"Eel Rack": An Epic Narrative of the Delaware
by [GREY, Zane]. PELTON, Frank Curtis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, The Ferguson Press [1921]., 1921. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 2 b/w photographs (1 tipped on dedication page). Dust jacket (small chips, stains and fading). Very good. 235 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Sequence of 101 poems, detailing hunting adventures, natural descriptions, etc., by a resident of the Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania and Delaware River region. Number 176 of 300 copies, signed by Pelton on limitation page. Notable for the dust jacket blurb by Western author Zane Grey (himself a one-time resident of the area): "I have always thought the country about which you have written your poem was a great background for a story . . . evidently you have caught its spirit". Grey's copy, with his three line library blindstamp.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300392
- Title
- "Eel Rack": An Epic Narrative of the Delaware
- Author
- [GREY, Zane]. PELTON, Frank Curtis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, The Ferguson Press [1921].
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- ZANE GREY;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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