Product Description
Inscribed on the title page: "For Harriet and John Finucane, our friends, [from] Dorothy Noyes Arms, John Taylor Arms.
" An early memoir about fishing from a woman, uncommon signed.
As the foreword says, "Since time immemorial fishing has been considered a purely masculine sport.
.
.
.
for the unknown sisterhood of the rod and reel, this little book is written.
" Dorothy and John have each signed separately, and the inscription to their friends is in John's hand.
Interestingly a previous inscription is present but very faded.
John Taylor Arms was a well-known artist.
Though he didn't do the illustrations in this volume--those belong to William J.
Schaldach--the book is dedicated to him: "To J.
T.
A.
, to whose keen love of angling and joyous companionship in the days spent beside lake, or brook, or river, I owe my happy fishing memories.
" Chapters range from at least Maine to Wyoming, from trout to salmon, with a lot in-between.
Gilt fish on front and gilt lettering on the spine, blue cloth.
A very good book with stain to lower corner of front board, light sunning to spine, and toning to pages, lacking the dust jacket.
// Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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