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197829277<p>New York:: Dutton 1978. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine clipped jacket with previous owner inscription on the flyleaf. This collection of fishing essays features pieces by Thomas McGuane William Hjortsberg Jack Curtis Harmon Henkin Charles Waterman Jim Harrison and Russell Chatham. Thomas McGuane cites both "the longest silence" and the opportunity to encounter a bass that runs with "the solid irresistible motion of a Euclid bulldozer easing itself into a phosphate mine." William Hjortsberg admits to writing about fishing "for the money" while Russell Chatham remembers each detail as if it were intended for one of his paintings. To Jack Curtis "The fish is a flash of beauty and action enticed from an unfathomable element"; to the late Harmon Henkin angling "has no greater claim to spiritual purity than sex dope or any other recreation in contemporary America." Charles Waterman points out that fishing writers' sunsets are generally "more brilliant than those seen by milkmen and grain-combine operators." Jim Harrison argues psychiatric virtues: "Few of us shoot ourselves during an evening hatch."</p> Dutton, paperback
184829206AB1848. Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby James McGlashan / Simpkin Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece X 111 pages with 21 plates original Lithographs often large folding. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp "Board of Public Works" to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition. Includes for example the following illustrations: 1. Frontispiece: Spearing the Basking Shark or Sun Fish West Coast of Ireland Large Folding Plate 2. Schooner Recommended by Mr.Brabazon for the West Coast Fisheries Large Folding Plate 3. Deck Plan of Schooner - 100 or 150 Tons - Recommended by Mr. Brabazon for the West Coast of Ireland 4. Skerries Hooker - 20 to 50 Tons 5. Irish Herring Net 6. English Herring Net - Figure I 7. English Herring Net - Figure II 8. MA II X Fishing Boat 9. Penzance or St. Ives Herring or Pilchard Boat 10. One of the Irish Herring Fleet 11. Trawler with her Trawl Down Large Folding Plate 12. Trawl Irons 13. English Trawl Large Folding Plate 14. Irish Trawl Large Folding Plate 15. Sun Fish Basking Shark Harpoon 16. Salmon Net - Figure I Large Folding Plate 17. Salmon Net - Figure II Large Folding Plate 18. Salmon Boxes 19. Mackerel Fishing 20. English Lobster Trap / Irish Lobster Pots 21. Oyster Dredges: English Oyster Dredge / Irish Oyster Dredge / Large Size Oyster Dredge Brabazon writes in his Introduction: 'I am induced to write this account of the present state of the Irish Fisheries and offer the following suggestions for their improvement which may be carried into effect by a Fishing Company conferring the greatest benefits on the country and profit to themselves. The Fisheries are the greatest and at present almost the only resource of the West of Ireland. From the loss of the potatoes as a certain means of subsistence the fiishermen would give their undivided time to the Fisheries instead of losing the best seasons by wasting their labour on a high-rented potato garden. They would thus throw an immense quantity of cured food such as Hake Cod Ling Herring Haddock and Coal Fish into the interior of the country while they could dispose of such fish as could not be cured such as Turbot Plaice Mackerel Gurnard John Dorey Ray and Soles at the markets along the coast. The cured fish even with the present limited supply brought to the markets of Westport and Newport County Mayo is sold as low as a penny per lb. free from bone green salted that is not dried and sometimes not so high as a halfpenny per lb. fresh.The company should establish stations along the coast: say they began with three one at Killibegs one at Newport Pratt and one at the Shannon Mouth.From the Store at Ballyshannon I would send fresh fish packed in Ice and also cured fish by water carriage through the Enniskillen Lakes and by the Ulster Canal on to Belfast supplying all the intermediate twons and interior of the country. Chapters in the book include for example: Herring Nets - Buoys - Mode of Curing / Curing the Herring / The Rhodry-More / The Cod Fisheries / Lobster Crab and Cray Fish / Packing Herring etc. etc. hardcover
189755282Boston: Samuels & Kimball 1897. Tall 8vo. 540 pp. Photo frontisp. over 150 photo illustrations text illustrations illustrated ads. Pictorial burgundy-coloured cloth gilt illust. of hunting and fishing on front cover gilt lettering on spine a.e.g. gilt decorated endpapers minor rubbing edgewear slightly shaken still VG copy from library of Major F.H. Briggs Centerville Mass. w/ ownership stamps on title. First edition of this informative work on fishing and hunting in New England and Canada at the close of the 19th century. The author has included extensive sections on fly fishing trout salmon fishing hunting caribou otter fox ducks and more. In addition there are substantial fishing & hunting memoirs appended to Samuels’ work including Caribou hunting in New Brunswick by Frank Risteen Salmon fishing by Archibald Mitchell Deer-stalking in the Maine forest by J. Parker Whitney and even early history of New England fish and game conservation associations and clubs. Samuels & Kimball, hardcover
190031720Rhode Island: s.i. 1900. Very Good. Rhode Island: s.i. ca. 1900. First Edition. Large broadside printed on linen 29.5x45.5cm. Light uneven toning some fraying to margins as can be expected else a Very Good or better fresh example.<br /> <br /> Possibly unrecorded display broadside listing fishing infractions and their accompanying fines. Sea bass and lobster are the most carefully monitored especially "egg bearing" lobsters "taken for private use" $5 fine and lobsters "taking sic by non-licensed men" $20 fine. The bottom edge of the broadside concludes with the rules pertaining to fresh water fish should not be "taken in any other manner except with single hand lines with not over 2 hooks upon each". As for ice fishing "During the open season when fishing through ice a person may operate 10 lines with a single hook upon each."<br /> <br /> None in commerce or OCLC as of January 2025. s.i. unknown
195921542Massillon OH: Myers Enterprises 1959. Very Good. Massillon OH: Myers Enterprises 1959. Quarto 28cm.; original grey post-bound pictorial card wrappers housed in bespoke blue clamshell box morocco gilt-lettered spine label; 497pp.; text printed mimeograph from original typescript. Wrappers a bit foxed and slightly soiled minor wear from handling else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Self-published and apparently unrecorded collection of "Facts Hints and Oddities" regarding hunting fishing and trapping compiled by Ellsworth H. Myers 1902-1989. According to the introductory text preceded by a quote from President Eisenhower these anecdotes "were published in papers from coast to coast. Some came to me from my fellow sportsman some were given to me by guides and many have been gathered over many years by the author." The opening chapter provides a state-by-state directory of whom to write to regarding fishing and hunting laws immediately followed by the bit of sagacity "When fishing for wall-eyed pike with an artificial lure strike as soon as the fish hits the lure for he will drop it immediately after he finds out it is a fake" p. 5. Subsequent chapters cover waterfowl speeds; tips on hunting rabbit woodchuck deer and elk; and "World Oddities of Nature." For example "Beavers do not eat fish although they spend most of their lives in the water. They are strictly vegetarian." Meanwhile "The Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep is a clannish animal."<br /> <br /> Not found in OCLC as of August 2021. Myers Enterprises unknown
707721907: Utah. Photograph. Good . 43 silver gelatin prints mounted with adhesive to loose album leaves some accompanied by handwritten captions in pencil. Most images measure 14 cm x 8 cm. Ten of the images depict the streets of Salt Lake City including the courthouse after a freak storm in the month of May blanketed the area in snow. The rest of the images relate to the hunting and fishing exploits of a group of men in the Salt Lake City area including images of fishing on the Bear and Jordan Rivers the training of hunting dogs one captioned "we got forty dollars for the lower one" a hunting lodge in the woods plus images of a duck hunting roost showing hunters hanging out on a porch alongside freshly killed game hanging from the eaves and from their automobile. A sign on the roost lists the nicknames of members of the hunting lodge. Images quite clear and sharp album leaves creased toned and foxed. Images peeling off of album leaves. A handful of images chipped and torn at the edges. One image completely detached. Utah unknown
189759126London Calcutta & Madras: W. Thacker & Co. 2 Creed Lane; Higginbotham & Co. 1897. Thick 8vo. xxvii 1 435 1 pp. plus xii 4 pp. publisher’s ads. With numerous plates text illustrations diagrams. Burgundy-coloured cloth gilt inset panel on front cover from original binding w/ original spine laid back down on spine renewed endpapers minor edgewear rubbing occasional toning still a VG- copy w/ bookplate of Albert Sayman on front pastedown. Third edition and considered the “best†edition of this fishing classic for South Asia detailing the angler’s pursuit of the “Mahseer†the chief of the Indian game fishes. Included are expanded and substantially revised chapters on flyfishing live bait fishing bottom fishing for Labeo freshwater sharks and much more all augmented with expanded illustrations. W. Thacker & Co., 2, Creed Lane; Higginbotham & Co., hardcover
186935330New York: H. D. McIntyre & Co 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 1 141 pages 2 pages advertisements 1. Brick cloth hardcover with gilt title stamped on the front cover. Cloth is lightly chipped head of the spine and edge worn on the corners. Light occasional foxed spots to the text. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page - "Samuel C. Clarke Esq. With the respects of Oliver Gibbs Jr." Contents are a series of letters from a former Civil War officer to General Spinner on fishing in Minnesota. From the introduction: "These letters were begun with the purpose of amusing a little band of wild men in Washington who adopting the habits and customs of civilized life were found to be pining for their old sports; and chained to their office work the whole year round by the behests of public duty they were obliged to be led around in some way as these letters took them - On Paper - or starve their gushing fancies altogether except so far as they might be able to subsist upon the memory of what they had done with gun and angle before they came here. General F. E. Spinner Treasurer of the United States was the "Big Indian" of this band. Hence the letters were addressed to him; and it was upon his motion that they were given a wider reading than was first intended through The Spirit of the Times. H. D. McIntyre & Co hardcover
228300<p>ca. 1924. 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Illustrated with 15 b/w halftones from photographs; map. Original stapled pictorial wrappers printed in blue black and brown. 8 pages including covers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. New Zealand Publicity Folder No. 5. With Zane Grey's estate blindstamp on the cover.</p> W.A.G. Skinner paperback
18950085727Pittsburgh: np 1895. Photograph. Very Good. 15 original photographs sepia tinted from an outing of the Rocky Mount Fishing Club based out of Pittsburg Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. All photos measure 4.25 x 3.5 inches. Very Good with slight waving and creasing. Includes 4 photos of men holding the fish they caught a lunch scene an American flag base camp lunch scene and a few pastoral scenes. 4 of the photos are duplicates so of the 15 photos include there are 11 distinct images. NB: the blue glare in our images is from the scanning -- it does not appear on the actual photos. np unknown
1880L0406London: William Satchell & Co. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Marking bumping and rubbing to boards. New end papers. Pages loosening binding string broken in a couple of sections. Some browning within. 1880. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 170mm 9" x 7". 192pp. 6 engravings. A Repertory of fact inquiry and discussion on Field-sports and subjects of Natural History. . William Satchell & Co hardcover
185189397New York: Stringer & Townsend 1851. New Edition Revised and Corrected. Octavo. 20cm. Later full bottle green morocco by Bennett of NY lavishly decorated in gilt with tooling of snipe duck and geese amid ruled gilt borders. 200pp.; 4 ads to rear original decorated brown cloth bound in at the rear. Strong tight and handsome all edges gilt; internally clean and fresh illustrated throughout. A very good clean copy of the 2nd edition overall and the first to be accompanied by llustrations from the author. <br /> <br /> Henry Herbert was a rather tragic figure seemingly continually falling short of his own expectations of himself and who only seemed to find any sort of steady personal voice in his works under the Forester pseudonym discussing the finer arts of shooting fishing and woodland stalking. A sort of wandering genetic remnant of several aristocratic British bloodlines but frequently financially wobbly and unable to get a steady footing Herbert seems to have alienated most people in his circle at one time or another and eventually shot himself in a full length mirror after having thrown a party to which many were invited but none attended. <br /> Although his output included a slew of adventure novels and various other literary exploits he is chiefly remembered for his wistful keenly observed and evocative accounts of woodland sporting activities. Scarce and collectable. Stringer & Townsend unknown
184589396Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co 1845. First Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Bound in later full bottle green morocco by Bennett of NY elaborately decorated and titled in gilt to spine and boards with geese ducks snipe etc. iv; 168pp. Strong tight and attractive very light wear slight darkening to the spine panel gilt bright; internally fresh and clean top edge gilt later marbled endpapers dampstaining to p.69 and a little thumbing in places. A very good copy indeed in a later sporting themed full leather binding. <br /> <br /> Henry Herbert was a rather tragic figure seemingly continually falling short of his own expectations of himself and who only seemed to find any sort of steady personal voice in his works under the Forester pseudonym discussing the finer arts of shooting fishing and woodland stalking. A sort of lost genetic remnant of several aristocratic British bloodlines but frequently financially wobbly and unable to get a steady footing Herbert seems to have alienated most people in his circle at one time or another and eventually shot himself in a full length mirror after having thrown a party to which many were invited but none attended. <br /> Although his output included a slew of adventure novels and various other literary exploits he is chiefly remembered for his wistful keenly observed and evocative accounts of woodland sporting activities. Scarce and collectable. G.B. Zieber & Co unknown
184589414Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co 1845. First Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Bound in original publisher's paper wraps titled and bordered in black to front wrap. iv; 168pp. Chipping and wear to edges and extremities spine panel heavily chipped lacking rear wrap strong and tight but with several closed tears soiling etc; internally clean & untrimmed with some dampstaining to the upper quarter of the earlier pages bookplate of noted sporting bibliophile Harry Worcester Smith to verso front wrap some light spotting and soiling in places a couple of proud gatherings last 2 leaves a frayed and spotted cosmetically but not substantially affecting the last page of text. Strong despite its innate fragility handsome despite wear a good solid example of a book that is a distinct rarity complete in its original wraps. <br /> <br /> Henry Herbert was a rather tragic figure seemingly continually falling short of his own expectations of himself and who only seemed to find any sort of steady personal voice in his works under the Forester pseudonym discussing the finer arts of shooting fishing and woodland stalking. A sort of lost genetic remnant of several aristocratic British bloodlines but frequently financially wobbly and unable to get a steady footing Herbert seems to have alienated most people in his circle at one time or another and eventually shot himself in a full length mirror after having thrown a party to which many were invited but none attended. <br /> Although his output included a slew of adventure novels and various other literary exploits he is chiefly remembered for his wistful keenly observed and evocative accounts of woodland sporting activities. Scarce and collectable. G.B. Zieber & Co unknown
188123661London: James Reynolds174 Strand 1881. Very good overall. A long folding map of the Thames River extending from Thames Head down to the London Bridge showing towns and villages along the river with historical and descriptive information details of the locks and bridges railroad lines near the river toll charges and angling laws the species of fish to be caught at each site and a list describing fishing preserves "as arranged by the Lord Mayor". <br /> <br /> One of the descriptions describes the beauty of the spot: "The Thames at Pangbourne has long been a favorite resort of the angler intent on perch fishing. The scenery in this neighbourhood is very beautiful; the hills are high and healthful and command extensive views". <br /> <br /> Accompanied by the loosely inserted printed "Introductory Notes" sheet which describes boating angling the prohibition of netting undersized fish fence months and river keepers. Yellow paste down at front. Introductory notes sometimes appear pasted down to the front board in this case loosely inserted. Dating is inconclusive this map could be between 1870 and 1880.<br /> <br /> Original color on the river the map backed onto linen folds into original blind stamped green cloth covers gilt title on upper cover. <br /> <br /> 95 x 6 in folded in cover 4 1/4 x 6 3/4". Bookseller label of Murray Frank Bookseller Moray House Derby. Cloth slightly rubbed at spine two inch closed split along spine and front board otherwise bright. OCLC: 56771266. James Reynolds,174, Strand unknown
1932573<p>Coloured map circa 850 x 600 mm dissected mounted on linen minor repair to corner folding into publisher's navy octavo cloth case with colour printed label.</p><p>Tenth edition.</p><p>One of four New South Wales government district tourist maps issued flat <em>2/6</em> or folded <em>3/6</em>. Includes detailed fishing references including the Creel on the Thredbo River and separate legends for both stocked trout and naturally stocked bass streams.</p> Department of Lands
188529717London: Field and Tuer Leadenhall Press 1885. First Edition and one of only 100 Large-Paper Copies of a total edition of only 600 copies. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND SPECIALLY BOUND MOST PROBABLY FOR PRESENTATION. With a profusion of hand-colored woodcut plates after Joseph Crawhall in chapbook style and with bound-in cloth pockets labeled in black. 8vo in very beautiful contemporary full red-orange calf likely a binding for presentation purposes the boards are elaborately decorated with a very wide and exquisitly detailed borders of stylized thistles the spine with central gilt tooling gilt depicting fish and tackle bags within double-gilt ruled compartments separated by gilt ruled raised bands two compartments with gilt lettering board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled in floral motif page edges untrimmed green endpapers. 112 8 pp. A very handsome copy of an especially elusive book lavishly bound likely a presentation copy and unique thus the binding well preserved and sturdy with some light evidence of age or use some general mellowing the text retains the original pockets and black leaves all as pristine. A bit of mild offsetting from the cloth pockets. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF CRAWHALL'S FINEST PRODUCTIONS IN ITS BEST AND MOST LIMITED FORMAT. This abridged edition of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER contains 36 songs and poems taken from the text of the fifth edition. The prospectus promises that this collection will 'rank amongst the quaintest and most covetable' and we have to agree. The book includes small cloth pockets for the owner's own use. They have whimsicle labels such as "Fysshe Tales I believe" a very small one and the much larger "Fysshe Tales I don't believe". Also for the owner's personal use are 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' bound in at the rear for the owner to write in his own stories. These leaves are un-used. Field and Tuer, Leadenhall Press hardcover
1840h0097London: Henry Colburn. G-: in Good minus condition without dust jacket as issued. Covers rubbed and stained. Vol.2 back hinge cracked. Both volumes have contemporary inscriptions on title pages and contemporary annotations in margins of three other pages. 1840. First Edition. Brown hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". 315pp; 305pp. Frontispiece to each volume and 18 vignettes in text. . Henry Colburn hardcover
19952091202132801625Akita fishing federation 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Akita fishing federation paperback
1876L0859London: John B Day. G : in good condition with brown card slipcase. Covers rubbed with edge-wear. External joint split. Page edges browning. Slipcase case rubbed with tape repairs. 1876. First Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 230mm 12" x 9". pp91. Two chromo-lithographic facsimiles from water drawings by James Poole on card. Llugwy North Wales; Offerton Stepping Stones. Printed from an old ms. never before published the original spelling and language being retained with editorial notes and patterns of flies and samples of the materials for making each fly. A Quaint Treatise on Flies and Artificial Flymaking by an old Fisherman. Lists 26 flies with 22 examples on hard card with the made up fly and the materials used to create it: March Brown Dottril Dun Little Chap Watchett Oringe Brown Granum Black Gnat Tailey Tail Green Drake Oringe Headed Dun Light Dun Bigg Dun Crossing Brown Spider Flee Black Ant Large Red Ant Small Common Ant Small Caterpillar Bank Flee Little Sky Blue Stream Flee Willow Flee White Mout Brown Mout. Appendix: Indian Yellow Eden Fly Summer Dun March Brown Green Drake Grey Drake. Bookplate of William Charles Everley Taylor of Scarborough. Inscribed in pen on fep. . John B Day hardcover
189843301W. Thacker & Co London 1898. Deluxe Edition No. 179 of 200 limited edition copies. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. Size: 8vo <9 3/4". 271 pp. Hinges cracked. Spine worn. Foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges browned. Some colouring in of frontispiece. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Author's inscription to Arthur Keyser to front end paper followed by an interesting additional note by the author written at a later date explaining that he came across this copy of the book again in the Island of Ascension in 1932. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fishing & Hunting; Britain/UK; 19th century; Sports & Pastimes. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 43301. . W. Thacker & Co hardcover
19752082702114900668marine journal company 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 223 pages Size: 18x13 cm marine journal company paperback
19772090202120412860marine journal company 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 marine journal company paperback
19982090202120100845Not Available 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
19982090202120300844Not Available 1998. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
