Fishing from Attic Books

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 294 p. 22 cm. Quarter blue cloth with tan paper boards. In mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Signed by author on half title. This great flyfishing novel is really about a young man struggling to figure out the modern world.

Quebec City, nd. Softcover. Good. 51 p. 14x23 cm. Colour photos and illustrations. Stapled. Light wear and creases. French and English text.

Montreal: Hydro-Quebec, 1984. Softcover. Good. 36 p. 26 cm. Colour illustrations. Stapled. Scratches to front. French text.

London: Norway Travel Association, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 71 p. 21 cm. B&w photos. Stapled. Light wear to spine, crease in bottom front corner, small tear in upper rear cover, some soiling and discolouration. Pages browned. Photos of anglers, large salmon, some of the rivers and streams described. Statistics on the annual output of salmon and sea trout listed… Read more about this item

Montreal: Shepard Pubishing Company, nd. 1940s. Third printing. Softcover. Very good. 138 p.22 cm. B&w illustrations. Red card covers are pulling away from text block. Paper browned. Small tear p. 15.

Ottawa: Department of Fisheries of Canada, 1952. Reprinted from Canadian Geographical Journal. Softcover. Good. 23 p. 26 cm. B&w and partial colour illustations. Colour frontispiece. Stapled paper covers. Creases and small tears to edges. Spine tail split. Cave A120. A plea to conserve Canada's Pacific Salmon, along with a discussion of British Columbia's commercial fishing industry.

Ithaca, NY, 1974. Booklet. Very good. 48 p. 22 cm. Map at centre. B&w photos. Stapled. Light wear and some discolouration. Describes where to find trout waters in the Adirondack Mountains, some major trout streams and lakes.

Goshen, CT: The Angler's & Shooter's Press, 1976. 990 copies, of which this is no. 504. Signed by writer and artist. Hardcover. Near fine. xiv, 219 p. 27 cm. Colour frontispiece. Two pasted-in colour illustrations. B&w line drawings. Red cloth in grey slipcase. Perhaps the faintest of soiling to text block edge.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. ex library-fair. xiv, 260 p. 21 cm. B&w illustrations. Blue cloth. Silver print. Ex library with call number on spine. Spine faded to tan.Some offsetting or darkening to endpapers. Scuffs to rear free endpaper. Paper browning a bit.

Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1919. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. 264 p. 18 cm. 8 colour plates of ties. B&w illustrations in text. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has tears and chips to edges, including large chip to spine head.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937. Third printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 55 p. 20 cm. B&w plates and in-text figures. Brown cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has tears and creases to edges, faded spine, some stains to spine. Some soiling and ink marks to formerly white rear panel and flaps. Light foxing. Half title dampstained. "A Practical Guide to the… Read more about this item

Lyons & Burford, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xiv, 494 p. 29 cm. Mainly b&w illustrations with a section of colour plates at rear. Black cloth spine with black cloth boards. In mylar-covered dustjacket.

Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1978. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 117 p. 29 cm. Colour photos by Kelley. Brown cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has chips and tears to edges, price clipped front flap, dampstains and wrinkling (more easily seen on inside). Flaps darkened. Cloth is also dampstained. Pages are not stained but are wrinkled.

Chicago: Paul, Richmond & Co., 1946. First Annual Edition. Softcover. Good. 138 p. 28 cm. Mainly b&w illustrations with 8 p. in colour. Covers are much creased. Pages browning a bit. Red ink stamp inside front cover has marked first leaf. Dampstains at page tops near inner margins.

Winchester Press, 1973. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. xii, 207 p. 26 cm. B&w line drawings. Blue cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket spine a bit darkened, some soiling to spine and rear panel. Front flap price clipped. A few marks on endpapers. Foreword by Jim Rikhoff. Chapters by Roderick Haig-Brown.

Goose Lane, 1995. Softcover. Fine. 105 p. 29 cm. Colour and b&w illustrations. Paperback.

Alnwick, England, 1914. 40th edition. Softcover. Good. 403, [2] p. 22 cm. Mainly b&w illustrations. 21 colour plates. Red cloth spine with green paper covers. Covers have creases and wear, light soiling. Includes hints on fishing as well as lists of equipment sold.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. x, [2], 163 p. 21 cm. Green cloth with white print. Spine faded, some shelf wear to lower edges. Pencil inscription and tiny label on front free endpaper. Some offsetting to endpapers. Stain on p. 83.

Oshkosh: Willow Creek Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Originally printed 1945 by The Countrymen Press. 3 vols.: 194; 186; 160, [2] p. In 22 cm slipcase. B&w line drawings. Burgundy hardcovers in matching slipcase. Gilt lettering. Original introduction by Nash Buckingham. New introduction by Ralf Coykendall.

Vancouver: The Library of the University of British Columbia, 1970. Hardcover. Very good. Vol. I only: 138 p. 24 cm. B&w illustrations. Hardcover has small fly inset on front. Wrapped in mylar (removed for photo). Light wear to extremities. Faint mark in margin of p. 11. "A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the… Read more about this item