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Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke

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247 pages. 13 black and white plates. Contents: Fisherman's luck. -- The thrilling moment. -- Talkability. -- A wild strawberry. -- Lovers and landscape. -- A fatal success. -- Fishing in books. -- A Norwegian honeymoon. -- Who owns the mountains? -- A lazy, idle brook. -- The open fire. -- A slumber song.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke picture number 1
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things / Henry Van Dyke picture number 2 Selection from The Book Buyer with the attribution of the cover design to Henry Van Dyke.

2015.7.203

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Fishing1890s

7-3/4 in

Henry Van Dyke

Walton Edition

New York

New York

United States

North America

1899

Publisher's Binding- Art Nouveau

Henry Van Dyke

Bound in pale green cloth with art nouveau stamped design in gilt and green of fish outlined in gilt swimming among tendrils of water lilies. Horizontal motif repeated on spine. Signed HVD, [Henry Van Dyke] to cover. Armstrong did matching design for Little Rivers.

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1968)

Attributed to Margaret Armstrong (240)

Margaret Armstrong and American Trade Bindings (1991)

Gullans and Espey reject their previous attribution to Armstrong in the second edition. "A rough imitation of Item 275 [Little Rivers]." (p. 125) The cover design is attributed to him in The Book Buyer, 19 (September 1899), 84.

Attribution to HVD in "The Book Buyer", 19 (September 1899), p. 84

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