New reading material just arrived--I blame you for this Dean :)
 

A few months back I made the mistake of clicking on a thread titled Quail Books.

While perusing the conversation, I saw a beautiful copy of Mark Right by Nash Buckingham posted by Dean. Well after searching out a decent priced copy I enjoyed reading it thoroughly. I then set off in pursuit of finding more of these fine leather bound books at lower prices then they are often posted at. Well it took me a couple of months, but I have now procured two more Volumes of Nash's writtings at what I considered to be a good price. Haven't read them yet as they just arrived, but the newest additions are Bloodlines and De Shootnest Gentman. I look forward to reading them and yes Dean I very much blame you for this new collecting spree.

What?? No copy of Tattered Coat yet?

Good reads. and a nice start to a collection

As I said I am buying them at resonable prices....IE I am cheap and wait till I find a copy that is cheaper then most of them are going for.

I never could warm up to Nash's writing style. There are some great books listed on that thread. Winter is coming and good reading material is a must.

I prefer Rutledge but I do enjoy buckingham storytelling.

I enjoy Buckinghams writing. De Shootinest Gentleman takes you back to the days that make me long for hunts like those. That's a nice collection you have started there.

nothing wrong with cheap - er I mean frugal

as with many other pursuits - the hunt is half the fun

Those look like the Derrydale reprint editions put out by Doug Mauldin back in the early 90's and marketed as The 50 Greatest Books of the Derrydale Press. Not all are exact copies of the early Derrydales, but some are quite close, and they are all are nice reading copies and presentable editions for not a lot of money. I subscribed to the series at the time and bought them all; I wish they hadn't stopped at fifty. You can still find them on ebay quite often. Hope you enjoy them!

Well Bill, I humbly accept the blame, but the decision is yours alone whether o continue collecting great titles by great authors.

Buckingham can't be equaled in the style he uses - after all, he invented it and was a master at it. You will fully appreciate his writing after you've finished those two. But by all means, don't stop there. :bigbye:








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Oh, I have been on the downs lope of collecting great authors long before this and I am certain it shall continue on.

Phil, these two are the derrydale reprints, my copy of Mark Right was printed in 1944 based on the 2nd copyright date.

I don't remember if I had posted these pictures on that original thread but I think they are certainly worthy of being shown again.

From the preface of "Mark Right"....



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OK, so some don't appreciate Nash's style or interpretation of Negro dialect. However, he wrote about real people, real places, real guns, real dogs, and backed it up with real shooting, both at competition clay targets, pigeons, and waterfowl. Bird shooting is a lesser accomplishment, so I didn't include it. In addition, Nash left his artifacts behind, for us to enjoy. The Award Gun, Bo Whoop, and maybe others. He was also a legendery field trial judge who wrote of great field trial champions. His recollection of American waterfowling before the turn of the twentieth century is about the only such recollection written about by someone who was alive during our lifetimes. There is a boxed edition of the reprints alluded to in this thread. I found a set a while ago and find it very interesting. Thanks to a member of one of our collecting groups, we now know the true identity of "Doc", the hunting partner of Marse Henry and Nash. To add another anecdote, the last unopened case of Super-X Lubaloy 3", 1 3/8 ounce #4s sent to "Marse Henry" by John Olin, the month that Nash lost the big gun, has been added to a Fox collection. Nash has my vote for the most interesting writer of his time.

Bill, I greatly enjoy his writing, and am quite familiar with the dialect he uses. I just overall enjoy Rutledge's writings more. Some of Nash's stories I actually like better, but some of his writing isn't as interesting, while there isn't anything of Rutledges I have read that I didn't enjoy. Any of Nash's stories involving the squire and such I find highly enjoyable. For some reason, probably the Avatar he uses on this forum, there is a duck hunting story in Mark Right on a lake in the dead of winter that I can't help but shake the image of Destry from my mind when reading it.

My copy of Mark Right has a very old newspaper clipping tapped to the inside page as either a review or an advertisement for the book.

Nash's writing comes from his own time and his own culture. It's true that some of it might be less than acceptable by today's standards, but I'd guess there are written works out there from many eras which, for a variety of reasons, seem unacceptable or a little strange when viewed under today's microscope.

Definitely, some people want to edit Huck Fin because of the language present in the book.