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Unread 12-17-2016, 04:59 PM   #1
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Default "Ruffed Grouse" by John Alden Knight

Didn't want to hop on to Destry's For Sale thread of this book so I'm starting one I hope will be of interest to Members.
This is not for sale by myself or anyone I know and I have no 'skin in the game.'

I received a booklet today from a book seller here in the Northeast and in it is this one... (it's just a tad out of reach for me at the moment, but I sure would like to have it if any of you were wondering what you could get me for Christmas )

"Ruffed Grouse" by John Alden Knight - Knopf, New York, 1947, #34 of 210 copies signed by the author, printed on rag paper, with an extra color plate laid-in (a duplicate of the frontispiece). Illustrated with 4 color plates by Dr. Edgar Burke, and b&w photographs. 7.25" x 10.5". 274 pp. Bound in three-quarter black leather, off-white cloth covered boards. Natural history and hunting of the ruffed grouse, with information on guns, loads, dogs, hunting methods, etc. Very Scarce. Fine+ in very good original slipcase. $950.-






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cool - you could have bought a good chunk of Armenia mountain for that in his day

that is nice a collector volume- but anyone who likes to read about the hay day of upland bird hunting should read his Ruffed Grouse and his Woodcock book

I hunted areas near his haunts many years ago- that terrain was a work out
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Unread 12-17-2016, 07:36 PM   #3
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I'm not sure how I happened onto this, and Dean had already gotten my Christmas present (or so I assume, as he didn't want to buy this for me) so, I treated myself. It's a 1901 original A B Frost print, though unsigned.
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always liked that one

but then again I generally like all his gunning prints - i think i have more of his than Osthaus'
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I don't know how following up on this is helping me in my endeavor to downsize, but I see on an internet site more of John Alden Knight's RUFFED GROUSE, 1st Editions, priced for sale at:

$45-$75 ("very good" condition)
$100-$650 (signed)
$850 (signed, with "extra loose plate" inserted.)

As for the more affordable later reissues, there are the Gunnerman reprints for sale at:

$86-$178

Lastly, for the true antiquarian bibliophile there is:

the Authors [autographed; signed] manuscript for $4,750

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Wow; I got the Gunnerman Press reissues of both a few years back; don't remember if they were free or if I paid around $20 each from a guy who was selling off his library. When they arrived he had thrown in a couple of Charley Dickey's books, "just because". I didn't realize at the time I got a pretty good deal!
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