[Rarebooks] FA: Derrydale Press & other hunting & fishing
Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA
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Sun Apr 16 06:43:05 EDT 2006
'TALL TALES' ends this afternoon. No reserve, because the Easter Bunny said
"no candy for you if you use reserves!", and to be honest, since he started
taking steroids, the Easter Bunny scares the hell out of me.
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[Derrydale Press] 'TALL TALES AND SHORT' by Edmund Ware Smith. Published
by the Derrydale Press in 1938. Limited to 950 copies. This is stamped as
an unnumbered review copy. A selection of fishing tales centered on the
fictional towns of Mopang and Privilege. Smith, a very popular Maine
author, is perhaps best known for his hunting and fishing anthology "Tomato
Can Chronicle" which remains in print to this day, and he was favorite
writer of Derrydale Press founder Eugene Connett.
A SPORTSMAN-ARTIST'S GAME BAG By Ray Ovington. Published by the Amwell
Press in 1989. One of 1000 copies printed for the National Sporting
Fraternity Ltd., signed by the author. By the author of "Common Sense Fly
Fishing", "A Sportsman's Game Bag" is Ovington's own selection of his
favorite pieces separated into six sections, titled: Upland Game Bird
Shooting, Waterfowl Hunting, Deer Hunting, Trout and Bass Fishing, The
Leapers, and For the Love of It. Both entertaining and informative, the
book is illustrated throughout with the author's own specially-commissioned
black & white and color artwork.
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