Diary Kept by Joseph McAleenan of a Cruise for Sword-Fish in the Month of July, 1916. With thirty illustrations.
New York: Privately printed for the author and his friends, (c1922). First edition, 1/50 copies signed by the author, this one additionally inscribed by him. 8vo. xv, (2), 115 pp. Plates. Account of a three-week fishing trip for swordfish off Montauk Point and the nearby waters of the Block Island Sound, with detailed daily entries; the "banner fish" of the trip was a 12-foot swordfish. A typed letter, signed by the author, presenting the book and containing private financial information is laid in, in part: "I usually write up a story of all my trips for a few of my friends ... I hope you will enjoy this attempt of an amateur to describe the glories of the off shore wind." Bruns M-91. Very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. (#5170). Item #58159
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