FISHING SEASON, An Artist's Fishing Year. by McPHAIL Rodger and Colin Laurie McKelvie.: - 1990

"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

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

Edicom, 1986. Hardcover. One of 3000 unnumbered copies of this limited edition. Used- Near Fine Condition. Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows very light shelf wear. Dust jacket shows more wear than book, with some blemishing and minor staining on the front and back covers, a few small tears at the top of the book around the spine. DJ is not price clipped. No highlighting or other markings on the inside of the book. Gorgeous black and white, as well as color, plates. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being A Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing. In Two Parts: the first written by Mr. Izaak Walton, the second by Charles Cotton, Esq. with the Lives of the Authors: and notes, historical, supplementary, and explanatory, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. and the present editor. Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, by R. Watts, at Broxbourne, on the River Lea, Herts, London, 1815. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 514 pp. Portrait frontispiece, full page engravings and numerous in-text illustrations including etchings by Percy Thomas, paintings by John Linnell, and engravings by G.E. Lodge; monthly fishing calendar, publisher's ads. Professionally rebound in quarter dark brown leather over marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers. Toning to title page with offsetting from plates; occasional foxing spots. Tightly bound with some page corners remaining uncut. A beautiful collectible copy.