[ROBINSON, Rowland Evans]

Forest and Stream Fables

New York: Forest and Stream Publishers, 1886. 8vo. (8 x 4 5/8 inches). 24 unnumbered pages, including the wrappers. Illustrations.

Printed self wrappers.

First edition of the author's first separate publication.

Published anonymously under the pseudonym Awahsoose the Bear, the work contains "The Unlucky Bass," "The Foolish Fish" and "The Wise and Foolish Pike." John S.A. van E. Kohn, of Seven Gables, in 1972 came up with an approximate census of 8 known copies.

BAL 16876; Seven Gables Cat., 'More First Books', #227; American Sporting Books from the Collection of Lindley Eberstadt (1981).

Item #35969

Price: $1,250.00