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Did I Ever Tell You About...? by Harold G. Pickering

by Harold G. Pickering

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Did I Ever Tell You About...?

by Harold G. Pickering

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San Francisco, California. Privately published 1966. Limited to 150 copies. 8vo. 40 pp. Cover drawing by Lalla Sleeter. Includes "Fishing on the Side" plus 19 additional short essays. Probably the hardest to find of Mr. Pickering's titles, which included Trout Fishing in Secret, Dog Days on Trout Waters, Angling of the Test, Neighbors Have My Ducks, Merry Xmas Mr. Williams (all published by The Derrydale Press), and Preview of Law Study. Bound in mustard yellow pictorial wrappers with brown titles. A nice copy. Fine..
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Angling of the Test; or True Love Under Stress

by Pickering, H[arold] G

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Used - Gilt and blind-stamped black cloth. Slightest traces of rubbing at spine ends and front cover. Fine. Very scarce
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First edition, second issue, No.10 of 297 copies
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New York, New York, United States
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New York: Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, second issue, No.10 of 297 copies. With plates from photographs and drawings. [x], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilt and blind-stamped black cloth. Slightest traces of rubbing at spine ends and front cover. Fine. Very scarce. First edition, second issue, No.10 of 297 copies. With plates from photographs and drawings. [x], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Siegel 97 ; Frazier P-8-b
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"Merry Xmas. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N. Y." Limited Edition
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"Merry Xmas. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N. Y." Limited Edition

by Harold G. Pickering

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Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
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First Edition
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Hardcover
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VINELAND, New Jersey, United States
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NY: The Derrydale Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Cloth. B&W Illustrations; 34 pages; Width: 5.25" Height: 8.25"Book Details: This signed limited edition is bound in green cloth with silver lettering to the spine and a gift tag/label design to the front cover. 242 of 267 copies, this title is illustrated by Harry L. Timmins, and is “A Book-of-the-Nonce Club Selection…Being a Further Chronicle of the St. George Gun Club, Inc. ”. This humorous title has a duck hunting theme. Pickering was a past president of the Anglers' Club of New York, and editor of The Anglers' Club Bulletin. Some light shelfwear/spotting to the exterior. The binding and text block are sound. Text and illustrations are clear and crisp. $225 ; Signed by Author .
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MERRY XMAS. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N.Y.
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MERRY XMAS. Mr. Williams 20 Pine St. N.Y.

by Harold G. Pickering

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Used - Very Good
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Limited Edition
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Hardcover
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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New York: The Derrydale Press. Very Good. 1940. Limited Edition. Number 34 of only 267 copies. Green cloth boards with pictorial title stamped in silver to front cover. Title in silver to spine. Bookseller's sticker residue to top right corner of front free fly. Front free fly inscribed "To my friends Helen and Jack Keane with my regards, Pick." Title page signed by author. Inevitible ghosting of silver Christmas greeting at end of text to opposite page. Otherwise, a nice clean copy without further markings that has long been protected by plastic jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 34 pages; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Angling of the Test, or True Love Under Stress: Being a Diurnal Postulation of Problems of Connubial Infelicity which will bring No Comfort to any married Male Angler. A Book of the Nonce Club Selection

by Pickering, H[arold] G

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Used - Original embossed black cloth, gilt. Tape ghosts to endpapers. Fine, fresh copy
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First edition, second issue, no. 168 of 297 copies
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New York, New York, United States
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, second issue, no. 168 of 297 copies. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. [xii], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original embossed black cloth, gilt. Tape ghosts to endpapers. Fine, fresh copy. First edition, second issue, no. 168 of 297 copies. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. [xii], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Siegel 97; Frazier P-8-b
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Angling of the Test; or True Love Under Stress

Angling of the Test; or True Love Under Stress

by Pickering, H[arold] G

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Used - Gilt and blind-stamped black cloth. Slightest traces of rubbing at spine ends. Fine. Very scarce
Edition
First edition, no. 33 of 197 copies, signed by the author on the
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New York, New York, United States
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New York: Derrydale Press, 1936. First edition, no. 33 of 197 copies, signed by the author on the title page. With plates from photographs and drawings. [x], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gilt and blind-stamped black cloth. Slightest traces of rubbing at spine ends. Fine. Very scarce. First edition, no. 33 of 197 copies, signed by the author on the title page. With plates from photographs and drawings. [x], 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed on title page as usual, with an additional inscription on the flyleaf "To my friend Ross Jones with the kind regards H.G.P." Jones was a fellow member of the Anglers Club and the Club librarian. Siegel 97 ; Frazier P-8-a
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