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Derrydale Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. Still in original Publisher's shrink wrap, never opened. Upper outer corners are noticeably bumped. Dark green leatherette boards with color illustration tipped in on front board, title and decorations in gold on front board and spine. All edges are gilt. Crisp and clean but for the bumped corners. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Lyon, Mississippi: The Derrydale Press, 1993. Reprint . Full-Leather. Fine/Issued Without d/j. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Lynn Bogue Hunt. Quarto, xxvi + 251 pp., color frontis, + 4 color plates, b/w photos & drawings, maps, index. Big game fishing stories from various authors: Lynn Bogue Hunt, Ernest Hemingway, Van Campen Heilner, Kip Farrington, etc. A limited edition (2,500 cc) reprint of the original 1935 limited edition (56 de luxe copies, 850 regular copies). Full leather bound hardcover book w/gold-foil stamping to the front & spine, marbeled endpapers, all edges gilt, color illus. on front cover also. Fine cond.

Derrydale Press, 1993. Hardcover. New/No Dustjacket as Issued. New Old Stock. Just removed from publisher's original shrinkwrap. Quarto, xxvi + 251 pp., color frontis, + 4 color plates, b/w photos & drawings, maps, index. Big game fishing stories from various authors: Lynn Bogue Hunt, Ernest Hemingway, Van Campen Heilner, Kip Farrington, etc. A limited edition (2,500 copies) reprint of the original 1935 limited edition. Eugene Virginius Connett, 3rd, the founder and principal owner of Derrydale, was a publishing genius. After graduating from Princeton in 1912, he briefly joined the family beaver hat-making business before striking out on his own as a fledgling book publisher and printer in Manhattan in 1927. Connett sought out the most respected outdoor writers of his day and convinced them to become Derrydale authors. He combined their words with the output of equally well-regarded artists and illustrators whose drawings, paintings, and etchings were beautifully reproduced. This remarkably… Read More

Derrydale Press, 1993. Book. Near Fine. hardback. hardback, small quarto, published in an unnumbered edition limited to 2,500 copies. Bound in bonded deep green leather lettered gilt, mounted pictorial inset within a gilt roundel to the upper board, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, b&w plates, xxii + 251 pp. A Very well preserved tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text..

U.S.A.: Premier Press, 1985. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Premier Press Leather Limited Edition. Number 1527 Of 3000 Such Copies. Dark Green Leather With Gold Lettering. Book Is In Very Good Plus Condition. Boards Have A Tiny Bit Of Shelf Wear. Light Bump. Fore Edges Have A Tiny Bit Of Reading Wear. Interior Is Clean And Legible. .

Full grained green leather with gilt border, sailfish, and title; raised bands and gilt particulars to spine; marbled end pages; all edges gilt. Tissue guarded color illustrations throughout. Numbered 1728 out of only 3000 copies printed. 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Very good copy. Previous owner's name written on front fly.

Derrydale Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 850 copies. Corners and spine ends worn. A 3/4" hole is cloth at hinge edge of spine. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 235 pages .

NY: Derrydale Press. Used - Very Good. 1993. NY: Derrydale Press, 1975. 4to, 251 pp, VG in gilt-stamped blue cloth (covers soiled; spine darkened; wear to tips. Illustrated in color plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt and b&w photographs and drawings. One of 850 copies in the regular edition. (Subject: Sports & Games.)

Derrydale Press Inc, 1993. hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. L. Hunt. Book is in new condition other than some very light damage to gold gilt on the front edge. Cover has minor shelf rubbings. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available.

New York: The Derrydale Press (1935). Limited First Edition of 850 copies. Fine Hardcover (Blue cloth, Gilt lettering and stamping in front and on the spine, Gilt top edge, no dj). Hardly visible surface unevenness in the middle of back cover. Tiny bookworm hole (1/16" in diameter and 1/8" deep). otherwise The Book looks perfect. 12.7"x10.0"x1.5". be7x. For International/Expedited shipping contact seller

London: published by Hutchinson & Co. for the Derrydale Press, New York,, 1935 [issued in 1936]. The novelist contributes to a lavish angling book First edition, British issue. This attractive production includes Hemingway's article "Marlin off Cuba" (pp. 55-81), which he drew on extensively while writing The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway's interest in Gulf Stream fishing coincided with his rejection of cosmopolitan culture and pursuit of big-game hunting in the early 1930s. In addition to Hemingway's article, the work includes photographic illustrations of him and an extended extract from his account, "told in the graphic Hemingway manner" (p. 49), of the world-record Atlantic sailfish catch of 1934. The volume concludes with the national and international records of heaviest confirmed catches: the marlin record, set in New Zealand in 1926 by Laurie D. Mitchell, stood at 976 lbs. The Derrydale Press was notable for its lavishly produced North American sporting books. Its founder, Eugene V.… Read More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. LIMITED EDITION, one of 850 copies only. Handsomely Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates and a number of other drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and with a profusion of photographs, drawings and maps on glossy plates. Large 4to, publisher's original ribbed royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover with a border incorporating corner designs of game fish, pictorially decorated endpapers, t.e.g. xxii, 236, index pp. A very bright, and handsome copy, the cloth and gilt-work clean and fresh with only the lightest evidence of age or use. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN HANDSOME COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. WITH THE IMPORTANT CHAPTER ON MARLIN FISHING BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Includes contributions from Lynn Bogue Hunt, Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Jr., as well as a chapter on fishing for marlin off Cuba by Ernest Hemingway. A wonderful and justly sought-after… Read More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935. LIMITED EDITION, one of 850 copies only. Handsomely Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates and a number of other drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and with a profusion of photographs, drawings and maps on glossy plates. Large 4to, publisher's original ribbed royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover with a border incorporating corner designs of game fish, pictorially decorated endpapers, t.e.g. xxii, 236, index pp. A bright, and handsome copy, internally largely unopened, the cloth bright and fresh with only the lightest evidence of shelving at the extremities, the spine gently mellowed to a pleasing navy-blue. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN HANDSOME COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. WITH THE IMPORTANT CHAPTER ON MARLIN FISHING BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Includes contributions from Lynn Bogue Hunt, Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Jr., as well as a chapter on fishing for… Read More

New York: The Derrydale Press,, 1935. The experiences behind The Old Man and the Sea First edition, first printing, retaining the scarce jacket. This attractive production includes Hemingway's article "Marlin off Cuba" (pp. 55-81), which he drew on extensively while writing The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway's interest in Gulf Stream fishing coincided with his rejection of cosmopolitan culture and pursuit of big game hunting in the early 1930s. In addition to Hemingway's article, the work includes photographic illustrations of him and an extended extract from his account, "told in the graphic Hemingway manner" (p. 49), of the world-record Atlantic sailfish catch of 1934. The volume concludes with the national and international records of heaviest confirmed catches: the marlin record, set in New Zealand in 1926 by Laurie D. Mitchell, stood at 976 lbs. The Derrydale Press was notable for its lavishly produced North American sporting books. Its founder, Eugene V. Connett III, was "a publishing… Read More