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CLEVELAND, Grover. A Defence of Fisherman. Princeton, N.J.: Privately Printed, 1902.
Large 8vo, uncut, half-title, frontispiece portrait of Cleveland in a suit, vest, tie and fedora, holding a fishing rod, titlepage printed in red and black. Original forest green cloth titled in gilt (a few pages at end loose, cloth slightly cockled).
LIMITED EDITION, one of only 60 copies printed for distribution among Cleveland's friends. A printer's note at end enumerates many of the intended recipients, including such worthies as Junius S. Morgan, Joseph Jefferson, Henry Van Dyke, Laurence Hutton, and Woodrow Wilson (then President of Princeton College). INSCRIBED BY CLEVELAND on front flyleaf: "To all (except 'squaw fishermen') to whom this present shall come, Greetings! Jan.. 24 1904. Grover Cleveland." Cleveland's avuncular apologia for the angling obsession was first published in the Saturday Evening Post, and spells out "the admirable affirmative qualities which exist among genuine members of the brotherhood." VERY RARE: only two copies, neither inscribed, have appeared at auction since 1975.
Large 8vo, uncut, half-title, frontispiece portrait of Cleveland in a suit, vest, tie and fedora, holding a fishing rod, titlepage printed in red and black. Original forest green cloth titled in gilt (a few pages at end loose, cloth slightly cockled).
LIMITED EDITION, one of only 60 copies printed for distribution among Cleveland's friends. A printer's note at end enumerates many of the intended recipients, including such worthies as Junius S. Morgan, Joseph Jefferson, Henry Van Dyke, Laurence Hutton, and Woodrow Wilson (then President of Princeton College). INSCRIBED BY CLEVELAND on front flyleaf: "To all (except 'squaw fishermen') to whom this present shall come, Greetings! Jan.. 24 1904. Grover Cleveland." Cleveland's avuncular apologia for the angling obsession was first published in the Saturday Evening Post, and spells out "the admirable affirmative qualities which exist among genuine members of the brotherhood." VERY RARE: only two copies, neither inscribed, have appeared at auction since 1975.