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1927837901927. FISHING MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. FISHERMEN OF THE ATLANTIC 1929. Boston: Fishing Masters' Association 1927. 138 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt. Good front and rear boards dampstained at fore-edge. Gilt lettering and cloth clean. In original brown paper dust jacket with inkstamp from Fishing Masters' Association with several closed tears. Light foxing to endpapers but interior is unaffected by dampstaining. Contains many illustrated advertisements pertaining to the commercial fishing industry. "Containing the only complete list of Fishing Vessels of Boston Gloucester Provincetown New Bedford Nantucket Portland ME; the New England Coast Newport R.I.; New London Conn.; New York Philadelphia Pensacola Florida and Galveston Texas." B/w photo reproductions including scenes of the Boston Fish Pier various fishing boats. About good. unknown books
1929007971Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press 1929. First Thus. Leather. Very Good. First edition thus published in a slender edition of eleven hundred copies for sale in England of which this is number 733. Tissue guard present. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bookplate to inside front board; otherwise a bright clean copy in full leather. Spine darkened with age. Comes in accompanying slipcase. <br/><br/> Nonesuch Press hardcover books
19252018Cream paper-covered boards with Secessionist design in black by Peche. Light wear still an attractive copy of an early and important monograph on a leading member of the Wiener Werkstätte. With 44 pages portrait and 110 plates of furniture shop designs textiles silver ceramics and costume design. Gerlach & Wiedling books
1925245004Wareham Mass 1925. Advertising Poster printed in red and green on heavy card illustrated with jumping Trout fly rod creel etc. 14 x 11 inches. Some minor edgewear. Fine. Advertising Poster printed in red and green on heavy card illustrated with jumping Trout fly rod creel etc. 14 x 11 inches. Fly-Fishing on the Cape. An 8-page promotional booklet for the same trout ponds ca. 1923 featured in the first part of the American angling library of Jeffrey Norton but little else is recorded. An attractive fly-fishing poster. unknown books
1906314428Philadelphia: Printed for the State in Schuylkill 1906. 44 pp. Made at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf in Philadelphia. 1 vols. 12mo. Original suede covers yapp edges printed paper label on front cover. Rubbed spine defective inner hinge cracked. Good plus. 44 pp. Made at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf in Philadelphia. 1 vols. 12mo. "The Fishing Company . prior to the Revolution was 'The Fishing Colony in Schuylkill.' Apparently it was a little satire as far as the name is concerned insofar as being a separate colony and later a state." Bruns p. 406.<br/><br/>RARE record of the oldest fishing club in America. OCLC records a single copy of this edition College of Charleston Greville Haslam Collection. Bruns p. 405 noting an 1860 edition. OCLC: 853168350 Printed for the State in Schuylkill unknown books
1920224036Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green textured cloth title stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges binder's ticket of Knill & Sons Reading. Fine. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and does not include the two photographs of sea fishing off the Cornwall coast.<br/>Curious interesting and uncommon. privately printed unknown books
199426286Millis MA: The Complete Sportsmen 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant folio size volume. Illustrations photographed by Robert Rohonczy. Materials and flys photographed by the Authors. Foreword by Eric Leiser. 286 pp. Illustrated in brilliant color. Quarter teal leather over patterned boards. Spine lettering lightly faded else this is a wonderful near fine example in thick cloth-covered navy slipcase. SIGNED by both authors at the colophon page. One of only 250 copies. The Complete Sportsmen hardcover books
1932256563Philadelphia: Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill; Published by the Citizens of the State in Schuylkill 1932. Illustrated. With tipped in photos of Citizen McFadden the Castle State in Schuylkill Closing Day 201st Year 1932 in Vol. 1 and of the Clock House Openning Day May 1933 in Vol. 2. 446; 517 1 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in Publisher's three quarters red morocco gilt-stamped emblematic fish tooling on spine t.e.g. with paper wrappers bound in by Alfred Smith & Co. Fine. Illustrated. With tipped in photos of Citizen McFadden the Castle State in Schuylkill Closing Day 201st Year 1932 in Vol. 1 and of the Clock House Openning Day May 1933 in Vol. 2. 446; 517 1 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Bruns S74; Howes M636 Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill; Published by the Citizens of the State in Schuylkill unknown books
1920224039Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original green textured cloth titled stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges. Bookplate of O.M. Reed "Omar" with his ownership signature dated August 1934 and annotations. Reed's draft of an essay and correspondence with A.E. Hobbs loosely inserted. Old cellotape mark along front pastedown where letter was tipped in. Fine. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and the page format.<br/>Reed and his correspondent A.E. Hobbs discuss the book's author and identify most of the places alluded to in Chapman's narrative which includes a portrait of the author holding a 20-pound fish taken from the Thames.<br/>An uncommon work produced in just a few copies with an illuminating correspondence concerning this curious and interesting book. Not in Hampton's Angling Bibliography 1881-1949. Not in BL or OCLC privately printed unknown books
1922246406New York: Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends by H.S. Nichols 17 E. 33rd St 1922. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark green cloth covers with gilt borders upper board with gilt vignette of schooner lower board with vignette of swordfish t.e.g. Very slightly rubbing to spine ends otherwise a fine copy. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 50 Copies. Rare and privately printed account of fishing for swordfish off Montauk Point and the adjacent waters of Block Island. McAleenan was also the author of several sporting memoirs issued in very limited numbers. He has a flair for writing and writes lovingly of this three-week adventure harpooning swordfish battling sharks sighting whales etc.: ".glad days cheery companions and the joy of living.for those who have heard the wind in strange places." Foreword.<br/><br/><br/><br/>This copy is signed by the author and is additionally inscribed by him with a paragraph beginning "Dear George to you friend of my heart I send this diary of a cruise on as sweet a schooner as ever sailed ." and signed "Joe". Bruns M-91 omitting title and full description; Litchfield p. 79 Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends [by H.S. Nichols, 17 E. 33rd St] unknown books
