Hardcover. Chicago,IL, Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, Early reprint, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations including full color frontispiece (see image). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with navy blue illustration. Soil and light chipping and fraying to spine and bottom edge, as well as top of front cover board (see image). Tanning to pages and boards from age. Very early reprint.
Hardcover. Portland , Western Fisherman's Press , 1st edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 180 pages. Hardcover. Color and black and white illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Two tears on front dust jacket. Some foxing Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. B&w photos. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright copy.
Hardcover. Minocqua, WI, Willow Creek Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER). In excellent shape. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, clean inside and out.
Hardcover. Susquehanna University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Masterfully weaves the tale of the newly arrived Irishmen who contributed to the growth of maritime industries and who invigorated New England seaport life through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Eventually, as this book documents, they would compete with their Canadian counterparts in swashbuckling schooner races that captivated both nations. In so doing, these groups of old and new Americans helped to forge some of the best maritime traditions of our country, which we all still share.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st US, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate with inscription on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations and full color plates by Arthur Rackham. Light wear to Green cloth covers. Titles and decoration in gilt. Foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with chunks of paper missing at top of spine, light chipping along edges, moderate rubbing to back cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , A. S. Barnes and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Red cloth cover, bumped corners, light wear. Dust jacket is price clipped, has wear and tearing to edges and corners. Front flyleaf is missing. Beautiful color and b&w illustrations throughout. Inside is very clean and bright. A nice copy.
Barre, VGT, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Ltd. to 1,000 copies. #110. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR MICHAEL MCCURDY. In slipcase. A very clean, tight copy.
New York, Seabury, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joseph Duffy. Dust jacket has light wear to corners.
Hardcover. Chicago, Adams Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white photos. Text illustrations. An excellent guide to fishing the lakes and river using a variety of methods. The book is bound in green cloth with black titles. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 62 pages illustrated in b&w by Jules Gotlieb. The story of ten year old Jody from Provincetown Massachusetts and his first trip aboard the trawler, The Flying Codder, to Georges Bank and, afterwards, to New York's Fulton Fish Market. Two small smudges to front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY ARNOSKY on title page. ALSO INSCRIBED BY ARNOSKY to children's book author and illustrator Edith & Clement Hurd WITH A SKETCH OF A JUMPING FISH on front fly leaf. Color, B&W illustrations by Arnosky.
Softcover. Great Britain, Midnight Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Softcover. B/w illustration throughout. In excellent shape. Wrapper has a little label residue, but otherwise pristiine and unripped. Clean and unmarked inside. Binding tight.
Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.
Hardcover. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with blind stamping to front and rear and gilt to spine. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. Ex-lib from museum library, light residue, stamping to endpapers, internally clean. 1/4" tear to top of cloth spine, gilt lettering bright on spine.
Softcover. Sarasota FL, Pineapple Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages. Follow Ernest Hemingway's exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937, the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association (under the author's co-leadership) was emerging. Covers Hemingway's role in the formation of the IGFA, his underappreciated seminal writing about competitive saltwater angling when the sport was still in its infancy, the amazing fishing he enjoyed on the island, and the way all of these experiences translated into the composition of his posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. This is the only book on this period in Hemingway's life and reveals unexpected dimensions to the Hemingway portrait that deserve attention, including his surprising humor, his advanced conservationist views several decades before the environmental movement even began, and his egalitarian ideas about his contemporary female counterparts in the big-game fishing world--challenging the usual portrait of Hemingway as a chauvinist with no personal rules, boundaries, or conscience. Includes beautiful vintage photographs of 1930s Bimini that have never been published in book form.
Hardcover. Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 265 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Scarce. Illustrated by Anton Otto Fisher. A frank and detailed description of the life of a English deep-sea fisherman. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, chipping most pronounced along top edge. Chipping to dust jacket spine as well. Foxing to all edges. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Hardcover with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf and signature. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Crown Publishers, Inc., 5th printing, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Preface by Joe Brooks. Hundreds of drawings, eight pages in full color. Black cloth cover, oversized, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to edges and corners. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 2nd pr., 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 267 pages, color frontispiece, 58 b&w photographic plates. Blue cloth covers with a pastedown photo of fish on front, top edge gilt. Publisher's code of I-T on copyright page indicating a September 1919 printing, 3 months after the June 1919 date on the same page. Spine has darkened and gilt faded so title is barely visible, but covers very good and interior of book is clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, L. Upcott Gill , 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 'A very complete book on late-nineteenth century angling methods (Hampton)'. Contains sections on Coarse Fish, Pike, Game Fish and Salt Water. 128, 92, 127, 108 pages respectively. With 4 full-page plates as frontispieces to each section and numerous text-drawings. Illustrated adverts. at beginning and end of text. Good plus with minor edgewear, small spot of discolration to cover, gilt bright.
Softcover. Burlington, Northern Cartographic, Inc., 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Softcover. Features black & white photographs, Maps, including one removable folding two sided map in rear pocket. standard wear along cover edges. Good plus condition.