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BOOKS BY JACK O'CONNOR

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket
1970 Winchester Press, NY, NY.
32 pages of photographic Illustrations of rifles, stocks, hunters, positions, and trophies.
Previous owners name and address on flyleaf.
314 pages w/index.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:72-99749 ISBN 0-87691-007-X.
ITEM NO JC1 PRICE: $34.00.
"The Arms and Ammunition Editor of OUTDOOR LIFE takes apart the hunting rifle and the accessories and lays them out-piece by piece-for the reader's examination." "From the old tried-and-trues to the latest equipment, from the lightest .22 to he heavy .458, O'Connor surveys the whole range of rifles, cartridges, scopes, stocks-all in the light of how they perform in the field.
There are many valuable insights into hunting technique, too - for the safari, varmint hunt, and everything in between."

A New Edition of a Shooter's Classic.
VERY GOOD in DJ which shows glue mark from price tag, and small section of back corner of jacket has been peeled away, mylar wrapper.
1964 Second Edition revised & enlarged.
Alfred A. Knopf: New York A Borzoi Book.
L.C. catalog card number:62-11053.
332 Pages plus (5) page Index.
"Because I love rifles and because I love wilderness country I have carried my rifles all over the North American continent, from the hot, dry, barren sheep mountains of northwest Sonora to the glaciers of the Yukon."
ITEM NO JC2A..PRICE: $45.00<
"The Book evaluates individual models of the great arms makers, foreign as well as American. It gives the shooter a quick course in barrel design, stock design and fit, chamber pressures, and discusses the capacity of the various actions to withstand the high intensities of modern loads."

SIXTH PRINTING, OCTOBER 1974
FINE, In VERY GOOD dust jacket, mylar wrapper.
Previous owner's name and address stamped on flyleaf.
NEW YORK: ALFRED A KNOPF 1974 A Borzoi Book
L. C. Catalog card number: 64-20172
332 Pages plus (9) pages Index
"I tried to include information on everything the gunner wants to know and in doing so I have tried to keep in mind the kinds of questions American Shooters have asked about shotguns and shotgunning, in the thousands of letters I have received and replied to over the years."
ITEM NO JC3A..PRICE: $45.00
THE SHOTGUN BOOK CONTAINS A 32-PAGE SECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS (89 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS) AND NUMEROUS LINE DRAWINGS DEALING WITH SUCH WIDELY VARIED MATTERS AS PATTERNS AND SHOOTING TACTICS

Outdoor Life Edition.
VERY GOOD, In slightly chipped dust jacket, owners name on flyleaf, a few small spots on fr cover.
NEW YORK, Outdoor LIfe, E. P. Dutton & Co., copyright 1963 by Outdoor LIfe.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 63-8069
415 PAGES
Illustrated with 130 photographs by the author.
ITEM NO JC4...PRICE: $00.00
"DANGER IS OFTEN A PARTNER ON AN O'CONNOR HUNTING TRIP. In BUFFALO SHOOT BACK, a crazed cape buffalo with two slugs in him lives up to his reputation as Africa's most dangerous game animal."

Outdoor Life Edition.
Very Good in Very good dustjacket. Clean and bright, Owners name on flyleaf.
New York, Outdoor Life, Harper & Row Second edition, revised and updated 1965, Twentieth Printing 1976.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 61-6454
477 pages, including 7 pages of index.
Illustrated with hundreds of photos plus "how-they-work" drawings by Ray Pioch.
ITEM NO JC5...PRICE: $18.00
PLUS: The seven lesson "How to Shoot" Course. The illustrated course on rifle shooting covers step by step all the fundamentals of good shooting including shooting positions, trigger squeeze, use of the gun sling, practice on moving targets and sighting in. This course will be helpful as a refresher for expert shooters, and invaluable as a training guide for their sons and other beginners.

Outdoor Life Edition.
Very Good in Very good dustjacket. Clean and bright, Owners name on flyleaf.
New York, Outdoor Life, COPYRIGHT 1967.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 67-14558.
404 pages, including 14 pages of index.
Illustrated with photos of trophy rooms and trophys, camps and equipment, cook tentsand binoculars Dawings by Douglas Allen.
ITEM NO JC6...PRICE: $25.00
"This book begins by tracing the origin of North America's game animals and explains how they evolved into the game we hunt now in various types of terrain. All the traditional hunting techniques and their histroy, are covered...still-hunting, stalking, driving, calling, use of dogs etc. These techniques are applied to different game animals deer, wild sheep, grizzly, caribou, elk, moose and antelope, along with anecdotes from the author's own field experiences.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, A Borzoi Book, FIRST EDITION 1969.
Fine in Very good dustjacket. Clean and bright,
Composed, printed, and bound by The Book Press, Brattleboro, Vermont.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 68-23938.
302 pages.
Illustrations by Irving Boker.
ITEM NO JC8...PRICE: $295.00
"A Boyhood on the Last Frontier. His book is peopled with grandfathers, with "black-sheep" uncles, with a fine and varied collection of Western characters who bring back to us an American - and a childhood - we seem to remember, no matter where we were raised."

Outdoor Life New York, FIRST EDITION 1961.
Very Good in Very good dustjacket, light wear to lower extremities, dustjacket has wear, and chips & tears. White decorated cloth cover is clean and bright, upper & lower corners slightly bumped, mylar wrapper.
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 61-17292.
264 pages.
20 Full Color Paintings plus Black & White Drawings by Douglas Allen.
Natural Histories by George G. Goodwin.
Scientific Animal Portraits by Alexander Seidel.
Large folio 13" X 10 1/2".
ITEM NO JC9A...PRICE: $65.00
"Classic work on North American big game explores our rich wild life heritage from two viewpoints. The Dall Sheep, The Stone Sheep, The Bighorn, The Desert Bighorn, The Rocky Mountain Goat, The Pronghorn Antelope, The American Buffalo, The Whitetail Deer, The Mule Deer, The Elk, The Moose, The Caribou, The Javelina, or Peccary, The Mountain Lion, The Jaguar, The Black Bear, The Grizzly Bear, The Brown Bear, The Polar Bear and The Wolf are all studied

Outdoor Life New York, SECOND EDITION Revised & Updated 1977.
Fine in Very good dustjacket, light wear to lower extremities, Clean and bright, mylar wrapper.
Distributed by Charles Scribner's Sons.
L.C. Catalog Card Number 61-17292.
238 pages.
20 Full Color Paintings plus Black & White Drawings by Douglas Allen.
Natural Histories by George G. Goodwin.
Scientific Animal Portraits by Alexander Seidel.
ITEM NO JC9...PRICE: $65.00
"Classic work on North American big game explores our rich wild life heritage from two viewpoints. The Dall Sheep, The Stone Sheep, The Bighorn, The Desert Bighorn, The Rocky Mountain Goat, The Pronghorn Antelope, The American Buffalo, The Whitetail Deer, Thel Mule Deer, The Elk, The Moose, The Caribou, The Javelina, or Peccary, The Mountain Lion, The Jaguar, The Black Bear, The Grizzly Bear, The Brown Bear, The Polar Bear and The Wolf are all studied

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