Sale 23SP01 | Lot 125

[ANGLERS' CLUB OF NEW YORK] SPARSE GRAY HACKLE=[MILLER, ALFRED W.]. Fishless Days. A collection of the small lures on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools, the Long Table of The Anglers' Club.

Catalogue: Sporting & Travel Books
[ANGLERS' CLUB OF NEW YORK]  SPARSE GRAY HACKLE=[MILLER, ALFRED W.]. Fishless Days. A collection of the small lures on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools, the Long Table of The Anglers' Club.

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Lot 125
[ANGLERS' CLUB OF NEW YORK] SPARSE GRAY HACKLE=[MILLER, ALFRED W.]. Fishless Days. A collection of the small lures on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good companions from that best of pools, the Long Table of The Anglers' Club.
New York: Anglers' Club, 1954. One of 591 copies, this copy with a lengthy inscription by the author. Publisher's red cloth with title label on upper cover and spine, slipcased. 9 1/2 x 6 inches (24 x 15 cm); [147], 3 pp.; frontispiece and illustrations in text by Charles De Feo. Slipcase slightly faded and worn, light binding wear; together with BURKE, EDGAR. American Dry Flies And How to Tie Them. New York: Privately printed for the Anglers' Club of New York [by the Derrydale Press], 1931. First edition, with a letter from the author laid-in. Publisher's blue buckram-backed paper boards in glassine jacket. 7 1/2 x 5 inches (19 x 12.75 cm); [vi], [25] pp.; half-title, vignette title page, Errata slip, frontispiece, plate. A fine copy in the original glassine jacket (with a few losses). Bookplate.
The second work is fragile and is rarely found in fine shape, as here, as is noted by Frazier. Bruns B299; Frazier B-24-a; Siegel 46. (2)


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Estimate: $200 - $300
Sold for $535 (includes buyer's premium)

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