Ho Hum, the Fisherman

by William Hale Harkness

$6,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Privately printed at the Derrydale Press , 1939. First edition, 1/100 copies, this one inscribed by the author below the limitation statement. Tall 8vo. xiv, 47 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates from photographs. An engaging account of a marlin fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas featuring the use of bonefish as bait at one point , privately printed for the author and not for sale. Harkness was a financier and philanthropist;

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