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xvi,[2],115,[2]pp. plus thirty captioned photographic plates. Original gilt pictorial green cloth, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g. Minor wear to extremities, corners bumped, light soiling to boards. Light even toning to text, a few leaves with tiny chips at corners, faint tideline at upper edge of text. Very good. Untrimmed. Number 30 of just fifty privately-printed copies of an engrossing photographically- illustrated memoir of a swordfishing expedition by noted sportsman and writer Joseph McAleenan. The limitation page is numbered and signed by McAleenan himself, and indicates that the work was "privately printed for the author and his friends." McAleenan was a noted New York diamond dealer and avid sportsman. After several of his fishing and hunting expeditions, he published similar privately-printed books about the trips for the participants, including well- regarded classics of the genre such as DIARY OF THE WYOMING BEAR HUNT; A TRIP THROUGH YELLOWSTONE PARK AND AN ELK HUNT IN WYOMING; HUNTING WITH RIFLE AND CAMERA IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES; OLD FRIENDS, OLD SCENES, OLD THOUGHTS; and GRAND CANYON TRAILS. The present work prints his diary of a three- week swordfishing trip taken in July 1916 off Montauk Point and Block Island in Long Island Sound. The trip was captained by Dave Patterson aboard his boat, the May F. Patterson. McAleenan's text is replete with vivid descriptions of shipboard activities, the fierce weather conditions, the colorful characters who accompanied him on the trip, descriptions of the natural splendor of the surroundings, battling sharks, sighting whales, and much more. McAleenan dedicates the book to those friends of his "who preferred the sky to any roof, and the song of the wind as it swept through the pines or whined over the pass, to all the talk and music of the stall-fed world." The photographic plates document the fishing activities of the journey. These images include views from the boat, scenes of men on the boat, a shot of a film crew on a nearby boat, hauling in nets full of smaller game fish, the Montauk Point Lighthouse, men setting sails, a harpooned shark, the hauling onboard and hanging up of a 600-pound swordfish, several views of other boats encountered on the trip, and more. Not in Howes or Phillips. OCLC records just four copies, at Clarke Historical Library, the Mariners Museum Library, the Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, and the National Sporting Library. BRUNS M-91. LITCHFIELD, p.79. OCLC 39005858. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM56419
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