BLOOD LINES; TALES OF SHOOTING & FISHING. [Bloodlines; Tales of Shooting and Fishing.]

Reprint limited edition of 2500 unnumbered copies (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). xxii, 227 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket presumably as issued. Dark maroon boards; bright gilt stamping to front board and spine with former also decorated with circular color pictorial paste-on of a drake mallard; mild bumping at spine ends. Light soiling to top edge and fore-edge; faint foxing to front and rear free endpapers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. With Foreword by Henry P. Davis, a b/w portrait frontispiece, and ten other b/w plates on seven unpaged leaves. A reprint of the classic Nash Buckingham book which first published in 1938 by the original New York City-based Derrydale Press founded by publisher, author, and outdoorsman Eugene V. Connett III and which operated from 1926 to 1942. The reborn Derrydale Press of Lyon, Mississippi was founded by Douglas C. Mauldin in 1988 and was dissolved in 1999. Mauldin's Derrydale was an interesting but somewhat obscure publishing experiment as his reprints were certainly well crafted and sated pent-up demand for titles that were difficult to obtain for many of Connett's Derrydale print runs were fairly modest in number. However, Mauldin's enterprise may not have proven lucrative as his print runs probably exceeded the then current demand for this bookseller recalls a number of Lyon imprint Derrydales as being available as remainders back in the early to mid 1990s. Educated at Harvard and the University of Tennessee, Nash Buckingham was a famed Memphis sportsman, magazine outdoor writer, and conservationist who authored a number of still popular books on hunting and fishing in the South. {Shelf-SportsBox06}.…