[Sporting] [Derrydale Press, The]: Group of 12 Derrydale Press Books

From The Sporting Library Of American Adventurer, Naturalist, and Sportsman, Brooke Dolan II

1. Trouting Along the Catasauqua
(New York: The Derrydale Press), 1927. First and limited edition, #77/423 numbered copies. 4to. Quarter cream cloth over batik paper-covered boards; all edges untrimmed, and mostly unopened; book-plate of renowned American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down; publisher's slip case wanting. Siegel 7

2. White, Frederick
The Spicklefisherman and Others
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First trade edition, one of 775 copies. 8vo. Publisher's quarter white paper over marbled paper-covered boards, with printed paper label; all edges trimmed. Siegel 19

3. Van Dyke, Henry
The Travel Diary of an Angler
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929, First edition, one of 750 copies. 8vo. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over light blue paper-covered boards, with gold paper label; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; book-plate of renown American sporting collector William Mitchell Van Winkle on front paste-down. Siegel 30

4. Foote, John Taintor
Jing
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1936). First edition, #577/950 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's three-quarter green cloth over green paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in original glassine. Siegel 100

5. Buckingham, Nash
Mark Right!
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1936). First edition, #837/1,250 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt, with mounted color vignette of a bobwhite quail; contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper; all edges trimmed; Siegel 102

6. Phair, Charles
Atlantic Salmon Fishing
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1937). First trade edition, one of 950 copies. Folio. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; pictorial green endpapers; Siegel 110

7. A Decade of American Sporting Books & Prints by The Derrydale Press 1927-1937
New York, The Derrydale Press, 1937. First edition, #284/950 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Siegel 113

8. De Gouy, L(ouis).P.
The Derrydale Cook Book of Fish and Game
New York, The Derrydale Press, (1937). In two volumes. First edition, #603/1,250 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering, all edges trimmed; in publisher's maroon slip case. Siegel 114

9. Buckingham, Nash
Ole Miss'
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1937). First edition, #649/1,250 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, with mounted color vignette of Canadian geese; all edges trimmed; Siegel 122

10. Smith, Edmund Ware
Tall Tales and Short
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1938). First edition, #353/950 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; Siegel 142

11. O'Connor, Jack
Game in the Desert
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). First edition, #181/950 numbered copies. 4to. Publisher's full faux snakeskin, lettered in gilt; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed. Siegel 146

12. Baker, Charles H.
The Gentleman's Companion
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. In two volumes. First edition, #191/1,250 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's quarter red faux leather over red buckram; top edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in publisher's red slip case. Siegel 147

13. Williams, Ben Ames
The Happy End
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). First edition, #244/1,250 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's beige buckram over blue cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; Siegel 149

14. Haig-Brown, Roderick L.
The Western Angler An Account of Pacific Salmon and Western Trout
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). In two volumes. First edition, #146/950 numbered copies. 4to. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt; top edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed; in publisher's red slip case. Siegel 156

15. Connett, Eugene V.
Random Casts
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). First edition, #280/1,075 numbered copies. 8vo. Publisher's blue-green cloth covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge trimmed; other edges untrimmed; Siegel 153

Condition varies. Lot sold with all faults.

Brooke Dolan II (1908-45) was an American adventurer, naturalist, sportsman, and book collector. Educated at Harvard University and Princeton University, he later became a trustee of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. During the 1930s he led two notable expeditions to China and Tibet, collecting numerous specimens that he sent back for the Academy's collection. In 1942, during World War II, he was recruited to serve in the OSS (precursor of the CIA) and traveled to Lhasa with Ilya Tolstoy (grandson of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy), searching for supply routes to China for the Allied Forces. During this time they established contact with the Tibetan government and met the seven-year-old 14th Dalai Lama--the first Americans to ever do so. He then joined the Army Air Forces, and the United States Military Observer Group in Western China, behind Japanese lines near Mao’s headquarters. He died in 1945.