Description
The first edition of American Big-Game Hunting, edited by George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt.
Octavo,[8], 345pp. Three-quarter morocco, title stamped in gilt on the spine, decorative raised bands. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing tips of the spine, sunning to the spine. Binding by the noted English bookbinder, Katharine Adams, with stamp on the second free endpaper. This volume has a faint tobacco smell to the text block. This work is complete, with a tissue covered frontispiece portrait and 15 illustrated plates. Includes the armorial bookplate of Ferdinand Grant Loeb (1865-1913) on the front pastedown. (Biscotti, XX)
This is the first book in the Boone & Crockett Club Acorn Series. It includes chapters by Theodore Roosevelt on hunting pronghorn, Owen Wister on his quest for Rocky Mountain goats, George Bird Grinnell on the history of buffalo on the western plains of the United States, and W.D. Pickett on his night spent with grizzly bears.
