Fishing

THE ART OF THE CREELby Hugh Chatham & Dan McClain. First edition. 1997 by Blue Heron Publications. Hardcover, dust jacket. 196 pp. Complete history of the fishing creel. Profusely illustrated in full color. Format: 10 ¾” x 10 ¾”. Condition: Excellent, almost as new.

$30.00
BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHESby The Rev. W. Houghton. Two volumes. London 1879. First edition. Brick-red leather, gilt title and decorations. All edges gilt. Vol. 1, 92 pp. Twenty color plates by A. F. Lydon. Vol. 2, pp 92-204. Twenty-one color plates by A. F. Lydon. Sixty-four different species of fish covered in two volumes. Numerous engravings. Format: 14 7/8” x 10 ¾”. Condition: Fine. Very rare in this condition.

$3,000.00
CATSKILL RIVERSby Austin M. Francis. 1st edition. Beaverkill Press, 1983. Limited edition #79 of 300 copies. 258 pp. Format: 8 ¾” x 11”. Full brown calf, gilt titles. Slipcased. Condition: As new.

$700.00
THE COMPLETE ANGLER'S VADE-MECUM BEING A
PERFECT CODE OF INSTRUCTION ON THE ABOVE
PLEASING SCIENCE
by Capt. T. Williamson. Payne and Mackinlay, 1808. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled endboards. 316 pp. Format: 8 ½” x 5 ¼”. Condition: Very good.

$500.00
FAVORITE FLIESby Mary Orvis Marbury. Houghton-Mifflin, 1892. ? edition. Two-tone green cloth hardcover, gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Thirty-two color plates, 14 black and white. Only 500 copies in each of the 1st and 2nd edition. Format: 7 ¼” x 9 ½”. 522 pp. Condition: Cloth binding on spine buckled, otherwise very good.

$500.00
THE FISH DECOYby Art, Brad, & Scott Kimball. Aardvark Publications, Inc., 1987. VOL. II. 1st printing #120. Signed by all three authors. Hardcover, gilt stamped. Profusely illustrated, mostly full-color. Format: 8 1/2” x 11 1/4”. 192 pp. Condition: Excellent - almost as new.

$200.00
SALMON FISHINGby Eric Taverner & Others. Lonsdale, 1931. 1st edition #270/275. Signed by author. Numerous tipped-in plates. Seven actual salmon flies in sunken mount. Full dark blue morocco, gilt stamped. Format: 7” x 10 ¼”. 471 pp. Condition: Good – very good.

$1,650.00
TROUT FISHING FROM ALL ANGLESby Eric Taverner. Seeley Service, London. 1929. Lonsdale Library. 1st edition. #151 of 375 copies signed by author. 448 pp. Frontis and 64 other tipped-in plates. Contains 30 real fishing flies in sunken mount. Top edge gilf. Full blue morocco, gilt stamped. Format: 7” x 10 ¼”. Condition: Very good-fine.

$1,500.00
WALTON AND SOME EARLIER WRITERS ON FISH
AND FISHING
by R. B. Marston. Elliot Stock, 1894. Quarter brown leather over blue cloth boards. Format: 4 ½” x 7 ¼”. 270 pp. Condition: Cloth on spine loose, otherwise good.

$200.00
THE WESTERN ANGLERby Roderick Haig-Brown. Derrydale Press, 1939. Two volumes, slipcased. Limited edition #2 of 950 copies. Vol. 1, 200 pp; Vol. 2, 192 pp. Red cloth hardcover, gilt stamped. Map opposite page three intact. Format: 8 ¾” x 11 ¼”. Condition: Books, exceptionally fine; slipcase shows shelfwear.

$1,000.00












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