The Last Pool

1950 First Edition, First Printing - 1st state binding. Size 12mo, 7.25" tall, 216 pages. Publisher's original green cloth covered boards with dark blue titling to the spine. No Dust jacket. Condition about good, the spine is faded, there is mildew like fading to the lower outer corners of the covers, more so to the front cover than the back. There is a small gift inscription to the front end-paper. The pages are toned otherwise clean throughout. Thirteen short stories about countryside: several with a theme of fishing and fox-hunting in Ireland and Snowdonia, The Drawing Of The Curranwood Badgers, and the others on wild-fowling, shooting and poaching. Patrick O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, changing his name by deed-poll in 1945. He wrote several books under his birth-name and a great number as Patrick O'Brian. Binding A - first state, with green cloth covers and blue titling to the spine.