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First edition? Gunning the Chesapeake
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I have what I believe is a first edition of Gunning the Chesapeake by Roy E. Walsh. On the copyright page, there is no reference to an edition number or printing number, only "Copyright @ 1960 by Tidewater Publishers." See attached photo. I see other other adverts for this book cite "Second Printing," for example. What is your opinion? Thanks much.
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If Tidewater was the first publisher of record then it stands to reason that yours is a first edition, first printing.
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Roy Walsh was a Talbot County lawyer who apparently liked waterfowl hunting and history better than lawyering.
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He had the biggest collection of commercial waterfowl hunting artifacts ever assembled; gunning punts, punt guns, battery guns, sinkboxes, gunning lamps, and some of the crudest and rarest decoys ever made. At a seminar talk he gave one year at the high school, he said he came close to divorce twice: when he insisted on first building a new 30 x 80 ft. barn to hold all his artifacts, then filled it and told his wife they needed a bigger farm with more land and bigger barns. She reluctantly agreed and said later it probably added 10 years to his life. We of the Tidewater owe him a great deal. |
Kevin, thanks for expounding on my one line description of Harry Walsh's devotion to waterfowling.
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Interesting that this book come up for discussion - I just picked up a copy at the Southern this year and got around to reading it this weekend. Very informative. Does anyone know of other waterfowl books by Mr. Walsh? I go hunting on the Chesapeake every year so this book was a great find for me. Thank you
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I will never forget hunting on Currituck Sound with my son almost 10 years ago. The birds were not flying well but it did not matter.
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Dorchester County and some in Talbot , but always for Sika deer . Waterfowl avoided me until a goose a year or two ago and the mallards yesterday .
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Another Walsh book is "The Outlaw Gunner" Punt guns, lights, traps, and lots of other ways to harvest ducks
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2 different books and authors, I'm not sure if they are related.
Roy E Walsh wrote "Gunning the Chesapeake" in 1960 Dr Harry M Walsh Wrote "The outlaw Gunner" in 1971.He was the man whom with some others was instrumental in the creation of the Waterfowl festival. His son made a second printing of the book last year or so with some added content that was not previously published. His son Joe had a great display of some of the artifacts shown in the book at the festival this year. |
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