Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Lightly impressed decorations on the covers. 4 3/4" x 7 1/4." Eighty-eight pages, complete. One black and white frontispiece, complete. Eight additional pages of illustrated advertisements in the back for hunting and fishing books and products. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Pages are slightly age-toned. Endpapers have foxing which does not affect further pages internally. Slight wear at the corners and head and tail of spine. Glue repair on title page. A Very Good copy. ... View More...
Text is in Spanish. Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1941. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. The style of "EKC" (Eastman Kodak Company) stamp box with "Sello" within the box is known to have been used in 1941. "Tarjeta Postal" printed on back. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight corner and edge wear. A Near Fine copy. This postcard shows fishermen in boats on Lake Patzcuaro in Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. The fisherman in the foreground uses the region's iconic "butterfly" fishing net. In the backg... View More...
Original black and white photo postcard. No date, circa 1930s-1940s. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Imprint of "WA" is printed in the lower-right corner of the image. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very virtually pristine and intact. A Near Fine copy. This postcard shows the carcasses of several bucks loaded on the back of a truck after a hunt. The Sawtooth Mountains, or the Sawtooth Range, are part of the Rocky Mountains and are located in central Idaho. View More...
Original black-and-white photo postcard. No date, circa 1907-1917. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." The style of "Velox" stamp box on back was used from 1907-1917. Postcard is unused. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight surface wear on front and back and slight corner and edge wear. A Very Good copy. This postcard shows people who are holding poles or lines, perhaps for fishing, along a lake, pond, or river. View More...
Cloth. Illustrations. No. 496 of 950 copies. A complete bibliography of the books and prints published including the privately printed items. Uncut page edges. The book contains a chronological list of publications and brief descriptions of sp ortin g books such as: Riding and Horsemanship; Fishing; Yachting and the Sea; Cook Books; Sporting History and Americana; etc. View More...
Brown fabricoid with slight rubbing along fore edge. Former owner's name on front end paper. A nice, clean copy. Consists of: Club news, history and a list of previous yearbooks; "Wartime Thoughts on Fishing" by Jim Hurley ; " Fishing in the Aleutians" by Sgt. Bill Gleeson, "Protection for the Channel Bass","World Record Game Fishes", "Surf Fishing as a Diversion for the City Dwellers" by Ed Fee, "Fishing the Florida Keys" by Cpl. Allen Corson, Jr.," Creed of the Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock", "Sheepshead" by John Dougherty, etc. 126 pages, including 25 pages of advertising of local business... View More...
Circa 1900. Photograph shows fishermen looking at salmon caught in their nets. Horses in the background are hitched to the nets. The back of the photograph provides information about salmon and the spawning process. Photograph is numbered 226 -- (13624). View More...
# 20221 (13). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the process of drying codfish in preparation for the market and the city-port of Gloucester. View of a worker tending the drying fish, head and entrails removed, on long tables under the sun alongside the harbor of Gloucester. Clean copy. View More...
Unnumbered stereograph on light tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) in plastic slipcase. View of two hunters in the morning with dogs looking for quail. Some slight soiling to the card. View More...
3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 72-29215 by the publisher. Shows a black and white photo of a man bent over, releasing fish from a net, with a bucket beside him. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back. Letter "B" written on back. View More...
3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 227-13625 by the publisher. Shows Chinese men standing at a table working on the salmon. Circa 1915. Two volumes of text on the back discusses how the salmon are caught, the Columbia River, the Chinese men who do the work and worldwide salmon consumption. View More...
3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 345-13348 by the publisher. Shows the Commander with a large sharp stick standing over a still-alive seal. Two colums of text on the back about the Expedition. View More...
3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 244-11548 by the publisher. Shows six Alaskan Indians standing in front of fish drying on pole racks. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back discussing methods of Alaska fishing, the Yukon River and worldwide salmon distribution. View More...
First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Private name stamp front end paper. The author describes the animals and game birds found in each state and which part of each state specific game is more prevalent. View More...
xv, 519 pages; illustrations; appendix, index; green cloth binding with gilt lettering and design. Some repair to the spine and with new endpapers. James Bertram (1824-1892) was a marine economist and newspaper editor from Scotland. Among the chapters are: fish life and growth; fish commerce; fish culture; anglers' fishes; natural and economic history of the salmon; natural and economic history of the Herring; white-fish fisheries; natural and economic history of the oyster; our shell-fish fisheries; the fisher folk; concluding remarks; with appendix. He was one of the pioneers of cheap newspa... View More...
Cloth. Illustrations. 950 copies printed. Slight spotting to top and side edges. The author tells some of his favorite hunting stories. And he imparts hunting wisdom learned through his many years as a sports hunter (how many hunters know that a tur key flushed in the twilight will seek a tree with bare limbs?) View More...
Cloth backed boards. Frontispiece protrait of the author and black and white illustrations throughout. 800 copies printed, with typography by Frederick Warde. The Legend of the Hounds was written in 1867 by George Henry Boker, of Philadelphia. Due to his father's financial success, the author was financially able to spend his life in study and in wri ting. He became a poet and fox hunter. He wrote this poem about fox hunting, based on a story told to him by a citizen from Pennsylvania. 31 pages, plus colophon View More...
Brown full leather binding with gilt lettering on black spine label. Five raised bands. 4 1/2" x 7." 293 pages, complete. 135 woodcut illustrations, complete. Eleven additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Former owner's bookplate with the motto, "Be Just and Fear Not," and an illustrated lion tipped in on front pastedown. Former owner's signature in black ink on front free endpaper dated 1770. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Pages are age-toned. Covers have surface chipping on spine and moderate wear to front, back, corners, ... View More...
Cloth. Illustrations. No. 824 of 950 copies. The author writes horses and golfing in: "The Converted Mule"; "Ulysses on the Links"; "Politics and Aniseed"; "The Somersault Pony"; "The Bucket Match"; "The Feminist and the Horseman"; etc. View More...
