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Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

[TUSCARORA CLUB] | Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History 1901 -1941. Portland, Maine: Privately Printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941 

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Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

[TUSCARORA CLUB]

Tuscarora Club's Forty-Year History 1901 -1941. Portland, Maine: Privately Printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941 


8vo (9 7/16 x 6 3/8 in.; 240 x 162 mm). Hand-colored presentation leaf, frontispiece portrait, woodcut title vignette printed in green, 15 photographic plates; minor toning. Paper covered, cloth backed boards, upper board with central gilt emblem, spine gilt-lettered; spine sunned, wear to edges, some fraying head and tail of spine. 


One of 100 copies printed, with this being number 5 of the Private Edition, prepared for members with a special leaf bound in (leaf not present in most copies)


Mostly reminiscences of the Tuscarora Club, near Margaretville in the Catskills, featuring articles by Dr. Homer E. Fraser, Henry A. Ingraham, Ellis Parker Butler, etc.