Search Results: shang a biography of charles e by dixon macd merkt

Good++, Good++ Hillcrest Publications 1984 4TO, B/W,Color Ills, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Dark red cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Light board soil. Foxed fore edges. Endpapers tanned and foxed. Text pages are clean. Color illustrated dust jacket is chipped and rubbed. Creased closed tears, unevenly sunned, light soil. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Spanish Fork: Hillcrest Publications, Inc, 1984. First edition. Cloth. Very good +/very good. (1984). Small quarto (8.5" x 11"), Burgundy buckram, gilt in pictorial jacket. 199pp. with appendices I-IV, including: Excerpts from "Long Island Sound"; Inventory of the estate of Charles E. Wheeler; The Wheeler Decoy Collection, Birdcraft Museum, Fairfield, Connecticut; MIssing Works by Wheeler; plus sources and an index of illustrations. Profusely illustratd in color and black and white. Light edgewear with a few small chips in the jacket at the top of the spine. Photographs by Richard M. Grave.

Spanish Fork UT: Hillcrest Publications, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. SIGNED BY MERKT on front fly leaf. "The first biography to document the life and work of the remarkable Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949), whose prize winning decoys set a standard of excellence equaled by few and surpassed by none." In a dust jacket that has light sun fading to spine. Record # 372785

Hillcrest Publications, 1984-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x10x1. Author signed and dated to the flyleaf, large format hardcover in lightly shelf worn jacket. Illustrated throughout. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

Hillcrest Publications, January 1984. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash/Good. Brownish dj with a picture of decoy ducks and mounted fish, NOT like the stock photo. Unmarked text and tight binding. Number written in pen on ffep and a sticker label on the spine. Light general surface and edgewear to the DJ some very minor edge tears starting. Also comes with an extra signature (never bound into a book) of untrimmed pgs. 145 to 160. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Spanish Fork, UT: Hillcrest Publications / Amwell Press, National Sporting Fraternity Limited (NSFL), 1984. Number 78 of a limited edition of 550 copies for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited, signed by the author and the President of NSFL. Brown bonded leather/leatherette printed in gilt, burnt orange moire silk endleaves, top edge gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, with slipcase. The book is in fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings, slipcase also in fine condition. Includes publisher's promotional leaflet for this title laid in loosely at the front.. Signed. First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Spanish Fork, Utah: Hillcrest Publications, Inc., (1984). First Edition. First Printing Fine in brick red buckram cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with a minor rubbing mark at the upper fore corner of the front panel. Boldly signed by the author on the fly title page. 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. A handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.

Spanish Fork, Utah: Hillcrest Publications, Inc., (1984). First Edition. First Printing Fine in brick red buckram cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Boldly signed by the author on the fly title page. 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. A handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.

Amwell Press for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition of 550 leather bound copies, silk end papers, ribbon marker all edges gilt with gilt decorations to front cover and spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND JIM RIKHOFF, President National Sporting Fraternity Limited. A lovely, well illustrated copy..

Amwell Press for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1984. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Leather bound. New. Signed by Author(s). Amwell Press. 1984. 1st ed. Limited Edition of only 550 leatherbound, SIGNED, aeg, and with silk marker ribbon bound in copies! SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND JIM RIKHOFF, President National Sporting Fraternity Limited. 4to, 199p. The biography of the greatest decoy carver of all, Shang Wheeler. Very difficult to find. An overrun copy in case one of the numbered ones was damaged, this one was never needed and has sat for almost 30 years. I just unearthed it from the "extended Amwell family". Signed, leather bound, sewn in marker ribbon, slipcase like all the rest, this copy has no number written in on limitation page. Light bump to one corner of slipcase, else Brand New, SIGNED, Limited Edition. Unusual offering, likely unique.