Description
First edition of American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, edited by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell.
Octavo, 345pp, [22 ads]. Three quarter green morocco, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands, green cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Clean text throughout, solid text block. Tape remnant to rear endpaper. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 15 full-page illustrations. A fine example.
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.
