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New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904. Hardcover. Good. 29 x 28 cm. Folio. Bound in grey boards, grey cloth spine, illustrated front cover. 39 full page images opposite verses with smaller illustrations throuighout. The boards are worn, front gutter cracked.

New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1904. Hardcover. VG+, appears unread. Slight bow to the whole from improper storage which will counteract with sustained weight upon the book over time. Crisp corners. OVEZSIZE. Illustrated boards with green cloth spine. ix, [79] pages with 39 full-page illustrations. A much better than average copy of this oversized (15.5" x 11") volume.

New York: P. F. Collins, 1904. A Good Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by A. B. Frost [Arthur Burdett, 1851-1928]. Folio; 15.25 inches tall; cloth over the spine to pictorial boards. Corners and edges rubbed, scuffing to the front and rear. Interior fine with mild even toning. 39 full-page plates with facing vignetted by Frost and Wallace Irving. The subjects are varied of the turn-of-the-century sporting life; golf, shooting, angling.... . A lovely example of Americana. His work captures the appearance and characteristics of rural and small-town American types. A pillar in American art history, Frost's knack for portraying any type of scene, comedic or otherwise, made him an ideally flexible artist. Later in his career, Frost honed his ability to replicate scenes from real life in a pictorial realism. As such, his convincingly intimate renderings of rural life and authentic details of sport (mostly hunting and fishing) became another part of his legacy by the end of his… Read More