Product Description
FIRST EDITION hardcover, sewn-bound in reddish-brown cloth, with the "Sportsmen" series blind-stamped design featuring a bird in flight and a dog or wolf beneath, with gilt lettering on spine, is in VG condition, having light bumping and wear to corners; light edge-wear to edges (a tiny dent to top and a small slight bend to bottom edge); a small abrasion mark to top tinted reddish-brown closed page edges (see photo), which has in turn made corresponding small dents to top of pages from first free endpaper to p.
119; faint smudge of old erased price at top right first free endpaper; interior pages very tight (may never have been read).
Dust jacket, enclosed in protective mylar (mylar not pictured), featuring detail of a painting of a muskie fish by William J.
Schaldach, is in G condition, having a small tear to bottom of front, some wear to top and bottom jacket spine, and some chipping wear to edges, along with some rubbing/scuffing to jacket surface (spine jacket shows some age-darkening).
Book is illustrated with a color frontispiece by Schaldach (showing a little larger portion of the painting on jacket cover), 18 half-tone photographs, four maps, and two diagrams describing the construction of a boat for muskie fishing.
"For the first time, here is a book devoted entirely to fishing for muskellunge.
Bert Claflin has given this one species his undivided attention, and the result is a definitive book on the subject.
"---from DJ.
Scarce.
Fish and fishing.
Muskellunge.
"Muskie.
" United States.
DB[6].
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