Author: Heilner, Van Campen
Title: A Book on Duck Shooting
Description: Philadelphia, PA, The Penn Publishing Company, 1939. Hardcover. Third printing. Extensively-illustrated volume chronicles the author's duck-hunting expeditions to the wheat fields of Alberta, the Baltic Sea, the Mississippi, the Rio Grande, Romania, the plains of Hungary, the land of Montezuma, more. The author is himself a conservationist and naturalist and here gives a vivid account of the wildlife of the regions he visits. Features almost 50 pages of black and white plates, splendidly photographed. 540 pp. Color frontis. Off-white buckram cloth boards with brown lettering, image of duck on front board. One lightly bumped corner; just a bit of light fraying to corners. Light staining to top edge of boards. Just a bit of light foxing to boards and spine. Former owner's inscription in pen to FFEP. A bit of light foxing and soiling to text edges. Light sunning to spine. Nice, clean copy. Ill.: Hunt, Lynn Bodue. VERY GOOD MINUS .

Keywords: Conservationists ; Hunting Narratives ; World Travel Hunt, Lynn Bodue