Search Results: Authors starting with F from Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books

New York. Sotheby's Publications. 1987. First American edition. 8vo. (8 ½ x 6 ½). 160 pp. including bibliography, index. Color plates. Black and white photos. Text illustrations. Illustrated ads. An important book describing American and English tackle for collectors. The book is bound in black cloth with silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket..

Beds, England. Beekay Publishers. 1986. First edition. 8 vo. 172 pp. Tipped-on watercolor by Gordon Chell. Good stories on catching outsized fish. Color and black and white photos of many huge fish. Illustrations of fish in black and white. Fine in a fine dust jacket (As new).. F. Hardcover.

London. Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1947. First Edition. 8vo. (7 x 5). 99 pp. plus ads. Hampton's work is still useful and includes both British and American fishing titles. An updated and revised edition of Hampton's work was completed by Ken Callahan and Paul Morgan in 2008 and it includes additional notes and books to Hampton's original bibliography This book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear..

New York - Washington. Fisheries Game & Forest Commission. U. S. Fish Commission. 1895-1907. All prints with Denton’s signature in facsimile. The nineteen prints measure 9 1/2 x 12 inches. 1. The Canadian Red Trout, Adult Male. 2. Male Land Locked Salmon or Quananiche. 3. Female Land Locked Salmon or Quananiche. 4. The Shad. 5. Long Eared Sunfish. 6. Fall Fish or Silver Chub. 7. The Smelt. 8. The Canadian Red Trout. 9. Steelhead or Salmon Trout. 10. The Atlantic Salmon. 11. Brook Sucker. 12. Hickory Shad. 13. Lake Trout. 14. Sunapee Trout or American Saibling. 15. Tahoe Trout. 16. (On One Plate): Roach - River Chub - Comon Silverside - Blunt Nosed Minnow. 17. (On One Plate): Red-Sided Minnow - Common Silverside - Creek Chub - Red-Nosed Minnow. 18. (On One Plate): Mummichoc - Fall Fish - Black Nosed Dace - Common White Sucker. 19. The Virginia Deer. The plates are all in fine condition. .

Hertford, England. Nature and Archaeology Circle. Museum, Littlehampton. Extra Publication No. 1. 1929. 4to. 71 pp. including index. Folding map of the Arundel and surrounding area in a back pocket. "Being the titles of a manuscript written by, or for, the Water-Bailiff of Thomas Howard, 24th Earl of Arundel, About the Year 1637, and Preserved in the Muniment Room at Old Norfolk House, 31A St. James's Square, S. W."A facsimile printing of a quite rare work originally printed in 1637. Keith Rollo's copy with his signature. Bound in gray cloth spine and cream paper boards with black titles. This printing is quite scarce. Very good.. Hardcover.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato, Publisher. 1978. Volume 1, number 1. March-April 1978. 4to. (10 x 8). 70 pp. This is the first issue of the well-known periodical which focused on fly fishing in the West. Its editor, Don Roberts, always edgy, focused, outspoken, funny, and entertaining, shepherded the magazine along through its early years. Color photos, colored fly plates, and interesting articles. The magazine is bound in colorful pictorial wrappers with yellow titles. A nice magazine and scarce. Fine..

Boston. Printed for Subscribers, 1902. Limited Edition. In two volumes. Set number 240 of 350 sets published. Large and thick octavos (10 1/2 x 7). Vol. 1: xxvii, [2], 3-313 pp. Vol 2: xi, [2], 3-368 pp. including index. With Dr. Frank Johnson’s signed business card laid-in presenting the set. Color frontispiece showing an Atlantic salmon in volume one, and a portrait frontis of Dr. Frank M. Johnson in volume two. There are beautiful color plates showing Atlantic salmon, trout, and bass flies with descriptive tissue guards, and a large number of color plates with tissues showing various species of game fish, plus a multitude of black and white and sepia toned plates also showing large numbers of game fish, all with descriptive tissues. Facsimile signatures of the contributing authors (including Charles Orvis, Eugene McCarthy, J. D. Quackenbos, Edward Everett, and several others. Text vignettes and illustrations. The text sheets were printed on hand made paper. The two volumes are bound in their… Read More

London - Boston and New York. Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1906. First Edition. 8vo. (7 x 5). 385 pp. including index. With chapters on Sawfish - Sailfish - Cobia - Tuna - Shark, etc. The book is bound in its original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Narrow crease on the front cover, otherwise a nice, clean very good book..