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I Go A-Fishing
by Prime, W[illiam] C[owper]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original brown cloth. Spine ends worn. Very good
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. First edition. 365, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Spine ends worn. Very good. First edition. 365, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A landmark angling book, one of the most popular of its day. Prime, a Princeton graduate, edited the New York Journal of Commerce, was president of the Associated Press, and was an early promoter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; for a time he also filled the chair of art history at Princeton. Westwood & Satchell p. 172; Wetzel p. 199; Bruns P140; Goodspeed, Angling in America, pp. 155, et seq
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 319836
- Title
- I Go A-Fishing
- Author
- Prime, W[illiam] C[owper]
- Format/Binding
- 365, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original brown cloth. Spine ends worn. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Angling
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