Lure of the Open
by Joe Godfrey Jr. and Frank Dufresne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No dust jacket
- Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Brown & Begelow, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1949. Stated first edition. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 449 pp. Top, bottom and outer edges gilted. Text lightly sunned typical of age and materials, clean, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with full-color drawings and b/w photographs. Green illustrations on fep and pastedowns. Presentation sticker on front pastedown indicating first edition presentation with named recipient blank. B/W photo on page 41 of Ernest Hemingway with the 500-pound remains of what was once a record marlin, decimated by sharks before it was landed.
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- Bookseller
- Select Tomes (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100310
- Title
- Lure of the Open
- Author
- Joe Godfrey Jr. and Frank Dufresne
- Format/Binding
- 3/4 maroon boards with brown spine strip. Gilt deer on front cover and title on spine. Hinges tight.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Brown & Bigelow
- Place of Publication
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 449
- Size
- 7 1/4 x 10 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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About the Seller
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GAHANNA, Ohio
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I am making available selections from my collection of eclectic, historical and sometimes rare books. My collection includes historical novels, cookbooks, textbooks and children's books along with other ephemera.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Edges
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