A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes.; Foreword by French Strother. Woodcuts by Harry Cimino
by Hoover, Herbert Clark
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About This Item
New York: Huntington Press, 1930. First edition, 1/990 (this #331). 8vo. viii, 41 pp. Plates, initial letters printed in green, vignette on title page printed in green. Inscribed by the President on the rear endpaper to angling book author Richard C. Hunt, with Hoover's typed note signed thanking Hunt for the gift of a book, along with a copy of Hunt's note of transmittal, enclosed in an envelope affixed to the rear pastedown, and with Hunt's angling bookplate on the front pastedown. Bruns H-249. Heller, Vol. II, 272: "[On] the need for increasing fish populations by means of fish hatcheries and decreasing pollution." Very good. Cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt spine title, publisher's slipcase (worn, one edge cracked through and broken). (8809).
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- Bartlebys Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61840
- Title
- A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes.; Foreword by French Strother. Woodcuts by Harry Cimino
- Author
- Hoover, Herbert Clark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Huntington Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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Bartleby's Books specializing, since 1984, in Americana and general antiquarian material, including books, archives, and ephemera.
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