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MOSS,MALLARDS AND MULES Bob Brister AMWELL PRESS hunting fishing SIGNED ltd ed Description MOSS, MALLARDS AND MULES and Other Hunting Stories by Bob Brister was published by the WINCHESTER PRESS in 1974 in association with the Amwell Press ********************************************** The AMWELL PRESS is the publishing arm of THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY founded in March, 1976 by Jim Rikhoff. He was know and liked throughout the sport publishing industry as a result of his early founding of the Winchester Press. Because of his popularity with the industry he was able to get a who's who of international big game hunters and sport hunters as authors. The titles in the series would include original works by professional hunters, books by active sport hunters, anthologies that contained selections from both contemporary hunters and classic works and reprints of sought after titles. The titles are limited to 1000 copies with beautiful leather bindings and slipcases. These titles are all SIGNED by the author or editor or both and by Jim Rikhoff. In many editions you will find great photographs from the authors personal collections while in others you will find illustrations from artists that capture the feel of the stories. ********************************************* Few things are rarer than quality outdoor fiction. One can think of a handful of fine writers, Hemingway and Ruark spring to mind, who also truely knew the outdoors and could convey its essence in print. From the other side, there have been storytellers, and who, happily for us, were willing to lay rod and gun aside long enough to put something of there knowledge and insight between hard covers. A Nash Buckingham or Hal Shelton belongs in this category. And yes, MOSS, MALLARDS AND MULES reveals both, that Bob Brister can write and that he "has been there". He narrates the tales that make up this fine collection with such accuracy and feeling that he virtually takes the reader along with him, step-by-step, cast-by-cast, and shot-by-shot. ********************************************* Illustrated throughout with ORIGINAL black and white line-drawings by STANLEY FARNHAM. ********************************** Beautiful BURGUNDY leather, spine lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a fishing fly, duck, grouse and bear, front cover giltstamped with an stamp of the National Sporting Fraternity, covers double-gilt-ruled, in RED slipcase. ***************************** THE BOOK AND SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION. THE BOOK FITS VERY TIGHTLY INTO THE SLIPCASE (WHICH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE IT MAY NOT BE THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE), SO USE CAUTION IN REMOVING THE BOOK. THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAS AFIXED A BOOKPLATE TO AN INSIDE ENDPAPER (SEE PHOTO.) ********************************* LIMITED EDITION OF #14/1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY BOB BRISTER (THE AUTHOR), AND JIM RIKHOFF (THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY). ********************************* -6 1/2" by 9 1/2". -216 pages. -preface by Grits Gresham. -type for this volume was set by Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee. -printed on acid-free paper, and Smythe-sewn and custom bound by the Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee. -designed by Monica Sullivan. ********************************************* MOSS, MALLARDS AND MULES contains 27 short hunting and fishing stories set in the Gulf Coast area (from Louisiana's Mississippi Delta, along the Texas coastine and into the jungle draped coast of Mexico). This is a wildly beautiful area, rich in wildlife and history, and Bob Brister captures the truth of it. I have a suspicion, that you will return to this marvelous book time and again over the coming years, enjoy