners rubbed. [loc=sports]. Signed by Author. Cloth. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Brown, Paul. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Hbk 189pp edition limited edition to 1475 copies of which this is number 1222 SIGNED by the author, dj slightly shelfworn with small missing chip now in a protective sleeve, internally an excellent unmarked clean tight text
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SPORT IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
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NY: D. VAN NOSTRAND CO.. COPY # 729 OF 1475. SONE DARKENING TO SPINE AREA. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1953.
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