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Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1954, Revised Edition. (Hardcover) 522pp. Good to very good in good dust jacket. Notes, maps, tables, index. Reading room copy, there are lines in ink on the margins of a few pages, the dust jacket has edgewear and chipping and the front flap has been reattached with tape, there are several stamps and inscriptions on the front endpaper as well as a stamp on the fore-edge. Book about Cod Fisheries. Time Period , , 16th Century & 19th Century. Preface by S.D. Clark, W.T. Easterbrook & Mary Quayle Innis. Foreword by James T. Shotwell. Locale: Canada; United States. (Canada, Economic Conditions--Canada, Fishing Industry).
THE MOISIE SALMON CLUB. A Chronicle by Weeks, Edward - 1971
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THE MOISIE SALMON CLUB. A Chronicle
by Weeks, Edward
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Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1971. One of 1,500 copies. Light aquamarine cloth boards backed in dark blue buckram, silver "jumping" salmon illustration to cover, silver spine lettering, map endpapers, richly illustrated throughout primarily with monotone photo reproductions, with a few illustrations in colour including a two-page spread of "The Evolution of the Moisie Flies", maps. Very light soiling to the spinestrip, else a near fine copy, housed in a slipcase covered with the same aquamarine cloth. Tanning around margins and edges of slipcase, else very good. . Limited, First Edition. Cloth in Slip Case. Near Fine. Quarto.
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The Cod Fisheries; The History of an International Economy
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THE BORDER ANGLER: A Guide Book to the Tweed and Its Tributaries and the Other Streams Commanded By The North British Railway, With an Accurate Map of the District
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Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1858. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. red, blind-stamped, gilt dec. cloth, cover and spine, viii, 195, (1) blank, (4) adverts., frontis. (folding map), light edge and corner wear, corners lightly bumped, light wear at spine ends, an attractive copy of a rare title, see; Westwood & Satchell; BIBLIOTHECA PISCATORIA, pp., 38. Size: 12mo.
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Measure of the Year
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New York, William Morrow and Company, 1950, hardcover, x-260 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the title page, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, dampstain to fore-edge of boards affecting no other area, small bookstore sticker to front pastedown, text block top edge darkened. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, spine faded, faint dampstains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-known author of Return to the River, A River Never Sleeps, and The Western Angler traces the development of the seasons and their effect upon his world, the habits of fish and game, the details of family and community life, and, more broadly, the position of mankind amidst the wonder and beauty of the world of nature.
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Fisherman's Spring
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New York, William Morrow and Company, 1951, hardcover, 222 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the author on the half-title page, Good condition lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine end and corner wear, faded spot at top edge of front board. The respected fishing expert and author of The Western Angler, Return to the River, and A River Never Sleeps presents a look at the intricacies of fly-fishing and his philosophy of life, inspired by the opening of the trout season.
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The Dennis Saga
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This is a beautiful book. Strongly bound and the pages are clean. Pages 179 to 219 list the descendants of Thomas and Margery Dennis (Dennis) and George Dennis (Dinnis) and Judith Medland, Poundstock, Cornwall. There are 6 plates showing The Arms of the Dennis, Dennys families. There are 252 pages including index. This is a rare book loaded with genealogy on the Dennis family.
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SCENES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF FLY-FISHING IN NORTHUMBERLAND, CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND
by Oliver, Stephen The Younger. [Pseud. William Andrew Chatto
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London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good+. 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown pebble cloth with bright gilt title on spine. Lightly rubbed front corners. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with woodcut head and tail pieces and vignettes. Sports, Fly- Fishing, Angling ; Engraved illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 212 pages .
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The Autobiography of a Fisherman
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine, with just the slightest rubbing to extremities, in a jacket with an invisible small slit in the spine. A tight, possibly unread copy..
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Newcastle Fishers' Garlands: A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers
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"NEWCASTLE FISHERS' GARLANDS" - A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers, edited by Joseph Crawhall. 1864; George Rutland; Newcastle-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. The book is a compilation of content from past publications of "The Fisher's Garland" from 1820 to 1864. At the back of the book is a Memorial to Izaak Walton, best know as the author of "The Compleat Angler.""Dedicated to the Members of the Coquet-Dale Angling Club, with an earnest hope that the lines herein cast may perchance rise some stray Roxby or Doubleday of that honourable body, and induce an attempt to resume and continue the Newcastle Fishers' Garlands, so charmingly set forth by the spirits of a former generation."Condition:Some areas of bubbling under the cloth on the front cover; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine; light soiling to front and back covers. Tight binding. No cracks. No loose pages. Occasional foxing to a handful of random pages...otherwise, the pages are clean and white with no…
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The Angler's Guide Book and Tourist's Gazeteer of the Fishing Waters of the United States and Canada 1886
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New York / Chicago: The Angler's Publishing Company / the Western Anglers Publishing Company, 1886. Hardcover. Fine with no dust jacket. 249 pages plus alot of pages of ads. very slight rubbing to covers. a beautiful copy. previous owner's name and address on inside front cover. ; 4 3/4 x 7 1/2
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The Fishermans Magazine and Review, Volume I, April to December, 1864
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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and spine, one spine . label missing, owner initials on front flyleaf, pages toned.. 1864. Hardcover. Three-quarter green leather with marbled sides and matching marbled edges and endpapers. Six spine compartments with red gilt-stamped leather label in one and one missing in another. iv, 432pp. Eight lithograph plates of fish species, including color plate of a pike, many other engravings in text. A handsome bound volume of issues of this Victorian fishing magazine, featuring articles about the natural history of various fish, reviews of fishing books, reports on fisheries, fishing techniques, pollution, Izaak Walton, and gossipy piscatorial puffery. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Moisie Salmon Club: A Chronicle
by Weeks, Edward
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Barre Pub, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. An excellent copy, gently worn, w/o jacket; Pages free of markings; Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Moisie Salmon Club. A Chronicle by Edward Weeks
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Barre, Massachusetts. Barre Publishers. 1971. Hardcover. sm4to, 25.5cm, [viii],240,[1]p., limited to 1500 copies, with c.130 plates and illustrations, (including 2 colour plates from paintings by Ogden Pleissner, 2 colour plates, 2 colour plates of flies, maps, and 9 double page illustrations), mapped endpapers, appendices, in quarter dark blue fine grain book cloth backed in green boards with silver stamped salmon illustration on the upper cover and titles along the spine, in slipcase, fine copy. A history of the club, the river, its fishing and members over the years. Records of salmon taken by anglers and commercial fishermen on the river from 1858 to 1970. Moisie River angling records for the same period, a partial list of anglers and guests. The Moisie is a river in eastern Quebec. Called and known as the Nahanni of the East, it is one of the most beautiful wild rivers of North America. It flows south from Lake Opocopa near the Labrador border to the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River east…
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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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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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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
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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)
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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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