
"Point! A Book About Bird Dogs" 1941 LYTLE, Horace
LYTLE, Horace [197] pp. The Derrydale Press 1941 Limited edition of 950 copies. This copy is No. 870 9 1/2" x 6 3/8" In “Point!” the author has produced something considerably more than merely another book on the hunting of upland feathered game, and the canines that so gloriously help to make rays afield all that they can be. It even classifies, we believe, as a great human document—a book that will be valued all the more for tis contrast to present world chaos. It is basic in the fundamentals of our American heritage. It should help us all in a calm confident facing of what we do face today. Horace Lytle has lived 70 years, and in his book he covers most of them. Starting with the first point he ever saw, and the first quail he ever killed, he fascinatingly carries you with him from Mississippi to Saskatchewan, from Ohio to Florida—for Bob White, Grouse, Wood Prairie Chickens, with Ducks and Geese thrown in for good measure. Perhaps America’s foremost pointing dog authority, he serve