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New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1895. 1st. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Decorative green hardcover with illustration of two lions by trees. Cover with some soiling and edgewear/corner bumps. Spine with a lean and wear to ends. Boards lightly showing at corners. Decorative two-toned (brown and white) floral endpapers. Pages age toned with some edge wear and smudging and age spots. Text and illustrations clean. Pages intact. Some weakness to hinges and spine. Small area of insect damage to lower inside of last 5 leaves and rear endpapers (a small cut bored in from the bottom, less than a quarter by less than one inch). 248 pages.
Tales Of Duck and Goose Shooting by Hazelton, William C - 1922: Being duck and goose hunting narratives from celebrated ducking waters
by Hazelton, William C
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Tales Of Duck and Goose Shooting: Being duck and goose hunting narratives from celebrated ducking waters
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Hazelton, 1922. "Being duck and goose hunting narratives from clebrated ducking waters", compiled and published by William C Hazelton. Internally book is as new, internally, no names, etc. On the front royal blue cover is gilt lettering, which is partially worn off and a beautiful golden flying goose. The top of spine has a small fingernail size stain, and there is some fading on the cover. 13 tales from: John B Thompson,.Clyde B Terrell, Horatio Bigelow, John F. Parks, Thomas Dixon Jr, Joseph S. Rugland, Charles F. Cole, Dr. A.A. Alford, Robert L Mason, George L.Hopper, Perry C. Caby, Dr Edmund W. Weis and William C. Hazelton. 3 full page b/w photos in front, and numerous b/w photos throughout. Privately printed. Please email with any questions.. 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover. Very Good-see Notes/No Jacket. Illus. by Photos. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Hunters Three: Sport and Adventure in South Africa
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THE ART OF ANGLING IN TWO PARTS: 1.AN ACCOUNT OF FISH AND PONDS - THE METHOD OF FLY MAKING.. 2. THE VARIOUS MODES OF ROCK AND SEA FISHING
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London: Knight and Compton. Very Good+. 1801. Hardcover. Clean late 19th century leather binding. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Prior owners signature with an armorial bookplate. (i-viii) 268pp. Pictorial frontispiece. New edition, corrected. Illustrated with 135 cuts. The whole Forming a Sportsman's Magazine Comprising all that is curious and valuable in the art of angling. Sports, Fishing, Sea Fishing, Method of Fly Making, Fishing Tackle; Drawing Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 268 pages .
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THE ART OF ANGLING, ROCK AND SEA-FISHING: WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RIVER, POND AND SEA-FISH ILLUSTRATED WITH 133 CUTTS
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London: Lincoln's-Inn Fields. Very Good. 1740. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in somewhat scuffed brown calf with professionally rebacked spine with black & gilt spine label. Tape reinforced internal hinges. Illustrated title page printed in red and black. Small text engraving illustrating each of the fish described. ([xv], 249, 6pp index, 5pp ads). Front endpaper has two tiny nicks on fore-edge. Sport, Fishing ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 249 pages .
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FISH IN RIVERS AND STREAMS: A TREATISE ON THE PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FISH IN FRESH WATERS,BY ARTIFICIAL SPAWNING, BREEDING AND REARING: SHOWING ALSO THE CAUSE OF THE DEPLETION OF ALL RIVERS AND STREAMS.
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London: John Van Voorst. Very Good. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth with paper label on front cover. (viii) 38pp and three pages of advertisements. Yellow endpaper, interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Bookplate of George Page Ely's private library. Artificial Spawning, Breeding, and Rearing of Fish. Covers are lightly color faded at edges. Management of Fish. Agriculture; 8vo; 38 pages .
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The Dry Fly and Fast Water: Fishing with the Floating Fly on American Trout Streams, Together with Some Observations on Fly Fishing in General
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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 .
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Gunmakers of Indiana
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Homewood, IL: The Author, 1964. SCARCE. Near Fine, light rubbing at spine edges, old tape mend top edge spine. 284 pp. with black and white photographs and drawings by James A. Wuellner. . Limited Edition, Revised. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities. The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that renowned Sporting Citizen: Rebound in period leather by Bumpus
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London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Henry Alken.. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, these stories originally published in the New Sporting Magazine. Rebound in period leather by Bumpus; five raised spine bands, titles in gilt. Hint of sun-fading on the spine. Minor corner rubs. Original cloth front and spine laid-in at the rear. Top edge gilt. Bookseller notations on Front Free Endpage. Foxing on the preliminaries. Minor foxing on the borders of plates. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Sixteen Colored Illustrations by Henry Alken including frontispiece and vignette title page.. Background Information: The Bumpus Bookshop of Oxford Street, London enjoyed a reputation for handsome bindings in classical styles from its foundation in 1780 until the…
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Argali Cacerias De Alta Montana [Wild Sheep: High Mountain Hunting]
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Madrid: Aldaba Ediciones, 1994. Limited Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Limited Edition: # 2378. Signed with an inscription by the author. Small folio; 12.25 inches tall; 316 pages. Text in Spanish. Foreword, Camilo José Cela; Introduction, C.J. McElroy; Appendix Paulino Fandos Pari Illustrated with full color photography, charts and maps. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has a repaired closed tear at the bottom of the spine.. Hunting in the mountains of Afghanistan, the Italian Alps, Nepal, Mongolia, North America, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan for wild sheep. Ricardo Medem is the leader in the field and an expert mountaineer.
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The Quiet Pool: Fly Fishing the Rivers & Still Waters of Washington
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Bellingham: Forrest-Park Publishers, 1996. Limited edition. Very good or better. (1996). Octavo (6.25 x 9.25), burgundy leatherette, gilt. 112pp. Illustrated with and by drawings by Ariel Shimondel. Included is an original photo of cover art for a jacket to accompany the first traded edition. The limited does not have a jacket. This edition is limited to 100 copies of which this is number 69.
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Florida Enchantments
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First British Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good; No Dust Jacket. Photography by Julian Dimock.. Brown cloth covered boards with pictorial in three colors with stamped titles in gilt. Boards vivid. Spine mild age-toning. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs by Julian Dimock. 8vo; 318 pages. First Edition, First Printing. Printed by Unwin Brothers. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning, foxing on the preliminaries; Modest handling wear with corners rubbed and a age-toned spine.. Almost every phase of outdoor Florida life is pictured here and described from the dangerous sport of capturing live alligators in the coastal rivers to life with the Bee Hunters in the interior. [Bookman] Interesting features on moonshine, Tarpon fishing, Saltwater fly fishing, Manatees Dolphin, Crocodiles, and Florida Birds.. REF: Heller 2:837; Publishers' Weekly, 1908: 127; Bookman 1909 V28: 508; Bruns D76
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Tales of Duck and Goose Shooting
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Tales of Duck and Goose Shooting: Being Duck and Goose Hunting Narratives from Celebrated Ducking Waters
by Hazelton, William C
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Springfiled,IL: William C Hazelton, 1922. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. 138p octavo,illustrated. A very good copy in dark maroon cloth
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Outdoor Life Cyclopedia
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Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1942 by arrangement with Outdoor Life. Prepared by the Editorial Staff of Outdoor Life with Photographs, Working Drawings, and Diagrams. Hardcover, embossed cloth boards with dust jacket. Single volume, 334pp. Overall, the book is in very good condition, however the dust jacket is in good condition. The dust jacket is intact and colors bright, but showing wear with some tears. It is encased in a removable mylar cover. The book has slight damage to the lower edge of spine. Page edges and end papers showing age toning and foxing. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Last Casts & Stolen Hunts The World's Best Hunting & Fishing Stories!
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Camden, SC: Liveoak Press, Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped orange dust jacket with black lettering to front and white lettering over blue blocking to spine; color illustration of a grizzly bear, Canada geese, and a lunar eclipse to front cover; jacket like new; postcard with B&W bighorn sheep illustration by Dan Metz laid in, with note addressed to previous owners from Metz; signed and inscribed by editor Chuck Wechsler on half title page: "For Pat & Charlie
The Best in the Outdoors! Chuck Wechsler"; signed and inscribed by artist Dan Metz on frontispiece: "For Pat & Charlie - Only the best. Blue Waters - Dan Metz"; else interior book clean and unmarked; tight binding; B&W illustrations by Dan Metz at the beginning of each chapter. Last Casts & Stolen Hunts is an anthology of sporting stories, both fiction and nonfiction, released by Sporting Classics Magazine; authors featured include Aldo Leopold, Zane Grey,…
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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THE FISHING GAZETTE & SEA ANGLER; July, 7, 1962- Dec. 29, 1962, 26 Issues
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Croydon, Surrey: The Fishing Gazette Limited, 1962. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. July 7, t Dec 29, 1962. pict. papre wraps, stapled at spine, 26 issues, in clean, bright condition, extra post required, Size: 4 to.,.
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Cecil Aldin The Story of a Sporting Artist
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Exeter, England: Webb & Bower. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped tan dust jacket with red and black lettering to front and spine, and color reproduction of a hunting scene by Cecil Aldin to front; not price-clipped; corners slightly bumped; spine slightly faded; else fine; pale green boards printed with B&W drawing of a man fishing from a boat wrapping around front, spine and back; black lettering to spine; corners slightly bumped; else fine; card w/ previous owner name and inscription affixed to first free end paper; signed and inscribed by author on half-title page: "All good wishes - Roy Heron"; else interior book clean; tight binding; numerous color and B&W illustrations throughout. Roy Heron was a British journalist, author, and avid collector of Cecil Aldin's books and prints. Cecil Aldin (1870 - 1935) was a British artist, illustrator, sportsman, and member of the Royal Society of British Artists, renowned for his paintings…
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Spinning for Fresh Water Game Fish
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Little, Brown 1954. 8vo. First edition. Signed by the author opposite the copy right page. Good condition - text is clean and unmarked, boards and binding sturdy. Shows shelf and edge wear with dark stains on the spine, soiling and small white stains along some edges. No DJ.
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Montana's Last Best River
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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.
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The Art of Angling: Confirmed by actual Experience; with Several Recent Discoveries to Which is Added Nobb's Complete Troller; Also Diagnostics of the Weather with or Without the Barometer.
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London: Baldwin, Craddock & Joy, 1822. This is the eleventh edition, revised, corrected and rearranged. Original (or at least old) brown leather spine and corners with original red title label on spine. Boards have new marbled paper on, also new endpapers have been fitted. A previous owner's name and date ()ctober 12th 1849) on rev of frontispiece, some foxing to outer pages and a few other brown markings to the inner pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this two-hundred year old fishing book. Covers fresh water angling in England, the types of fish caught, fishing rods, bait and flies - real or artificial., forecasting the weather with and without the use of a barometer, and the laws regarding fishing at the time. Also contains "The Complete Troller, or the Art of Trolling; with Descriptions of all the Instruments, Tackle and Materials Requisite for a Gentleman Troller, and Directions how to use them" by Robert Nobbs which deals with catching Pike. 255pp plus 2 page…
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