Tranquility: Tales of Sport with the Gun.

SHELDON, Col. Harold P. Introduction by Nash Buckingham.

$150.00

Item Number: 116019

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936.

First edition of Sheldon’s collected outdoor sketches. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 94. In near fine condition.

Buckingham states in his introduction to the present collection, "Composing myself for introduction of Colonel H. P. Sheldon and his collected outdoor sketches, I acknowledge emotions of gratitude... for having shared with so fine a character many glorious days (some of them recounted here) at wildfowl and upland gunning; for happy evenings together at our hearths and tablesides, and for gatherings at camp and clubs..."