Royal blue cloth with gilt spine titles, cover titles and elaborate front cover border decorations; folio; 250pp; illustrated with pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece plus 4 other full page color plates with tissue guards after paintings by Lynn Bogue Hunt; b/w photos, maps and numerous text and chapter head-piece drawings; top edge gilt with others untrimmed; limited to 850 un-numbered copies; lacking dust jacket.
With chapters on sailfish, marlin, tarpon bonefish, swordfish, tuna, wahoo, striped bass & channel bass plus fishing at Bimini, Catalina and Panama.
Contributing authors include Hemingway, Heilner, Farrington, Newell, Hunt, Low and others.
Perhaps the most attractive of any American big game angling book-these large Derrydale titles are desirable and sought-after.
This copy is in near fine condition with a bit of rubbing mid-spine; bright gilt titles & decorations.
Internally clean and free from writing, all color plates bright.
A stunning copy of one of the desirable large format Derrydales.