Dec 18, 2018 12:00 EST
Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
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HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, et al.
American Big Game Fishing. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Publisher's royal blue cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, unopened. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; xxii, 251 pp.; with 2 half-titles, vignette title page, headpieces, colored frontispiece after a painting by Lynn Bogue Hunt with tissue guard, plates, in-text illustrations. Unopened, extremities bumped, somewhat rubbed, paste residue to front pastedown, tissue guard spotted, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown, otherwise an unusually fine copy.
An attractive and unopened copy of one of the most famous of the Derrydale Press sporting publications, which includes Hemingway's "Marlin Off Cuba." Frazier C-13-a; Siegel 86.
Sold for $250
Estimated at $80 - $120
Includes Buyer's Premium
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST, et al.
American Big Game Fishing. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Publisher's royal blue cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers, unopened. 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; xxii, 251 pp.; with 2 half-titles, vignette title page, headpieces, colored frontispiece after a painting by Lynn Bogue Hunt with tissue guard, plates, in-text illustrations. Unopened, extremities bumped, somewhat rubbed, paste residue to front pastedown, tissue guard spotted, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown, otherwise an unusually fine copy.
An attractive and unopened copy of one of the most famous of the Derrydale Press sporting publications, which includes Hemingway's "Marlin Off Cuba." Frazier C-13-a; Siegel 86.
Auction: Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson, Dec 18, 2018
