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LUDLUM, STUART D. Great Shooting Stories: First Edition
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Ill.: Placek, Ted. Good/Good. 1947 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER. Usual library markings, pages toned, dust jacket edge wear, light foxing on page edges, moderate shelf wear. "Duels were usually fought over politics, not women? Some of the rifles manufactured over two hundred years ago will still outshoot a modern deer rifle? Frontiersman used to stage 'animal drives,' in which the object was simply to kill eveyr living thing within miles? In one such drive the kill totals 41 panthers, 109 wolves, 112 foxes, 114 mountain cats, 17 black bears, 1 white bear, 2 elk, 198 deer, 111 buffalo, 3 beaver, and more than 500 animals? A stunt shooter once succeeded in breaking 72,419 thrown targets out of 72,500 in twelve days? Wyatt Earp, famous U.S. Marshal, had 'nothing but contempt for gun-fanners who shot from the hip'? A U.S. Marine once got six Japs with five hundred bullets? You can find all this and mroe inside this collection of eighteen true, exciting, information-packed tales of guns and marksmen.".
Offered for US$ 13.50 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 059421