JACK IN THE BUSH OR A SUMMER ON A SALMON RIVER

by Robert Grant

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1890. Octavo, pp. 374, illustrations, publisher's brown cloth stamped in black and gold. Later printing. A boys' novel about fishing set in Canada in the Gaspé Peninsula, first published in 1888. A picture the Gilded Age era of private fishing. From the 1850s until the 1970s, many of the best salmon rivers in the Gaspé were leased by wealthy American and Canadian fishing

• Printing: later

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