Lot Details & Additional Photographs
All leather bound with gilt-stamped decoration and lettering, raised bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon bookmarks, and all edges gilt; all but one no. 1402 of 3000 copies, from The Premier Press, Camden, South Carolina, 1983-91; various sizes, (16) volumes to include:
Roland Clark's
Gunner's Dawn; Havilah Babcock's
My Health is Better in November; Nash Buckingham's
De Shootinest Gent'man; Burton L. Spiller's
Firelight; Russell Annabel's
Tales of a Big Game Guide; Henry Wysham Lanier's
A.B. Frost: The American Sportsman's Artist; Charles Phair's
Atlantic Salmon Fishing; Howard L. Walden, II's
Upstream & Down; Roland Clark's
Stray Shots and
Pot Lock (2 books in one); Burton L. Spiller's
Grouse Feathers; Nash Buckingham's
Ole Miss'; Eugene V. Connett's
American Big Game Fishing; Nash Buckingham's
Blood Lines: Tales of Shooting & Fishing; Theodore Roosevelt's
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Horatio Bigelow's
Gunnerman's Gold; Archibald Rutledge's
An American Hunter (this last title is unnumbered).
Largest 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.; smallest 7 5/16 x 5 1/4 in.
All very good to near fine with occasional scuffs or scratches to boards, most with name or blind stamp of North Carolina sportsman and conservationist J. Robert Gordon; interiors generally pristine; a nice group with an interesting provenance.