Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato, 1999. Paintings by the author. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 8-1/2 x 11", stiff pictorial wrappers, 111pp, 1p ad, color illustrations throughout. "Review Copy - Not for Sale" ink-stamped half-title. Foreword by Lefty Kreh. "The R.L.S. (Roccus Leneatus Saxatilis - i.e., striped bass) Method for Creating the.....
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.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, 149pp, 12 photographic illustrations, maps. Illustrated from photographs by the author. A classic guide and memoir of flyfishing in the waters in and near Yellowstone Natinoal Park. One of the first books on the subject and still.....
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, green cloth, viii, 127pp. The pleasures of fly fishing in the northeastern United States and Canada. Ranging from boyhood remembrances to his wife's first fishing expedition, the author revels in being a trout fisherman. "An old phrase evokes the.....
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 11-1/4", black boards, xx, 396pp, pictorial endpapers (feathers), 160 dramatic color plates photographed by Michael Radencich illustrating more than 800 flies. Signed by author Pamela Bates Richards "With Best Wishes" on half-title. Edited by Bob Warren, forewords by Keith Fulsher.....
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.....
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 off-white cloth, buff paper over boards, 259pp. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in blue ink. In River Teeth, Duncan brings us stories of indelible characters: a solitary woman struggling to corral a flock of idiot sheep; a......
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.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, silver decorated grey leather, 8pp color plates, apps. biblio., index, fully illus., ribbon marker, in publisher's leatherbound slip-case. #129 of a deluxe limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by all three authors on limitation page with tissue guard. Pasted-on folding.....
North Conway, New Hampshire: Fly Tyer Inc., 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 11-1/8", gilt decorated blue cloth, 181pp, 3pp for Personal Fly Tying Patterns, biblio., index, 6 full-page color plates (5 plates illustrating 40 flies in color & a full-page artist's rendering of "Reflections-A Miramichi salmon fishing scene by.....
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.....
Moose, WY: Western Fisherman’s Press, 2008. Illustrations by Mike Stidham. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8-3/4 x 11-1/8”, black cloth, xiii, 478pp, indexes, fully illus. in color. Presentation inscription signed by both authors on title page. Randall and Mary Kaufmann collaborated with major fly tying operations and fly designers to assemble.....
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......
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Hardcover. From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not.....
Ludlow, Shropshire: Merlin Unwin Books, 2001. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. 8-1/2 x 11", white paper over boards, 222pp, catalogue of dressings, biblio., index, fully illustration in color. Presentation inscription signed by the author July 2002 on first free endpaper. 2x2" photographic slide of Robert Gillespie (Ireland) tying flies laid in.Comprehensive.....
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.....
