Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing by Bacheller, [Addison] Irving (1859-1950) - 1907

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

American decorated cloth binding in the style of the Decorative Designers [unsigned]. Tissue-guarded frontispiece; Previous owner's inscription on front free endpage. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 12mo; 6.75 inches tall, 60 pages, each page bordered with a spiraling fishing line. First Edition, First Printing.. Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States whose books, generally set-in upper New York state, are humorous and full of penetrating character delineations, especially of rural types. [brit]

Bacheller was the James Michener of his day: sometimes his books (mostly historical novels) sold out as soon as published. In all he wrote 29 novels, 5 volumes of biography and autobiography and numerous short stories, poems and essays. [localwiki]