[Signed] [First Edition] Big Game Fields of America...

Copyright 1914 by George H. Doran Company. Preface by the author dated September, 1914. Early printing without GHD emblem at title or copyright page. Signed and inscribed with a flourish by author at front endpaper: "To J. M. Harris, With the compliments of the author. Daniel J. Singer, Feb. 8/23." Adjacent at front pastedown is bookplate with stag dashing through forest: "Ex Libris Jack B. Westfall." Illustrated with photographs by the Daniel Singer, the author, and three drawings by Charles Livingston Bull. Light brown full cloth boards, dark brown cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub to cover. Front features vignette of leopard. Pages very good. Frontispiece color illustration of jaguar with red piece of cloth with caption: "For there, where nothing had shown a moment before, appeared a vision of spotted black and gold." An additional fifty-seven heavy stock photo plates throughout. Bind fine, square. Rare near very good signed first edition. In 1914, Daniel J. Singer, adventurer and big game hunter, and wealthy heir of the sewing machine magnate, published this harrowing account of his adventures. Singer stalked big game in British Guiana, the Sierra Madres, the Rockies and Alaska. Several excellent chapters on the jaguar in South America. A hunting classic and much-praised, exciting account of the author's exploits. 368 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall

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