Three Sporting Books, Including Two Limited Editions

John Taintor Foote; Aiden L. Ripley, illus. JING. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. Limited edition; no. 80 of 950 copies. Hardcover. Half green cloth over green paper-covered boards. Thin 8vo; [xi], 37, [1]pp. (Boards with light rubbing to gilt and minor wear to extremities; bookstore sticker on front endpaper; interior with a couple of minor stains/marks. Very good.)

Frank Forester; Robert Ball, illus. MY SHOOTING BOX. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1941. Limited edition; no. 122 of 250 copies. Hardcover. Gilt-decorated and lettered blue pebbled cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo; [x], [1]-187, [1]pp. With color frontispiece and title page. (Boards with some rubbing to corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked; endpapers with foxing and bookstore stickers; frontispiece tissue guard with small area of detachment at head; interior with toning, light scattered foxing, occasional gutter cracking, and edge wear from opening the leaves; plate facing p. 99 partially detached. Good to very good.)

Havilah Babcock. MY HEALTH IS BETTER IN NOVEMBER. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1948. Second printing. Hardcover. Gilt-lettered and decorated cloth, in unclipped ($3.00) pictorial dust jacket. 8vo; [vi], [1-4]-284pp. (Light wear to boards; interior with mild toning, scuffing on one page, and an occasional spot of foxing; jacket toned with edge wear (heaviest at spine ends), and some soiling to back cover. Very good in like jacket.)

8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; 9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.