Blues

Hersey, John

ISBN 10: 0394559606 / ISBN 13: 9780394559605

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987

About this Item

First trade edition, stated; 13 drawings by James Baker. Signed by the author on the title page: "John Hersey." Bound in blue cloth-covered boards with a blind fish skeleton imprint on front and rear boards and a gold-lettered spine. The book is unmarked; spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; dust-spotting to the top page edges. The dust jacket is price-clipped; edgewear; a one-inch closed tear to the top back corner, and three shorter ones elsewhere; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 005380

Bibliographic Details

Title: Blues

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: James Baker

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

While on a fishing trip an experienced fisherman teaches a young stranger about bluefish and life

From the Back Cover:

"Almost no one has answered 'why fish?' better than Mr. Hersey....what he does best of all is evoke wonder." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Blues is, of course, about much more than the pleasures and techniques of fishing; it is, as Fisherman tells Stranger, about interconnections -- the ties between mankind and the natural world, among others." -- The New Yorker

"Wonderful...He gives us a rich and vivid sense of ocean life....The whole thing is as stately as a minuet, and as graceful." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"Blues informs and enlightens in the grand tradition of open-air, 'universe-in-a-grain-of-sand' writing....Part philosophy, part natural history, part cookbook, part fishing lore, this is a book as singular as its author and his distinguished career."

-- Baltimore Sun