Black Bass Lore by Gallaher, Wallace W - 1937

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1937 1937 Copyright. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Printing unstated. VERY GOOD in GOOD+ dust jacket. A clean, tightly bound copy. Gift inscription in blue pencil on front free endpaper, no other markings. Light toning and bit of spotting to fore-edge, otherwise pages clean and fine. Hardcover of blue cloth with dark blue and silver stamping front and spine. Cover is clean, edges moderately shelf-worn with some fading and wear to spine ends, but no frays. The dust jacket is clean but heavily edgeworn with large chips at spine ends and flap turns; shallow chips, creases tears along edges. All flap corners shallow clipped but price is intact on front flap. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Binding firm, hinges intact, boards and spine straight. B/W line illustrations by Paul Gallaher adorn chapter heads. 6 x 8-3/4"; xviii + 236 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Gallaher, Paul.