Joe Bates’ Copy
American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A History of Angling and Angling Literature in America.
Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
First edition, no. 35 of about 80 copies hand bound by the author, from a total edition of 200. Illustrated. 235 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Joe Bates’ Copy. Original 3/4 black morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt spine title and sporting devices, A FINE COPY. Bookplate of Joseph Delaplaine Bates. Bruns W-73.
Item #254777
Wetzel’s landmark bibliography of American angling, with an excellent history of the sport. An essential work.
