2 vol HUNTING THE NORTH COUNTRY Underwood (signed) AMWELL PRESS leather Rungius

This two-volume set of HUNTING THE NORTH COUNTRY by Lamar Underwood was published by the AMWELL PRESS in 1981. This is a set in the National Sporting Fraternity's "A HIGH COUNTRY HERITAGE BOOK SERIES", and is one of there most desirable and hardest to find titles. SIGNED by author LAMAR UNDERWOOD.
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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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HUNTING THE NORTH COUNTRY was edited by Lamar Underwood, and is an anthology of over 1000 pages of hunting stories, from the North Country (Newfoundland, Northern Canada and Alaska,) after caribou, sheep, goats, moose, bears, etc...by hunters such as Russell Annabel, Jack O'connor, Elmer Keith, Charles Sheldon, and Ernest Thompson Seton  among others. 
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Illustrated with  ORIGINAL black and white line drawings and color paintings by famed German-born big game and wildlife artist CARL RUNGIUS.
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Beautiful dark GREEN leather, spine's lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a goat, bear and sheep, 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  BROWN slipcase.
*******************************                             THE BOOK'S ARE IN FINE CONDITION. THE TWO-COMPARTMENT SLIPCASE IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, WITH SOME MINOR WEAR ALONG THE EDGES.
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LIMITED EDITION OF #102/1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY  LAMAR UNDERWOOD (AUTHOR,) AND JIM RIKHOFF (THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY).
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-6 1/2" by 9 1/2".
-1102 total pages.
-foreward by Angus Cameron.
-introduction by Lamar Underwood.
-type for this volume was set by the American-Stratford Graphics Services, Inc., Brattleboro, Vermont.
-printed on acid-free paper, and Smythe-sewn and custom bound by the American Book-Stratford Press. Inc., Saddle Brook, New Jersey.
-Designed by Remo Duchi.
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HUNTING THE NORTH COUNTRY is the finest anthology on hunting in the North American high country, 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.