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Author: Babcock, Louis L.
Title: The Tarpon: A Description of the Fish Together With Some Hints on Its Capture
Place: [No place]
Publisher: [Privately printed]
Date: 1936
Item # : 170050
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   16
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 230
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Description:
175, viii pp. Illustrated with drawings in the text. 9½x6¼, stiff green wrappers, pictorial label on front wrapper. No. 232 of 250 hand-numbered copies. Fourth Edition.
Inscribed and signed by Babcock on the dedication-page for: "Mr. C.J. Siegman, with the regards and good wishes of Louis L. Babcock, Nov. 27 / [19]46." Considerably enlarged from the earlier editions; any edition of this title is considered scarce. With the printed insert at page 63, dated Jan. 30, 1937. See Bruns B5.
Condition:
Darkened spine with vertical crease, light edge wear, other minor wear; very good or better, contents intact.
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