TRYON COUNTY BOOKSHOP

• FIRST ANNUAL REPORT.
• 1896 Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers, New York and Albany.
• 376 pages, including 16 Color Plates by Denton: Brooktrout, Atlantic Salmon, Whitefish, Small Mouth Bass, Large Mouth Black Bass, Pike Perch, or Wall Eyed Pike, Mascalonge, Pike, Pickerel (Upper Hudson River), Pickerel (From a Pond in MA), Shad, Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Smelt, The Virginia Deer, Mongolian Ring Necked Pheasant.
• Brown cloth embossed pictorial cover in Black and Gold. Some fading on gold lettered backstrip, which also shows wear at upper and lower spine. Cover shows shelf wear at upper and lower corners. Back cover shows some scuffing. 11 6/8 X 8 3/4.
• Inner hinge cracking. otherwise sound and tight with nice clean contents.
• Chapters include "Food for fishes" "Forest Fires" "Fisheries, Game and Forest Law" "Summer Woodcock Shooting" "Report of Superintendent of Forests on the Adirondack Deer.
• ITEM NO FF1896 PRICE: $000.00

• THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
• 1898 Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers, New York and Albany.
• 455 pages, including 14 Color Plates; 9 by Denton: CISCO, from Hemlock Lake, WHITE BASS, FALL FISH or Silver Chub, COMMON WHITEFISH FEMALE from Hemlock Lake, RED THROAT, BLACK SPOTTED OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN TROUT, STEELHEAD or SALMON TROUT, GOLDEN SHINER or BREAM, ALEWIFE or BRANCH HERRING, COMMON WHITEFISH MALE from Canandauga Lake: 5 by Ridgeway; GREAT BLUE HERON, KINGFISHER, WOODDUCK MALE, WOODDUCK FEMALE, WILSON'S or ENGLISH SNIPE.
• Bluish cloth Decorated pictorial cover in Black. Some fading on black lettered backstrip, with strip from upper spine, and wear at lower spine. Cover shows shelf wear at upper and lower edges and corners. 11 6/8" X 8 3/4".
• Inner hinge cracking. otherwise nice clean contents.
• Numerous black and white photos including LOG HAULING IN THE ADIRONDACKS; MEAL TIME IN A LUMBER CAMP; AN ADIRONDACK LOGGING CREW; INDIAN RIVER DAM; INDIAN LAKE FROM FARRINGTON'S. GRASSE RIVER SUGAR BUSH; and a pull out 5 color map of THE CATCHMENT OF SEVERAL RIVERS OF THE STATE, by Geo. W. Rofter.
• Chapters include "Account of net fish licenses" "Account of Trespass on State Lands" "A synopsis of the history of fish culture" "Why Our Forests Should be Preserved and Protected.
• ITEM NO FF1898 PRICE: $215.00

• FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.
• 1899 Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., Printers, New York and Albany.
• 442 pages, including 14 Color Plates 5 Birds by J L RIDGWAY;MALLARD DUCK MALE, MALLARD DUCK FEMALE, RING-NECKED PHEASANT, FEMALE, UPLAND PLOVER, SPURCE GROUSE, 9 DENTON FISH PRINTS; THE SHAD, WEAK-FISH COMMON MACKEREL DOG-FISH, MUC-FISH, BOW-FIN OR GRINDLE, COMMON EEL, TOM COD OR FROST FISH, AMERICAN LOBSTER, male upper, AMERICAN LOBSTER, female lower, YELLOW OR BARRED PERCH; 3 insects (excess ink on one has stuck to previous page, with slight loss).
• Burgandy cloth embossed pictorial cover in Green and White. Some fading and scuffing on black lettered backstrip, shelf wear to lower corners.
• 11 1/2" X 8 3/4".
• One small tear to one page, otherwise sound and tight with nice clean contents.
• Chapters include "Report Upon the Recent Epidemic Among Brook Trout," "Removal of Lampreys From the Interior Waters of NY", "Prosecutions for violations of fish, game and forest laws", "Bibliography of the Adirondacks, by C. A. Sherrell, 19 pages"
• Numerous Black & White full page photographs, drawings and prints, including "Morning in the Camp", "Main Building of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium," "Library of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium,"
• ITEM NO FF1899 PRICE: $000.00

• FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.
• For1899 James B. Lyon, State Printer, Albany, New York 1900.
• 466 pages, including 16 Color Plates 5 Birds by J L RIDGWAY;CANVASBACK DUCK, THE DOWITCHER, THE BLACK BILLED PLOVER, THE GREATER YELLOWLEGS, THE AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 8 DENTON FISH PRINTS;1. THE CANADIAN RED TROUT, ADULT MALE, 2. THE CANADIAN RED TROUT, YOUNG, 3. THE BULLHEAD, 4. THE WHITE PERCH, 5. THE LARGE MOUTH BLACK BASS; THE SMALL MOUTH BLACK BASS. 6. THE STRIPED BASS, 7. THE BLUEFISH, 8. THE SPANISH MACKEREL.
• Parchment color cloth embossed pictorial cover in Green and Brown. Some fading and scuffing on black lettered backstrip. One two inch tear at the bottom of pate 155, a black & white illustration.
• 11 1/2" X 8 3/4".
• Sound and tight with nice clean contents.
• Chapters include "The Commercial Fisheries of Lake Erie..Shad Culture in the Hudson River..Trout Fry and Trout Fingerlings...Fish Represented in the Colored Plates by Sherman F. Denton, Five Well-known Game Birds, Timber Product of the Adirondacks etc."
• Numerous Black & White full page photographs, drawings and prints, including "Some European Forest Scenes", "Forest Taxation."
• ITEM NO FF1899 PRICE: $000.00

• SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT.
• 1901 J. B. Lyon Company State Printer, Albany, New York.
• "Compliments of B. B. Odell, Jr. Govenor" stamped on flyleaf.
• 532 pages, including 22 Color Plates 5 Birds by J L R; 11 DENTON FISH PRINTS; 6 insects
• Beige cloth embossed pictorial cover in Dark Green and Gold. Some fading and scuffing on black lettered backstrip, two small stains to lower front edge of cover.
• 11 1/2" X 8 3/4".
• Inner hinge cracking. otherwise sound and tight with nice clean contents.
• Chapters include "Catskill Forests, Lumber Product Of" "Forest Fires", "History of the Lumber Industry in the State of New York", "Roll of Pioneer Lumbermen". "The Canadian Red Trout", "Catalogue of the Fishes of Long Island", "Aquatic Insects Of the Saranac Region".
• Numerous Black & White full page photographs, drawings and prints, including "Log Driving On the Ausable River" "Skidding Logs, Herkimer County, N.Y." "Camp of Adirondack River Drivers" "Raquette Pond, on Raquette River" "Steam Log Loader" fold out"Map of the Adirondack Forest Preserve" and fold out color map of Township 40 Totten and Crossfield Purchase, Hamilton County, N.Y."
• ITEM NO FF1901 PRICE: $295.00

• SEVENTH REPORT.
• 1902 J. B. Lyon Company State Printers, Albany, New York.
• "Compliments of B. B. Odell, Jr. Govenor" stamped on flyleaf.
• 534 pages, including 35 Color Plates 4 Animals by Kemp; 11 Birds by Fuertes; 8 unsigned fish, by S. F. Denton, as stated in the preface; 8 leaves and 3 insects.
• Green cloth embossed cover in Dark Green and Gold. Some fading and scuffing on gold lettered backstrip, which shows light wear at upper and lower spine. Cover shows lt. shelf wear at upper and lower corners. Back cover shows some scuffing.
• 11 1/2" X 8 3/4".
• Inner hinge cracking. otherwise sound and tight with nice clean contents.
• Chapters include "The Saint Lawrence Reservation" "Fish Distribution", "Tree Planting on Streets and Highways", "Moose". "The Wapiti", "The Adirondack Black Bear", "Insects Affecting Forest Trees".
• Numerous Black & White full page photographs, drawings and prints, including some by Watson.
• ITEM NO FF1902 PRICE: $295.00

• ANNUAL REPORTS 1907-1908-1909 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
• 1909 Press of J. B. Lyon Company, Albany, N.Y.
• 407 pages, including 23 Color Plates by WATSON, GILETTE, & MESSERSCHMITT & 1 Colored Map of THE HIGHLANDS OF THE HUDSON RESERVATION 1909. as follows:
  Gilette:Adirondack Forest Scene, Ruffed Grouse in Winter, The Quail, Hungarian Partridge, The Woodcock, Small-Mouth Bass, Lake Trout, Male Brook Trout, Bullhead; Catfish, Female Brook Trout, Chub Sucker, Sunfish and Salmon.
  Hy S. Watson: The Old Hunter, A Fair Angler, Her First Day Afield, Game Always In Season.
  Chas. Messerschmitt: Ruffed Grouse, Mongolian Pheasant, Birds in Winter, Woodcock, Young Woodcock.
  One unsigned Plate showing Blister Rust on the White Pine Tree.
  Plus: 14 Full Page Half Tone Drawings by Hy. S. Watson " Envy, Putting the Fire Out, Gaffing a Salmon, Lunch at Half Way House, Fired Bacon, Mondern Invasion Of The Woods, The Cabin Home, The Last Load, An Up To Date Portage, Deer Hunters' Camp, Rail Bird Shooting, Wating For The Flight, Got Him, and Quail Shooting
• Green cloth cover stamped in Gold. Sharp and Bright. Small pick lower center front, some shelf wear. a few minor scuffs.
• 11 6/16" X 8 5/8".
• Decorated end papers, sound and tight with nice clean contents. Pages 161-166 are bound in twice.
• Chapters include "Forest Fires" "Fire Fighting Force" "Control of Railroads" "The Adirondack Animals" "Trespass Cases" "John Brown's Tract Litigation" "Woodruff Road Litigation".
• ITEM NO FF07 PRICE: $245.00

• Near fine 5 1/4in. X 7 1/4 in.
• Publisher:Chas Burrows, Schenectady, N.Y. 1890.
• "A Tale of Love At Piseco, or Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
• Small chips to outer wraps, light crease, lower front corner.
• 60 pages.
• Adirondack Bibliography # 7346 (fiction).
• "The story begins in the summer of 1861 in the town of Arietta, Hamilton County NY.
• A wounded Civil War veteran finds his bride in the wilderness.
• Item No: FF7346 Price: $2400.00

Follow the links to subject matter of books currently available: