Shark! Shark!: the Thirty-Year Odyssey of a Pioneer Shark Hunter; with a foreword by Count Felix von Luckner; end papers and drawings of sharks by Helen Sewell

Book Description

New York: Gotham House, 1934. Second Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, slight toning of spine, pasted-on spine label (brief title and author). Some foxing of title page, hint of glue toning at pastedowns. Else, tight, bright and unmarred. Tan cloth boards. Profusely illustrated with tipped in plates of both drawings and photographs, endpapers illustrated with world map and sharks. Inscribed by author: "New York, Dec. 8, 1939, To Howard V. L. Bloomfield, From one fisherman to another, Yours Sharkingly, Capt. W. E. Young." 8vo. 287pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Thrilling tales of catching sharks all over the world, complete with inscription from the great shark hunter (and author) himself. Inscribed to Howard Van Lieu Bloomfield (1900-1998), who went on to become the author of Sailing to the Sun (1946), Last Cruise of the Nightwatch (1956), and The compact history of the United States Coast Guard (1966). Howard Van Lieu Bloomfield was a graduate of Harvard (1922) who was a journalist and author. He died October 18 in Portland, Me. Nice association copy.

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