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By: Barber, Joel
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Mineola, New York, U.S.A., Dover Publications: 1954
Seller ID: 001639
About 160 pages with over 125 illiustrations. Still considered one of the basic books for decoy collectors. Soft cover, fine condition, minor rubbing. View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Mystic Seaport Museum: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001903
Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, teal & color illus. paper dust jacket, 219 pp., 476 bw illus. & 18 color plates. More than one thousand marine paintings and drawings are catalogued in this volume. Contains 635 catalogue entries. Lists American, European and Oriental artists. The entries are organized alphabetically. A nicely put together book, and an important resource for anyone researching a maritime artist or painting. The overall condition... View more info
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Canada, Boston Mills Pr: 1986
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 001870
This volume brings together 12 years of research and collecting. The book focuses on decoys made in the Ontario counties of Wentworth and Kent. These counties were homes to some of the most important hunting camps in North America and created a steady trade in decoys and equipment. Research based on interviews and over 60 carvers are profiled. Over 80 color photographs and more then 200 black and white. Excellent condition. Scarce. View more info
By: Colio, Quintina
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Science Press: 1972
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001878
This book was designed as a memorial to the great collector Bill Mackey. Numerous color and black and white photographs. The author and other passionate contributors looked at the birds, the makers, the history of decoys, and the change over time of the both decoys and their real models all while appreciating the decoys as folk art. The authors' knowledge of hunting and history made their commentary particularly interesting. View more info
By: Delph, John; Delph, Shirley
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: 1980
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 001881
Color photographs of more than 200 decoys, plus numerous black and white photos and line drawings. All help identify and authenticate these factory-made decoys. Chapters on species and special order models. View more info
By: Dudley, Jack
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Lewes, Delaware, U.S.A., Decoy Magazine: 1995
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 001889
Numerous decoys shown¿primarily is color, along with the photographs of the people, buildings and artifacts of the clubs supporting decoys and waterfowl hunting in the area. This book deals with the Carteret County area of North Carolina. Very fine condition. Inscribed to previous owner Jim Barthe (a major decoy collector from the west coast) by the author. View more info
By: Earnest, Adele
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Atglen, PA, U.S.A., Atglen, PA, U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 1984: 1984
Seller ID: 001472
Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. ISBN:0-88740-020-5. 251 photos, 256 pages. View more info
By: Earnest, Adele
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, U.S.A., Bramhall House Publishing: 1965
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001866
Includes 192 black and white photographs, an 8-page color insert, and 40 line drawings. This book is a little old school, but is still today considered to be a very good history of the decoy use and form. Earnest refers to decoys as the first and only true American folk art. A great resource. View more info
By: Earnest, Adele, Schifferl, Lou (illustrator)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Atglen, PA, U.S.A., Atglen, PA, U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 1982: 1982
Seller ID: 001460
Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. ISBN:0-916838-58-7. 232 photos, 208 pages View more info
By: Fales, Dean
Price: $50.00
Publisher: N.Y, Dutton: 1976
Seller ID: 001514
294 pages, over 570 color and b/w illustrations. List of Hampshire county cabinetmakers, thorough coverage of the furniture, form by form; chairs, beds, tables, case furniture, etc. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Exton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: 1983
Seller ID: 001885
This book by decoy expert Henry Fleckenstein is focused exclusively on decoys made in New Jersey and for the Delaware River. Over 600 decoys shown in primarily black and white photographs. As usual, Fleckenstein uses numerous photographs to provide as many comparative examples as possible. View more info
By: Fleckenstein, Henry A., Jr.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Schiffer Pub Ltd: 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001865
This book focuses on the factory-made decoys, but unlike other books of similar titles, it is the only one that also explores the smaller and lesser known of the factories and their products in some depth. An excellent title, full of numerous photographs, advertisements, etc. Fine condition, with some slight wear to edges of the dustjacket, which is now protected in a mylar Brodart cover. View more info
By: Fleckenstein, Henry A., Jr.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Exton, Pennsylvania, USA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: 1979
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001882
More than 150 decoys shown in black and white photography, along with maker biographies. Sticker of former owner on inside of front cover. Previous owner also taped in a couple of additional illustrations inside the rear cover. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Gretna, Louisiana, Pelican Publishing Company: 1979
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001863
This scarce catalog looks at the carvers, their materials, their tools, the regions, etc. for Louisiana and includes a section on why we should care about these decoys. In fact, they are under appreciated and scarce thanks to the numerous storms that wiped out blinds, clubs, and other places where such decoys were often stored. Book is very good condition. The dust jacket has some shelf rubbing and sunning of the very spine, but is otherwise in very good condition. View more info
By: Gates, B.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Kingston, Ontario, The Upper Canadian: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 001873
More than 75 black and white photographs with many chapters going through regions and makers¿ biographies. Biographies are well researched and include known dates, locations worked, etc. Signed by author and inscribed to previous owner, and previous owner's name written in pen on inside of front cover. Some light scuffing to green paper covers. Otherwise it looks as if the book was never opened. Fine condition. Scarce. View more info
By: Goldberger, Russ J.; Haid, Alan G.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Lewes, Delaware, U.S.A., Decoy Magazine: 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 001880
Twenty-three chapters and extensive small but good color photographs. Chapters cover all designs. Numerous examples of all designs, grades, styles, etc. Book is written by well known collectors of Mason decoys for more than twenty years. View more info
By: Gould,Mary Earle
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Springfield,Ma, Pond-Ekberg Com 1948.: 1948
Seller ID: 000841
. Illustrated by 130 b/w plates. This is still THE basic book for collectors of American treen. View more info
By: Guyette, Dale;Guyette, Gary;Guyette, Dale and Gary
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Exton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Schiffer Publishing Ltd.: 1983
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 001884
The Guyette name has been associated with decoy knowledge for some time. This book covers the decoys of maritime Canada, which is techincally still part of the Atlantic Flyway. Covering Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick; this book has over 330 black and white photographs of decoys with an additional 32 color illustrations to show the species that prevailed in this area. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Atglen, PA, U.S.A., Atglen, PA, U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 1990: 1990
Seller ID: 001464
Hard Cover. Fine. over 400 photos, 216 pages. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S.A., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: 1976
Seller ID: 001657
This soft cover book has 168 pages and is heavily illustrated-some in color. Includes our flag, carved and other eagles, George Washington figures, patriotic quilts, carvings and more. Fine condition. View more info
