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Item Details
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| Author: |
Schwiebert, Ernest |
| Title: |
Remembrances of Rivers Past |
| Place: |
[Clinton, NJ] |
| Publisher: |
[Amwell Press] |
| Date: |
[1977] |
| Item # : |
170045 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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192 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 747 |
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| Description: |
| 287 pp. With an original trout tied fly by Ernest Schwiebert (1931-2005), mounted on blank leaf following limitation leaf. Illustrations by the author. 8vo. Full maroon morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, linen slipcase. No. 11 of 100 hand-numbered copies, specially bound and prepared by The National Sporting Fraternity Limited. |
| Signed by Schwiebert and Jim Richoff (NSFL President) on the limitation leaf, which has a cut-out section to showcase Schwiebert's tied trout fly. Also, signed in 1977 by Schwiebert on the color fish plate before the title page. "Schwiebert, an architect and planner whose lifelong passion for fishing led him to write influential books on piscatorial matters like how trout perceive insects - all the better to make lures to catch them" passed away last December - Douglas Martin (NY Times). Special limited edition with leather binding, using the text block sheets from the Macmillan second printing book. |
| Condition: |
| Fine with slipcase. |
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