New York: Privately Printed by The Anglers Club of New York, 1950. First Edition. Number 346 of 500 numbered copies. Set in Waverly types on specially made paper, printed by Peter and Edna Beilensen, Mount Vernon, New York. With hand-colored plates of flies after watercolors by Edgar Burke. With decorative initials by John Atherton. 87 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spine label darkened, wear to slipcase extremities, spotting at gutter to endpapers, else fine, with Bruns's bookplate to front pastedown. Burke, Edgar. First Edition. Number 346 of 500 numbered copies. Set in Waverly types on specially made paper, printed by Peter and Edna Beilensen, Mount Vernon, New York. With hand-colored plates of flies after watercolors by Edgar Burke. With decorative initials by John Atherton. 87 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. BRUNS' COPY. Bruns H-292 ("Very scarce"); Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 100

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Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 316060
Title: Salmon in Low Water
Author: Hunt, Richard Carley
Format/Binding: With hand-colored plates of flies after watercolors by Edgar Burke. With decorative initials by John Atherton. 87 pp. 1 vols. 8v
Book Condition: Used - Spine label darkened, wear to slipcase extremities, spotting at gutter to endpapers, else fine, with Bruns's bookplate to front
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition. Number 346 of 500 numbered copies. Set in Waverly
Publisher: Privately Printed by The Anglers Club of New York
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1950
Keywords: Angling | Private Press
Bookseller catalogs: Private Press; Sports & Games;

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Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City.Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.

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Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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