Hunt, Lynn Bogue. Colophon on verso of title-page reads "This edition is limited to 950 copies for England and America. Printed in U.S.A. Designed and printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press". With color plates by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and illustrations from photographs, drawings and maps. xxii, [ii], 251 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine slightly toned, minor rubbing at extremities. a near fine copy. Bruns B146; Siegel 86; Frazier C-13-D; Hampton (2008) p. 72; Hanneman B18; Grissom B 22; Callahan, Partial Tarpon Bibliography, p. vi.

Item #251701

One of the great large-format Derrydales, with a classic chapter on "Marlin off Cuba" by Ernest Hemingway. This copy is an issue UNRECORDED by Siegel or Frazier, and bears a cancel title page for English publishers Hutchinson: Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. London for the Derrydale Press. The verso of the title page has a different limitation statement, "950 copies for England and America", instead of "De Luxe edition 56 copies | Regular edition 850 copies" and indicates Connett printed an additional hundred copies for the English market. Hutchinson published an English edition of Connett's Any Luck? this same year (1935). Hanneman notes this issue of American Big Game Fishing in his discussion of Hemingway's contribution to the book, and copies are recorded in British deposit libraries, but very few have survived. OCLC locates 5 copies
Rare.