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Item Details
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| Author: |
Buck, Richard |
| Title: |
Silver Swimmer |
| Place: |
[New York] |
| Publisher: |
Lyons & Burford |
| Date: |
[1993] |
| Item # : |
172478 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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53 |
| Sale Name |
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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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$ 258 |
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| Description: |
| xvi, [2], 416 pp. Foreword by Ted Williams (the Hall of Fame baseball player). With a few illustrations from photographs. 9x6, full green Nigerian morocco, vignette of a salmon stamped in silver on the front cover, spine lettered in silver, publisher's blue-gray linen and cloth clamshell box with morocco spine label lettered in silver. No. 52 of a deluxe edition of 55 hand-numbered copies, bound with a leaf from the author's original manuscript (with holographic corrections and stamped No. 44) bound in after the colophon. First Edition. |
| Signed by Buck in the colophon; original page of the typed manuscript of the book, with corrections and changes in pencil and ink, bound in at rear. A significant analysis of salmon fishing, the salmon industry, treaties regarding salmon, their preservation, etc. |
| Condition: |
| Fine with fine clamshell box. |
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