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Winchester Press, Published 1973. Hardcover, 320, [8] pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; sepia pictorial endpapers of wildfowl and bobwhites. Selected, edited and annotated by George Bird Evans; foreword by John M. Olin.
In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine with Winchester Press device at foot; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; mild toning to endpapers and mild foxing to edges of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (photograph by William F. Andrews and Frank Braden of Buckingham's Burt Becker duck gun, shooting hat, decoy and books) has a 1/4-inch tear at head of rear panel, a few other small nicks and tears, and light creasing along edges; mild to moderate toning, heavier on spine panel and rear panel, and mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Thirty stories and articles by Nash Buckingham (1880-1971), the Tennessee wildfowler, bird-dog man and field-trial judge best known for De Shootinest Gent'man. George Bird Evans, a grouse and woodcock writer and friend of Buckingham's, chose them from 111 stories and articles and grouped them in six parts, adding editor's notes and a biographical "Portrait of Nash." Olin, who wrote the foreword, hired Buckingham in 1925 as Western Cartridge Company's Director of Game Restoration, the first such post in American industry. Photographs include pictures of him as a young weightlifter and football captain, his wife Irma shooting, dogs and companions from the stories, and his guns, among them the Burt Becker magnum "Bo Whoop," lost in 1948 and recovered in 2005. Includes a bibliography of his books and magazine pieces. Contents: Foreword; Portrait of Nash; Part One: Wildfowl (Minutes and Years; Great Day in the Morning!; Comin' Twenty-One; How Come?; Jump-Shooting's Joys; De Shootinest Gent'man; Opportunity Flies But Once; Recall to Eden); Part Two: Bobwhites (Editor's Note: Brick House; The Harp That Once . . .; Pipeline "Pottiges"; Amid Whirring Wings; Play House; After All These Years); Part Three: Guns & Shooting (Editor's Note: Mr. Buck's Guns; Are We Shooting 8-Gauge Guns?; Long-Range Duck Shooting; Here's How in Quail Shooting; The Dove); Part Four: Dogs (Point! Judges; Given Only to the Honored; What Really Happens Out Quail Shooting; Not Unsung; The Great Reprisal; The Family Honor); Part Five: Possibles Bag (The Neglected Duck Call; Hail and Farewell; The Ropes and Tools of Goose Shooting; Thou and Thy Gun Bearer; Wax and Wane; The Prodigal Years); Part Six: Star at Evening (A la Belle Etoile); Bibliography.