PBA Galleries - Auctioneers & Appraisers

Item Details


Click to enlarge
Heading:
Author: Pickering, H[arold] G.
Title: Angling of the Test or True Love Under Stress. Being a Diurnal Postulation of Problems of Connubial Infelicity which will bring no comfort to any married Male Angler
Place: New York
Publisher: Derrydale Press
Date: 1936
Item # : 172461
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   175
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 161
(Includes 20% Buyer's Premium)

This item was sold in a live auction.

If another copy or a similar item comes
up for auction, we can let you know.

Pressing the button below will add
the title to your 'want list', and if
the item comes up for auction again,
we will notify you via email.

Description:
25 pp. Illustrated with 7 plates, 5 of which are from photos, 1 wood engraving and added pictorial lithograph title. Title vignette and tailpiece by Thomas G. Alvord. 9x5¾, blind-stamped black cloth, lettered in gilt. No. 168 of 297 hand-numbered copies. First Edition.
Humorous angling daily events by a member of the New York Angler's Club. Handsomely printed on laid paper. Siegel 97.
Condition:
Minor wear overall, spine ends and corners a bit bumped; tiny old tape stains on free endpapers; else near fine.
 Bookmark and Share
previous lot   next lot