OUTING: An Illustrated Magazine of Sport Travel & Adventure [six odd volumes in a vernacular binding] by Whitney, Caspar; James H. Worman, editors - 1896

New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1896. Six numbers of the venerable outdoors magazine in a funky folk-binding. Included are March, 1896; May, 1896; October, 1899; June, 1900; December, 1900; August, 1904. Includes "Dick Swiveller" on duck shooting on the Savannah River, Henry MacBeth cycling in Trinidad, Dixon hunting the sambur in Ceylon, lumbering in the Mesaba (Mesabi? Minnesota, anyway), Fred Whishaw Among the Russian Bears, Lenz's World Tour Awheel (bicycling - here from Shapur to Shiraz), the Balearics, Bassford on model yachts, National Guard of Nevada, notes on various sports; Gaynor canoeing on the St. John, Chapman on racing 'sandbaggers', camp cookery, Benson "Breaking a Bike", Livingstone on Wild Steeds of the Pampas, black bass in the Fox River, Lenz again: from Abadeh to Ispahan, Porter on tiger hunting in India, Sandys on trouting, Inkersley on yachting in San Francisco Bay, handicap reform in lawn tennis, National Guard of Nebraska; Kenealy on the yacht Columbia, Brooke (University of Pennsylvania) on kicking the football, woodcock shooting, Cascade Mountains, Mrs. Townsend goes 'Across the Divide on a Broncho', Beaupré in Antigua, Guatemala, and its Ruins, Griswold on the Keya Paba Marshes, herring fishing by torchlight, T.B. on a one-and-a-half-day vacation "With Wheel and Gun", yacht racing skippers & crews, Walter Camp reviews the '98 football season, William Churchill on Samoan Canoe-Craft, design & sailing of America's Cup yachts 'Columbia' and 'Shamrock'; Whitney on country carts with color illustrations by Edward Penfield, Gove on the Evolution of the Trout and Artificial Fly, Macdonald on golf rules, Stewart Edward White On the Big Sea Water (Great Lakes), The Water Wolf (muskellunge), singing gibbon, Sandys on bass, trotting horses, Tucker on the Laying Out and Care of a Golf Course, Hodell ascending the Matterhorn, Owen Wister on the polo pony, Pollard on the rewards of wheeling, George Wharton James on the Hopi Snake Dance, Whitney on sportsmanship, Carlin on photography by sportsmen, George Bird Grinnell on the Present Distribution of Big Game in America (color plate of bears!), Morton on Bob White Quail, Hutchinson on modern golf clubs & methods, Patterson on Breeding Thoroughbred Ponies, Jack London on Cape Nome (fiction), Baillie-Grohman on chamois shooting in Europe, Henshall on the evolution of the "Kentucky Reel", Sandys on the wild turkey, Vance Thompson on Stag & Wolf Hunting in France, Tyler on the Polo of the Ancients, Hillegas on "Oom Paul" A Mighty Hunter, Emerson Hough on the Old-Time Prairie Chicken Hunt, Gray on the Outlook for Fox Hunting in America, British sporting instinct in war, Frederick A. Cook on a new snow tent, Forbes on football coaching, Leonidas Hubbard on Long Island country homes, boat center-boards, woodcock camouflage, Hubbard again on canoeing, Maria: Mother of 90-Footers - the modern scow, Reid on Life Among the Thibetan Savages, Sandys on bluefish, an outdoor horse show, Cantwell ascends Mt. Baker, Rena A. Phillips: A Woman on the Trail ("In the woods I take the skirt off"), Egerton R. Young on a Canine Partnership, Whitney on the Trail of the Jaguar, Herbert K. Job on hawking, Trevathan on the deterioration of the American race horse, choosing a shooting dog, John Burroughs notes on natural history including "Kill the Cats", Harris on trout; short stories, poetry, art, a few ads in the December '00 issue, sporting notes, more. Hardcover, as pictured. Worn, spine hinges split, inner covers unfinished, with cloth tapes covered by scraps of a 1903 desk diary's pages, 1900 covers glued down as front & back covers, over half of one page (639/640) in the last number, on building a bridge, roughly cut out, ink name, place & note. About 480-500 pages, many illustrations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 7¼" by 10".