[Rarebooks] fs: BOOKS ON COCK FIGHTING

[Norman Kane]

Newly listed. Trade discount 20%.

GILBEY, SIR WALTER, Bart.  SPORT IN THE OLDEN TIME.  London, 1912.  First edition. Illustrated. Original gilt cloth with a rooster on the front cover, very good. The first sentence in the Introduction reads: "No pastime has ever held in England the position which was held for centuries by cock-fighting."  Uncommon.  $150.00

DINGWALL, A.C.  HANDLING AND NURSING THE GAME COCK . . . IN BATTLE . . . INJURIES .. NATURAL ABILITY OF THE HANDLER ... SUCCESSFUL WINNING OF BATTLES . . .  Chicago, 1928.  First edition. Original cloth, very good. Illustrated. 
$60.00

COOPER, J. W., M.D.  GAME FOWLS, THEIR ORIGIN AND HISTORY . . . BREEDS, STRAINS AND CROSSES. THE AMERICAN AND ENGLISH MODES OF FEEDING, TRAINING AND HEELING . . . [&] DISEASES ... STANDARD EDITION.  West Chester, Pa., (1869).  Original blue cloth, very slightly rubbed, spine lightly faded, bright gilt figure of a rooster  on the front cover, repeated in blind on the back cover, a superior copy, without foxing.  2 color frontispieces. Scarce edition of the FIRST AMERICAN BOOK ON THE SUBJECT.  ONLY 2 COPIES IN OCLC: Cornell & McGill.  $190.00

O'CONOR, ANDREW P.  FORTY YEARS WITH FIGHTING COCKS.  Goshen, N.Y., 1929.  First edition. Original cloth, front cover stamped in gilt, front inner joint open, otherwise  very good. Frontispiece and illustrations.  Uncommon. 
$90.00

Plus a pamphlet on the history and characteristics of Red Dorkings:
[WEYGANDT,  CORNELIUS].    OF RED DORKINGS, ENGLAND'S OLDEST FOWL.  1982.  FACSIMILE REPRINT OF THE RARE ANONYMOUS EDITION , PHILA., 1912.  WEYGANDT'S FIRST BOOK.. Nicely printed in  original wrappers, 1 of 100 copies only signed by the publishers. (Weygandt, beloved Professor, author & folklorist, was a chicken fancier.)  $20.00



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