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AN ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. A RECORD OF SPORT, TRAVEL, AND ADVENTURE
by HALLOCK, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Minor Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Cincinnati: Sportsmen's Review Pub. Co., 1913. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece. 23 illustrations through the text including 10 full-page portraits. A lifetime of fishing adventures told in 26 chapters. A very clean and crisp copy. 135pp. Charles Hallock (1834-1917) was an American author and publisher, and avid sportsman. He founded "Forest and Stream" in 1873, which later merged with its major competitor, "Field and Stream". He originated the code of uniform game laws, and, with others, started the first great U.S. game preserve in Pennsylvania. . First Edition. Purple Cloth. Minor Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thin Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014234
- Title
- AN ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. A RECORD OF SPORT, TRAVEL, AND ADVENTURE
- Author
- HALLOCK, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sportsmen's Review Pub. Co.
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- Thin Octavo
- Keywords
- Sports, Fishing, Angling, Travel
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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