
Price: $20.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very good
Tall octavo (26.2 cm), pp. 219. First edition, thus. Green boards decorated with fish pattern and buckram half-cloth and gilt and black spine titling. Illustrated throughout by Boyd Hanna. Specially made paper by Peter Pauper. Light rubbing to boards, else fine. No jacket, as issued. Lacking slipcase. Thacher, p. 558. Hanna studied at Carnegie Mellon and has work collected at the Metropolitan, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library. He also provided illustrations for Peter Pauper's edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Longfellow's Poems from the Limited Editions Club. He died in 1987. "The Compleat Angler is not about how to fish but about how to be." --Thomas McGuane
Title: The Compleat Angler
Categories: Hunting & Fishing,
Publisher: Mount Vernon, NY, Peter Pauper Press: 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very good
Seller ID: 27750