Description:
Sail cloth and buckram burgundy and white cloth covered boards with blind stamp of fisherman on front cover. White lettering on spine. Hardcover is square, binding is tight, very clean text. Top corner bumped, gift inscription on leaf preceeding title page. Some age toning to pages and endpapers.
DJ is price clipped, with some open tears to corners and chipping along margins. Open tear to tail of spine.
This first Edition is #124,313 out of 150,000 printed in 1974, as stated.
This work is a fine example of fine publishing and showcases the artistic and literary talents of Hubert shuptrine and James Dickey, respectively. It is a vision in words and art of the South that was already vanishing before this collaboration took place in 1974.
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