Upstream Down, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The cover shows some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound. Inscription from author on half title page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 184mm). Ppxvi,367. Colour plates and b/w illustrations by Milton C. Weiler. Black cloth, colour vignette laid-on to upper board, gilt titles and decoration to upper board and spine, top edge gilt. Edition limited to 950 copies. Gilt titles faded as usual, inscription to front end-paper else very good. Signed author's presentation copy to sporting book collector, Paul Mellon. Number 645 of 950 copies. Essays on the art and philosophy of trout fishing in New England. Only 950 copies of this first edition were printed, selling out very quickly and being reprinted by The Macmillan Company the same year. The slightly unusual plasticised cloth used in the binding reacted badly with the gilt lettering and it seems that all known copies have rather faded gilt titles. .

Condition: Very Good. Milton C. Weiler (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. A superb inscribed Presentation Copy Signed by Walden to notable Wilmington, Delaware book collector and Wilmington Country Club official John Stuart Groves, with his elegant black leather and gilt bookplate on the front pastedown. The inscription of Walden is on the half-title page in black ink and dated June 5, 1938. It reads - "For Mr. John Stuart Groves, May your strikes be many and your hang-ups few, Howard T. Walden 2d June 5, 1938. Black cloth with illustrated pastedown in vignette to front board. 367pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Color frontis with tissue guard in impeccable condition. Mild wear to binding. A desirable Derrydale collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by author and illustrator on front endpaper. Number 347 out of 950 copies published by Derrydale Press in 1938. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Most of gilt has worn off of front cover. Spine has wrinkling. Top edges of pages are gilt-covered. Endpapers have some tanning around edges. Pages have slight toning. Tissue guard has some foxing. Book is in good condition. 12mo, 367 pages, 1.2 lb.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 367 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator.