Search Results: adventures in angling a book of by van campen heilner

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-01-19. Hardcover. Good.

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, 1922. Essays on fishing, hunting & outdoor life, mostly or all reprinted from various magazines, including fishing of salmon, barracuda, swordfish, tarpon, alligator; tackle; an island horse, British West Indies. Hardcover. Shows some wear, stains to front cover, ink note on free endsheet. Text clean; [6], 233 pages; b/w photos, three color plates, map, as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank Stick. Small Octavo.

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Stewart Kidd Co., Cincinnati, 1922. 8vo, 233pp, colour and black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy in blue cloth. Lacks front end-paper, ex-library copy. Previous owners' names and bookplate on prelims. Board corners worn.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Stewart Kidd Company, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover: Previous owners name on first paste-down. Blue cloth binding has title in gold on front board. Title on spine in gold. Corners and edges are rubbed and worn. Spine ends lightly frayed. Soil. Fascinating recollections and illustrations. Nice tight binding.

Cincinnati, Ohio. Stewart Kidd Company Publishers. 1922. First Edition. 8vo. (7 x 5). 233 pp. including appendix. Color frontispiece showing a leaping tarpon. Black and white plates showing many outsized fish. Includes chapters on Salmon of Monterrey - Barracuda - Diary of an Offshore Angler - The Coast of Romance - Clemente Swordfish - An Ocean Goliath - Where the Coral Reefs Lie Bare, etc. The book is bound in its original blue cloth with gilt titles. A bit of soiling to the back board, otherwise very good..

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Stewart Kidd, 1922. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated from paintings by Frank Stick; photographs by the author. Fine first edition. Clean, square, binding tight. Previous owner's name to back of frontispiece, otherwise internally unmarked. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt embossed to cover and spine. Richly illustrated with paintings and photographs. All plates present. A lovely book about many of the author's sport fishing adventures, including fishing for salmon, tarpon, barracuda, and swordfish, among others.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cincinnati : Stewart Kidd Company, 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". Frank Stick. A fascinating memoir of salt water fishing in America, the personal copy of fishing enthusiast and former Brighton police officer, Jack Reece. Written by Van Campen Heilner, an American sportsman and avid hunter and fisherman.A fascinating memoir of Heilner's time salt water fishing in America.The first edition of this work.Containing three illustrated plates in colour, and twenty-one plates in black-and-white. Illustrations are based off paintings by Frank Stick and photography by the author. Collated and complete. This was the personal copy of fishing enthusiast and former Brighton police officer, Jack Reece, noted by his bookplate to the front pastedown. Not only was Reece an avid shark fisherman, he also happened to be head of Brighton's CID at the time of the IRA bombing of the Brighton Grand Hotel in 1984. Reece's police force was responsible for the capture of Patrick Magee, the… Read More