[Rarebooks] fs: 44 Years a Hunter, Meshach Browning

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10167 )  Browning, Meshach. FORTY-FOUR YEARS OF THE LIFE OF A HUNTER: 
BEING REMINISCENCES OF MESHACH BROWNING, A MARYLAND HUNTER, ROUGHLY WRITTEN 
DOWN  BY HIMSELF.
Winston-Salem: Winston Printing Company, (1942). Full cloth, Octavo, xxiii, 
[8], 13-400 pages, black and white photographs, plates. Good.
      Exciting account of pioneer life in western Maryland and the Allegany 
Mountains in the first half of the 19th century. Browning killed nearly 400 
bears and once killed 22 deer in one week. Lively and anecdotal in style. 
Revised and illustrated with nice drawings by Edward Stabler. This edition 
includes a 23 page Preface by Browning's great grandson, R. Getty Browning, 
with photographs of several of the places described in the book. See HAND 
#B612. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt that has 
darkened. Exterior is a bit rough, with rubs and minor fraying to 
extremities, a 4 cm split to cloth along lower joint, and some spots and 
mild stains. Prior owner name and address penned on front pastedown. 
Slightly shaken. Interior very good....... $75.00
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