The Out of Door Library: Angling, Hunting, and Mountain Climbing [3-Volume Matched Set in Custom Half-Morocco Leather — Inscribed to Percy Hall Jennings, Christmas 1897]
Yale, Leroy M.; Grinnell, George Bird; Rogers, Archibald; Rainsford, W. S.; Wilson, Edward L.; Conway, Sir W. Martin, et al.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1897
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Boston Book World, Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.Boston Book World
AbeBooks seller since October 21, 2026
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 450.00
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Handsome matched three-volume First Edition set from Charles Scribner's Sons' "The Out of Door Library" (1897, copyright 1896), comprising: (1) Angling (by Leroy M. Yale, A. Foster Higgins, J. G. A. Creighton, Robert Grant, A. R. Macdonough, Alexander Cargill, and Charles Frederick Holder), (2) Hunting (by Archibald Rogers, W. S. Rainsford, Frederic Irland, Birge Harrison, Harry C. Hale, Frank Russell, and George Bird Grinnell), and (3) Mountain Climbing (by Edward L. Wilson, Mark Brickell Kerr, Edwin Lord Weeks, William Williams, A. F. Jaccaci, H. F. B. Lynch, and Sir W. Martin Conway). Uniformly bound in custom late-19th-century dark green pebbled half-morocco leather over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands and gilt floral compartments. Distinguished Gilded Age provenance: the front flyleaf of Angling is inscribed in period ink "Percy Hall Jennings / Christmas 1897 / N. A. S." (Percy Hall Jennings, 1881–1951, Yale Class of 1904, son of Frederic Beach Jennings and Laura Hall Park Jennings, nephew of Standard Oil co-founder Oliver Burr Jennings, and grandson of Vermont Gov. Hiland Hall). Illustrated throughout with tissue-guarded frontispieces and plates. Tight bindings with light rubbing along raised bands and extremities. Ships carefully packed from Massachusetts.…
Seller Inventory # BBW-SCRIBNER-OUTOFDOOR-3V
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Out of Door Library: Angling, Hunting, and Mountain Climbing [3-Volume Matched Set in Custom Half-Morocco Leather — Inscribed to Percy Hall Jennings, Christmas 1897]
- Author
- Yale, Leroy M.; Grinnell, George Bird; Rogers, Archibald; Rainsford, W. S.; Wilson, Edward L.; Conway, Sir W. Martin, et al.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
- Publication year
- 1897
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Angling & Sporting, Rare & Antiquarian, Signed & Inscribed
Boston Book World
Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 21, 2026
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Boston Book World is a small independent bookshop on Boston's North Shore. We buy and sell used, rare and collectible books, and we love finding them good homes. Our shelves lean toward economics (Mises, Hayek, Hazlitt, Keynes and the classics), history, China and Asia, Judaica, children's classics, and signed and inscribed copies. We also offer a group of books from the Oyster Bay Roosevelt family library, owned, signed or inscribed by members of the family. We handle every book ourselves, check the edition and printing, and describe condition honestly, flaws and all. Orders are carefully packed and ship within 2 business days from Massachusetts. Looking for something in particular? Just ask. …
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