The rare edition in illustrated wrappers. Also issued in a more common cloth binding. Original publisher's brown wrappers. Front-cover illustration of people aboard a boat at sea. 4 3/4" x 7." 379 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Three additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Insides of both front and back covers also have ads for other books. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Front cover has slight darkening and a few light stains. Frank T. Bullen (1857-1915) was a British author. He went to sea beginning in 1869 and eventu... View More...
viii, 223 pages; portrait; index; green cloth binding with gilt lettering with remnants of the dust jacket under mylar (missing chips, soiled), lacking the bottom third of the back cover. John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the US conservation movement and a noted practitioner of the 'nature essay'. Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #2207. Very good copy in poor dust jacket. View More...
Original small broadside printed on beige paper. 6" x 9." One page, complete. Paper is very clean and intact. There are three horizontal fold lines and a few splits at the edges along the folds. A list of facts pertaining to the work done by the California Fish and Game Commission toward the protection of "wild life resources" in consideration of conservation, hunting, and fishing. The broadside gives a summary of raising fish in a hatchery and notes how some hatcheries specialize in rainbow, steelhead, black-spotted, or golden trout. It also mentions the State Game Farm in Yountville, ... View More...
Introduction by James Keeley, foreword by Jack Lait, verse by Albert Jay Cook. Published black cloth. Back hinge slighly cracked. Former owner's stamp in various places. 253 pages. Illustrated. View More...
First edition. Cloth. Illustrations. 1500 copies printed. Page edges are uncut. A book of rhymes with illustrations: THE CHASE; The Vixen, The Fairy Fox, etc., THE RIVER; The Trout Fisher, Running Water, etc., THE MOOR AND MANOR; The Song of F ee, F o, Fum!, The Bread-And-Butter Bird, etc., THE FOREST; "The Muckle Hart", The Stag of Ten, etc. View More...
Boards. Illustrated with colour plates and drawings by the author. Frontispiece is signed. No. 488 of 950 copies. Some unopened pages. Uncut pages. Top page edges are gilt. The author writes about duck-shooting (and the variety of ducks inclu ding C anvasback, Mallard, Pintail Drake); Gunner's Dawn; Manitoba Ducks; The Ha'nt of Dragon Swamp; Dusk in the Stubble; etc. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Gilt illustration of a fish leaping into the water on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Endpapers show a scenic lake from a photograph. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." 270 pages, complete. Eight black and white photographic plates and additional black and white illustrations, complete. Decorations by Louis Rhead. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. A few pages are coming loose, most are intact. Slight edge and corner wear. A few spots of rubbing on the covers. A Very Good copy. Semi-autobiographical ... View More...
Cloth. Illustrations. No. 384 of 1250 copies. In the Preface the author offers his apologies for his temerity in publishing a book about sporting reminiscences since sport has been a side issue in his life. He writes about: Martha Doyle, Wayne fleet and Banbury Cross (three horses he's known); On Starting a Hunt; Angling Heresies; Hounds and Dogs; On Losing Your Nerve; etc. View More...
FIRST EDITION. xii, 274 pages; 2 colored plates, photogravure plates, photographs; index; blue cloth with gilt design on the cover and gilt lettering on the spine. An account of wild life and sport, hunting and fishing, in north-west Hampshire and especially the village of Oakley. Wear along the edge of the front cover, else a very good copy. Signed on the title page "Richard Stecker, Spana Way, Wash. 27 Sept 72" and on the back of the title page "Richard Stecker 27 Sept 72" Deschutes River 4 - 12" - 13 1/2". View More...
FIRST EDITION. "The Anglers' Library". viii, 195 pages; illustrations; appendix, index; bound in brown cloth (5 x 7 1/2 inch) with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Mr Dewar writes about fishing in the streams of the southern section of England including Kent, Surrey and Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Devon and Cornwall streams. In the first part he goes into the southern trout streams - their past, present and future, and the ecology along the streams. Fine clean copy with minimal foxing on some pages. View More...
Fine binding by Frost & Co. 3/4 light blue leather with blue cloth; gilt trim at leather edges. Abundant gilt decorations on spine with black and red spine labels . Gilt page tops. A beautiful book in fine condition. The author writes about: The Woodland Lake; Fishing, and Other Summer Occupations; The Approach of Winter; A Winter in the Solitary Wilderness; Life in the Woods of North Michigan; etc. View More...
Later printing. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Front cover has dark green illustrations showing birds, fish, and trees. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." 220 pages, complete. Twelve black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are age-toned. Covers have slight edge wear and a smudge at the bottom of the front cover. Back cover has slight rubbing toward the bottom. A Very Good copy. Contents: "A Review of Fishing Rod History," "Fishing Rod Material," "Mounting and Finishing Materials," "Tools Needed in Rodmaking," "Types of Bait-Casting Rod... View More...
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in black ink. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Small gilt decoration of a fishing fly on the front cover. Former owner's bookplate of the Library of the American Wildlife Institute tipped in on the front pastedown. Author's inscription: "To John Bird Burnham, with a hope that there may be something in this little book that will appeal to his angling proclivities, Jany 9, '14." John Bird Burnham (1869-1939) was an American conservationist best-known for his work in the Klondike and ... View More...
Original trade card with a black-and-white illustration of mackerel in a fishing net and many seafaring sailboats or ships in the background. No date, circa 1875-1884. 5" x 3." Printer/publisher is the Forbes Company. Its locations are listed as Boston and New York. Trade card is very clean and intact except for light age toning to front and back and a few small marks limited to the back. A Very Good copy. Trade card promoting "Deep Sea" Mess Mackerel as made by H. K. & F. B. Thurber & Company, a food manufacturing and wholesale grocery business. Brothers Horace Kingsley Thurber (1828-... View More...
Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 6 1/4" x 9." 219 pages, complete. Forty-three plates printed in half-tone and color, complete. Additional Figures printed in black and white, complete. Some of the plates show bucolic scenes of fishing spots along tree-lined streams and ponds. Former owner's purple stamp on front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Pages slightly age-toned. The head and tail of the spine are slightly chipped. There is a small split measuring about 1/2" from the top along the back ... View More...
First edition. Complete with all three maps. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Title continued: ".A Directory to the Principal Game Resorts of the Country, Illustrated with Maps". View More...
Original trade card with a color illustration of two cartoon boys who are out hunting birds. Done in a caricatured style, one of the boys points an oversized gun at a bird. The caption reads, "Opening of the Fall Shooting Season." No date, circa 1880s-1890s. 4" x 2 1/2." A name written in pencil on back. Trade card is clean and intact overall except for some wrinkling and age toning. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Henry Borgstede & Co., a shoe store, with amendments from the store's successor, J. Gabel. Bracketed words in the title indicate changes made to the text to reflect new st... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and small gilt decoration on the front cover. 4 3/4" x 7." 264 pages, complete. Nineteen plates in black and white and color "And numerous additional cuts illustrated of the technical cuts" [and] "Decorative initials by Louis Rhead," complete. In the back are blank Memoranda Pages for taking notes. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Minuscule edge and corner wear. Slight wear to the head of the spine. A Fine copy. Contents: "Dedication," "Preface," "Selection, Care, and Rigging of the Rod," "The Art of ... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and small gilt decoration on the front cover. 4 3/4" x 7." 287 pages, complete. Twenty plates in black and white and color "And numerous additional cuts illustrated of the technical cuts" [and] "Decorative initials by Louis Rhead," complete. In the back are blank Memoranda Pages for taking notes. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Some corner wear and chipping at the head and tail of spine. Rubbing on the front and back covers. A Very Good copy. Contents: "Dedication," "Preface," "Selection, Care, and R... View More...
First edition. Cloth. No. 205 of 850 copies signed by the authors. Ray Holland and his sons Bob and Dan and friends are the sportsmen who pursue the sports described and also record the events with cameras. The book has numerous photos taken by the authors. View More...
