Ernest Hemingway. First edition. San Francisco, CA: Big Fish Books, 1992. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. Blue cloth with marlin vignette to upper cover. No writing or markings found in the book, 83 pp. There is a small black mark on upper front jacket. Limited to 1000 copies, originally published in Holiday magazine in 1949. This is the first hardback edition with an introduction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Ex libris of wel-known fisherman, Jack Reece pasted on inside front cover.
Marlin! is a book about Hemingway's deep sea fishing adventures.
With 6 photographs by Roberto Herrera Sotolongo, map end papers, big game angling bookplate of Jack Reece to verso blank of FEP, Reece held the world record of 1069 lb. for a 6 gilled shark.
