SCRAPBOOK DOCUMENTING HUNTING AND FISHING ACTIVITIES, 1939-1956, as recorded in THE SPORTSMAN'S RECORD BOOK.
Reading, PA. The Pressman, c1940. 4to., divided into sections for describing guns and fishing tackle, mounting photographs, describing sporting trips, catches, and trophies, etc. Comb-bound illustrated red stiff wrappers. Very good. Item #38250
Parker used this copy of THE SPORTSMAN'S RECORD BOOK for his outdoor activities in the 1940s and 1950s which included a number of deer hunting trips in the Adirondacks and fishing excursions to Florida: included are two short descriptions of hunting trips, one in manuscript, one in typescript; manuscript descriptions of his three "largest fish caught"; 17 mounted photographs, most with bagged game, from the hunting trips; 2 large photographs of Parker with fish caught in Florida; typescripts of several long poems involving Parker and outdoor activities; three partly printed certificates, completed in manuscript, awarded to Parker for game fish caught in Florida tournaments; several newspaper clippings, etc. Parker was a businessman from Buffalo, New York.
Price: $250.00