GREY, ZANE | Tales of Fishes. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919

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

GREY, ZANE 

Tales of Fishes. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919

4to. Color frontispiece, 58 photographic plates; faint spotting to plates. Publisher's presentation binding of green half morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine title, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; minor rubbing to boards. [With:] who photographs of members of Grey's party. In custom slipcase.

First edition, deluxe copy, inscribed by Grey on the front free endpaper "To Robert N. Harris (?) | Who should love tales of | fishes as well as he loves to fish | from | Zane Grey." it is dated "Hollywood, Calif | Nov 18, 1919". 

Grey's account of his inshore and deep-sea angling for tarpon, striped bass, marlin and sailfish, much accomplished with light tackle. Grey also gives a thrilling report on the elusive "ghost of the flats," the bonefish, a species that went largely unrecognized as a game fish for decades but is now seen as one of an angler's greatest challenges. Grey's encounter left him convinced that stalking tailing bones was his finest angling experience, going so far to even praise them as exquisite table fare.