TALES OF THE ANGLER'S ELDORADO NEW ZEALAND by Grey, Zane [drawings by Frank E. Phares] - 1926

New York: Harper & Brothers Pubishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1926. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition [stated, with code G-A on the copyright page]. Oversize 11 by 8 inch bound in dark blue cloth with gold gilt lettering and with a design stamped in blind to the front board, 228 pages, illusrated "with over 100 illustrations from photographs taken by the author and from drawings by Frank E. Phares" [including pictorial endpapers]. 1927 gift inscription [from A. F. M. To J. Roberts Mead] on the blank preliminary page following the front flyleaf. Solid very good copy light bumping to the spine ends, minor bumping to the fore-edge corners, a few very small areas of discoloration and fading to the cloth, in a edgeworn and spine-faded Dust Wrapper with light chipping to the spine head corners and with a small snagged tear under the first T of the title on the front panel. See Photos ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 228 pages .