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Constitution, By-Laws, Rules and List of Officers and Members, 1900. Parmachenee Club. Organized May 1, 1890. Incorporated March, 24, 1896. Club House Camp Caribou, Parmachenee Lake, Oxford County, Maine. New York Office 18 Wall Street.
New York: 18 Wall Street, [Privately printed by the De Vinne Press], 1900.
First edition. 41 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Unrecorded. Publisher's vellum-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities slightly worn with some minor loss, spine and covers a bit darkened and spotted, endpapers lightly foxed Not in Phillips, Wetzel, Bruns, Heller. Not in OCLC. Item #314205
The Club House address is Camp Caribou, Parmachenee Lake, Oxford County, Maine. The president at the time was Henry W. Poor (famous book collector), and the sixty members included G. B. M. Harvey, Robert P. Bass, Charles J. Glidden, and a single female member, Miss Eweretta Whitney. The book includes a two-page list of points of interest
“… the famous club which leased 120,000 acres around and above Lake Parmachenee in 1890 … Henry Parkhurst Wells, who created the Parmachenee fly was a member, and named his famous fly after the club.” — Bruns, in the entry for the 1920 club history.
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