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New York: The Macmillan Co, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 205pp., illustrated. The author writes in an informal and popular way of the haunts and habits of the different varieties of black bass, of lures, casting, playing from the reel, and many other fine points of bass-craft. Bound in blue pictorial cloth depicting a hooked bass, lettered and decorated in black, light blue and silver, spine lettering gilt. previous owner's stamp otherwise a clean bright copy in very nice pictorial dust jacket with only minor toning and chips to two corners and one tiny chip to foot. A very handsome copy.
The Angler's Souvenir by P Fisher - 1886
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The Angler's Souvenir
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Front hinge worn and repaired. Some wear to edges of leather binding. Clean pages. Library plate on inside of front cover belonging to Rosita de Texada
Front hinge worn and repaired. Some wear to edges of leather binding. Clean pages. Library plate on inside of front cover belonging to Rosita de Texada
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Black Bass and Bass Craft, the Life Habits of the Two Bass and Successful angling Strategy
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THE ART OF ANGLING IN TWO PARTS: 1.AN ACCOUNT OF FISH AND PONDS - THE METHOD OF FLY MAKING.. 2. THE VARIOUS MODES OF ROCK AND SEA FISHING
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London: Knight and Compton. Very Good+. 1801. Hardcover. Clean late 19th century leather binding. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature with an armorial bookplate. (i-viii) 268pp. Pictorial frontispiece. New edition, corrected. Illustrated with 135 cuts. The whole Forming a Sportsman's Magazine Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the art of angling. Sports, Fishing, Sea Fishing, Method of Fly Making, Fishing Tackle; Drawing Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 268 pages .
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THE ART OF ANGLING, ROCK AND SEA-FISHING: WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RIVER, POND AND SEA-FISH ILLUSTRATED WITH 133 CUTTS
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London: Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Very Good. 1740. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in somewhat scuffed brown calf with professionally rebacked spine with black & gilt spine label. Tape reinforced internal hinges. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Small text engraving illustrating each of the fish described. ([xv], 249, 6pp index, 5pp ads). Front endpaper has two tiny nicks on fore-edge. Sport, Fishing ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 249 pages .
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FISH IN RIVERS AND STREAMS: A TREATISE ON THE PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FISH IN FRESH WATERS,BY ARTIFICIAL SPAWNING, BREEDING AND REARING: SHOWING ALSO THE CAUSE OF THE DEPLETION OF ALL RIVERS AND STREAMS.
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London: John Van Voorst. Very Good. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with paper label on front cover. (viii) 38pp and three pages of advertisements. Yellow endpaper, interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Bookplate of George Page Ely's private library. Artificial Spawning, Breeding, and Rearing of Fish. Covers are lightly color faded at edges. Management of Fish. Agriculture; 8vo; 38 pages .
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The Dry Fly and Fast Water: Fishing with the Floating Fly on American Trout Streams, Together with Some Observations on Fly Fishing in General
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Gilt titles dulled on spine.. 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. vi, 218 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 1943. A lovely presentation copy of this angling classic.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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A TREATISEON THE MANAGEMENT OF FRESH-WATER FISH, WITH A VIEW OF MAKING THEM A SOURCE OF PROFIT TO LANDED PROPRIETORS
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London: John Vanvoorst. Very Good. 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green paper covered boards, title label on front cover. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. No foxing. Spiegel or Mirror Carp wood-cut illustration on title page. Appendix containing 23 German Recipes for cooking fresh water fish. Building and stocking fish ponds. Prior owners book-plate. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Agriculture Pisciculture; Wood-cut; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pages .
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A COLLECTION OF RIGHT MERRIE GARLANDS FOR NORTH COUNTRY ANGLERS
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Newcastle: Printed for Emerson Charley. Very Good+. 1842. Hardcover. Handsome green leather over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt decorated spine panels & covers. Top edge gilt. Hinges and interior are tight, clean and intact. Marbled endpapers. Twenty-three annually issued pamphlets of angling verse published from 1820-1842. The first," The Angler's Progress", is dated 1820, the last, "Auld and Young", 1842. There are 2 issues from 1824. Book published with a title page and frontispiece portrait of illustrator, Thomas Bewick, then each poem is preceeded by a half-title & a title page with a vignette by Bewick and others. Poems by various authors including, Robert Roxby, William Gill Thompson and Joseph Crawhall. Bound in bookplate of "George Page Ely" of Lyme, Ct. (Spouse of noted bookbinder, Caroline Weir Ely) . Edges very lightly rubbed. Poetry, Angling ; Vignettes; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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A Water Retreat (painting)
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The Shagganappi by E. Pauline Johnson [aka Tekahionwake] (1862-1913). Toronto: First Canadian edition, The Ryerson Press, 1913. USED. Good+ CONDITION / FAIR CONDITION ORIGINAL SILVER AND ORANGE DUST JACKET. QUITE RARE THUS. Please see our photos. A clean, solid copy that shows minor foxing. 5 5/8 X 8 ½. By Tekahionwake, important tribal historian and member of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk.
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An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections. Signed with full name: Jimmy Carter.
by CARTER, Jimmy.
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New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the half title page, additionally inscribed: Best Wishes to Ryan Trudeau - Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Green cloth spine, green paper-covered boards. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon with full first name in signature.
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The Angler's Souvenir
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London: Charles Tilt, 1836. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Handsomely rebound prior to 1912 in half leather on marbled paper. Title page and any other prelims discarded during this process and thus volume begins with the Epistle Dedicatory. Thereafter all continues in good order, with decorative engraved borders to all pages and numerous plates. Stock toned and occasional spotting, but a nice copy. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 12mo. x + 192pp + plates
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The Angler's Souvenir,
by FISHER P. [pseud. CHATTO William Andrew] 1799-1864
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London, 86. Fleet Street.: Charles Tilt, 1835. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. BECKWITH H. & TOPHAM. 1st ed, later issue, VG, 31 pls. In the publishers brown embossed cloth, corners bumped & worn. Spine, relaid, retaining old, gilt tooling & title, a couple of marks. Internally, half title & title page each with illustration, [1], [3], (iv-x), [1], 2-199 pp, 31 pls, published again in 1845 & 7, each page has woodcut borders, yellow endpapers, tape repair to hinges, tear to 1 pl, t.e.g,. First edition but later issue, with Tilt in place of Bohn. (16 mo, 116*172 mm). (Westwood & Satchell p93. Sage p91). Chatto's other humorous publications included A Paper: of Tobacco (1839) under the pseudonym Joseph Fume with illustrations by H. K. Browne (Phiz), and the popular Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards (1848). See ODNB.
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The Angler's Souvenir
by Fisher, P. [William H. Chatto]
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London: Charles Tilt, 1835. 192 pages, plus plates. Rebound by Whitman Bennett of New York in full Moroccan leather with raised spine bands creating six compartments. Gilt ruling and lettering, as well as five trout (?) vignettes in spine compartments. All edges are gilded. The binder has beautifully used the original covers with elaborate gilt designs, as the front paste downs. There is a little separation of the front free end page from the following fly leaf. Occasional light foxing and offsetting. Volume remains tight and very attractive. . First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Outdoor Life Cyclopedia
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Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1942 by arrangement with Outdoor Life. Prepared by the Editorial Staff of Outdoor Life with Photographs, Working Drawings, and Diagrams. Hardcover, embossed cloth boards with dust jacket. Single volume, 334pp. Overall, the book is in very good condition, however the dust jacket is in good condition. The dust jacket is intact and colors bright, but showing wear with some tears. It is encased in a removable mylar cover. The book has slight damage to the lower edge of spine. Page edges and end papers showing age toning and foxing. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Last Casts & Stolen Hunts The World's Best Hunting & Fishing Stories!
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Camden, SC: Liveoak Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped orange dust jacket with black lettering to front and white lettering over blue blocking to spine; color illustration of a grizzly bear, Canada geese, and a lunar eclipse to front cover; jacket like new; postcard with B&W bighorn sheep illustration by Dan Metz laid in, with note addressed to previous owners from Metz; signed and inscribed by editor Chuck Wechsler on half title page: "For Pat & Charlie
The Best in the Outdoors! Chuck Wechsler"; signed and inscribed by artist Dan Metz on frontispiece: "For Pat & Charlie - Only the best. Blue Waters - Dan Metz"; else interior book clean and unmarked; tight binding; B&W illustrations by Dan Metz at the beginning of each chapter. Last Casts & Stolen Hunts is an anthology of sporting stories, both fiction and nonfiction, released by Sporting Classics Magazine; authors featured include Aldo Leopold, Zane Grey,…
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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Cecil Aldin The Story of a Sporting Artist
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Exeter, England: Webb & Bower. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped tan dust jacket with red and black lettering to front and spine, and color reproduction of a hunting scene by Cecil Aldin to front; not price-clipped; corners slightly bumped; spine slightly faded; else fine; pale green boards printed with B&W drawing of a man fishing from a boat wrapping around front, spine and back; black lettering to spine; corners slightly bumped; else fine; card w/ previous owner name and inscription affixed to first free end paper; signed and inscribed by author on half-title page: "All good wishes - Roy Heron"; else interior book clean; tight binding; numerous color and B&W illustrations throughout. Roy Heron was a British journalist, author, and avid collector of Cecil Aldin's books and prints. Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935) was a British artist, illustrator, sportsman, and member of the Royal Society of British Artists, renowned for his paintings…
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THE FISHING GAZETTE & SEA ANGLER; July, 7, 1962- Dec. 29, 1962, 26 Issues
by Marston, A. Norman (Publisher & Editor)
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Croydon, Surrey: The Fishing Gazette Limited, 1962. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. July 7, t Dec 29, 1962. pict. papre wraps, stapled at spine, 26 issues, in clean, bright condition, extra post required, Size: 4 to.,.
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Spinning for Fresh Water Game Fish
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Little, Brown 1954. 8vo. First edition. Signed by the author opposite the copy right page. Good condition - text is clean and unmarked, boards and binding sturdy. Shows shelf and edge wear with dark stains on the spine, soiling and small white stains along some edges. No DJ.
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The Wind in the Willows (The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf)
by Grahame, Kenneth, Introduction By A. A. Milne, Color Plates By Arthur Rackham
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. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.
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