MCALEENAN, JOSEPH. 'HUNTING WITH RIFLE AND CAMERA IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES'. [N.P.]: PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, [N.D., CA. 1916]

Large 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 248 x 187mm). Hand-colored frontispiece, illuminated dedication leaf, 39pp. text, 41 plates with captions and illustrated borders, original drawing by Ed Deming; some minor toning primarily to text leaves. Half brown morocco over brown cloth covered boards, gilt title to upper board, top edge gilt, dedication plate to front pastedown; rebacked to style, rubbing to corners. In quarter morocco slipcase and folding chemise.

Harlow Brooks, MD (dedication bookplate to front pastedown)

OCLC 123415843 (2 copies: Fordham University and Yale University) 

Large 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 248 x 187mm). Hand-colored frontispiece, illuminated dedication leaf, 39pp. text, 41 plates with captions and illustrated borders, original drawing by Ed Deming; some minor toning primarily to text leaves. Half brown morocco over brown cloth covered boards, gilt title to upper board, top edge gilt, dedication plate to front pastedown; rebacked to style, rubbing to corners. In quarter morocco slipcase and folding chemise.
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First and only edition, number 3 of 20 copies, privately printed by the author and presented to his friends. This copy was given to Dr. Harlow Brooks, whom McAleenan also thanks in his dedication.The diary of one of the "winter re-unions" of the author and his friends (Dr. Brooks, John Murgatroyd, George Clifton, Ed. Deming, and others). "This hunt ... would be largely photographic," McAleenan writes. "Of late years, the camera has appealed to us more than the rifle" (p. 3).