Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publications, 1983. Photography by Bill Baker and Harry Geron; Sketches by Sue Hibicke. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, gilt decorated burgundy textured cloth, 88pp, index, 32pp of color plates showing 137 flies. #55 of a limited edition of 300 copies. The book presents a selection of 137.....
Liverpool: The Liverpool Printing and Stationery Company, Limited / Henry Whitty, (1886). First issue thus. 4-3/8 x 5-1/4", gilt decorated green cloth over thin boards, 45pp, appended by 1p advertisement for Henry Whitty Fly Making catalogue. 9 colour plates illustrating 55 flies. Preface derides Kirby Hooks as being now chiefly.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue leatherette, 296pp, illustrated. #21 of a limited edition of 60 numbered copies, signed by the author and illustrator on pasted-on folding card with custom fly attached first paste-down endpaper. Inscription to fishing companion signed by the author with extra fly.....
New York: Anglers Club of New York / The Macmillan Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth with Angelr's Club of New York slug in gilt front board, 195pp, 2 color plates bound in, 2 additional copies of the color plates laid in. Limited to 222 copies printed for.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Leather. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered. Fly plates by Dr. Edgar Burke; Drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. Originally published in 1947, Bergman's classic offers a wealth of information on bait-fishing, fly-fishing, bait casting, spinning and trolling. Octavo, black and gilt decorated.....
London: Blacker, 1855. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green embossed cloth, xiv, 259pp, fully illus. Moderate foxing, rubbing to cloth front board, contemporaneous ink owner's name title-page, owner's ink stamp front paste-down endpaper, hinges unobtrusively reinforced, original deep brown endpapers, very good. Second and best edition, the previous edition published.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, gilt decorated burgundy full leather, xx, 308pp, xxvi, 330pp, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Limited Edition of 2500 sets, unnumbered. Originally published in 1937, a practical guide to cooking virtually every kind of wild game, game fish and crustacean with everything from.....
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 turquoise cloth, gold paper over boards, ix, 294pp. Inscribed "To Mark" and signed by the author on the title page. Gus Orviston sets out to find the perfect fishing hole and finds himself and a greater appreciation for.....
Salem: Beaverdam Press, 1992. Illustrated by Richard Bunse. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 16mo, first five volumes quarterbound in dark forest green Harmatan goat skin with multicolored paper over boards designed by Richard Bunse and produced by Sandy Tilcock, invoking the natural imagery of the Pacific Coast region, five diary volumes have.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xiv, 416pp, index, 44 plates, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable bookplate laid in. Originally published in 1913, Halford's classic covers everything.....
Boise, Idaho: Gold Hawk Press, 1973. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Large 8vo, stiff wrappers with folding flaps, tissue endpapers, unpaginated, title label front wrapper, with two samples pasted in - 1) sample flymph with toothpick & 2) sample spun body materials - Hare's Check on Ash Silk and Mole on Primrose.....
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1978. Limited Edition. Leatherbound. Small quarto, top-grain cowhide leather, genuine gold stamping on spine and cover, elephant hide endpapers, all edges gilt,256pp, index, ribbon marker, illustrated throughout, 4 color pages of fly materials and patterns, black & white photographs by the author throughout, photo of the.....
London: Published by the Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, gilt decorated and titled maroon cloth over thick beveled boards, xiv, 510pp, xlv ads, index, frontis. portrait of the author, 8 coloured plates with tissue guards depicting 55 flies, gilt top-edge. First Edition. A......
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publications, Inc., 2002. First Printing. Softcover. 4x5", pictorial wrappers, 30 waterproof pages, illus. This handy waterproof booklet that details insect hatches that stir trout to feed in Western streams fits in a flyfisher's pocket. Fine.
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xii, 272pp, illus., 3pp publisher's ads front and back of book, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable bookplate laid in. Originally.....
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo, original dark green embossed cloth with elaborate gilt fishing motif decorations front board and spine, 604pp, frontis. engraving, 80 engraved plates, tissue guards. First Edition. With the bookplate of David B. Ledlie, noted fly-fishing writer and contributor and.....
Manchester, Vermont: C. F. Orvis, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black and gilt illustrated and titled embossed green cloth, 299pp, floral endpapers, 15 chromolithographic plates of flies (all present). Presentation inscription signed by author A. Nelson Cheney in year of publication. Charles F. Orvis started the Orvis sporting good.....
Seattle: Wild Steelhead & Atlantic Salmon Magazine, 1994. Spring 1994. Softcover. Folio, colorful pictorial wrappers, 64pp, fully illus. in color. Premier issue of the quarterly with contributions by Dan Callaghan, Trey Combs, Herb Curtis, Hugh Falkus, Al Hassall, Jack Hemingway, Alec Jackson, Thomas McGuane, Bill McMillan, Craig Orr, Tom Pero.....
Random House, 2018. Hardcover. From the host of the television series and podcast MeatEater, the long-awaited definitive guide to cooking wild game, including fish and fowl, featuring more than 100 new recipes "As a MeatEater fan who loves to cook, I can tell you that this book is a must-have."--Andrew.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, viii, rebound in 19th century, red cloth, 115pp, index, 19 hand-colored engraved plates. First Edition. The author's hand-colored etchings feature both the natural and artificial fly "to enable him (the Tyro) to imitate the natural fly correctly".....
Millis, Massachusetts: The Complete Sportsman, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo, one half gilt titled morocco with marbled paper over boards, all edges gilt, xii, 124pp, black & white frontis. photograph of Traherne, 28 color plates, 27 flies described and photographed in full color, watercolor titled "Major Traherne" by Ed.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1993. Illustrated by George Sheringham. Limited Edition. Leather. Octavo, black and gilt decorated brown full leather, xv, 174pp, 3 plates in color, 8 black & white illus., all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Fly Fisherman's Gold Library, Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered, unused Derrydale Press personalizable.....
Auckland: Gordon Ell - The Bush Press, 1990. Illustrated by Nancy Tichborne. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, burgundy cloth, 128pp, biblio., index of flies, index of places, fully illus. Limited edition of 250 sets, numbered, and signed by the author and illustrator. 48 fishing sites in New Zealand are described.....
Portland: Frank Amato, 1997. First thus. Spiral binding. Quarto, 8-1/2 x 11", spiral bound stiff pictorial wrappers, biblio., index, fully illus. in color. With chapters on materials (beads, hooks, tools & accessories), single bead flies, bead-body flies, dressed bead-body flies, extended bead-body flies, imitations of the naturals, searching flies, flies.....
