Sale 21JJ01 | Lot 7

[ALASKA-HUNTING] PALMER, J. FREDERICK. Kodiak Bear Hunt. Stalking the Giant Bears of Alaska

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
[ALASKA-HUNTING]  PALMER, J. FREDERICK. Kodiak Bear Hunt. Stalking the Giant Bears of Alaska

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Lot 7
[ALASKA-HUNTING] PALMER, J. FREDERICK. Kodiak Bear Hunt. Stalking the Giant Bears of Alaska
New York: Exposition Press, [1958]. Stated first edition. Publisher's light green cloth with black spine & cover titles, in dust jacket. 8 x 5 1/4 inches (20 x 13.5 cm); 79, [1] pp. Fine copy.
From the dust jacket: "Mr. Palmer and his party saw a total of almost a hundred bears on that wonderful, ragged rock, Kodiak Island, but he did not shoot his until the twelfth day--and then he shot two within minutes of each other, a seventeen-hundred-pound male and a twelve-hundred-pound charging female." Heller 277; Biscotti p. 277.


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Estimate: $40 - $60
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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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