1964 1st edition. Published by the authors. Denver, Colorado. Large 4to. Ppxii,315. Colour & b/w plates, ills, bibliography. Tan buckram with pictorial leather roundel & spine label.* End-paper names. Inner hinges sl tender. In good dust-wrapper.
Notes: * Numbered copy (#1700) of an edition limited to 2000 copies, signed by both authors on the title-page. A clean copy in a very nice dust-wrapper. In its day, this book was "the only up-to-date treatise on falconry and hawking" on the US market. Large and detailed in scope, to this day it remains useful and sought-after. Chapters include; introduction to North American falconry; the falconer; problems and legal aspects [then an immense problem for US falconers]; the nature of predation; the birds of falconry; a few comparisons; hawk furniture; on obtaining a bird; field equipment; eyess or passager?; the status of the peregrine; hoods and hooding; lures and luring; peregrines - the unhacked eyess; peregrines - the Arctic migrants; peregrines - game hawking; the prairie falcon; praire falcons - eyesses and hack-hawks; prairie falcons - trapping the wild birds; two buteos; notes on the gyrfalcon; the goshawk; the Cooper hawk; the North American merlins; the sharp-shinned hawk; one owl; the North American kestrel; training the accipters; the goshawk - game hawking; conditioning; of wind and weather; of moult and feather; shipping raptors; pigeons; diseases, ailments and injuries; comments on transportation and field procedure; the future of falconry.
