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

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Wed Dec 1 10:13:38 EST 2010


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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