Diary Kept

by Joseph McAleenan of a Cruise for Sword-Fish in the Month of July, 1916. With thirty illustrations by Joseph McAleenan

$1,750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Privately printed for the author and his friends, c1922 . First edition, 1/50 copies signed by the author, this one additionally inscribed by him. 8vo. xv, 2 , 115 pp. Plates. Account of a three-week fishing trip for swordfish off Montauk Point and the nearby waters of the Block Island Sound, with detailed daily entries; the banner fish of the trip was a 12-foot swordfish. A typed letter, signed by the author, presenting the book and containing

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