Original publisher's green cloth binding. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 270 pages, complete. Thirty-five black and white illustrations, complete. Former owner's stamps in black ink on the front endpaper (one each on the pastedown and front free endpaper): "Fred E. Motley, M. D., Library." Two of these stamps are also on the back pastedown and in the top margin of the Table of Contents. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight wear to the corners and head and tail of spine. A Fine copy. Chapters: "Trouty Eyesight and Intelligence," "Trout and Colors," "Fly Rods," "Reels Liens and Leaders... View More...
FIRST EDITION. 209 pages; light green cloth binding (4 3/4 x 7 inch) with gilt lettering on the spine and cover along with indented pattern. Some wear to the top and bottom of the spine, former owners inscription in ink on front flyleaf "Aunt Em with love from Frank." An easy going series of essays on the natural world of New England and the author's adventures while traveling. Fine clean copy. View More...
308 pages; cloth bound with gilt lettering on the spine, lightly faded. An account of fishing adventures in New England, especially New Hampshire and Connecticut during the last half of the 19th century. Pleasant reading in a very good copy. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine and a gilt illustration of a fishing fly on the front cover. 4 1/4" x 6 3/4." 136 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Tipped in on the front pastedown is a small business card for Ye Old Book Shop owned by George Hargens. On the back pastedown is a tipped-in, printed black and white plate that shows an illustrated facade of a bookshop with the title, "George Hargens Old Book Shop," written in pencil. Under the printed illustration is the artist's name and date handwritten in pe... View More...
Collection of three original documents related to the Portland Gun Club of Portland, Oregon. No date, circa 1937/38-1960. 8 1/2" x 11" to 8 1/2" x 13." Twelve pages. Each document is very clean and intact except for age toning, the occasional small mark, and a few wrinkles, bumps, and fold lines. Each document and the entire collection are Very Good. The Portland Gun Club was organized in 1907 and incorporated in 1912. The Club was a meeting place for members so they could practice shooting, hold shooting contests, and engage in other sports and recreational activities. The Portland Gu... View More...
Original publisher's blue cloth binding with illustrations of fish bait on the front cover. 6" x 8 3/4." 186 pages, complete. Twenty-one plates and illustrations in black and white and color and additional black and white illustrations, complete. Index in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Pages slightly age-toned. A Fine copy. Louis Rhead (1857-1926) was an English-American author, illustrator, and fisherman. Many of Rhead's books deal with fly fishing and fishing as a whole. Chapters: "The Importance of Minnows and Their Allies for Game-Fish Food," "Characteristi... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Gilt illustration of a trout on the front cover. Top edge gilt. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2." 184 pages, complete. Seventeen plates and additional illustrations in black and white, color, and halftone, complete. A tipped-in bookplate on the front pastedown and a signature in black ink on the front free endpaper is from a former owner, Hugh Williamson Rowan. There is another former owner's signature, in blue ink, on the front free endpaper from Harry A. McGraw. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overal... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Boards are textured and have two blind-stamped Carleton insignias on the front and back. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 304 pages, complete. Six additional pages of advertisements for books published by Carleton in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Head and tail of the spine are chipped. Corner wear. A Very Good copy. View More...
3rd Edition, revised and with local information, a glossary of terms, and illustrations added. Original publisher's 3/4 brown leather binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt decorative lines on the covers. Small gilt decorations on the spine. 3 3/4" x 5 3/4." Eighty-six pages, complete. Twenty-five black and white illustrations, complete. "G W C D Bell" faintly stamped in the top margin of the title page. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Some wear at the corners, edges, and front and back outer joints. The paper on the boards have some chipping; the back cov... View More...
Original publisher's beige wrappers. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." Thirty pages, complete. There are five additional pages in the back about the Scotch Fisheries Improvement Association and membership; a blank application is included. Pages are clean and intact overall. Spine is severely chipped and the pages are loose. A Good copy. This is a report about fisheries in Scotland, the Scotch Fisheries Improvement Association and others, and environmental matters relating to the fisheries. View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 6, pp. 85-86. August 12, 1936. "On December 3, 1934, the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences received a shipment of live fishes from Suva, Fiji Islands. Included among these were two small blennies belonging to the genus Petroscirtes Ruppell". The author provides a description of this newly identified fish. View More...
THE TRUE (AND RARE) FIRST EDITION. xii, 142 pages; xxviii pages of ads (half in front, half in back with index); photo illustrations; bound in green cloth (7 1/2 x 9 1/8 inch) with three color illustration and title on the front cover and black lettering on the spine. Fred Shaw was a champion trout fly fisherman in 1904 and wrote this book for others interested in the sport. A very informative guide which includes: How to cast a trout fly; where to cast a trout fly; about the fly, the trout, and the rise; hints on breeding trout and on fishing matters generally; and the necessities of the trou... View More...
One of 950 copies printed by the Derrydale Press. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 159 pages, complete. Forty-two black and white plates and illustrations, complete. Illustrations by William Bayard Sturgis. Frontispiece by Ralph L. Boyer. Front colophon: "Nine hundred and fifty copies of New Lines for Flyfishers have been printed by Eugene V. Connett at the Derrydale Press." Former owner's signature in black ink on the front free endpaper dated "Dec 30, 1936." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Bindin... View More...
Cloth. No. 353 of 1,000 copies of the United States issue. With twelve illustrations in colour by Wildrake-Heath-Jellicoe. The author of "Handley Cross" and "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities" has written another tale of life in the country with Mr . Jorrocks. View More...
Cloth with narrow gold strips. Slip case. Illustrations in water-color by Gordon Ross and an Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Uncut page edges. The author, a lawyer by profession, has written this tale of Jack Jarrocks, "a man of wit and the ca use of wit in other men": Surrey Shooting--Mr. Jorrocks in Trouble; Mr. Jorrocks and the Surrey Stag-Hounds; Mr. Jorrocks in Paris; etc. View More...
Leather. 17 steel engravings by John Leech, hand colored. Ink notation front end paper. The author writes about: The Olden Times; The Climax of Disaster; Mr. Jorrocks; Captain Doleful's Difficulties; The Pluckwelle Preserves; James Pigg Again !! !; Mr. Marmaduke Mulegrubs; The Great Mr. Prettyfat; etc. View More...
circa.1890s. [10] pages; illustrations, one color frontis; paper wrapper (3 1/4 x 6 1/8 inch) with color illustration pasted on the cover. silk string tied binding. With gift slip 'With Hearty Greetings and all Good Wishes, from - ' not signed. Humorous account of fox hunting in England by a very fat man, the sporting cockney grocer known as Jorrocks, well liked for his vulgarity and good natured artfulness. Seems to be taken from Robert Surtees writings. View More...
207 pages; illustrations, maps; red cloth binding. Inscription dated 4/13/27 saying "For Rowina with the best wishes of the Judge", The Judge was Sutton's hunting partner on the expedition, on the front flyleaf. Foreword - 'This little volume is not an authoritative treatise on tigers. In reality, it is a compilation of a series of notes made on a trip which was originally planned as a vacation, . ' Originally a series of letters in the Kansas City Star. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original book list and blank order form printed on beige paper in black ink. No date, circa 1927-1930s. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4." Two pages, complete. One leaf printed on both sides. Paper is very clean and intact overall. Slight wrinkling at the top edge and lower-left corner. A Fine copy. The following books are listed (among other books available from the Derrydale Press): A Book of Trout Flies, The Sporting Works of David Gray, American Big Game Fishing, Upland Game Bird Shooting, Fishing a Trout Stream, Life and Sport in Aiken, Riding, New Lines for Flyfishers, The English Springer Spaniel... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 6" x 8 1/2." 240 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates and illustrations, complete. List of Illustrations in front. Index in back. Printed by the Knickerbocker Press. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for a small bit of sticker residue on front free endpaper. Binding is tight. Covers are very clean and intact but have some rubbing at edges, corners, front and back outer joints, and head and tail of spine. Bottom corners of the covers are slightly bumped. A Fine copy. An autobiographical account by William S. Thomas in which h... View More...
