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The following offerings represent a selection of the rare and out-of-print falconry titles
in our inventory at this time. These titles are out of print, and most are one-of-a-kind, so
availability is variable. Constant buying and selling means that some of these items
may not be available for long, while our active buying means there are additions to our shelves
weekly. Please contact us to confirm availability.
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BAKER, J.A. The Peregrine. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Second printing. 191 pp. Dust jacket. $10.00 BEEBE, Frank L. Hawks, Falcons & Falconry. Hancock House, 1976. Drawings by the author, b&w photos. 320 pp. Dust jacket, bumped corners. Scarce. $100.00 BRUCE, David. Bird of Jove. Ballantine Books, 1973. A man, an eagle, and the ancient art of falconry. 283 pp. Paper. $9.00 COX, John. Observations on Falconry and Pakistan. Karachi: Pilot Publishing, 1985. Illustrations by bob STANLEY. B&W photographs. 100 pp. DJ. $30.00 DURDEN, Kent. Flight to Freedom. Simon & Schuster, 1974. The extraordinary season-by-season account of how a golden eagle, raised and then freed by man, gradually reclaims her natural heritage as a wild creature. Black and white illustrations by Juan BARBERIS. 155 pp. Ex-library, withdrawn. Dust jacket. $5.00 FORD, Emma. Fledgling Days: Memoir of a Falconer. Overlook Press, 1996. 246 pp. As new in dust jacket. $25.95 FREEMAN, Gage Earle. Practical Falconry; to which is added, How I Became a Falconer. St. Louis: William R. Hecht, 1954. Reprint of the original 1869 edition. 89 pp. Blister on back cover. $50.00 GLASIER, Phillip. As the Falcon Her Bells. London: Heinemann, 1963. First English edition. Illus with b&w photos. 223 pp. Bumped corners. $30.00 HARTING, J.E. The Rabbit. Fur, Feather and Fin Series. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First printing. B&W plates. Includes section on rabbit-hawking. 256 pp. Pictorial covers. $75.00 HARTING, James Edmund. The Birds of Shakespeare, or the Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically Examined, Explained and Illustrated. Edited by Grundy Steiner. Chicago: Argonaut Inc., Publishers, 1965. $45.00 ILLINGWORTH, Frank. Falcons and Falconry. London: Blandford, n.d. [1948]. 111 pp. B&W photos. Chipped dust jacket. $25.00 ILLINGWORTH, Frank. Falcons and Falconry. Poole: Blandford Press, 1975. Fourth edition. B&W photos. 126 pp. Dust jacket. $30.00 JAMESON, E.W., Jr. Shortwinged Hawks: A Review of Ancient and Modern Hawking. 1993. Published by the author in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Foreword by S. Kent Carnie. Sixteen tipped-in color plates. Mylar dust wrapper. Corners bumped. $250.00 KNIGHT, Captain C.W.R. Aristocrats of the Air. London: Williams & Norgate, Ltd, 1925. Color frontis plus 53 b&w photos. Minor foxing throughout, bumped corners. 166 pp. $75.00 KNIGHT, Captain C.W.R. The Book of the Golden Eagle. Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [London, 1927] 296 pp, b&w photos. Bumped corners, shelf wear. $60.00 KNOWLER, Donald. The Falconer of Central Park. New York: Bantam, 1984. First edition. 179 pp. Fine in dust jacket. $25.00 KNOX, A.E. Game Birds and Wild Fowl: Their Friends and their Foes. London: John Van Voorst, 1850. 264 pp. Ex-library, call number on spine. Starting at front hinge, backstrip chipped. Original decorative green cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial cover illustration. $35.00 MANNIX, Dan. The Last Eagle. McGraw-Hill, 1966. First edition. The “biography” of a bald eagle from birth to maturity. B&W illustrations by Russel Peterson. 149 pp. Fine in dust jacket. $25.00 MAVROGORDATO, J.G. A Hawk for the Bush. A treatise on the Training of the Sparrow-hawk and other Short-winged Hawks. Sudbury: Neville-Spearman, 1973. (1978). Expanded edition. 206 pp. With illustrations by George E. LODGE. Chipped dust jacket. $150.00 MAVROGORDATO, J.G. Behind the Scenes: An Autobiography. Tisbury: Element Books Ltd, 1982. 185 pp. Dust jacket. SOLD MCKAY, Paul. The Pilgrim and the Cowboy: A True Tale of Skullduggery, Double-Dealing and Adventure in the Exotic World of Falconry. McGraw-Hill, 1989. 214 pp. Fine in dust jacket. $125.00 MURPHY, Robert. The Golden Eagle. E.P. Dutton & Co., 1965. First edition. 157 pp. Very good in dust jacket. Some foxing to edges. Inscribed by the author. $40.00 O’BRIEN, Dan. The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer’s Journey Across the American West. Lyons & Burford, 1997. First published in 1988. 196 pp. Paper. $10.95 SALVIN, Francis Henry and William BRODRICK. Falconry in the British Isles. Beech Publishing House, 1997. Color illustrations. A reprint of the 1855 classic. 147 pp. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00 SCHLEGEL, H. and A.H VERSTER DE WULVERHORST. Traité de Fauconnerie. Denver: Chasse Publications, 1973. The original Traité was published in three parts between 1844 and 1853. 115 pp. Contains the original French with an English translation of this classic treatise, with plates reproduced in b&w. Quarto. Green leatherette in dust jacket. $45.00 STEVENS, R. Observations on Modern Falconry. Karachi: Pilot Publishing, 1987. 112 pp. As New in dust jacket. $80.00 STROMBERG, Loy. Stromberg’s Beginner’s Falconry Bulletin. Stromberg’s Pets Unlimited, [N.D.] 8 pp. Paper. $10.00 VON MICHAELIS, H. Wings of the Wild. Cape Town: Central News Agency Ltd., 1953. B&W and color illustrations. 107 pp. Bumped corners. $35.00 von MICHAËLIS, H. Birds of the Gauntlet. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1952. Illustrated with color plates and drawings by the author. 225 pp. Original red cloth, faded. $40.00 |
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A rare painting for sale: 296. Indian miniature, circa 1620. Two princes on horseback in a green field, holding a hawk aloft. Gouache on paper. Some flaking throughout Mounted in a gilt colored shadowbox frame. 7 ½" x 9 ½" $1,200.00 |
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