Fishing For Fun and To Wash Your Soul.
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers": First Edition of Fishing For Fun; Inscribed by Herbert Hoover
Fishing For Fun and To Wash Your Soul.
HOOVER, Herbert.
$750.00
Item Number: 91673
New York: Random House, 1963.
First edition of this collection of writings from President Hoover. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Elliot Hass The Good Wishes of Herbert Hoover.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Edited by William Nichols. A very sharp example.
"Mr. Hoover sees the shrinking wilderness and the mounting population and notes that 'we lose ground every year.' He makes a powerful plea for reform measures that start with cleaning up our rivers and ridding them of pollution" (Justice William O. Douglas).
