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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First American edition. With numerous illustrations and photographs from life. 356 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue decorated cloth, t.e.g. Extremities rubbed, spine ends chipped, upper inner hinge starting. Very Good. First American edition. With numerous illustrations and photographs from life. 356 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1896. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xv,356pp.+ [2]pp.(ads)pp. Octavo. Photogravure frontispiece, plates from photos and drawings, and illustrations in text. Original blue pictorial cloth, gilt top edge, other uncut. Spine slightly faded and a few private hand stamps of outfitter F. H. Riggall Twin Butte, Alta internally. very good 1896

1895. BIEN (LOMO PARA REPARAR). CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 3565 pp 17 X 23 cm TAPA DURA

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half navy-blue leather with five raised spine bands and decorations on to lighter blue cloth with an emblem in gilt. All edges gilt. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 356 pages with index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with sun-fading on the spine and a scuff on one lower corner. Offsetting onto the endpages. Illustrated with photogravure frontispiece; full-page b/w prints and drawings in text.. A classic account of Alpine sport, mostly in the Austrian Alps including chamois-stalking, stag, roebuck, and other big game. "Sport in the Alps is altogether one of the most complete existing accounts of a fascinating subject . excellent dissertations on the history of sport." [Times] Background Information: William Adolph Baillie Grohman was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, a big game… Read More