A Group of Five Sporting Books From Limited Editions Club and Amwell Press

To include:

Izaak Walton; Douglas W. Gorsline, illus. The Compleat Angler; Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation... New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Limited edition; no. 133 of 1500 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the colophon, as issued. Quarter white gilt-stamped leather over blue patterned paper-covered boards, top edge stained blue; in slipcase. Folio; xlii, 316pp. (Boards with minor wear, spine browned with areas of rubbing; occasional offsetting from illustrations; some leaves still partially unopened; slipcase with shelf wear and areas of toning. Very good/good to very good slipcase.)

and (4) books from The Amwell Press, all illustrated and in slipcases, including the following: The Bobwhite Quail Book edited by Lamar Underwood (1980, leather bound, a signed limited edition, no. 701 of 1000 copies, signed by Lamar Underwood, Donald Shoffstall, and Jim Rikhoff); and (3) cloth-bound books including Robert H. Bates's Mountain Man: The Story of Belmore Browne... (1988), Jack Connor's The Last Book: Confessions of a Gun Editor (1984), and John Batten's The Best of Sheep Hunting (1985, A High Country Heritage Book, 3rd printing (second trade)). (Occasional shelf or handling wear, foxing (mostly to slipcase interiors), toning, and ownership signature. Overall very good.)

Largest 13 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.; Smallest 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.

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