Search Results: Fishing from Minotavros Books

Toronto: William Briggs, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 18mo. Orig. brown publisher's cloth. Floral endpapers. 139 pp. Spine faded, light chafing to extremities, one small stain to rear board. Interior age toned. A handsome copy of this book about camping, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor adventures.

New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. Loates, Glen (paintings). 8vo. SIGNED by Glen Loates to title page. First Prentice Hall Plus edition. Soft cover. viii, 277 pp. [8] pp. colour plates of paintings by Loates, plus B&W photos and illustrations in text. Remainder stamp to tail edge. Bruising to spine head, creasing to upper front corner.

Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato Publicataions, Inc, 1996. Soft cover. Fine. Bunse, Richard. 8vo (imperial). Second edition. Soft cover, coil bound. 88 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine condition.

Montreal: Salar Publishing, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Sutton, Ed. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED by author with inscription to half-title. Blue cloth boards. 240 p.p. Colour and B&W photos and illustrations. Wear to edges, spine ends and corners. Stain to upper corner of fore edge of text block. Dust jacket is sunned at spine, "signed" sticker to spine foot, a few small spots of wear.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription by author to inside front cover. Soft cover. vii, 152 p.p. B&W photos and illustrations. Some light creasing to spine, else fine. Written by an expert fisherman who hasn't forgotten what it was like to be a beginner, this book covers every important aspect of bass fishing.

New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stroncek, Lee. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, red cloth boards. 184 p.p. B&W photos and illustrations in-text. Some very light wear and bumping at extremities of dust jacket, else fine.

Ottawa: Printed by C.H. Parmelee, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Orig. grey cloth, gilt decoration to front board. 138 pp. [13] of 14 B&W plates w/ tissue guards. (plate XI is duplicated, lacking plate XII). Spine shaken. Light chafing to extremities, bumping to corners, rubbing to gilt at front board. Offsetting to half-title at gutter. Inner hinge cracked at p. 97. Newspaper clipping entitled "Gradually Frozen, Fish Lives in Ice", some offsetting to pp. 26-27 from clipping. Long crease to p. 27. Some pencil notation. Tears to gutter of tissue guard at plate XI, plate loose.

London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. Spine tilted and slightly sunned, light chafing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped to extremities, several short tears, soiling to rear cover, sticker ghost to head of front cover.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. blue publisher's cloth. 229pp. [12] B&W plates. Light rubbing to extremities, damp staining to front cover.

New York: Fleming H. Revell COmpany, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. orange stamped publisher's cloth with mast vignette to front board. 155 pp., ads. [15] B&W plates., incl. B&W frontis. w/ tissue guard. Rubbing to extremities, spine slightly tilted. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Some pages unopened at rear (ads). "This book pretends to no literary excellence; it has a far better reason for existence - a larger justification. Its purpose is to spread the knowledge of the work of Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen, at work on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to describe the character and condition of the folk whom he seeks to help." (from the To the Reader note).

St. John's, Newfoundland: DRC Publishing, 2009. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. vi, 241 pp. B&W map in text. Fine condition. In January 1883, Howard Blackburn, a Nova Scotia native fishing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and his dory mate Thomas Welsh, a 16-year-old from Grand Bank, Newfoundland, went adrift from their schooner, the Grace L. Fears, while fishing off the Burgeo Banks. Five days after their ordeal began, a barely alive Howard rowed ashore at Little River (now Grey River) on Newfoundland's south coast. Tommy was dead. In Drifting Into Doom, best selling author Earl Pilgrim tells a gripping story of tragedy and survival, including the heroic efforts of Aunt Jenny Lushman, Susie Bushney, and all the people of Grey River who did all they could to save Howard's life.

Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. black cloth, gilt titles. T.E.G. Roughly cut edges. xvi, 334 pp. Plate illustrations w/ printed tissue guards. Spine sunned, edges rubbed, corners bruised. Ink gift inscription, pencil ownership inscription, bookplate to ffep. Chipping to upper corner of introduction and first page of table of contents.

Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 288 pp. Light edge toning, else fine.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo. Orig. red cloth, 187pp. Illustrated. Light rubbing on spine and extremities o/w about fine. Interesting work on the seven fly forms from America's "First Woman of Fly Tying.

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Dark green cloth. Lacking half-title page. [6] 115 p.p. Features 19 copper plates with tissue guards, including frontispiece, showing various natural and artificial flies to be used for bait. This classic, groundbreaking work on the art of fly-fishing includes observations and behaviours of Trout and Grayling fish, the use of tackle, from hooks, and dyes for feathers, using insects or imitations, as well as when to fish, and tips for the perfect cast. Front inner hinge cracked. Damp stain to upper front cover. Wear to tips, edges. Joints have been previously hand coloured a lighter green. Sporadic stains on front and rear covers. Light foxing, interior clean with bright coloured plates. Some tape marking on front fly leaf, and an early ownership inscription. Otherwise a very good copy.

Johnson Gorman, 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7] 8-528 p.p. Jacket lightly rubbed with small stain to lower rear cover on barcode. Crisp and clean boards. Some smudges to top and fore-edge. Top corner of rear board slightly bumped, otherwise interior clean. Illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. An interesting and comprehensive guidebook to fly flishing throughout Canada.

Camden, Maine: Ragged Mountain Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Kehoe, Arolina. 8vo. Full blue textured paper. xii, 163 pp., [24] colour plates. Light bumping to spine ends. Small stain to fore edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped at spine head, chipped at upper corners of flaps, a few small stains visible to reverse.

Boston: Printed for Subscribers, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Turner, A.D.. 4to. Two Volumes. This is copy no. 282 of 350 limited copies. Handsomely bound in original tan suede with coloured lure onlaid on upper left corner of both volumes. Inner edges gilt, white silk endpapers and printed on handmade paper. Vol. I: xxvii, 313 p.p. Beautiful colour frontispiece of an Atlantic Salmon, ; Vol. II: xi, 368 p.p. Frontispiece of Frank M. Johnson. Illustrated throughout with [8] richly coloured lithographs and [62] detailed b/w plates of salmon, trout, pike, walleye, their special flies and lures, as well as landscapes and fly fishing scenes. All tissue guards present. Features many of the authors own articles, songs, and poems, and those collected from noted anglers, including Archibald Mitchell, Edward Thomas Davies Chambers, and William Harris. Light rubbing to covers. Slight bruising and heavy wear at corners. Some tearing to suede spine ends and covers. Spine labels missing. Roughly… Read More

London: George Rutledge and Sons. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 18mo. N.d., [ca. 1885]. Orig. blue cloth. Publisher's adverts to endpapers. viii, 150 pp., [11] plates. B&W illustrations in text. Lacks plate II, never issued here. Rubbing to extremities, foxing to cloth. Ex-library, stamps and card catalogue pocket of Metro Toronto Zoo Library. Inner hinge cracked at p. 97. 0.

Devon, England: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Tunnicliffe, C.F.. 8vo. Limited edition, #10/950 numbered copies. Blue leatherette, gilt fish device to front board. Ribbon marker. T.E.G. 156 pp. B&W illustration text. Spot of soiling to fore and tail edges. In blue cloth backed slipcase that is lightly generally soiled.