Description
MBF Publishing, Published 1989. Hardcover, 384 pp.; 32 cm; First Edition; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and drawings, original art by David Hagerbaumer.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Tan cloth-covered boards, gold duck image and lettering on front cover, gold lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear to covers; binding tight. Signed by all three contributors (Michael R. Miller, Frederick W. Hanson, and Bob Mortensen) in ink on the half-title page. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket has a few small edge nicks and mild shelf and edge wear, most visible on the dark rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. The first comprehensive study of wildfowl decoy carving traditions along the Pacific Coast, from coastal British Columbia south through Washington, Oregon, and California. Documents regional carvers, gunning histories, and decoy styles bay by bay, with photography by Robert S. Mortensen, original art by David Hagerbaumer, and a foreword by Roger Barton. Contents: The Setting; The Fraser River Delta (Coastal British Columbia); The Puget Sound Region (Skagit Flats to Nisqually); Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay (Washington's Coastal Bays); The Lower Columbia River (Portland/Vancouver to Astoria); Humboldt and Coos Bays (The Northern California and Oregon Coasts); The San Francisco Bay Region (Sonoma Creek to Alviso); The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Suisun to Stockton); The Great Central Valley (And Northern California); San Diego Bay (And the Southern California Coast); Epilogue; Photo Credits; Index.