Title: Two sporting books by George Bird Grinnell Author: Grinnell, George Bird Place: New York Publisher: Forest and Stream Publishing Company Date: [1901], [1910] Description: 2 Volumes. (8vo) cloth. Comprises: American Duck Shooting. 627 pp. With 8 plates from photographs, drawings by Audubon, etc. Gilt-lettered with gilt-stamped duck emblems. No. 74 from a deluxe edition limited to 600 copies signed by the author. First Edition. American Game-Bird Shooting. [2], vii-xviii, 558 pp. With plates from photographs and other sources. First Edition. Sportsman, conservationist and anthropologist, George Bird Grinnell edited Forest and Stream magazine and co-edited American Big-Game Hunting with Theodore Roosevelt. A Yale-educated native New Yorker, Grinnell went west as a naturalist with Custer prior to the Little Big Horn and became a specialist on buffalo and the Plains tribes. He was a founding member of The Audubon Society. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to both volumes; mild dampstaining to American Game-Bird Shooting; front hinge cracked on American Duck Shooting. overall very good. Item number: 300946
Title: Two sporting books by George Bird Grinnell Author: Grinnell, George Bird Place: New York Publisher: Forest and Stream Publishing Company Date: [1901], [1910] Description: 2 Volumes. (8vo) cloth. Comprises: American Duck Shooting. 627 pp. With 8 plates from photographs, drawings by Audubon, etc. Gilt-lettered with gilt-stamped duck emblems. No. 74 from a deluxe edition limited to 600 copies signed by the author. First Edition. American Game-Bird Shooting. [2], vii-xviii, 558 pp. With plates from photographs and other sources. First Edition. Sportsman, conservationist and anthropologist, George Bird Grinnell edited Forest and Stream magazine and co-edited American Big-Game Hunting with Theodore Roosevelt. A Yale-educated native New Yorker, Grinnell went west as a naturalist with Custer prior to the Little Big Horn and became a specialist on buffalo and the Plains tribes. He was a founding member of The Audubon Society. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to both volumes; mild dampstaining to American Game-Bird Shooting; front hinge cracked on American Duck Shooting. overall very good. Item number: 300946
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