EPHEMERAS "Mayflies" Naturals and Artificials by Gaidy, Charles - 1986

Edicom, 1986. 13.375" X 9.875" in dark brown cloth with white titles. Clean, tight, unmarked; Top edge very lightly foxed: FINE PLUS condition. Jacket is foxed along front panel fore edge, spine, and rear panel: GOOD. 333pp. LIMITED EDITION of 3330 total copies.. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good.

Edicom, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good++/Good++. Hardcover in dust jacket. Limited printing of 3000 unnumbered copies. Brown cloth boards with color illustration tipped in on front board. Title in white on front board and spine. Boards show light edge wear. Foxed fore edges. Previous owner's bookplate on inside paste down. Date in upper corner of lightly soiled first free endpaper. Text and illustration pages are clean. Off white illustrated dust jacket shows light edge wear and soil, a few short tears. Looks nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

EDICOM Inc.:, 1986. 333 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, translated by Roland H. Creel. "Charles Gaidy is a resident of Ussel, France, a town located in the mountains of Central France south of Paris. His angling career started in 1946, Even as a boy he spent much of his time studying rivers and drawings the insects and fish in them. His artwork has been acclaim in Europe for years. He is an avid fisherman who has taught fly casting and fly tying in many parts of France. This book deals with one of the largest and arguably the most important group of aquatic insects, the order Ephemeroptera, known to anglers as mayflies." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. This edition was limited to 3,000 copies.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good-. Illus. by By the Author and Thomas W. Earnhardt.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

One of 3000 unnumbered copies in the first edition. 4to in cloth with dust jacket. 333 pp. NF/VG. Scuffing to unclipped dust jacket. Book is in excellent condition. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Edicom. VG+. 1986. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. 13.1 X 9.9 X 1.5 inches. 333 pages. Ink ownership inscription. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

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.

Edicom, 1986-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Edicom, Inc.. Fine. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. 2905469021 . A fine deluxe edition limited to 330 numbered copies, this being number 162. Full brown morocco, pictorial cover-label, all page edges gilt. Housed in cloth slipcase with leather edges, without the signed lithograph. A most handsome presentation, signed by author Charles Gaidy on the limitation page; Ephemeras represents the best display of entomology, art, and fly tying you could imagine. The unusually large photo plates of individual flies show the colors and detail needed by the tier. Tom Earnhardt, an especially competent American angler and photographer, has assisted Gaidy in making this book a marriage of the most effective American and European fly patterns for trout. - Bernard "Lefty" Kreh; 4to; 333, [3] pages; 169. GAIDY, CHARLES. Ephemeras "Mayflies" Naturals and Artificials. Profusely illustrated, including color plates from photographs. Tall 4to, full brown morocco,… Read More

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.

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

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.

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.

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,… Read More

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.

The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

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… Read More

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.,.