GRAY, ZANE | Autographed manuscript draft, signed, of "Australia's Big Game Fishing," published as "Australian Angling". [N.P.: N.D., ca. 1937]

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
GRAY, ZANE
Autographed manuscript draft, signed, of "Australia's Big Game Fishing," published as "Australian Angling". [N.P.: N.D., ca. 1937]

13pp., folio (10 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.; 277 x 202mm, and 12 7/16 x 8 in.; 315 x 203mm). 5pp. typescript with Gray's blindstamp to upper margin of first page, 8pp. of manuscript, pencil on ruled paper, with Gray's blindstamp to upper margin of first page; lacking second page of typescript, toning, paperclip marks. Laid into folding box, quarter blue morocco over blue cloth covered boards, spine gilt-lettered.

Autographed manuscript draft, signed by Zane Gray, of "Australia's Big Game Fishing," published as "Australian Angling" in Field & Stream, June 1937. An account of Gray's trip to Australia, where, among many other notable catches, the author reeled in a tiger shark weighing 1,036 pounds.

PROVENANCE:
Zane Gray (his blindstamp)

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.