Outdoor Life Complete Book of Hunting & Fresh Water Fishing — Boxed Set

COMPLETE BOOK OF HUNTING
Clyde Ormond

COMPLETE BOOK OF FRESH WATER FISHING
P. Allen Parsons

A vintage two-volume Outdoor Life reference set covering hunting, game animals, waterfowl, upland birds, freshwater angling, tackle, techniques, and fly identification.

Complete Book of Hunting includes illustrations by Douglas Allen. Complete Book of Fresh Water Fishing includes a foreword by Ray Bergman, detailed drawings by Ray Pioch, and a color section depicting 152 flies.

Both hardcover volumes retain their illustrated dust jackets and are housed together in the original orange slipcase. Comparable versions of this boxed presentation are cataloged from the early to mid-1960s. The exact dates and printing statements for this particular set cannot be confirmed without photographs of the copyright pages.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Author: Clyde Ormond; P. Allen Parsons
Publisher: Outdoor Life / Harper & Row
Publication Year: Circa 1963
Edition: Outdoor Life two-volume boxed-set edition
Printing: Exact printings unverified
Format: Two hardcovers with dust jackets in original slipcase
Language: English
Country of Printing: United States
Publisher/Series Number, if applicable: Outdoor Life series

CONDITION

Good overall.

Both illustrated dust jackets show visible age and handling wear, including rubbing, edge and corner wear, creasing, small chips, and short tears. The jacket for Complete Book of Hunting has wear and small losses at the head and foot of the spine, rubbing along the folds, and scattered surface marks. The jacket for Complete Book of Fresh Water Fishing has wear at the spine ends and corners, light scuffing, and minor edge tears and creases.

The original orange slipcase shows rubbing, bumped and worn corners, fraying and abrasion along the upper and lower edges, and general shelf wear. The case remains present and continues to hold both volumes.

The hardcover boards, copyright pages, page edges, hinges, and complete interiors were not photographed and therefore cannot be fully assessed. No signature, inscription, bookplate, or ownership marking is visible in the supplied photographs.

COLLECTOR’S NOTE

A complete period Outdoor Life boxed set retaining both illustrated dust jackets and its original slipcase. The books combine substantial illustrated reference material on North American hunting and freshwater fishing and have decorative appeal as a matched mid-century sporting set.

SHIPPING

Carefully packed and shipped with protective materials to help ensure safe arrival.