MARSH TALES: MARKET HUNTING, DUCK-TRAPPING, AND GUNNING. By William N. Smith.

1985 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Ppxii,228. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps. Cloth-backed yellow blind-stamped boards, spine titled in gilt.

First-hand accounts of earning a living the hard way in and around the marshes of Chesapeake Bay and Long Island". Unplugged shotguns, sink boxes ...punt guns, battery guns, and shooting at night with gunning lamps" in the era before the 1930's.