Search Results: Sports (hunting, fishing) from Augustine Funnell Books

Doaktown: Central Miramichi Historical Society, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Green. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contains 128 brief profiles of renowned fishers, flytiers, guides, and others who have contributed to the Miramichi area's well-deserved reputation in the salmon-fishing world. Among those inducted into the Atlantic Salmon Museum's Hall of Fame during the 30-year span from 1983 until 2013, and whose stories/reminiscences are included, are Ted Williams (who apparently could hit a baseball), David Adams Richards (who apparently could write a bestselling novel), and Lee and Joan Wulff (who apparently could catch more fish than almost anyone else in the entire book). Black boards w/silver foil cover/spine lettering, 373 pages (including acknowledgements, selected bibliography, and list of inductees), illustrated. A nice, read-only-once copy w/light general wear. This tome weighs just about as much as your car, so additional postage will probably be… Read More

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Map. Illus. by Jaxon. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. No date (circa 1973). 30" x 40" folded map w/full colour illustrations, locations for river and sea fishing, and general information on fishing records. Some edgewear, uneven 1.5" tear to bottom edge, moderate general wear. .

Dieppe: Dieppe Fly Tying Club, 2012. Book. Illus. by Lloyd Lutes (cover illustration). Very Good. Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contains both English and French text. "A total of 219 flies representing the five common fly categories are included in this book," the categories being dry flies, wet flies, bombers, bugs, and streamers. Spiral-bound stiff card wraps, 63 pages (including hook chart, list of fly-tiers, pattern index), illustrated w/photographs by Isabelle Levesque. Rubbing, scratches, moderate general wear..

London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the killing of African and Asiatic elephants to buffaloes, tigers, boar, wapiti, and most things in between, the author records for posterity the hunting exploits of a number of big game hunters. Brown cloth, 288 pages, illustrated. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, splash-soil to cloth, tanned/foxed/dusty edges, foxing, front end paper excised, 1 detached-but-present sheet (pages 199-202 -- in the absence of stitch holes at fold, appearing to never have been properly bound in the first place)..

Birmingham: Parker-Hale Limited Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Large octavo. "Being a reference book of shooting equipment and knowledge, presented in catalogue form." 242 pages (including index), illustrated. Some moderate surface wear, 1/4" tear to bottom right spine edge, previous owner's name stamp to first page, about half-a-dozen turned corners, notations in ink to back cover, moderate handling wear..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. Book. Illus. by Illustrations from photographs by Colonel Paget. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An account of Wolverton's hunting adventures in Somali Land, where he and Arthur Colonel Paget bagged lions, gazelles, crocodiles, and a variety of other animals. Beige cloth w/small lion illustration/lettering in gilt to front cover (unfortunately, the scan doesn't show them all that clearly), gilt spine lettering, 108 pages, 23 mainly full-page illustrations, folding map. This copy from the library of naturalist/writer Lieutenant-Commander Bruce S. Wright, and bears his embossed seal to top right corner of title page. Moderately soiled cloth, edgewear, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, sun-darkened spine, 1/2" slit to bottom right spine edge, 1" slit to top left spine edge, previous owner's name/date to front end paper, foxing to endpapers/pastedowns/map, general wear..

New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1952. Book. Illus. by Clyde Childress (photographs). Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the Barnes Sports Library. The "main purpose in this book is to get the casual reader and fisherman excited about spinning -- explains the sport of spinning and tells why spinning with fine tackle produces bigger fish." Contains chapters on equipment, technique, fishing for trophy fish, and how to build a spinning rod. 96 pages, including index. Semi-circular crease to back cover, moderate corner/spine end wear, in rubbed, price-clipped and moderately edgeworn dust jacket..

Toronto: Jardine & Young Limited, 1966. Magazine. About Very Good. Magazine. 1st printing.. Small quarto. Features articles on a wide variety of subjects, including a moose hunter's tall tales, ice fishing, the best weapons for hunting rabbits, beer-and-game recipes, suggestions for building an ice hut, and more, by the editors, James Alverton, David Proulx, Marily Cooper, Jordan Hill, Ian Paterson, Grant Hopkins, Kerry Wood, Tiny Bennett, Eldon Stonehouse, John Ayriss, and George Carnegie. 32 pages (including covers), illustrated. Address sticker to top of front cover, rubbing, small puncture from back cover through to middle of magazine..

Memphis: Ducks Unlimited, Inc., 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collects 36 stories of members of Ducks Unlimited, published to commemorate 75 years of the organization's existence. Foreword by John W. Newman, president, with an introduction by Jeff Churan. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine/back cover, tipped-on illustration to front cover, 236 pages (including brief contributor biographies), illustrated. A hint of general wear..

Woodstock: Privately Printed, 1986. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stewart details "his early life, logging and logging camps, log drives in the Streams (sic), guiding and outfitting fishing and hunting parties." 303 pages, illustrated. A bit of wear to corners/spine ends, thin reading crease to spine, light general wear. .

Woodstock: Privately Printed, 1986. Book. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stewart details "his early life, logging and logging camps, log drives in the Streams (sic), guiding and outfitting fishing and hunting parties." 303 pages, illustrated. Moderately cocked, some edgewear, bottom left corner of back cover creased, reading crease to spine, uneven tear/abrasion to bottom right spine edge, moderate handling wear..

Sackville: Privately Published, 2005. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Third printing (August 2005) of the first edition (September 2004). "By 1890 moose and caribou were becoming scarce in the northeastern United States, due to overhunting and deforestation." When the New England Sportsmen's Show was held in Boston in 1898, an exhibit by the New Brunswick Guide Association made the province's "secluded preserve of lakes, streams and unbroken wilderness" known to American outdoorsmen, and the rush was on to bag the wild trophies previously unknown to any but the locals. An extremely well-researched and well-written history of the people and the times now long-gone. 264 pages (including epilogue, references, appendices), copiously illustrated. Light surface wear, moderate corner/edge wear, gift notation at bottom of title page..

Sackville: Privately Published, 2004. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. "By 1890 moose and caribou were becoming scarce in the northeastern United States, due to overhunting and deforestation." When the New England Sportsmen's Show was held in Boston in 1898, an exhibit by the New Brunswick Guide Association made the province's "secluded preserve of lakes, streams and unbroken wilderness" known to American outdoorsmen, and the rush was on to bag the wild trophies previously unknown to any but the locals. An extremely well-researched and well-written history of the people and the times, now long-gone. 264 pages (including epilogue, references, appendices), copiously illustrated. Internally tight and clean, w/light general wear..

Toronto: MacLean Publishing Company Limited, 1936. Magazine. Illus. by F. Sands Brunner (cover illustration). Fair to Good. Side-stapled wraps. First Printing.. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Contains a variety of stories and articles, among them short fiction by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ("Pink Soap Princess"), Borden Chase ("The Runt"), and James Francis Dwyer ("The Red Ape of Pontianak"), and the second (concluding) part of the serial, "Horse Doctor," by James A. Cowan. There are articles by Will R. Bird, Leslie Roberts, Beverley Baxter, and the conclusion of Victor C. Soucisse's three-part report, "Revolt in Quebec." Additionally there are editorials, humourous articles, an article on fishing the small-mouth black bass ("The Gamest Fish," by Ozark Ripley with Dink Carroll), recipes and some terrific old advertisements. 40 pages, illustrated w/photographs and drawings. Worn w/strong spine roll, surface wear, edgewear, address sticker… Read More

New York: Oliver Durrell, Inc., 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. a complete guide to spinning reels and spinning tackle for the fly-caster, bait-caster, surf or lake fisherman; brown cloth, 72 pgs., illustrated; light wear to corners/spine ends, small/faint soil mark to first end paper; price-clipped dj w/edgewear, 2" x 1" piece missing from top edge of front panel, 1/2" x 1/2" chip from bottom edge of front panel, 1/2" chipping to spine ends, corner wear, tears, subsequent creasing, handling wear; Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall.