Original publisher's dark blue cloth binding with an elaborate silver-foil illustration on front cover of a man, mostly obscured from view, fleeing from a formidable-looking bear on its hind legs in the wilderness. 7 1/4" x 11." 182 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates and illustrations, complete. Two black-and-white full-page maps of British Columbia with color accents, complete. Three additional pages of illustrated advertisements in back for hunting gear. Former owner's signature in black ink dated July 1889 on verso of front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and inta... View More...
Margaret Armstrong binding. 322 pages; illustrations; blue cloth binding with illustration on the cover. American short fiction, many with fishing as a subject. Very good clean copy. View More...
146 pages; drawings; color illustrated cover (7 x 9 1/4 inch). Contents include: 'Xipe the Skinless' by Gordon MacCreach; '-And to Hell With the Pilots' by Andrew A. Caffrey; 'Full Throttle' by Coleman Meyer; 'Salt Water Daffy' by Albert R. Wetjen; 'The Old Man Finally Died' by Harold E. Stoakes; 'Charley Hoe Handle and the Spirit Wolf' by Jim Kjelgaard; among others. Very good clean copy. View More...
New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. ix, 172 pages; illustrations; rebound in 3/4 leather binding (minor wear along the edges). Original leather spine laid down on front flyleaf, former owner's bookplate on inside cover. Contents include general introduction on dogs and hounds; kennels - design and construction; types of food for hounds; illness and disease; treatment of young hounds; information on foxes and best way to hunt for them with dogs. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original trade card with a color illustration of cow in a field. No date, circa 1891-1911. 5 1/4" x 3 1/4." Trade card is very clean and intact overall except for age toning, faint smudges, and a few slight wrinkles. A Very Good copy. Trade card for W. S. Brown, a store specializing in sporting and athletic goods. W. S. Brown was based in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (between 1891 and 1911, Pittsburgh was spelled without an "h" at the end). Trade cards were antique business cards that first became popular during the late seventeenth century in Paris and Lyon, France and London, England. Tra... View More...
Illustrated cloth. 850 copies. Oversize book. Illustrations with three colored plates. Some wear to spine top and bottom. Also authored by: Erastus T. Tefft, Henry L. Ferguson, Col. H. P. Sheldon, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, W. Averell Harriman, Law rence B. Smith, Horace Lytle, P.N.B. Galwey-Foley, William E. Baker, Jr., and Eugene V. Connett, Editor. Driven game, American sportsmen. View More...
One of 600 copies printed by D. B. Updike. Original publisher's gray-brown paper-covered boards backed with dark brown cloth. Gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Green pattern of fishermen and shrubs printed on boards. Top edge stained dark green. 5" x 7 1/4." 324 pages, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning throughout and darkened edges. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight rubbing and browning to front and back. Binding is tight. A Near Fine copy. Izaak Walton's famous homage to the art of fishing in verse and prose. Introductio... View More...
"Revised and Enlarged Edition." Original publisher's brown cloth binding with illustrations of fishing flies on the front cover. Silver-foil decorations on the front cover. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 448 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Tipped-in label between front pastedown and front free endpaper lists the names of the fishing flies illustrated on the front. Former owner's inscription in black ink on the front free endpaper: "Henry T.[?] Lummus, March 28, 1908." Original red ribbon bookmark included. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Spine slightly... View More...
Original publisher's black boards backed with black cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." Eighty-one pages and an additional fourteen-page Appendix in the back, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. "Drawings by A. Dobbelaere" on title page. "Printed by the Birmingham House Eccentric, Birmingham, Michigan" on copyright page. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are slightly age-toned. Some edge wear. A Very Good copy. An instructional book on how to make and use dry flies, with accompanying illustrations. View More...
