2 vol THE BEST OF SHEEP HUNTING John Batten AMWELL PRESS leather SIGNED ltd ed

This two-volume set of THE BEST OF SHEEP HUNTING 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.
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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 PHOTGRAPHS from the authors personal collections while in others you will find ILLUSTRATED from artists that capture the feel of the stories.
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THE BEST OF SHEEP HUNTING by John Batten is a collection of sheep hunting from all over the world, (North America, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, China and Central and Northeastern Asia,) by hunters such as Hornaday, Highton, Kennion, Adair, Roosevelt, O'Connor, and Demidoff, among others. 
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Illustrated with  ORIGINAL line-drawings by Gordon Allen in each volume along with a color frontispieces of paintings by Carl Rungius and Henry Adamson from the author's private collection.
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Beautiful light BURGUNDY leather, spine's lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a ibex, sheep 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  BURGUNDY slipcase.
*******************************.                                THE BOOK'S AND SLIPCASE ARE IN  VERY FINE CONDITION. A GREAT LOOKING SET. THERE IS A NEAT PREVIOUS OWNERS STAMP ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE.
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LIMITED EDITION OF #337/1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY  JOHN BATTEN (AUTHOR,) GORDON ALLEN (ILLUSTRATOR,) AND JIM RIKHOFF (THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY).
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-6 1/2" by 9 1/2".
-584 total pages.
-preface  by Jim Rikhoff.
-introduction by John H. Batten.
-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.
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THE BEST OF SHEEP HUNTING is the finest anthologies on world sheep hunting by a man who was one of the first to popularize the sport in both the U.S. and internationaly. Batten himself was a world class sheep hunter, enjoy.
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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.