American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America

by Charles M. Wetzel

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, no. 35 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author, from a total edition of 200. Illustrated. 235 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original 3/4 black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices, A FINE COPY. Bookplate of Joseph Delaplaine Bates. Bruns W-73. Item #254777 Wetzel’s landmark bibliography of American angling, with an excellent history of the sport. An essential work.

• Binding: Leather

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