[Rarebooks] fs: Paradise for Gunners & Anglers, 1883, scarce

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 6921 )  [Spangler, Andrew M.]. A PARADISE FOR GUNNERS AND ANGLERS.
(Philadelphia): Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1883. 
First printing, Wrappers, Duodecimo, 96 pages, Engraved cuts, fold-out map. 
Fair.
      Rather scarce booklet which describes the fishing and waterfowling 
delights to be found on the Delaware and Maryland peninsula in the 
Chesapeake Bay, with many engraved cuts of different species and a large 
fold-out map of the region on inside front cover. Printed for the Passenger 
Department of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, no doubt 
with an eye toward promoting ridership to the area. See HAND #S474; PRATT 
EASTERN SHORE #199. Bound in robin egg-blue paper covers with lovely stern 
view of a sailboat on front cover, two shotgunners on rear cover. Cover 
illustrations executed by the American Bank Note Company, New York. Covers 
apparently detached at some point and repaired with cloth tape down spine. 
There are several chips to front and rear covers of up to . 5" depth. The 
map at inside rear cover has tears along folds repaired with archival 
tissue, one section repaired with the same cloth tape as found on spine. The 
map is complete and entirely legible....... $200.00
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