(Derrydale Press)

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

Eugene V. Connett, ed. American Big Game Fishing. New York: 1935
paper, ink, leather, gilt

4to (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 318 x 241 mm). Numerous illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt and from photographs, drawings and maps; occasional very light foxing. Publisher's full blue morocco, spine gilt in six compartments with piscatorial devices, upper cover with gilt border with piscatorial devices, top edges gilt, pictorial endpapers by Hunt; minimal wear. Original slipcase; defective.

Literature

Siegel 86

Catalogue Note

Copy 11 of 56 deluxe copies with an original signed pencil drawing of a leaping swordfish by Lynne Bogue Hunt bound in, this copy also signed on the recto of the drawing by contributor Mrs. Oliver C. Grinnell.

One of the most famous of the Derrydale Press sporting publications, American Big Game Fishing includes Ernest Hemingway's "Marlin off Cuba". Mrs. Grinnell, who signed this copy, is the author of the introduction.