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Item Details
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| Author: |
Gingrich, Arnold |
| Title: |
The Well-Tempered Angler (Two Editions) |
| Place: |
Various |
| Publisher: |
Various |
| Date: |
1965; [1996] |
| Item # : |
111037 |
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| Sale Number |
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235 |
| Lot Number |
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441 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Angling Library of Jeffrey Norton |
| Sale Date |
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01/24/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 51 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. First Edition copy: 330 pp. Decorative headpieces by John Groth. Bibliography of a list of pertinent addresses. 8½x5¾, cloth, jacket. First Edition. Knopf, 1965. * Easton Press Collector's Edition: 323 pp. Index. Illustrated with color frontispiece from painting by Adriano Manocchia. Decorative headpieces by John Groth. 8½x5¼, gilt-decorated full red modern morocco, salmon moiré silk endpapers, attached cloth bookmark, a.e.g. First Easton Press Collector's Edition. |
| The author, like his master Izaak Walton, refreshes the spirit of the angler and the non-angler alike with his discourse on streams, fish, tackle, fishing cronies, and other bucolic subjects. |
| Condition: |
| First edition copy jacket with soiling to covers, darkening at spine, tiny tear to upper rear joint; cloth with faint discoloration spots to covers; else very good in very good jacket; Easton Press copy in fine condition. |
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