Mohican Point on Lake George. The Summer Home of Mr. and Mrs. W.K. Bixby of St. Louis, Mo.
New York: Privately printed, 1913.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition, no. 96 of 200 copies, initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece, 19 plates including 2 group portraits, double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. Plum, Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716.
Item #238650
Inscribed on flyleaf, "Mr. & Mrs. A. B. P— [names partly effaced] with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby, St. L. 5/18/14"
"Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass, lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" (Heller).
An important and rare book.
