Item #249440 History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B.]. F. W. Lowery.

History of a Fishing Trip. Written to Order by the Keeper of the Records. [Preface, signed D.B.].

[np]: Privately Printed, [1933].

Price: $1,750.00


About the item

First edition, one of 100 copies. Signed by the author “F.W. Lowery” on the title page. [viii], 130 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and brown boards. Owner signature on the flyleaf. Small marginal soiling to bottom margin, minor shelf wear. Fine. Pickering, Books by Ourselves, Anglers' Club Bulletin, 17:3 (Oct. 1938), p. 22; Bruns, p. 283, "The history of a fishing trip to the Gaspé and Anticosti Island"; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 109; Heller 2:345; OCLC (3 copies).

Item #249440

Account of a salmon fishing trip on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island, by Douglas, McCloy, Ward, Belknap, the president of Consolidated Paper, and the author (who remains anonymous throughout his narrative except in the record of catches at the end). Includes an account of their visit to Château Menier. Lowery was a member of the Anglers' Club.