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THE COMPLEAT(COMPLETE) ANGLER by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton

THE COMPLETE ANGLER, OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION, Edited by John Major, from the Fourth London Edition.

Very Good 2 volumes in dark green cloth with gold decoration on front panel.

Publisher:Thomas Y Crowell & Co., NY

Illustrations: black and white vignettes throughout both volumes.Several full page b&W illustrations

Upper and lower spine shelf worn on both volumes. Vol I inner hinge cracked, p 99-102 small tear repaired with library tape, otherwise very good.

Vol 1,and vol II 418 pp with index.

6 3/4 X 5 inches, each volume

Coigney 157, "The Second Crowell Edition (1892) This edition is a reissue of the first Crowell edition of 1884 with the cartouche of the title-page of the first edition of 1653. There is a second black and white title-page without publisher's name, place or date in Volume I only, otherwise identical to the first Crowell title-page, including the vignettes and the Shapespeare quotation on the verso. The two title-pages read "From the Fourth London Edition".

"The publisher's binding is in smooth dark green cloth. The front covers of both volumes are bordered with a single gilt rule and in the center the gilt-stamped cartouche from the 1653 edition."

Item No: Coigney 157 Price: $48.00 two volumes

THE COMPLETE ANGLER or The Contemplative Man's Recreation of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton with an Introduction by James Russell Lowell

Very Good in Green cloth binding copyright 1889.

Publisher:Little Brown and Co.

Illustrations: Black & White vignettes.

Inner hinge cracked, title page loose at lower edge, former owner's bookplate inside front cover, with ink date May 8, 1908, Spine edges show wear.

414 pages plus list of "Readable Books"

7 3/4 x 4 15/16inches.

Coigney 206 "This edition is a reissue of the text of the first Lowell edition of 1889; however it differs from all previous Lowell editions as it had 127 fewer pages. There is no half-title, the Contents and the List of Engravings onWood are lacking, and although the new title-page reads: "With and Introduction by James Russell Lowello", the whole Introduction, the Dedication, and Walton's 'To the Reader' at the beginning as well as the Linnean arrangement of the Fish, the Selected Notes, the Commendatory Verses, and the General Index at the end are all omitted.

"The usual titling and a small floral pattern are gilt stamped on the spine which alos has a blind stamped floral panel. Top edges gilt."

Item No: Coigney 206 Price: $45.00

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER By Izaak Walton & Charles Cotton, Edited by Richard Le Gallienne, Illustrated by Edmund H. New

Very Good in avacodo green binding with very dark green stamped sundial and Cotton's fishing house on cover.

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Companyy, New York, 1923

Illustrations: by Edmund H. New, copious

Some light foxing, one page of the list of illustrations has been poorly cut, with no loss, another has a tear. Many of the later pages are still uncut. Light wear.

454 pages plus "The Anglers Calendar by Hi Regan

7 5/16 x 5 Inches.

Coigney 276 "This edition is a reissue of the LeGallienne edition of 1904. It is similar to the Fourth La Gallienne of London of 1923..with the same pagination and illustrations. It was printed in Great Britain by the same printer. The only differences are the New York imprint on the title-page which is dated 1923. The 12 pages of advertisements are lacking at the end of the book; and the binding.

"The publisher's binding is in avacado green cloth. The front cover is stamped in very dark green with double rule border, and enlarged reproduction of the title-page vignette of Cotton's fishing house on the upper part of the cover; a circle enclosing a column with a sun dial and five birds flying in the distance on the lower part."

Item No: Coigney 276 Price: $185.00

BASS FISHING

BLACK BASS by John Alden Knight

Fine in VG Dust Jacket Light green cloth Dark green block with fish on front cover, Block with title on spine.

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1949 first edition.

Illustrations: 3 Color Plates, 18 Black & white photographs.

Dust jacket has small chips, spine is a little faded. Dust jacket is price clipped.

200 pages, latter part of text is uncut.

8 1/4 X 5 3/4 inches.

"To enjoy a sport fully, one should understand it thoroughly. Black Bass contains everything the bass fisherman should know and provides him the means to gain greater enjoyment and productivity from his sport."

"Much of the book is devoted to the various methods of catching bass, and the advantages and proper handling of each method."

Item No: FW53 Price: $45.00

SUPERIOR FISHING; OR THE STRIPED BASS, TROUT, BLACK BASS, AND BLUE-FISH OF THE NORTHERN STATES by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Good, no dust jacket, grey-blue decorated cloth, gold lettering. etc.

New York, Orange Judd Company 1884, copyright 1884. This edition not in Bruns.

9 full page engravings, 11 smaller cuts.

Some wear to head and tail of spine, back inner hinge broken.

349 pages w/index and advertisements

Inscribed: "To George F. Ketchum, with fraternal regards of Fred E. Pond ("Will Wildwood")" Ketchum was the founder of the Warwick Valley (New York) Dispatch in 1885

"Embracing full directions for dressing artifical flies with the feathers of American Birds; An Account of a Sporting Visit to Lake Superior, etc. etc."

There is a full chapter, 38 pages on "Cookery for sportsmen", which includes recipes for game cookery, including "Daniel Webster's Chowder" which includes a bottle of port, or claret and 25 oysters"

Item No: FW 2 Price: $225.00

FLY-RODDING FOR BASS By A. D. Livingston

First Edition, Hardcover, DJ,

J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia & New York, (1976),

Illustrations=photographs, drawings.

Condition = FINE/VERY GOOD.

203 pages,

Size = 6 1/4 x 9 1/4.

Item No: FW 26 Price: $15.00

FRESH-WATER BASS by Ray Bergman

Very Good, No Dust Jacket, Dark Blue Cloth, with Gold lettering, Gold Fish after fly on front board.

Publisher: Wm. Penn Publishing Corp. 1942 First Edition.Bruns #132

Illustrations: By Fred Hildebrandt, 15 full color and many black and white illustrations of the flies, fish, plugs and habitat.

Some spotting to blue wash on top edge, light wear spine ends and corners, light foxing reverse of frontice,and to pictorial end papers. light brown stain to front pastedown looks like a bookplate removed.

436 pages.

8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inchse

Covers worm fishing, bait other than worms, pluts, bugs, etc.

"Good places in the streams are the eddies and backwaters, rock pocket holes, and log or debris jams. In lakes fish are inclined to wander about more than in streams but they will usually be found near weeds in water of medium to shallow depth."

Item No: FW54 Price: $42.00

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GAME FISH OF THE NORTHERN STATES OF AMERICA by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Marbeled paper covered boards, white linen backstrip Black paper label.

The Abercrombie & Fitch Library, Arno Press, New York 1967

Just a few line drawings are included, not attributed to any artist.

This has been reprinted from a copy in the collections of The New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

324 pages with appendix.

"Published in 1862 under the pseudonym of Barnwell...(this) was one of the most important books on fishing ever to be published in America. The book not only contained an elaborate article on fish culture...but it was widely read and it established standards in sportsmanship."

"Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (1829-1906) fought Tammany most of his life. Author, politician, pioneer in conservation and reform, Roosevelt was born in New York City. Member of an old Knickerbocker family, he was educated in law. Shooting and fishing were his relaxation and when his sportsman's eye detected that fish and wild birds were speedily diminishing, he organized the various clubs of New York State into an association for the preservation of wild life." He was the Uncle of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.

Item No: FW l Price: $30.00

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FISHCRAFT A TREATISE ON FRESH WATER FISH AND FISHING by Will Wildwood, Author of "Handbook for Sportsmen", Etc.

Good, Small, 4 1/2 X 6 1/2" Red cloth, black lettering, black fish on cover.

Sportsman's Digest, Cincinnati, Ohio 1922 FIRST EDITION, Bruns #110 "NOT SEEN"

Small drawings of fish shape and markings dispersed throughout the pages, not attributed.

Inscribed on flyleaf G. F. Ketchum from "Will Wildwood" 1923. Inner hinges cracked, minor silverfishing.

146 pages plus 8 pages of adds

"Includes brief poetical selections prefacing the chapters descriptive of the various game fishes, thanks are due to ...Isaak McLellan".

"With comments on the haunts and characteristics of the principal game fishes and food fishes, modes of angling for them, suitable tackle, etc."

"The black bass is not a bass-it is a sunfish. The white perch is not a perch- it is a bass. The rock bass is not a bass- it is a sunfish....."

Item No: FW 3 Price: $110.00

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POEMS OF THE ROD AND GUN, Isaac McLellen, author, Pond, Fred E., editor

Good, Dark green cloth, black decor, gilt illustration and lettering cover, gilt lettering, spine.

Henry Thorpe, NY, 1886 Secretary of the Long Island Sportsmen's Association and Fountain Gun Club, Bruns #156

Frontis: "A Shot at the Start"

Inscribed on flyleaf:"To my friend G. F. Ketchum with fraternal regards of Fred E. Pond ("Will Wildwood"). Some silverfishing along outer hinge, light wear to head and tail, corners slightly worn & bumped. 2" spot on cover.

271 pages

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886 by Isaac McLellan. First Edition

"An extraordinary spread of subject, poems about sheepshead, whiting, mackerel, seabrant, polar bears and kingfishers."Bruns

"English Skylark in Australia: In the Australian land, hard by the farmer's door, Spread idly on the grass were miners half a score:"

Item No: FW 4 Price: $165.00

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MUSKELLUNGE FISHING, by Ben C. Robinson

Near Fine, green binding, gold lettering, gold illustration on cover.

Appleton and Company, New York 1925 First Edition.

15 photographs

Inscribed on flyleaf:"From the library of Fred E. Pond "Will Wildwood" Presented to G. F. Ketchum" Some light foxing to blank endpapers and flyleaf, Illus p 112 coming loose, a few inkstains to back cover.

116 pages plus ads

Bruns # 75

"William C. Voght, Champion Fly caster, landed this thirty-pound muskellunge from the St. Croix River on a split bamboo fly rod of three and one-hlf ounces, and a light test line"

Item No: FW 5. Price: $325.00

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AMERICAN GAME IN ITS SEASONS. By Henry William Herbert "Frank Forester"

Very Good First Edition 1853 in Blue Cloth with blind stamping and gilt decorated cover and spine with gilt lettering.

New York, Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1853

20 Illustrations, woodcuts, some by the author

Edgewear head and tail of spine, and back hinge, bookplate of former owner on front pastedown, edges of some pages are darkened with age, some light foxing.

343 pages plus ads.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by Charles Scribner. Bruns #158

"This volume, which is now for the first time submitted to the public in a connected form, is composed for the most part of papers which have appeared from time to time tin the pages of Graham's Excellent magazine, under the running title of "The Game of the Month"".

Chapters include "The Cariboo or American Reindeer, The Moose Deer, The Wild Goose, The Mallard and Widgeon, The American Snipe, Striped Bass, The American Trout, The Brent Goose, Bay Snipe, Hudsonian Godwit, The Salmon, The Woodcock, The Summer Duck, The Common Deer, The Blue Winged Teal, The quail, The Bittern, The ruffed grouse, The Yellow Perch, The Canvas-Back, The Winter Duck.

Item No: FW 6. Price: $155.00

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INVESTIGATIONS OF THE AQUATIC RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF PORTO RICO BY THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSSION STEAMER FISH HAWK IN 1899

Very Good, Black Cloth Binding with gilt lettering.

Washington, Government printing office 1900.

49 plates in full color, 33 by A. H. Baldwin and 16 by C. B. Hudson, 3 charts: San Juan Harbor, Mayaguez Bay, and Porto Rico.

Some small white flecks on cover, small marginal tear p 36, no loss of text, minor light foxing endpapers and flyleaf.

350 pages w/index and 6 pages including title page, and list of illustrations and text cuts.

Extracted from U. S. Fish Commission Bulletin for 1900. Pages 1 to 350, Plates 1 to 52.

Bruns # 17 Text by Barton Warren Evermann

"Soon after Porto Rico became a part of the United States the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries decided to make an investigation of the aquatic life of that island...The principal subjects of investigation were the fishes and fisheries of the island, the location and character of the different fishing grounds, the species taken on each etc."

Item No: FW 7. Price: $525.00

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McLANE'S GREAT FISHING AND HUNTING LODGES OF NORTH AMERICA

Fine in VG Dust Jacket, Grey paper covered boards, gilt lettering.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1984 Stated First Edition

Photographed by George W. Gardner, Edited with an introduction by A. J. McClane, Text by Terry Berger and Roberta Gardner, Designed and produced by Robert R. Reid.

A few small wrinkles in dust jacket.

176 pages.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:83-22814. ISBN 0-03-061339-6

"The territory covered stretches from Coronation Bay on the Artic Ocean where the largest Artic char in the world are caught to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where an exotic haven for duck hunters attracts a select group of adventurous sportsmen."

"Of the thousands of fishing and hunting lodges in North America, only a small percentage can be called great, not merely because of their amenities and the quality of the sport, but also for the professionalism of their management. "

Item No: FW 9. Price: $45.00

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THE HAIG GUIDE TO TROUT FISHING IN BRITAIN edited by David Barr.

Near Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Green Cloth with Gilt lettering.

Willow Books, Collins, 8 Grafton Street, London, 1983 First Edition.

Pictures by E. T. Atkinson, Dr. Eric Chaler, D. Dugan, W. J. Howes, Drew Jamieson, Moc Morgan, M. Nimmo, Arthur Oglesby, John Stridolph, Barbara and Graham Swanson, the late John Tarlton, John Topham and Dermot Wilson.

There are a few stains on the flyleaf, other wise fine condition.

192 pages w/index.

British Library Catalogue: SH687. ISBN 0 00 218030 8.

"From the chalk streams of Hampshire to the rushing rivers of Scotland and Wales, the brown trout fishing in Britain is amongst the finest in the world."

"The team of writers, whose skill with their pens is rivalled by skill with their rods and knowledge of their local waters, has been assembled under the gentle guidance of David Barr."

Item No: FW 10. Price: $32.00

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THE FLY-FISHINGEST GENTLEMEN by Keith C. Russell and 69 of his Brothers and Sisters of the Angle

Fine in Fine Slip Case, Dark Green simulated leather, gilt lettering.

Winchester Press, An Imprint of New Century Publishers, Inc. 1986 10th printing.

Contemporary drawings by Joseph C. Fornelli, with old engravings and woodcuts from the Elman Pictorial Collection.

This book is like new, and is #424 of 1200, signed by the author.

334 pages.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:86-8786. ISBN 0-8329-0403-1 0-8329-0430-9 (case).

"Somehow, fly rods and shotguns go together, and surely Keith Russell goes exceeding well with both. A life-long fly fisher and waterfowler, Keith has served as senior vise president and trustee of Ducks Unlimited, Inc., and is currently a national director of Trout Unlimited and a trustee of the American Museum of fly Fishing. He has given much back to those resources which have meant so much to him, and, in his writing and editing, he contributes much to the pleasure of his fellow devotees." Gardner L. Grant, in forward.

Chapters include: "Half a Four-Leaf Clover, Dixon B. White; A Little Knowledge Can Be Dangerous, Salvatore Palatucci; How to Find Out Fast Who Are Your Really Close friends, Keith C. Russell; The Magic Rod, John Russell Woods; Twice Stung, Peg Keller" and more.

Item No: FW 11. Price: $125.00

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ART FLICK'S MASTER FLY-TYING GUIDE, by Art Flick, Ed Koch, Lefty Kreh, Ted Niemeyer, Carl Richards, Ernest Schwiebert, Helen Shaw, Doug Swisher & Dave Whitlock

Fine in Fine Dust Jacket, Red paper covered boards, Beige Cloth Backstrip, Red Lettering.

More than 300 helpful black-and-white illustrations with 8 pages of flies in full color.

No markings or defects

207 pages w/index.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:72-85693. ISBN 0-517-50023X.

"Never before has such an impressive galaxy of master fly-tyers been gathered together in one volume. Here nine of the nation's finest fly-fishermen disclose in precise, easy to understand directions and illuminating photographs and drawings how to tie some of their most effective patterns."

"Dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, saltwater patterns, midges, terrestrials, bass bugs, western patterns, bucktails, streamers, flies for salmon, the new No-Hackles and Paraduns, classic patterns and some never before described in print are all represented in ths important book."

Item No: FW 12.Price: $35.00

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CURRENTS & EDDIES + COVERTS & CASTS by William J. Schaldach.

2 Volumes in Slip Case, Fine condition.

Freshet Press, Inc. Rockville Centre, 1944, 1970 Limited to 1000 copies printed May 1970

8 Black & White, and 4 Color plates each volume, courtesy Crossroads of Sport, N.Y.C.

No markings or defects.

138pp each volume plus bonus Kingfisher plate in vol II.

"A trout in a fish market window is only a dead fish. A trout flashing from behind a boulder in fast water is a thing of beauty and a prize worth any effort." David Newell

"Stream fishing is a most satisfying and comforting occupation, a never-ending source of joy to those who follow it with the right spirit. It stirs the imagination and keeps alive the feeling of wonderment whithout which life means little." W. J. Schaldach

Item No: FW 13A. Price: $175.00

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THE PLEASURES OF FLY FISHING, By V. S. Hidy

Fine in VG, slightly chipped, price clipped Dust Jacket, Beige linen, red lettering.

Winchester Press Publisher New York 1972.

Photographs and Commentary on Streams, Rivers, Lakes, Anglers, Trout and Steelhead.

128 pages.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:.77-159428. ISBN .0-87691-039-8.

"This book is an outward and visible sign of my inward, and spirtual involvement with Nature, fishing, and photography. It started out as pretty much a picture album, Then, as a longtime admirer of classic angling literature I thout of the great pleasure fly fishermen receive from reading the half-forgotten masterpieces of earlier angling writers."

"Fly fishing is a fair contest between the fish and the man. Success depends solely on the caprice of the fish, your won skill and perserverance. That is much." Sidney Buxton.

Item No: FW 14_ Price: $30.00

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TROUT FLIES NATURALS AND IMITATIONS By Charles M. Wetzel

Fine, in slightly chipped dust jacket, tan simulated leather over boards, dark blue, almost purple lettering.

Illustrated with line drawings of wing detail, fly detail, method of tying detail.

152 pages w/appendix.

Library of Congress Number 55-11692.

Includes an emergence table detailing when and where certain flys emerge in climate corresponding to Pennsylvania's.

Detailed instructions for tying various flys, and where and when to fish with them for best success. It also includes a chapter on "Transplanting Stream Insects, another on "Fishing the wet fly"

Item No: _FW16A_ Price: $130.00

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ARMCHAIR ADVENTURE FOR THE ANGLER. The World's Best Fishing Stories. Edited by Charles K. Fox

Description: (1979), Hard cover, blue cloth, DJ,

A. S. Barnes, NY,

Condition =VERY GOOD, DJ GOOD w/ minor wear & spotting, edge tear.

249 pages

20 Stories by various Authors (Francis Francis; C. A. Augur; R. D. Blackmore; Henry van Dyke; T. Morris Longstreth; John Alden Knight; John Taintor Foote and others),

Size = 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches.

Item No: FW 17 Price: $ 22.00

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THE PHILOSOPHICAL FISHERMAN By Harold F. Blaisdell

First Printing Hard cover, grey cloth, DJ,,

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1969,

Condition =VERY GOOD, DJ GOOD w/ minor edge tears, minor wear, price clipped.

ix, 366 pages.

Size =6 x 8 3/4 inches.

Item No: FW 18 Price: SOLD

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NYMPHS AND THE TROUT By Frank Sawyer

Hardcover, green cloth, DJ,

Crown Publishing, Inc., NY, (1973),

Condition = FINE, DJ w/ 1/4 inch edge tear o/w FINE

272 pages.

Size = 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches.

"The Classic Book on Nymphs and Nymph Fishing Techniques"

Item No: FW 19 Price: SOLD

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THE ART OF FISHING WITH WORMS AND OTHER LIVE BAIT By Harold F. Blaisdell

First Edition. Hardcover, cloth, DJ,

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1977,

Photographs by Mark Mitchell,

Size = 5 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches.

x, 241 pages,

Condition = FINE, DJ FINE.

A Note About the Author, A Note on the Type.

"A modern guide to the oldest form of fishing---".-

Item No: FW 20 Price: $16.00SOLD

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FLY - TYING MATERIAL TOOLS TECHNIQUE By Helen Shaw

Second Edition. Hardcover, cloth, DJ,

John Wiley & Sons, NY, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, (1979),

Life-Size Photographs from the Fly-Tyers Side of the Vise.

Condition = FINE, DJ - VERY GOOD.

310 pages,

Size = 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches.

Item No: FW 21 Price: $24.00

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FEATHER IN THE BREEZE By J. Edson Leonard.

Hardcover, cloth, DJ,

Freshet Press, Rockville Centre, NY, (1974),

Illustrations-drawings.

Condition = corner bumped, bottom edge w/ small bump o/w VERY GOOD, DJ w/ edge tears, chip o/w VERY GOOD.

175 pages,

Size = 6 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches.

Item No: FW 22 Price: $15.00

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THE COMPLEAT BROWN TROUT By Cecil E. Heacox

First Edition, Hardcover, DJ,

Winchester Press, (1974),

drawings by Wayne Trimm.

Condition = FINE/FINE.

182 pages,

Size = 7 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches.

Item No: FW 23 Price: $30.00

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FISHING ADVENTURES IN CANADA AND U.S.A. By G. D. Luard

First Edition, Hardcover, DJ,

Faber and Faber Limited, London, (1950),

Illustrations=photographs, drawings.

Condition = corners nudged o/w VERY GOOD, DJ w/ tiny edge chips, price clipped o/w VERY GOOD.

157 pages,

Size = 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 inches.

Item No: FW 24 Price: $40.00

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MODERN FLY CASTING By John Alden Knight

Hardcover, DJ,

G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY, (1942),

Illustrations= photographs, drawings.

Condition = corner bumped else VERY GOOD, DJ chipped, light soil.

79 pages,

Size = 8 1/4 x 9 5/8.

"Introducing The Free Wrist Grip and The High Back Cast".

Item No: FW 25 Price: $24.00

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HOW TO TIE FRESHWATER FLIES By Kenneth E. Bay

First Edition. Hardcover, DJ,

Winchester Press, NY, (1974),

Photographs by Matthew M. Vinciguerra.

Condition = FINE/VERY GOOD (DJ w/ 1 inch tear top edge of front panel).

152 pages, Appendix,

Size = 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches.

Item No: FW 28 Price: $18.00

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FISHING FLIES AND FLY TYING by William F. Blades

Fine in Good Dust Jacket, Red cloth covered boards, gilt fly on front cover, and gilt lettering.

The Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, PA. Revised and enlarged edition.

Full color and black & white illustrations, with line drawings by the author.

If you want a real how-to-do it book on fly tying, this is the most comprehensive text you will find. Experts agree that the author's artificial flies copied from May Flies, Stone Flies, Caddis, Crane Flies and many, many others are far superior to any other.

319 pages with index..

"Approximately 935 flies have been photographed, 200 of them in full color, and 210 pen drawings, painstakingly researched, and produced with the authenticity of an expert"

"Bill Blades was presented with THE DOLPHIN AWARD, highest honor in sport fishing and THE FISHING HALL OF FAME.

Item No: FW 29Price: $35.00

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NYMPH FISHING FOR LARGER TROUT by Charles E. Brooks

Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Blue paper covered boards, blue linen backstrip Black printing on spine.

Illustrated by Dave Whitlock, with black & white photographs, and line drawings and four pages in color.

Since nymphs comprise more than 90 percent of a trout's normal diet, nymph imitations are potentially the most effective flies for trout.

184 pages with index.

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:.76-10159

"Charles Brooks, a retired Air Force major, is a longtime fly-fisherman who now lives in that marvelous trout mecca, West Yellowstone, Montana. He has been an instructor in advanced fly-fishing methods for trout, and has published articles in FLY FISHERMAN, and elsewhere.."

Item No: FW 30 Price: $30.00

FISHING WITH THE FLY Collected by Charles F. Orvis & A. Nelson Cheny

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket Light green cloth with black illustration and red lettering.

Charles E. Tuttle Co. Publishers, Rutland, Vermont

Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies

Slight edgewear to dust jacket, all else fine

First Tuttle edition, 1968, printed in Japan 329 pages w/325 numbered, index

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number:67-25012, originall published 1886 by Houghton< Mifflin & Co.

"15 color plates depicting more than 120 assorted fishing flies."

An informative and inspirational tribute to the sport. Twenty-four "Lovers of the Art" have set down in writing their vies on "The Angler's Greeting,", "Fly Casting for Salmon," "How to Cast a Fly," "A Perfect Day"

Item No: FW 31 Price: $40.00

FISHING WITH THE FLY Collected by Charles F. Orvis & A. Nelson Cheny

Fine in VG Dust Jacket, dark green cloth, gold lettering on spine.

The Wellfleet Press Secaucus, NJ cy 1989

15 color plates of flies, and one map of Nipigon River

325 pp w/index plus3 pages of advice from noted fishermen.

ISBN 1-55521-377-4

"C. F. Orvis, born in 1831 in Mancheter, VT made his mark by founding in 1856, the fishing-tackle company that bears his name. The Green Mountains made him a trout fisherman, and his yankee practicality drove him to make a living from it. Few have ever combined them both so well."

In 1874 Orvis earned a patent for a ventilated fly reel that established seemingly forever how a fly reel should look, feel and perform. He made high-quality bamboo rods for the many, instead of for the few who'd wait for custom-builts. Later on, with Mary's help, he was pivotal in estasblishing standards for fine flies."

Item No: FW32 Price: $15.00

YE GODS AND LITTLE FISHES by Eugene E. Slocum

Very Good in tattered Dust Jacket Green cloth Binding with red cloth backstrip, paper labels on spine and front cover.

NY Dodd Mead & Co. 1927

Bruns #173, first edition 1927 6" X 8"

Lower edge of spine faded, some shelf wear.

312 pages of good reading.

Printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghampton, NY

"This is the most delightful book on trout fishing I have ever read. It should be the Bible and Koran of all real fishermen" H. T. Webster, cartoonish

A Perfectly corking fish book. I swallowed it hook, line and sinker. The chapter on the breeding habits of trout should become a classic." George A. Dorsey

Item No: FW33 Price: $35.00

OLD FOURLEGS, The Story of The Coelacanth, by J. L. B. Smith

Very Good in tattered Dust Jacket Blue cloth Binding with dark blue label & gold lettering on spine.

Longmans, Green and Co., London, NY, Toronto 1956

Photographs

light fading on backstrip, light shelf wear.

260 pages w/index

In 1939 J.L.B. Smith a famous ichthyologist started the scientific world by announcing the existence of the Coelacanth, long believed extinct.

"Old fourlegs is the story of the most sensational scientific discovery in natural history of this century, told by the scientist who is the central figure throughout.

Item No: FW34 Price: $65.00

FAVORITE FLIES AND THEIR HISTORIES By Mary Orvis Marbury

Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket Green paper over boards binding with gold lettering on spine.

The Wellfleet Press, Secaucus, NJ cy 1988

Thirty two colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects and eight reproductions of photographs

light shelf wear.

522 pages w/index

Mary was not truly the author of this book; think of her instead as the compler and editor, a fromidable task itself. Her inquiries resulted in publishable responses from more than tw hunded fly fishermen in thirty-eight states, detailing almost three hundred flies.

"In the Victorian Era fly-fishing became popular as a "refined" way to fish, and the modern merchandising triangle of manufacturer, publisher and consumer was extablished.

Item No: FW35 Price: $30.00

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JACK IN THE BUSH by Rob't Grant

Very Good in original brown binding with gilt lettering and picture of fisherman catching a huge fish which is being netted by a friend. 1890 edition.

Jordan, Marsh & Co.

Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.

Both inner hinges cracked, wear to head and tail of spine

374 pages plus list of other Jordan, Marsh books.

Small 8vo, 5 1/2 X 7 7/8 inches.

Subtitle A SUMMER ON A SALMON RIVER

Contents: Off to the Woods; The First Night in Canp; "Him Bright Salmon"; Settling Down; The Fourth of July; At the Big Salmon Hole; The Rivals; "Injun Falls"; Who Won the Rifle.

Item No: FW36 Price: $25.00

FISHING THE PACIFIC OFFSHORE AND ON By S. Kip Farrington, Jr.

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket Green cloth with silver embossed fish on front cover, silver lettering.

Publisher: Coward-McCann, Inc., New York 1953 First Edition

Illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt Color frontice, and chapter headings of black & white. 96 pages of more than 140 black & white photographs of the fish and the fishermen.

Book has light shelf wear lower corners, dust jacket has chip missing lower end of spine, wear and chipping both upper and lower edges.

297 pages w/index

Size:9 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches.

"This book covers the new grounds off Iquique, Chile, where the largest swordfish ever caught, weighing 1182 pounds, was taken, and off Cabo Blanco, Peru, where 7 black marlin weighing over 1000 pounds have been caught and the old New Zealand record of 976 pounds, set in 1926, broken 10 times.

"Surf casting plays a role in the book and the expert will get as much from it as a novice. Live bait, fly, bay, dock, bottom, bridge fishing and spinning are given generous attention."

Item No: FW37 Price: $65.00

IN DEFENSE OF WORMS By Frederic F. Van De Water

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket Green cloth with gold stamping on front cover, and gold lettering on backstrip..

Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1940 First Edition

Illustrations Not illustrated

Light chips and tears on dustjacket, minor shelf wear, otherwise fine

182 pages.

Size: 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches

"Admirers of the familiar essay will find his style as relaxed and graceful as the cast of an expert angler. Purists will succumb to the bait of his wit. His tales of adventure on lake and stream will reward philosophers with thought, and naturalists with beauty."

"Fishermen will simply think him wonderful"

Item No: FW38 Price: $30.00

ATLANTIC SALMON FLIES & FISHING By Joseph D. Bates, Jr.

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket Blue cloth, Black silhouette fisherman embossed front cover. Bronze & Black label on backstrip.

Publisher: Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1970 First Edition

Illustrations: 8 color plates of flies, 23 drawings, 25 photographs in black and white

Small chips and tears upper and lower edge of dustjacket, otherwise fine.

362 pages w/index

Size: 8 3/4 X 6 1/4 inches.

"For fly dressers: new, simplified dressing instructions and historical notes for over 200 modern Atlantic salmon fly patterns most popular in North America and in countries around the Atlantic."

"...the book that can make the difference between a fishless trip and a satisfying, successful one"

Item No: FW39 Price: $135.00

FLY-TYING By William Bayard Sturgis

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket, Light green cloth with gold lettering on front board, and backstrip.

Illustrations: Color frontice 27 pages of detailed sketches of methods, 4 black & white photographs

Dustjacket has some chips and tears, spot where sticker has been removed, front flyleaf and endpaper has light foxing.

254 pages.

Size: 8 1/4 X 5 3/4 inches

"Mr. Sturgis's book is of special interest because it goes beyond the standard types of flies and nymphs for trout and salmon, about which a certain amount of information in book form is available, and describes a number of other excellent fly-rod lures whose construction has not been hitherto described in print."

"No other book on the subject can compare with it, and it is as completely understandable to the beginner as it is valuable to the expert"

Item No: FW40 Price: $24.00

FLY-FISHING HERESIES By Leonard M. Wright, Jr.

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket Yellow papercovered boards, with green lettering on backstrip..

Illustrations: Black and white photographs.

One small chip missing from front of dustjacket, otherwise fine.

239 pages w/index

Size: 9 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches.

"Wright has proven that the universally venerated dead drift takes fewer fish than his own presentation of a dry fly "alive and kicking"... that most anglers would have more success and greater enjoyment with relatively long rods...that American anglers handicap themselves by adhering slavishly to traditions appropriate for English streams but largely irrelevant on our waters.. and that while we abide by some of these pointless traditions we abandon others of demonstrable value."

"Fly-Fishing Heresies is more than a book of unorthodox ideas. It is a hard-core how-to book, full of new and newly rediscovered methods to aid all open-minded anglers."

Item No: FW41 Price: $22.00

A PILGRIMAGE OF ANGLERS By Eigene E. Wilson

Very Good in VG Slipcover. 1/4 dark green leather with marbeled paper covered boards.

Publisher: Printed at the sign of the Stone Book, Hartford CT, 1952 limited to 450 copies, This is number 3.

Illustrations: Drawings by Katherine Wilson

Leather on backstrip is rubbed. Front paper has maker's defective fold next to backstrip. Slipcover shows some wear.

177 pages.

Size: 8 3/4 X 6 1/4 inches.

"A fictitious account of the curious adventures of a company of salmon fishermen making their annual pilgrimage from Quebec City to that legendary angler's paradise Anticosti Island, and including the poem " A 'Gaggle' of Geese" inspired by The Dictionary of Venery."

October 1, 1952 letter "Author's Accounting" describing limitation, laid in.

Item No: FW42 Price: $165.00

MODERN FRESH AND SALT WATER FLY FISHING by Charles F. Waterman

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Green cloth, silver embossed fly fisherman on front board, silver lettering.

Publisher: Winchester Press, cy 1972

Illustrations: Black and white photographs interspersed throughout the text.

Light shelf wear upper and lower edges, rubbing and fading to dust jacket.

368 pages w/index

Size: 9 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches.

"The best fly fishermen get the most from their sport wherever they find it. They fish over fresh and salt water..."

And much more on bass, salmon, trout, panfish, dolphin, bonito, tarpon, bonefish, barracuda..."

Item No: FW43 Price: $22.50

SALT WATER FLIES By Kenneth E. Bay and Hermann Kessler

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Blue cloth, embossed fly on front board, silver lettering on spine.

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, cy 1972, First edition stated.

Illustrations: 4 pp color illustrations, "Eight featured flies, nine classics" plus numerous b&w photos.

Small chips and light wear dust jacket edges, otherwise fine.

150 pages.

Size: 9 1/4 X 6 1/4 inches.

"50 popular patterns tying instructions plus tips on materials and tackle."

"Those of us deeply involved in salt water fly fishing are constantly being asked about how to tie flies, or which flies do you use for what? Ken Bay and Hermann Kessler, who know personally most of the outstanding people associated with the art, have compiled what has to become the "Bible" for salt water fly tiers."

Item No: FW44 Price: SOLD

THE ATLANTIC SALMON FLY THE TYERS AND THEIR ART, By Judith Dunham

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Dark green cloth, gold lettering on spine

Publisher: Chronicle Books, cy 1991 First Edition.

Illustrations: Full color, full page photographs by John Clayton.

Water damage upper front cover, all else fine.

137 pages w/appendix

Size: 12 1/4 X 10 1/4 inches.

"An international selection of contemporary flytyers - from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Holland, and Japan - celebrate the beauty and the traditions of the Atlantic Salmon Fly."

"Flytyers, anglers, and collectors around the world have long been fascinated by the beauty of the Atlantic Salmon fly. Over the lst two decades, there has been an extraordinary renaissance of interest in this most artful of fishing flies."

Item No: FW45 Price: sold

SALT WATER GAME FISHING By Joe Brooks

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Green cloth, silver fish embossed on front board, silver lettering on spine.

Publisher: Harper & Row, Cy 1968, 3rd printing.

Illustrations: Black and white photographs.

Light shelf wear, corners bumped.

346 pages w/index.

Size: 9 1/2 X 6 1/2 inches.

"Books on fishing by Joe Brooks are always treasured items in my library" Bing Crosby

"Comes up to the high standards of Joe Brooks - authoritative without any fiction thrown in." Ted Williams

Item No: FW46 Price: $32.00

THE SEASONABLE ANGLER by Nick Lyons

Very Good Soft cover, paper cover is light green, not grey as the scan shows.

Publisher: Winchester Press, Cy 1970. Published by Funk & Wagnalls, A Division of Reader's Digest Books, Inc.

Illustrations: None

Upper front corner turned down a little, some light soil.

177 pages.

Size: 5 X 5 1/2 inches.

""A warm, nostalgic and yet enormously canny and rewarding book about those twin mysteries, fishing and fisherman." Rogert Traver

"Fly-fishing isn't a spectator sport, but if NIck Lyons fishes as skillfully as he writes about it, I'd pay to watch him." Ed. Zern

Item No: FW47 Price: $ 8.00

NORTH AMERICAN GAME FISHES By Francesca LaMonte

Very Good in VG Dustjacket: Slate blue cloth with gold lettering.

Publisher: Doubleday & Co, Inc. 1958, cy 1945,1958.

Illustrations: 81 Full color, 72 black & white illustrations of 153 game fish

Small chips and tears to jacket extremities, otherwise fine.

206 pages w/index.

Size: 7 1/2 X 4 3/4 inches

"A concise, easily used, and plentifully illustrated identification book. Every fresh and salt-water angler should carry one in his pocket." Michael Lerner.

Speaking as a fresh-water angler I am delighted that Miss LaMonte has done this book. It ought to be as much a part of a fisherman's equipment as his rod and reel." Roy champan Andrews.

Item No: FW48 Price: $15.00

FISHING AMERICA By Charles R. Meyer

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Pictorial paper covered boards.

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. Cy 1958 First Edition, stated.

Illustrations: 128 pages of photographs, 16 in full color

Wear on top of bottom of boards, and dustjacket, corners bumped, upper & lower spine bumped

128 pages w/photo credits.

Size: 12 1/2 X 9 1/8 inches.

Edited by Edward A. Hamilton and Charles Preston

"Action, spectacular scenery, and the personal excitement only a fisherman knows make this a book for everyone..."

Item No: FW49 Price: $18.00

SALMON FLIES THEIR CHARACTER, STYLE, AND DRESSING By Poul Jorgensen

Very Good no jacket, black cloth, gold lettering.

Publisher: Stackpole Books, cy 1978

Illustrations: Color and black and white photographs by the author.

Light shelf wear.

256 pages w/index.

Size: 9 1/2 X 7 5/8

Forward by Joseeeph D. Bates, Jr.

"Fly fishing for salmon is a tricky business. Success or failure is almost entirely dependent upon the performance of the fly, the angler's skill in presenting it to the fish, and of course, the mood of the salmon."

Item No: FW50 Price: $42.00

DRESSING FLIES FOR FRESH AND SALT WATER, by Poul Jorgensen

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket: Olive paper covered boards, with 3/4 simulated leather spine, embossed fly.

Illustrations: Photographs by Irv Swope, black and white and color.

Small tears in dustjacket, o/w fine.

192 pages w/index

Size: 10 1/4 X 9 3/4 inches.

"This is the outstanding manual on the arts and techniques of tying flies."

"Starting with the most basic information, how to choose a book, The author clearly explains each step of the fly-tying procedure, until a fly is completed."

Item No: FW51 Price: $45.00

DRESSING FLIES FOR FRESH AND SALT WATER By Poul Jorgensen

Very Good in VG Dust Jacket; Mustard colored paper covered boards, 3/4 cream simulated leather backstrip, embossed fly.

Illustrations: Photographs by Irv Swope, Black and white and color.

Small chip lost from upper spine of dust jacket, small tears, o/w fine.

192 pages w/index

Size" 10 1/4 X 9 3/4 inches.

"This is the outstanding manual on the arts and techniques to tying flies."

"Starting with the most basic information, how to choose a book. The author clearly explains each step of the fly-tying procedure, until a fly is completed."

Item No: FW52 Price: $40.00

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