Description:
Hardcover Cloth 404 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1967. Attractive waxed tan boards with black and green embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored. Slight shelf wear. Edges and pages have the usual yellowing. AARON rubber stamped on bottom edge. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Previous owner treated this book with microcrystalline wax giving it a shiny, smooth coating that covers the fabric boards all the way to the inside paste downs.
Describes the challenges and successes that can be found in the different game species hunted, combining folk storytelling with scientific naturalism, and social anthropology.
In this book, the author takes the reader across early and mid-20th century America and takes us along to view the panoramas and byways of a time and place that has long disappeared in most places. His writing remains true to an American tradition that doesn't… Read More