Rare Tribute to Tom Ward, Inscribed by His Grandson
Tom Draw [with a copy of:] The Warwick Woodlands by Frank Forester. With Introductory Chapters by Harry Worcester Smith.
[Middletown, New York]: The Middletown Whig Press], [1854].
Price: $400.00
About the item
Book is copy no. 28 of 50 copies, “printed for presentation and review by Harry Worcester Smith by the Warwick Valley Dispatch on a job press, prior to the printing of the Warwick Valley Edition, 1921”. 4 page bifolium, signed in type “Frank Forester”; this copy additionally inscribed in ink, “Compliments of T. Harry Ward, Grandson”. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare Tribute to Tom Ward, Inscribed by His Grandson. Small closed tear at fore edge. Hinged into book after title page. Book bound in original limp brown pebbled morocco, t.e.g. Inscribed to “Goodspeed’s Book Shop” and signed “Harry Worcester Smith” on the limitation leaf. Slightly rubbed, spine and edges somewhat toned, else a very good copy of an uncommon book. Harry Worcester Smith sale, 1931, lot 277; Van Winkle p. 169; for book, cf. p.40 section d.
Item #261237
“Thou true-hearted, honest, merry, brave Tom Draw; thou whilom king of hosts and emperor of sportsmen …”
The printed text of Herbert's affectionate tribute to his friend Tom Ward, whom he had popularized in his writings as “Tom Draw”.
Tipped into a presentation copy of Harry Worcester Smith’s edition this classic of American sport, from the 1851 illustrated edition. Trade copies of the Warwick Valley Edition were issued in cloth.
