Search Results: angling in america its early history by charles eliot goodspeed

Bovey Tracy, Devon: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1996. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Hardcover. Near fine. First published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1939. xiii, 380 p. 25 cm. B&w illustrations. Grey leather with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, gold lettering on spine. In cream cloth slipcase with a bit of dust.

Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1939. First edition, limited issue, one of 795 copies signed by the author, this copy marked presentation copy. Slight rubbing, near fine to fine and bright in very good publisher's slipcase with light chipping to corners and opening edges.. Blue cloth with black title lables. Signed by the author.

GOODSPEED, Charles Eliot. Angling in America: Its Early History and Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. 1st ed. Small 4to. xiv, 381 pp. Frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. cloth, gilt-lettered leather labels on front and spine, T.e.g. spine lightly sunned, small scrape to front label, else a very good or better copy. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. "Excellent history of angling in America, and fine short bibliography." Bruns, G-102. Wetzel, p. 146.