Dickerson: The Man and His Rods by Stein, Gerald S. ; Schaff, James W - 1991

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Gilt titles dulled on spine.. 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. vi, 218 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 1943. A lovely presentation copy of this angling classic.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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 .

Nicely bound in half green morocco with green cloth boards and gilt rule; 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Previous owners' bookplates to front pastedown, first free page and verso of first free page; Waldo Leon Rich, R. M. Kauffmann, and Rudolph Kauffmann II, respectively. Full color hors texte illustrations throughout with tissue guards. Liquid staining to margins of pages 259-264, but otherwise pages are bright and clean. Spine sunned to brown. [iv], 325 pp., [3]. 6 x 7 1/2 inches.

Edinburgh / London: W. & R. Chambers / Orr & Smith, 1835. Book. Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine; no jacket; 156 pages; b&w illustration on title page; 1835 on title page and no date on copyright page. Good minus condition: mild extremity wear to binding with a little loss of cloth; light general scuffing to binding; top of front exterior hinge split through cloth with a little loss of the cloth; hinges strong; name (James M. Cokburn?) and date of 1835 on ffep; slight interior toning. New plastic protective jacket..

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1951, hardcover, 222 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the author without inscription on the half-title page, Very Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, short non-authorial gift inscription to front endpaper, slight touch to heel of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, small sticker lift to front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. 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.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 205pp., illustrated. The author writes in an informal and popular way of the haunts and habits of the different varieties of black bass, of lures, casting, playing from the reel, and many other fine points of bass-craft. Bound in blue pictorial cloth depicting a hooked bass, lettered and decorated in black, light blue and silver, spine lettering gilt. previous owner's stamp otherwise a clean bright copy in very nice pictorial dust jacket with only minor toning and chips to two corners and one tiny chip to foot. A very handsome copy.

Cleveland: Tho. Brown. Good+. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Title Continued: "Giving the Author's First Experiments Contained in a Paper Read Before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences. Also Directions for the Most Successful Modes of Angling for such Kinds of Fish as are Herein Described." Clean black embossed cloth with gilt title on spine. Text tight and intact. Light foxing through-out. Engraved Illustrations. The hatching and rearing of Speckled Trout; Black Bass; Large Mouth Bass; White Bass; Grass Bass; Rock Bass; Pickerel; Yellow Perch; Sun Fish and Eel. Agriculture, Pisciculture; Engraved Illustrations; 8vo; 142 pages .

THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD- CONDITION Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Gilt titles dulled on spine.. 1914. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. vi, 218 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, dated 1943. A lovely presentation copy of this angling classic.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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