Trout Fishing the Southern Appalachians.
Charlotte, NC: East Woods Press, (c1979). First edition, a paperback original. 8vo. 188 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps. Very good. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. (2379). More
Charlotte, NC: East Woods Press, (c1979). First edition, a paperback original. 8vo. 188 pp. Illustrated from photographs, maps. Very good. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. (2379). More
NP: np, nd [1880s?]. Well executed pen-and-ink montage on art paper, with washes in gray and black and white highlighting, the whole 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, with four scenes: the bottom third is a rendering of a fish farm, with buildings, sluices, and holding ponds; the drawing in..... More
Aransas Pass, TX: Hoot Bevers, nd [ca. 1960]. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type. Leaving from "Aransas Pass — Port Aransas Causeway / "Quickest Way to the Gulf." Advertising outings on the "Misty" and the "Porpoise," all day fishing from $50, plus bait, tackle..... More
McAllen, TX: nd [ca. 1920]. Photograph, black & white, 5 x 7 inches, picturing six fisherman, each holding up a fish or two on a string, all together eight large red drum (also called channel bass, redfish, or puppy drum), and two with large saltwater rods and appropriate reels, gathered..... More
Lometa, TX: 1910. Real photo postcard, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, with a cancellation from Lometa and a message from "Felix": "I am having a fine time here. This is where I am fishing." The stream pictured is probably the Colorado or Lampasas River, both of which pass through..... More
Wenatchee, WA: (Privately published for the author by Meadow Run Press), 1996. First edition, 1/53 copies signed by the author, this one additionally signed by the collector. 8vo. 159pp. Plates. Memories of fishing on Cape Cod in the 1940's and 50's. Burgundy leather-backed tan cloth, illustrated paper label on upper..... More
Rockville Centre, NY: Freshet Press, (c1971). Revised edition, 1/350 copies signed by the author. 8vo. x, 338 pp. Frontis., plates. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated navy leatherette, marbled endpapers (small owner's label on front endpaper), t.e.g., publisher's cloth slipcase. (#6727). More
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., (c1970). First edition. 8vo. 248 pp. Dust jacket title: "Armchair Adventures for the Angler: The World's Best Fishing Stories." Inscribed by the author to fellow sporting book author Sam Slaymaker, "May you enjoy some good fishes in the pages of..... More
Carlisle, PA: Foxcrest, (c1967). First edition, “limited,” signed by the author. 8vo. (10), 163 pp. Illustrated from photographs, illustrated endpapers. A little scattered foxing, but a very good copy. Illustrated tan boards, illustrated silver dust jacket. (2098). More
Carlisle, PA: Foxcrest, (c1963). First edition, limited, signed by the author. 8vo. (8), 296 pp. Illustrated from photographs, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated tan boards, illustrated green dust jacket (fore-edges a little abraded). Very good. (2099). More
(New York): Winchester Press, (c1983). First edition. 4to. xiii, 258 pp. Illustrated from photographs, endpaper maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Small owner's label on front endpaper, else very good copy, with jacket defects noted. Two-tone cloth, illustrated dust jacket (small snag in front panel near joint..... More
(New York): Privately printed for the Anglers' Club of New York, 1998. First edition, 1/350 copies. Tall 8vo. 153 pp. Line drawings. Contributions from Dana Lamb, Ernest Schwiebert, the editor, Datus C. Proper, Leonard Wright, and Nick Lyons, among others. Cloth and boards, publisher's slipcase. Fine. (2100). More
(New York): Privately printed for the Anglers' Club of New York, 1998. First edition, 1/75 deluxe copies (this #9) signed by the editor, artist, and designer (W. Thomas Taylor) and specially bound by Priscilla Spitler in goatskin with hand-marbled papers. Tall 8vo. 153 pp. Line drawings. Contributions from Dana Lamb..... More
New York: Privately printed for the Anglers' Club of New York, 1993. First edition, 1/48 deluxe copies (this #15), signed by the editor, Sherwood and Lyons, and the designer (W. Thomas Taylor) and containing a leaf of the author's original manuscript, this one the first page of the story "Easy..... More
New York, [NY]: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, 1854. First edition. 19cm. [2 pp.] publisher's ads, ix, [1], 188 pp., illustrated with 2 plates. Publishers embossed green cloth, flecked with loss to cloth at joints. More
(Matheson, Ontario: The author, 1925). 12mo. 12 pp. Illustrated. Original printed green wrappers, stapled. Very good. First edition (?). With a signed manuscript note by the author concerning reservations and the opening of the moose season at the end of the printed text; several manuscript additions and corrections by him..... More
(Katonah, NY): Martha's Glen Publishing, (c1977). First edition, the DeLuxe issue, 1/128 copies (this #125) with a small pencil sketch of a plane by the illustrator, signed by him. 4to. xix, 296 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, some in color, mounted color frontispiece portrait of the author..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., (c1980). First American edition. 4to. 191 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, color plates. Angling author John McDonald's copy, with his ownership signature at the head of the front endpaper. Very good. Green cloth, silver spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. (8737). More
(New York): Lyons & Burford, (c1996). First edition. 8vo. xviii, 230 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Fine. Cloth and boards, color illustrated dust jacket. (8772). More
(New York): Lyons & Burford, (c1989). First edition thus. Thick 8vo. lxi, (2), 574 pp. Errata leaf laid in. Illustrations by Robert Ball, line drawings. Signed by the editor on the half-title. Cloth and boards, illustrated dust jacket. Fine. (2124). More
London & Toronto and New York: J.M. Dent and Sons and E.P. Dutton & Co., (1930). Revised and enlarged edition, illustrated with wood engravings (first published without the Daglish illustrations in 1899), 1/150 copies, this #63 [of 85] for Great Britain, signed by the author. 4to. xi, 244 pp. Plates..... More
Yardley, PA: (The author), (c1981). Second ed. 8vo. (12), 258 pp. Illus. from photographs, color plates, stream maps. Signed by the author in the year of publication. Some discoloration to pastedowns from binder's glue, else fine. Gilt-stamped decorated dark green cloth, publisher's slipcase. (#2128). More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (c1926). First British edition (from the American sheets). 4to. viii, (2), 228 pp. Plates, vignettes, illustrated endpapers. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth. Bookplate, previous owner’s pencil notes on front endpaper, else very good. More
Mineola, L.I., NY: Privately printed for Thomas Gibbons, nd (1922). Second edition (?), later issue (?), with the "Thomas Gibbons" imprint (first published in 1921; another 1922 issue did not have the Gibbons imprint). Small 8vo. vi, 159 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece map of the Cascapedia River. Inscribed by..... More
New York: Duttons (printed at the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.), 1930. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 179 pp. Illustrated, plates, frontispiece map. Bruns G- 190. Small nick in rear joint, else very good. Original cloth-backed gilt-stamped decorated green boards (corners bumped), top edge gilt. (#8469). More