The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton League of America Anniversary Edition

Walton, Izaak & Eugene Burns (intoduction & revisions)

Verlag: Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, 1953

Beschreibung

Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, PA. 1953. 192 pages. Anniversary Edition sponsored by the Izaak Walton League of America. This rare Anniversary Edition incorporates a new introduction, and revisions, by celebrated author, outdoorsman and war correspondent, Eugene Burns, who was famously murdered at the age of 52, in 1958, during a street mob revolt in Baghdad, Iraq, while on assignment; only five years after his contribution to this enduring classic. Uncommon in DJ. Book is tight and clean. Binding and hinges are sound. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Cool, vintage fly-fishing bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Tiny, vintage bookseller sticker at base of FFEP, from The Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, 38 E. 52nd Street, New York City; zip code 22. Erased pencil price on FFEP corner. $3.50 price-clipped from top of flap. DJ shows rubbing along edges and folds. Faint foxing on inner flap edges. Shallow open chip at crown and heel. A nice copy; uncommon in DJ. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003451

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Compleat Angler - Izaak Walton League of...

Verlag: Stackpole Company, Harrisburg

Erscheinungsdatum: 1953

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition