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The Charles B. Wood III collection of books on Atlantic Salmon fishing (Bibliotheca Salmo Salar).
Lot 229

Sturges, Lee
Salmon fishing on Cain River New Brunswick, Chicago]: Privately printed, 1919

5 – 15 November 2022, 12:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Sturges, Lee

Salmon fishing on Cain River New Brunswick, EDITION: 50 copies (but actually fewer than that survive as some copies were destroyed when the author's house burned). SIZE: 247 x 183 mm. PAGINATION: Unpaginated. (40) pp. ILLUSTRATIONS: 7 fullpage etchings by the author hors-texte (the first of which, only, is signed in pencil by the author); also, 18 marginal vignettes from pen drawings, also by the author. BINDING: Dark blue-green paper-covered boards, with title deeply stamped in gilt on upper cover. PRINTER: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago. Text printed on handmade paper; the etchings on imitation vellum, each with printed dustsheet. Endpapers and fly leaves are Arches paper, Chicago]: Privately printed, 1919

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