THE GREAT FISH. By Jack Samson. Introduction by Billy Pate. Illustrated with original line drawings by Victoria Blanchard. An Angling Heritage Book.

Samson (Jack).

Edité par Amwell Press. Clinton, New Jersey. 1983

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). 1983 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 217mm). Ppxii,181,i. Line illustrations by Victoria Blanchard. Black bonded leather, all edges gilt, silk marker ribbon, watered-silk end-papers. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Slight marks to end-papers, a little musty else clean copy in a marked and rubbed slipcase. Signed by Jack Samson, Victoria Blanchard and Jim Rikhoff. A good limited edition collection of Samson's stories about American saltwater gamefishing; tarpon, marlin, bonefish, swordfish, barracuda, tuna. This edition, published by The Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited, was limited to 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by the author, Jack Samson, the illustrator, Victoria Blanchard and the President of the NSFL, Jim Rikhoff. Chapters include:- A state of mind; The broadbill swordfish; Tarpon in the mud; Papagallo and the heat of Baja; Two permit in one day; The Pacific black marlin; Bonefish on a fly; Blue marlin; The spent fish; Kite fishing for billfish; Havana and the Hemingway Tourney; The dolphin; The big pull; The barracuda; Mexican sailfish; Sailfish on a fly; The bluefin tuna; The green fish; The striped marlin; The thousand pound marlin. Some of the stories have appeared previously in the author's earlier book, Line Down!; others were run in Field & Stream and one in Gray's Sporting Journal. The rest are original. .

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• Titre: THE GREAT FISH. By Jack Samson. Introduction by Billy Pate. Illustrated with original line drawings by Victoria Blanchard. An Angling Heritage Book.
• Éditeur: Amwell Press. Clinton, New Jersey. 1983
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur