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2 vol HUNTING THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS Jim Rikoff AMWELL PRESS leather SIGNED ltd 2 vol HUNTING THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS Jim Rikoff AMWELL PRESS leather SIGNED ltd Click images to enlarge Description This two-volume set of HUNTING THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS by Jim Rikhoff was published by the AMWELL PRESS in 1984. This is a volume in the National Sporting Fraternity's A COUNTRY HERITAGE BOOK SERIES, and is one of there most desirable and hardest to find titles. ********************************************** The AMWELL PRESS is the publishing arm of THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY founded in March, 1976 by Jim. Rikhoff. He was know and liked throughout the sport publishing industry as a result of his early founding of the Winchester Press. Because of his popularity with the industry he was able to get a who's who of international big game hunters and sport hunters as authors. The titles in the series would include original works by professional hunters, books by active sport hunters, anthologies that contained selections from both contemporary hunters and classic works and reprints of sought after titles. The titles are limited to 1000 copies with beautiful LEATHER bindings and SLIPCASES. These titles are all SIGNED by the author or editor or both and by Jim Rikhoff. In many editions you will find great PHOTOGRAPHS from the authors personal collections while in others you will find ILLUSTRATED from artists that capture the feel of the stories. ********************************************* HUNTING THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS by Jim Rikhoff is a collection of stories regarding mountain hunting all over the world, by hunters such as John Jobson, Fred Bear, Russell Annabel, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, Andy Russel, among others. The book covers everything from brown bear hunting in the Himalayas to sheep hunting in Baja California, with stops off in-between in such places as New Zealand, the Andes, Alaska, Austria, Mongolia, Abyssinia, and the Scottish Highlands. ********************************************* Illustrated with an ORIGINAL color frontispiece by Peter Skirda in each volume along with NUMEROUS black and white drawings by Gordon Allen. ********************************** Beautiful light BLUE leather, spine's lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a ibex, elk and ram, front cover giltstamped with an stamp the "National Sporting Fraternity" and the rear cover with that of a ram, covers double-gilt-ruled, in a two-volume patterned BLUE slipcase. *******************************. THE BOOK'S AND TWO-DEPARTMENT SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION. A GREAT LOOKING SET. ********************************* LIMITED EDITION OF #230/1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY JIM RIKHOFF (THE AUTHOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY). ********************************* -6 1/2" by 9 1/2". -938 total pages. -foreward by John H. Batten. -introduction by Jim Rikhoff. -preface Harry Tennison, president, of the Game Conservation International. -type for this volume was set by the Westchester Book Composition, Inc., Yorktown Heights, New York. -printed on acid-free paper, and Smythe-sewn and custom bound by the Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee. -Designed by Monica Sullivan. ********************************************* HUNTING THE WORLD'S MOUNTAINS is one of the finest anthologies on mountain big-game hunting. 67 stories of hunting wild sheep, goat, bear, moose, elk, ibex, red deer, chamois, that and other game. Man has always looked toward the high places. In these pages the mountains rise, the rivers flow and the wind blows. The animals stand on alert, senses quivering to sight, sound and smell, and below man makes his slow steady progress up the mountain searching for that elusive game animal. Hopefully, this set of books will bring it all closer, in one way or another, enjoy. ********************************** During the next few months, I will be offering a number of additional AMWELL PRESS, leather, signed, slipcased, LIMITED EDITIONS, each sold seperately. I am also selling selected PREMIER PRESS, BRIAR PATCH PRESS, JOHN CULLER & SONS, AND SAFARI PRESS Limited Edition titles, as well as other leather "Hunting & Fishing" titles from other publishers. NOTE: any glare is from my camera, not the book. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting Create your brand with Auctiva's Customizable Templates. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter