cloth
1941 · New York
by Smith, Edmund Ware
New York: Derrydale Press, 1941. cloth. Derrydale Press. 8vo. cloth. xxv+(i), 187 pages. Illustrated by A. Lassell Ripley. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Small bookseller's ticket on the bottom of the front pastedown. Boards rubbed, spine faded. Wear to the corners and edges. Reback with original spine laid-down on newer cloth. The third and last of the Smith titles to be published by The Derrydale Press. (Siegel-Marschalk-Oelgart 166). Inscribed to Graham Cross by Edmund Ware Smith, "may he emulate the 'one eyed poacher' more in the highest sprit than in the dark deed!" Also inscribed by the illustrator A. Lassell Ripley, "What we need is a one eyed grouse hunter." Both inscriptions are on the front free endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations.
(Inventory #: 104842)