Small booklet featuring 50 engravings -- quite scarce. Condition is sound and readable, but book does show a few issues including a chip to top front corner next to spine, tearing at front cover nexrt to spine at both top and bottom repaired neatly with nonbrowning archival tape, and a few small chips to the bottom of a page. Booklet measures 5-1/2"x 8" and covers all of the items in the title, plus the manufacture and use of traps, snares, nets, baits etc., as well as full instructions for preserving, tanning and dyeing skins and furs. 51 dense pages. View More...
INCLUDES AUTHORITATIVE INSTRUCTIONS FOR SEVENTEEN OF HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL FLIES WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS AND SUPERB FULL COLOR PHOTOS. IN SECTIONS ON MATERIALS AND TYING TECHNIQUES, CLOUSER OFFERS INSIGHT INTO HIS METHODS AND PROVIDES A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR DESIGNING FLIES WITH CONFIDENCE View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book in beautiful pictorial slipcase. Pages and page edges pristine, as are boards and slipcase. Illustrated with numerous black and white instructional photos. A classic in the field which offers a personal biography of the author by Hoagy Carmichael who promised Garrison on his death bed that he would produce a new edition. Here he has incorporated some of his own ideas from 20 years of experience and updated the source list. 296 pages. View More...
Both the book and its matching slipcase are like new -- pristine inside and out. It was published in a limited edition of 2500 copies in this format in 1989 and was originally published in 1934 with a print run of 950 books. Book consists of a series of 93 plates in black and white with explanatory material which follows a fisherman (angler) as he wades through a typical day in the stream in search of trout. Of course, it was successful -- wouldn't be a book without some big fish. View More...
Crisp, beautiful copy of volume XI of the Fly Fisherman's Gold series published by Derrydale. Very handsome leather bound book with ornate decoration to face and spine. Pages gilded on all three sides. Limited edition -- just 2500 copies printed, of which this is #916. Illustrated. A handsome classic with a bit larger-than-average typeface for easier reading. 305 pages. Attractive paisley endpapers. View More...
Book is clean as a whistle inside and out with no names or wriitng and no bumps to boards. Dustjacket shows no tears or chips and is most handome in brand new mylar cover. Book is beautifully illustrated with full color instructive photographs and a lengthy text which discusses all aspects of small flies, including tying tools, special materials, specific patterns for aquatic insects and other trout foods, general all-purpose flies, tying techniqes and a look at the smallest size 32 flies.Book measures 7-1/2"x9-1/2: and has 231 pages. View More...
Crisp, clean book with no defect of note. Pristine inside and out with no bumps to boards, no tears or chips to jacket, and no names or writing. Jacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Book measures 7-1/2" x 9-1/2" with 242 pages. Center section shows full page black and white photos pritned on quality coated paper of Heminway and various people fishing. Book is a compilation of Hemingway's fishing writing. The introduction was written by A.E. Hotchner, Hemingway's designated biographer. View More...
Book is in very fine condition -- apparently unread. Crisp, pages and pristine inside and out with no names or writing. Jacket has not been price-clipped and shows only a bit of wrinkling to top of dustjacket at spine. Look most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book is illustrated with black and white photographs and small drawings. A classic title on dry-fly fishing with aquatic and terrestrial artificials. Measures 6" x 8-`1/2" and has 269 pages View More...
Crisp, as new book -- no names or writing, no tears or chips, no bumps to boards. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Has not been price-clipped and is SIGNED without inscription by the author who studied spinners in the fertile trout areas of Montana, Michigan, Idaho and Yellowstone Park. From the smallest Trico to the enormous Michigan Hexagenia, all the spinners covered in the book are easy to tie. 155 pages. Indexed. This is the autor's first book [ HUNT - FISH SHELVES ] View More...
This is the deluxe limited edition of a classic fishing memoir. There are no defects of note and book and slipcase are beautifully clean with no names or writing and no bumps or chips. Book shows three signatures -- author, artist, and publisher -- located on limitation page at back of book. Book is bound in dark blue cloth and shows pasted decoration to title and front board. A larger imagealso shows on slipcase front. Book in case measures 6-1/2" x 9-1/4" and has 236 pages. Print run for this editionwas limited to 350 copies. View More...
Very handsome book, nicely kept with no bumps to boards, no names or writing, and no tears or chips to dustjacket which looks most handsome in a brand new mylar cover. There's even a surprise inside -- a stylish invitation to tune in to The National Geographic Society's special "Voyage of the Hokule'a" which aired on PBS. Book is nicely illustrated with black and white photographs and art. Fifteen whalemen share their expeirences in the Eastern Arctic from 1824-1917.Book measures 10: x 10-1.2" and has 263 pages. View More...
ITEM # 7792 THE CONTEMPLATIVE ANGLER BY ROY WALL PUB BY G.P. PUTNAMS 1948 215 PGS 5 3/4 X 8 3/8 HARD BACK DRAWN FROM A LIFE TIME OF FISHING EXPERIRNCE THESE STORIES HELP YOU BE A BETTER FISHERMAN BUT ALSO HELP YOU ENJOY AND VALUE NATURE BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION .CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT , NO D.J. [HUNT & FISH BX] View More...
Handsome book, the cover of which reads Fireside Henty Series. However, the actual title above is seen on the title page. The book is clean inside and out and SIGNED lavishly by the author on the front free endpaper thus: "To my freind, Harry Leighton, with compliments of the author. G.O. Shields, August 14, 1906." Page edges are green on all three sides. Only top one shows a small light spot. Book is illustrated with 19 black and white images and has been collated -- all are present. 306 pages, pllus ads at back for other books. View More...
Crisp clean book showng no names or writing, no bumping, and very clean pages. Jacket shows a small bit of wrinkling at lower back corner by spine. Oversized at 8-1/2"x11-1/4". Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Covers all basic categories of flies needed for saltwater fishing, including a full treatment of blondes, sea-ducers, bonefish flies, popper and sliders, deceivers, glass minnow, tarpon flies, permit patterns and more. 159 pages. Indexed. View More...
