PACK & PADDOCK in box
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. Paul Brown. 1st edition limited to 950 copies with this being 228. Cloth. 1st edition limited to 950 copies with this being 228, 1937. Near Fine. Sm. 8vo., 144 pp., with black & white line drawings. Bound in publishers red cloth and tan paper with titles in gilt. Housed in publishers red box with title and edition number on top edge. Attractive bookplate of Constance and Henry Bowles inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Box show signs of shelf wear and fading. Near Fine. Item #25508
The Derrydale Press was an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan, New York. It was the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891–1969). He told Time magazine that he got the Derrydale name "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland."
An important publisher of outdoor books for North American audiences during the first half of the 20th century, according to a 1938 Time magazine article, it was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books.
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