ANGLING IN AMERICA, ITS EARLY HISTORY AND LITERATURE, LIMITED EDITION 475 OF 750, FIRST EDITION by CHARLES ELIOT GOODSPEED - 1939

Chicago & New York: Contemporary Books, 1989. BOLDLY SIGNED (see photos) on the front endpaper by Terry Bradshaw, 4 time Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers (signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). A BEAUTIFUL COPY. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Very FINE condition in a bright, shiny Very FINE dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($17.95). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. The book itself is fresh, crisp, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owners' name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Includes appendix giving Bradshaw's statistics for his 14-year pro football career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1970-1983. Bound in the original black boards, with a yellow cloth spine lettered in black. From the dust jacket: "Terry Bradshaw grew up chasing the American Dream, knowing at an early age exactly what he… Read More

Fine. London: Travellers' Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisherÕs black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - As New and signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization. - from the introduction.The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of… Read More

California Historical Society Los Angeles printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon [The Ward Ritchie , 1971. HBNO DJ Issued, 1st Ltd edition 500 copies STATED on Last page, VG+, NOJACKET, 1971, 1st edition, Special Publication Number 48, 43 pages, Light wear Cvr Cover , Interior Nice, tight Clean, Original papered Orange Boards Titled in Red & Black,,Faint spotting to cover, otherwise very good. Pages are clean and unmarked. ,She was granddaughter of John and Susan Bixby, founders of Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California, now part of the city of Long Beach. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Bartell,.

PORTLAND, MAINE: FALMOUTH PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1949 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH A WHITE TEXTURED FRONT AND BACK WITH GREEN SPINE. GOLD PRINT ALONG SPINE. BLACK SLIP COVER WITH NICE TEXTURE ON OUTSIDE. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. CLEAN AND TIGHT. LIMITED EDITION 59 OF 500. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FRONT. GOOD ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY STANLEY GREENE. SIX STORIES WRITTEN BY MACDOUGALL RELATING TO HIS CHILDHOOD. STORIES WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN FIELD AND STREAM, SPORTS AFIELD AND OUTDOORS. GREAT BOOK FOR THE FISHERMAN, LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS AND LIFE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: EUGENE V. CONNETT FOR ANGLERS CLUB OF NEW YORK, 1927 NICE LOOKING BOOK WITH TEXTURED COVER, LIMITED EDITION 19 OF 423. FRONTISPIECE IS BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK PORTRAIT OF FRANK FORESTER. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INFORMATION BY FORESTER. GREAT BOOK THE THE FISHERMAN AND LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS. Henry William Herbert (April 7, 1807 May 17, 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport. Starr writes that "as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States . . . his knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was unsurpassed; his pupils idolized him." Catasauqua Creek is a ENESSW oriented creek draining 6.6 miles (10.6 km) (straight line distance) from springs of the Blue Mountain barrier ridge several miles below the Lehigh Gap in the ridge-and-valley Appalachians located upriver & opposite from… Read More

Chicago & New York: Contemporary Books, 1989. BOLDLY SIGNED (see photos) on the front endpaper by Terry Bradshaw, 4 time Super Bowl-winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers (signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). A BEAUTIFUL COPY. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. Very FINE condition in a bright, shiny Very FINE dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($17.95). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. The book itself is fresh, crisp, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owners' name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Includes appendix giving Bradshaw's statistics for his 14-year pro football career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1970-1983. Bound in the original black boards, with a yellow cloth spine lettered in black. From the dust jacket: "Terry Bradshaw grew up chasing the American Dream, knowing at an early age exactly what he… Read More

Fine. London: Travellers' Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisherÕs black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - As New and signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization. - from the introduction.The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of… Read More

California Historical Society Los Angeles printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon [The Ward Ritchie , 1971. HBNO DJ Issued, 1st Ltd edition 500 copies STATED on Last page, VG+, NOJACKET, 1971, 1st edition, Special Publication Number 48, 43 pages, Light wear Cvr Cover , Interior Nice, tight Clean, Original papered Orange Boards Titled in Red & Black,,Faint spotting to cover, otherwise very good. Pages are clean and unmarked. ,She was granddaughter of John and Susan Bixby, founders of Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California, now part of the city of Long Beach. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by George Bartell,.

PORTLAND, MAINE: FALMOUTH PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1949 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH A WHITE TEXTURED FRONT AND BACK WITH GREEN SPINE. GOLD PRINT ALONG SPINE. BLACK SLIP COVER WITH NICE TEXTURE ON OUTSIDE. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. CLEAN AND TIGHT. LIMITED EDITION 59 OF 500. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FRONT. GOOD ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY STANLEY GREENE. SIX STORIES WRITTEN BY MACDOUGALL RELATING TO HIS CHILDHOOD. STORIES WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN FIELD AND STREAM, SPORTS AFIELD AND OUTDOORS. GREAT BOOK FOR THE FISHERMAN, LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS AND LIFE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: EUGENE V. CONNETT FOR ANGLERS CLUB OF NEW YORK, 1927 NICE LOOKING BOOK WITH TEXTURED COVER, LIMITED EDITION 19 OF 423. FRONTISPIECE IS BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK PORTRAIT OF FRANK FORESTER. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. WONDERFUL DETAIL AND INFORMATION BY FORESTER. GREAT BOOK THE THE FISHERMAN AND LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS. Henry William Herbert (April 7, 1807 May 17, 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport. Starr writes that "as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States . . . his knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was unsurpassed; his pupils idolized him." Catasauqua Creek is a ENESSW oriented creek draining 6.6 miles (10.6 km) (straight line distance) from springs of the Blue Mountain barrier ridge several miles below the Lehigh Gap in the ridge-and-valley Appalachians located upriver & opposite from… Read More