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Atlantic Salmon Flies and Fishing
By: Joseph D. Bates Jr.
Illustrator: Milton C. Weiler
Pub: Stackpole Books, 1970
1st Edition Limited to 600 signed copies. This is numbered 532/600 and signed by the author.
362 wonderful pages in a slipcase with paste on color cover. Chapter topics include: Wet-Fly Fishing Methods; Dry-Flies and Low-Water Tricks; North American Hair-Wing Patterns and much more.
Lovely illustrations as well as color photos with the facing page discribing the corresponding fly and the 'dresser'. Index, Bibliography and list of Professional Fly Dressers and thier locations are also included. Slipcase is in Fine condition.
Book is in Excellent condition with these exceptions: Former owner's name is written neatly on the dedication page. Also there are a couple pages where pen marks were made next to important passages.
Price: $500.00 SOLD ID# 901-200
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Hunting and Fishing Guide from Maniwaki, Quebec Canada
Year unknown, but somewhere 1930's-50's based on 2 and 3 digit phone numbers.
Measures 30" x 24" with colorized graphics. Guide has lodging, camp and services available.
'Courtesy of The Chamber of Commerce' of Maniwaki Region in the Heart of the Gatineau Valley.
Nice piece of local ephemera or hunting/fishing
More photos available
Price $ 40.00 ID # 901-530
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Kodiak Island Brochure
Kodiak Island is the home of the Largest Bear in the World
By: Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson ~ Guides & Outfitters in Kodiak Alaska.,
Pictorial Cover. Book Condition: Very Good.
YEAR: About 1957 based on date of cover photo.
Writing in blank spots indicates dates of hunting trips available. 33 pages of photos of bears, seals and fish taken during hunts. Information often includes hunter's name, home state and size of bear. Pinnell and Talifson were billed as the "Last of the Great Brown Bear Men" by Marvin Clark Jr. in his book by the same name. Spine is split about 1/2 way. Cover does have some light creases and a 1" tear at spine.
$100.00 SOLD ID # 901-447
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Eighth and Ninth Reports of the Forest, Fisheries and Game Commission of the State of New York.
Pub: J. B. Lyon, Albany, NY; 1903.
Measures 11 1/4 x 8 1/2" with 456 pages in Green cloth boards with illust ration of a Buck and 2 fish on the front. Illustrations include numerous photographs, H. T. Watson drawings, 16 plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes(13 bird and 3 water fowl); 9 colored fish prints by Dent on and 4 mammal/rodent color plates by "Lang". Large foldout map, in color, of the Totten & Crossfield Purchase, Hamilton County. Binding is weakening and some pages and plates are coming loose. Photo graphic plate at page 182 is creased. "Channel Cat" fish plate has some foxing at upper, left margin.
Price: $ 300.00 ID#: 900-296
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The Atlantic Salmon
By: Lee Wulff
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc.
Second Printing: May, 1967
222 pages. Photos, diagrams and illustrations. DJ is edgeworn with a 2" tear at top, front edge and a 2" tear and creasing at bottom edge on the front.
GREAT GIFT FOR THE DAD WHO LIKES THE OUTDOORS
$ 40.00 ID # 901-428
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Practical Fly Fishing: Containing Modern Fly Fishing Methods, The Fly Fisher's Entomology and How to Tie Flies.
By Charles M. Wetzel
Christopher Publishing House, 1943
Many illustrations by the author of tied flies, insects and strategy. Not sure if this is a true first edition or not, as the copyright is 1943, but inscription is 1944 and 1st editions came with a DJ. Blemishes: Cover is lightly worn and spine is sunfaded. Former owner's name neatly written on FFEP.
Price: $ 90.00 SOLD ID # 901-196
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The Art of The Atlantic Salmon Fly
By: Joseph D. Bates Jr.
Illustrator: Henry McDaniel
Pub: David R. Godine
Lovely color plates with facing page descibing the dresser, the fly and designer. Chapters include: 'Early Beginnings'; 'British Splendor'; 'Classic Materials' and 'The Welsh Influence' plus much more.
DJ and Book are in Fine [As New] condition. DJ is price clipped.
Price: $ SOLD ID# 901-202
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The Treasury of Angling
By: Larry Koller
Pub.: The Ridge Press, 1963
Contents include: Angling in Antiquity; Early American Angling; The Salmon; The Pikes; and an Index, plus much more.
Illustrations are a mix of full & 1/2 page, color, photos, illustrations and reproductions of paintings.
DJ has chips and wear at the top and spine, as pictured.
Price: $ 30.00 ID# 901-212
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The Big Game Rifle
By: Jack O'Connor
Pub: Alfred K. Knopf, 1952
371 pages of text and photos plus 11 page index. 32 pages of black and white photos of big game, rifles, bullets and hunters. Big game from all over the world: Africa, Canada, and the US. Chapters include: Black Powder to Smokeless; Rifles and Cartridges for Heavy, Soft-Skinned Game; Sight Adjustment for Big-Game Hunting; Slings, Scabbards, Cleaning Kits and much more. Former owner's name written neatley on FFEP. DJ is price clipped and in good condition with edgewear, chip out of back, light soiling and 1 nickle sized blemish on the spine, as pictured.
Price: $ 120.00 SOLD ID # 901-201
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The A. B. Frost Book
By: Henry M. Reed [ed]
Pub: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962
Wonderful book explores the paintings and drawings of A. B. Frost. Chapters include: 'The Golden Age of Illustration'; 'Brer Rabbit' and 'Uncle Remus'; 'The Frosts Move to Europe' and 'The Artist Who Let One Half of the Country Know How the Other Half Lived' plus much more. 149 pages with 70+ plates, 44 being in color. Book is in Fine condition with no writing or damage. DJ is lightly edgeworn with a 1" tear on front and shelfwear to the back being the obvious blemishes.
Price: $ 90.00 SOLD ID # 901-203
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A Pilgrimage of Anglers
Limited Edition # 241 of 500 published specifically for The Sportsmen's Club of Hartford, Connecticut.
Signed by Author
By: Commander Eugene E. Wilson, USNR (Retired)
ILLUSTRATOR: Katherine Wilson
Pub.: Literary Investment Guild, 1968
A Fictitious Account of the Curious Adventures of a Company of Salmon Fishermen making thier Annual Pilgrimage from Quebec City to that Legendary Angler's Paradise, Anticosti Island, including the poem "A Gaggle of Geese" inspired by The Dictionary of Venery which also suggested the title A Pilgrimage of Anglers...'
Book is in 'like new' condition with the only blemish being the gift inscription from 1969 written neatly on the FFEP.
Price: $90.00 SOLD ID# 901-220
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