Lot Details
Lot 82
[BIG GAME HUNTING--EPHEMERA] Nine pieces of ephemera dealing with various aspects of big game hunting, including competitions, taxidermy, camps, bighorns and bears.
The collection comprises [JAMES L. CLARK STUDIOS] Second Annual National Championships Awards to Big Game Hunters. New York: James L. Clark Studios, 1933. Printed paper pamphlet, folded into 4 panels, each 10 x 4 1/4 inches (25.5 x 10.5 cm). Very minor soiling and wear; together with James L. Clark Studios, Inc. New York: James L. Clark Studios, 1931. Original printed paper wrapper. 35 pp., illustrated. Some soiling and wear to wrappers, contents with a few pale spots, old ownership stamp on upper wrapper; Eagle Lake Camps, Eagle Lake, Maine. Augusta, ME: The Augusta Press, [1930] Stapled in pictorially printed paper wrapper. 32 pp., illustrated. Some faint creasing, staples rusty, otherwise fine; SWANSON, GARY R. A Portrait of the California Desert Bighorn Sheep. [California: Gary R. Swanson], 1971. Presentation copy. Stapled in printed paper wrapper. 36 pp., illustrated. Wrappers a bit toned and soiled, contents bright, embossed ownership mark of noted California hunter Basil C. Bradbury; HOUSHOLDER, BOB. Hunting the Desert Bighorn. [Arizona: Bob Householder,] 1969. Printed paper wrapper. 22 pp., illustrated. Wear; JECK, LEONARD C. The Elusive Bighorn Ram. Alberta, Canada: Leonard C. Jeck, 1979. Glossy printed paper wrapper. 37 pp., illustrated. Light soiling and wear to wrappers; PALMER, J. FREDERICK. Grizzly Bear in the Canadian Rockies. Waukesha, Wisconsin: [no publisher], 1936. Printed paper wrapper. 39 pp., illustrated, spider web patterned glassine flyleaves. Wear to corners and spine, wrapper with some uneven toning, a very nice copy. "An extremely rare work relating the author's fruitful bear hunts in British Columbia" (Heller). Heller 276; Kodiak Bear Hunt. Kodiak, Alaska: Kodiak Conservation Club, [1970]. Publisher's printed paper wrapper. [2], i, [ii], 30, [2] pp., illustrated. Wrapper faded along spine and foredge; and PINNELL, BILL and TALIFSON, MORRIS. Kodiak Island is the Home of the Largest Bear in the World. [No place: no publisher, circa 1970]. Publisher's printed paper wrapper. 36 pp., illustrated. Worn and waterstained .
C Collection of John Valle Sporting Books
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