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London: Longmans, Green, 1895. Leather_bound. Near Fine. Thick 8vo in three quarter navy blue morocco over marbled paper covered boards, hubbed spine stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. xviii+513 pp. with index. Profusely illustrated by C. Napier Hemy, R.T. Pritchett, W.W. May, and Others. A tight example, bit of foxing to the title page, very small… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. first edition (stated). Hardcover. xviii+ 288 pp. Illustrations. Very good in somewhat edgeworn dust jacket. Jason Lucas, the angling editor of "Sports Afield" and reputed to be America's greatest fresh-water fisherman of his time, offers this classic volume of practical bass fishing instruction. With sections on finding… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A fine, fresh, apparently unread copy. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. The Delaware River is the last major, free-flowing river in the eastern United States. Drawing on their cumulative century of angling experience, the authors range through the 14,000 square miles of the Delaware River watershed, with offshore visits… Read more about this item

New York: Morrow, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition/printing (no statement as is correct). Hardcover in bright yellow cloth lettered and decorated in black. 303 pp. Fine in dust jacket with narrow chipping to the top edge and a small part of the bottom edge of the front panel. Entertaining story of some famous fishermen and… Read more about this item

The Lyons Press, 2000. Revised. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine. Fine dust jacket.First printing of this the "Revised and augmented Edition". Hardcover. First Edition. xiv + 206 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white Diagrams and photographs. Detailed and comprehensive guide to all aspects of making fine bamboo fly rods.

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/good. Hardcover in sky blue cloth. xv+368 pp. with index. Illustrated with color plates exhibiting 119 individual flies out of the more than 300 described herein. Fine in dust jacket with chipping about the edges and foot of spine.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Slim 8vo in blindstamped red cloth decorated in gilt with design of a pair of fish lting on a grassy streambank; spine lettered in gilt. 86 pp. including tables at rear. Color plate depicting 24 different flies (not: in this volume, the plate is inserted… Read more about this item

Tulsa: Winchester Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition. Hardcover. 194 pp. Illustrations by Robert Seaman. Collection of a dozen stories about the ever-fascinating sport of fly-fishing by 12 of the finest angling writers. Very good, some light foxing to the outer edge of the text blocka nd boards slightly bowed. In Near fine dust… Read more about this item

London: Longmans Green, 1886. Three-Quarter Leather. Two volumes, contemporary three-quarter royal blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. The first volume (Salmon and Trout) is the second edition (1886) and the second volume (Pike and Other Coarse Fish) is the third edition (1887). 472 pp. with index and 412 pp. with index and publisher's… Read more about this item

NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover. Yes. N.d. (ca. 1915). Early reprint edition in green cloth with tipped on color illustration title label front cover. 285 pps. with index. Illustrated with plates in black and white. Collection of essays having to do (some more, some less) with fishing and the outdoors. Very good, evidence of damp to top corner… Read more about this item

Phila: Lippincott, 1930. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Yes. First American edition. Ochre buckram stamped in gilt352 pps. with general index and legal index. 54 photographic plates plus 105 further illustrations and diagrams throughout the text. A tight, bright, near fine copy with a narrow band of very minor damping to the top egde of the front cloth. In the… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1921. First. Cloth. Very Good Plus. First edition. Ribbed forest green cloth lettered in gilt. illustrated with photo plates. The heart-warming true tale of a boy, orphaned and living with an elderly aunt, who meets a worn out, unwell businessman who teaches him to fish. Based on the delightful Matt Buckley stories which appeared in… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printing & Publishing Co. Et al., 1837. First. Cloth. Good. First edition. Small octavo in forest green ribbed silk cloth, spine lettering and ornament of rods, creel and fish. Spine carries the imprint of W. Orr & Co., Paternoster Row (which is one of the secondary publishers listed on the title page). Engraved vignette on title… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1852. First. Cloth. First edition. Green cloth tooled in blindstamp and decorated in gilt with a design of two fisherman at a tavern table; spine lettering gilt; 168 pps. with geographical appendix and section of printed music to which the included aires can be sung. Scarce collection of country folk ballads from Scotland and… Read more about this item