Atlantic Game Fishing.

FARRINGTON, S. Kip. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway.

$650.00

Item Number: 126491

New York: Kennedy Bros., Inc., Publishers of Yachting, 1937.

First trade edition of Farrington’s classic work on Atlantic game fishing, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs and color illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt including frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Ray Holland one of the best editors in the game, and as good a sportsman as there is in the world, and the last goes also for Dan who will soon rank with the old man on the first. With my very best wishes to you both. S. Kip Farrington Dec. 22nd 1937.” The recipient, Ray Holland, was the former editor of Field & Stream Magazine and author of several books on the outdoors. In near fine condition.

Recognized internationally as an authority on sport and ocean fishing, S. Kipp Farrington's Atlantic Game Fishing provides valuable advice on big game fishing along the Atlantic Coast, from Nova Scotia and Maine to the Bahamas and Bermuda, with stops along the way in Martha's Vineyard, Eastern Long Island, Fire Island, Cape Hatteras, and the Florida Keys. With a six page introduction by Ernest Hemingway.