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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. xxv, (iii), 249 pages; Contents clean and complete in original brown cloth binding with extensive gilt decoration. Very nice condition with some minor wear at spine ends. A beautifully designed and produced volume issued in a Limited Edition of 850 copies published by Derrydale Press. Introduction by Col. Lewis S. Thompson. This anthology includes contributions from David Wagstaff, Arthur B. Lapsey, W. Arnold Hanger, Clarence H. Mackay, Erastus T. Tefft, Henry L. Ferguson, Col. H. P. Sheldon, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, W. Averell Harriman, Lawernce B. Smith, Horace Lytle, P.N.B. Galwey-Foley, William E. Baker, Jr., and Eugene V. Connett. Illustrated in both colour and black & white plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, William J. Schaldach, Bert Cobb, and others. "The lack of an American book on shooting covering driven game, the problems of private preserves, the spaniels and retrievers, in addition to the more widely understood shooting of our wild upland game birds, has lead the editor to plan this volume".