1971 1st edition. Published by the author. Peregrine Press. 4to paperback. Ppviii,113. B/w photographs & line illustrations. Side-stapled, brown cloth-backed wrappers. Owner's name inside cover, base of spine sl worn but very good.
Notes: This, the first printing this classic of American falconry, was supressed and most of the stock destroyed. * Harry McElroy here deals principally with training and hunting the imprint Cooper's hawk. Chapters include; the imprint; hand raising the Cooper's hawk; anti-aggression conditioning; selection of a hawk; diet; training; hunting; hunting quail; entering, training and hack; yarak, casting, weathering and trapping; furniture, equipment and imping; molt; falconer's clubs and legalization. * "McElroy sent the original manuscript for this book to James T. Johnson (Peregrine Press) to publish. Rather than being corrected and typeset, it was published as delivered with numerous errors. The author demanded all copies be destroyed and this issue suppressed. (Gossard). 'In personal correspondence the author indicated that 287 copies of this version were sent out, the rest destroyed. This is known as 'the brown cloth tape' edition." (Swift. Bibliotheca Accipitraria II).
