Description
This is an exceptional collection centered on Jack O’Connor, the "Dean of Outdoor Writers" and the most influential voice in 20th-century firearms and big-game hunting.
Collection includes:
Jack O’Connor, The Art of Big Game Hunting in North America. NY: Outdoor Life, 1967. Hardbound in glassine-protected dust jacket. [x], 404 pages. Illustrated, index. Book good in fair dust jacket.
Jack O’Connor, The Big Game Animals of North America. NY: Outdoor Life, 1961. Hardbound (large format). 264 pages. Lavishly illustrated (includes color plates), index. Fair plus (corners a bit bumped).
Jack O’Connor, The Big-Game Rifle. Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 1994. Hardbound in dust jacket. xii, 371, xi pages. Illustrated, index. Book and dust jacket fine.
Jack O’Connor, Game in the Desert Revisited. Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1994. Trade edition. Hardbound. xxxii, 306 pages. Bibliography. Good.
Jack O’Connor, The Hunting Rifle. NY: Winchester Press, 1970. Hardbound in dust jacket. [iv], 314 pages. Illustrated, index. Book and dust jacket near fine, but the really significant consideration is that there is a signed letter from O’Connor, typed on Outdoor Life letterhead, tipped into the book.
Jack O’Connor, The Rifle Book. This one has the dust jacket as well and is a 4th printing. It is marred by tape stains where Scotch tape was used to affix the protective glassine cover to the dust jacket.
Jack O’Connor, Jack O’Connor’s Big Game Hunts. NY: Outdoor Life, 1963. Hardbound in glassine-protected dust jacket. 413 pages. Illustrated. Book and dust jacket very good.
Jack O’Connor, Jack O’Connor’s Gun Book. Prescott, AZ: Wolfe Publishing, 1993. Hardbound (issued without dust jacket). 208 pages. Illustrated. Good.
Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Hardbound in glassine-protected dust jacket. 477 pages. Book and dust jacket good.
Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life Complete Book of Shooting. NY: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardbound in glassine-protected, price-clipped dust jacket. 385 pages. Illustrated, index. Book good, dust jacket fair.
Jack O’Connor, 7-Lesson Rifle Shooting Course. NY: Outdoor Life Books, 1982. 3rd printing. Paperbound. 37 pages. Illustrated. Near good.
Jack O’Connor, Sheep and Sheep Hunting. NY: Winchester Press, 1974. Hardbound in glassine-protected dust jacket. xii, 308 pages. Illustrated, index. Book and dust jacket very good.
Jack O’Connor, The Shotgun Book. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. 6th printing. Hardbound in glassine-protected dust jacket. [xxxvi], 332 , [ix] pages. Illustrated, index. Good in very good dust jacket.