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6 1/4 x 9 1/2", xviii, 219pp., illustrations are black & white repros. of Ripley drawings. Maroon cloth with title, author's name & publisher gilt on spine & with gilt, double-line bands; blindstamped figure of standing angler at stream on front cover & blindstamped double borders around edges of front cover. Former owner (& sporting book collector)Richard J. Campbell has added his embossed book stamp to the upper right of front endpaper, front blank flyleaf & half title. Book shows these age-related defects: two (approx.) 1/16-1/8" splits to each hinge edge at top of spine, with slight rubbing, slight rubbing to bottom edge of spine; small, scattered tan spots to book edges, an occasional tan spot in some page margins, tanning to paste downs; has an early acetate (plastic) wraparound, slightly shorter than the volume, this wraparound shows some chipping to upper edges, age-yellowing to most edges, creases to inner turned-in panels (not sure if this was an original feature of this book, or added by former owner). VG/. Very scarce book! Few copies of this signed volume of the One-Eyed Poacher series now come up for sale. E. W. Smith says in his "Acknowledgment": For the privilege of republishing the stories which make up this volume, the writer is grateful to the editors of Collier's and American magazines. There is an added acknowledgment to H. G. Tapply, editor of Outdoors, whose interest in the Jeff Coongate stories, and in the wilderness country around "Mopang" and "Privilege," has been pleasingly predatory. EWS; and concludes his excellent Foreword, thus: [.] In conclusion, I find myself tempted to give my father a name commensurate with his own narrative ability. He ought to have been christened Tom Sawyer Finn, or Captain Galahad Flint, or Don Quixote Balzac, or James Fenimore Dostoevsky, Instead, I am for once compelled to stick to the truth in dedicating these wantonly fictitious stories, with immense and unending gratitude, to my father, whose name is George M. Smith--and who, when he reads this at age seventy-seven, will doubtless bend his searching eyes upon me, and remark:"Ed--I consider this foreword one of the most eloquent lies I have ever told you!" EWS Matagamon Lake, Me. 1947. Seller Inventory # ABE-136663398
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Title: The Further Adventures of the One-Eyed ...
Publisher: Crown Publishers New York. "This edition of The Further Adventures of the One-Eyed Poacher is limited to 750 copies. This is No. 617." [signed] Edmund W. Smith. Copyright, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, and 1947,.Printed.by J. J. Little & Ives Company.
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
