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BOWS AND ARROWS: How They are Best Made for All Kinds of Target Shooting, Including Chapters on Shooting, Accessories and Competitions.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive book on the making of bows starting with cutting the wood. Illustrated with drawings by G. P. Haynes and a glossy photographic frontispiece and two internal glossy plate. x, 173 pp.
Condition: Good overall in light green cloth with darker green lettering (missing front endpaper, frontispiece is detached but still present, otherwise tight and straight.)
Book ID: 73329More details Price: $65.00 -
ARROW RELEASE DISTRIBUTIONS: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 23. Number 4.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1927. First edition - A monograph by this noted and early anthropologist, of interest because of the information it includes on the pull used by the Yahi of Northern California, information learned from Ishi, the last of his tribe, who spent the last 5 years of his life living at the Museum of Anthropology at UC San Francisco. Pages 283-296
Condition: Fine in gray stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 76372More details Price: $35.00