THE BEST OF JACK O'CONNOR 

by Jack O'Connor.

Limited to 1,000 copies. First edition published in 1977.

Description: Printed by Amwell Press, New Jersey, November 1977. Condition: Fine. Bonded leather cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 8.75" x 11.25". 192 pages. Dark brown binding, hardcover with dust jacket 


Foreword by Jim Rikhoff.  35 selections from O'Connor's writings, many with new annotations by O'Connor. Includes hunting deer, sheep, lion, leopard, kudu, tiger, sable, urial, boar, elk, etc. There are also short selections from O'Connor's novels Conquest and Boomtown, and from his autobiography Horse and Buggy West. The chapter "Hail and Farewell" gives a detailed account of his career as a writer. "Most of the stories herein were written for Outdoor Life in the more than three decades that I was on the staff of that magazine.a picture of what hunting was like in the golden days of the first six decades of the twentieth century."