AMATEUR RODMAKING, OUTING HANDBOOK NUMBER 33 by PERRY D. FRAZER - 1914

Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. This is #515 of a limited edition of 885 published to support the Big Hole River Foundation. Included is a limited edition print by Dave Whitlock which is signed by George Grant, founder of the Foundation. The book and jacket are as new and the dust jacket is now in a mylar cover.

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

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.

Perth Scotland: P. D. Malloch, 1933. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Fine But For Slightest Traces Of Use. 151 Pages. Profusely Illustrated. Printer Code Is " 2/33 ". Laid In Is A Gun Licence, Dated 1934, Purchased In Inverness. An Exceptional Copy..

Perth Scotland: P. D. Malloch, 1928. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Very Good, With Bumping And Wear To Extremities, And Tape Reinforcement At Head And Heel Of Spine. Internally Tight And Clean. Catalogue Not Dated, But Most Recent Date Mentioned Is 1927, And Printer's Date Is " 3/ 28 ". Profusely Illustrated With Slme Flies In Colour..

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 .

Helena, MT: Greycliff Pub Co, 1997. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Helena, MT: Greycliff Pub Co., 1997, first printing. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", xvi+366pp., illustrations by Robert Cormier. Signed by Knopp and Cormier on half title, with Cormier's signature embellished with the drawing of a mayfly. Small spot on front edge of page block, else fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

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..

"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… Read More

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