[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Herbert Hoover: A REMEDY FOR DISAPPEARING GAME FISHES

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest internet-only catalogue: Spring 2008 containing 77 fine 
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HOOVER, Herbert Clark. A REMEDY FOR DISAPPEARING GAME FISHES.  New
York:  Huntington  Press  1930. First  Edition.  Cloth-backed  marbled
boards  in  original  slipcase  with paper spine  label.  Foreword  by
French  Strother. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harry Cimino. Copy #420
of  990,  the first publication of the press. This copy  is  INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED  by  the President on the verso of the front  endpaper  to
Charles  Pont  "With  Kind Regards." Above Hoover's  inscription  is a
signed  inscription by the publisher, William Seward, dated 6  October
1936  to Barbara S. Willis King noting that this is the first book  of
the  press.  Pont's small bookplate on the front pastedown. Near  Fine
in a Very Good slipcase.                                       $750.00


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