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New York, Ducks Unlimited, inc., 1946.. First Edition. Hard Cover. xiii, 255, [1] p. col. front., illus. (incl. ports., maps) diagrs. 31.5 x 24 cm. Classic study of the habits and flight dynamics of the duck. All the science and beauty of the birds dedicated to their mass slaughter.Colored frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in red. Bibliography: p. 252-253.Stock# 43,165. Good +, spine smoe browned, some smudges on covers / no dj.

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Very Good. Queeny, Edgar M. Prairie Wings: Pen and Camera Flight Studies. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947. 255pp. Indexed. 4to. Cloth. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Transparent tape at corners of lightly rubbed and edge worn dust jacket.

Ducks Unlimited, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket as issued. 1000 copies printed. The binding is tight, corners lightly bumped. Some light handling on the boards and spine. Text and images unmarked. xiii, 255pp.

Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. A beautifully clean, crisp, hardcover reprint of the original 1946 edition. No DJ. NOTE: Oversize volume; standard domestic (U.S.) shipping only . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1946.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 31 x 23 cm. Quarto. 256 pages. Grey cloth in dust jacket. There is a small water stain to the front of the dust jacket as well as the front of the boards. Some chipping to the jacket.

New York: J. B. Lippincott. Hardcover. 1947. 4to 255pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Photographs. Color frontis. Illustration and explanatory sketches by Richard E. Bishop. Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Ink gift inscription on front blank page to Ed Armfield from his friends at Monsanto and then signed by Jack Hanley, Harold Bible, Lou Hernandez and Bob Burke. Edward M. Armfield Sr. Was the founder and CEO of Armtex Inc, a textile firm in Pilot Mountain, NC. John Hanley was CEO at Monsanto. H. Harold Bible was elected a Monsanto VP and general manager of Lion Oil. Louis Fernandez had a long career at Monsanto and was chairman of Monsanto Co. From 1983 to 1986. Robert E. Burke was head of the Monsanto Textile Company. The DJ has a small square chip at top front corner, spine is browned, and has edgewear with small tears and some foxing .

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1947.. Small folio xiv+256 pp. Profusely illus from photos & drawings, colour frontis by Bishop. Grey cloth, gilt duck embossed on top cover. Faintest of wear to bottom corners, else fine..

(Alhambra, CA: C. F. Braun & Co.), 1962. One of 1000 copies. Profusely illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth. Fine. One of 1000 copies. Profusely illustrated. 1 vols. 4to. Heller 2:743 (for 1946 limited ed.)

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1947. Second Edition. With explanatory sketches and colored frontispiece by Richard E. Bishop. 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original beige cloth, Fine in almost fine dj. Bishop, Richard E. Second Edition. With explanatory sketches and colored frontispiece by Richard E. Bishop. 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Heller 2:743 (for 1946 limited ed.)

Philadelphia : LIPPINCOTT , 1947 . First Edition . NF/G . 4TO . Bound in beige buckram with gold duck onlay. Extraordinary photographs of waterfowl in flight complented by black and white drawings and tissue-guarded colour frontis by Bishop. Book in lovely condition, the fragile jacket very worn with a number of chips and missing pieces.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1947. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Illustrated with a color frontispiece drawing and numerous black & white sketches by Bishop and over 130 black & white photographs. Bound in publisher's original ivory cloth with title stamped in brown and the seal of Ducks Unlimited stamped in gilt on the front cover and with the title stamped in brown on the spine.

ducks unlimited [c.f. braun], 1962 hardback book in very good condition,inscribed on first blank page, [John G Morrow,from my good friend Henry Braun june 29,1965]limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Ducks Unlimited, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. With over 120 illusrations and photographs. Explanatory sketches facing the photographs and further elucidated by captions. Signature of former owner on front cover of first free endpaper. In publisher's original ivory cloth with title stamped in brown and the seal of Ducks Unlimited stamped in gilt.

New York: Ducks Unlimited, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Dust jacket chipped and worn at extremities. Dust jacket.

New York: Ducks Unlimited, 1946. First Trade edition. Color frontispiece by Bishop, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 1 vols. 4to. Original tan cloth. Fine. First Trade edition. Color frontispiece by Bishop, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 1 vols. 4to. High-speed photographs of ducks in flight, with explanatory drawings, covering every conceivable aerodynamic movement. Heller 2:743 (for limited ed.)

New York: Ducks Unlimited, 1946. First edition, Deluxe Issue, Number 22 of 225 copies, signed by Queeny and Bishop on the colophon page. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. xiv, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original full pigskin, spine not sunned at all, thus an unusually fine copy in original cloth leather tipped oepn-face slipcase. Bookplate of Philip P. Pilling, IV, M.D. Bishop, Richard E. First edition, Deluxe Issue, Number 22 of 225 copies, signed by Queeny and Bishop on the colophon page. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. xiv, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Heller 2:743

Ducks Unlimited, 1946. First edition, 136 of 225 signed copies. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. XIV, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original full pigskin, spine with a little sunning, else fine in original cloth slipcase. An unusually nice copy. Bishop, Richard E. First edition, 136 of 225 signed copies. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. XIV, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A Superb Copy of a Classic Book on the Ducks. About the funnel shaped Mississipi fyway which converges in Arkansas. This book written by Richard M. Queeny of Wingmead, Roe, Arkansas ( 1897 - 1968) was a US industrialist, chairman of the Monsanto corporation from 1928 until his retirement in 1960. Heller 2:743

Ducks Unlimited, 1946. Number 160 of 225 copies, signed by the artist and the author, with an additional etching signed. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to. Original full pigskin, spine a little sunned, else fine in original cloth slipcase. An unusually nice copy. Bishop, Richard E. Number 160 of 225 copies, signed by the artist and the author, with an additional etching signed. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to. A Superb Copy of a Classic Book on the Ducks. Heller 2:743