Book Description

The Derrydale Press, New York, 1935. First edition. Number 16 of 56 numbered deluxe copies with an original pencil drawing of a leaping tuna signed by Lynn Bogue Hunt and dedicated to Thomas Aitken, one of the authors of the book and a fishing buddy of Ernest Hemingway, who also contributed a chapter. Aitken wrote the big game fishing column in the magazine Outdoor Life in the 1930s. In publisher's purple morocco with gilt borders and piscatorial images in gilt to spine. With numerous illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt as well as photographs and drawings of fishing devices. The contents are clean and bright. Some pages are uncut. Pictorial endpapers by Bogue Hunt with some light staining. A very nice copy of one of The Derrydale Press's most notable sporting publications.
Author Eugene V. Connett, Ed.
Date 1935
Binding hardcover
Publisher The Derrydale Press
Illustrator Lynn Bogue Hunt
Condition Very good+
Pages 251

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