CORNELL, M[ILTON]. L. | The Cruise of the Roaring Tarpon Club. [N.P., but Baltimore?: privately printed, ca. 1924]

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

CORNELL, M[ILTON]. L. 

The Cruise of the Roaring Tarpon Club. [N.P., but Baltimore?: privately printed, ca. 1924]

2 volumes, 4to (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.; 250 x 200 mm). Vol I: Hand colored title, vignette, and map, in-text illustrations throughout, three illustrations with color washes; minor toning, minor offsetting, minor marginal tear to one leaf. Vol II: 2pp. list of photographs, 64 photographs by E.H. McCloud (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.; 134 x 78 mm), printed two to a page; minor toning, one or two instances of fingersoiling. Volumes uniformly bound in limp dark green morocco, covers gilt lettered, pictorial endpapers; some sunning to spines and edges, minor rubbing to extremeities. Together in custom clamshell case and folding chemises.    

M.L. Cornell was a member of the Roaring Tarpon Club, and served as the expedition's "scribe," capturing the events of the ten-day cruise. In the narrative's introduction, Cornell describes himself as "[a] long, once lean, man, ever hungry and generally thirsty. Given to fishing at extraordinary hours and without the slightest result." The lively account is accompanied by 64 striking photographs, taken by another member of the club, which offer striking images of the angler, and the Florida coast from Fort Myers through the Keys.    

Rare

REFERENCE:

Heller 736 (this copy)

PROVENANCE:

M[ilton]. L. Cornell (name gilt on covers)