Unrecorded First Issue
My Shooting Box by Frank Forester, author of The Warwick Woodlands … etc.
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846.
Price: $3,000.00
About the item
First edition, first issue. Engraved frontispiece, pictorial title and 2 full page plates (including the oft-missing “Tom Draw” plate). Pp. [i]-viii, 9-179, [180, blank]. 1 vols. 12mo. Unrecorded First Issue. Contemporary calf, spine renewed. Some edgewear, scattered foxing. Bookplate of Jeffrey Norton and another. Cloth slipcase. Van Winkle p. 14; BAL 8091.
Item #261270
The second of Herbert’s classic tales of “Frank Forester” and his friends
With retained carbon typed letter December 4, 1952, from Lindley Eberstadt to David Randall at Scribner’s concerning the present copy, noting the absence of pagination on the dedication, p. [iii], and the absence of advertisements from p. [180], with Eberstadt’s notes of his conversation “Mr. Randall states that he has seen no other copy in this state and can only conclude that it is a first issue preceding the regular first edition. Lindley Eberstadt” and “I discussed and showed this to Mr. Whitman Bennett also and he concurred in Mr. Randall’s conclusions. L.E.”.
