One of 5 Copies

The Derrydale Press, A Bibliography.

Goshen, CT: The Angler's & Shooter's Press, 1981.

Price: $4,500.00


About the item

No. 2 of 5 Out-of-Series Copies of the Large Paper De Luxe Edition on handmade Crown & Sceptre paper. With photoengraved frontispiece and an additional engraved title page specially produced by Richard Benson with calligraphy by Stephen Harvard, and illustrations printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 5 Copies. Original full red morocco with a six-color morocco onlay on upper cover, panelled spine with gilt title, t.e.g., others uncut, by Gray Parrot with his label on rear pastedown. Very fine in original morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: Harry Marschalk’s copy, signed by him with a note about the five special copies.

Item #309871

In addition to the regular edition of 1250 numbered copies of this bibliography, now recognized as a landmark volume in the history of American sporting publications, there was a large paper state, comprising the De Luxe edition of 26 lettered copies (bound in black morocco) and then five copies bound in red morocco, out of series, for the authors.