Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books

Portland, Oregon. Privately published by Mary Kay Callaghan. 2008. Quarto. (10 x 10). 180 pp. Jaw-dropping, gorgeous, breathtaking beyond physical description color photos of the North Umpqua River, its steelhead, together with fly fisherman and occasionally their flies. With an Introduction by Jim Van Loan. Mr.Callaghan spent fifty years fishing and photographing the North Umpqua, and his photos will delight all fisher-persons and anyone else with an eye to extraordinary natural beauty. The book is bound in beige cloth with silver titles. With the print brochure laid-in. Pictorial dust jacket. A beautiful book. Fine in a fine dust jacket..

New York. Simon & Schuster. 1994. First Edition. 8vo. (7 x 5). 205 pp. Text drawings by Glenn Wolff. Entertaining and interesting stories of fly fishing around the globe. The book is bound in cream and blue cloth with blue titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket..

Ramsbury, Marborough, Wiltshire. The Crowood Press. 1991. First Edition. 4to. (11 x 9). 208 pp. including index. Inscribed by the author to a well-known Oregon fly fisher on the half-title and with a drawing of a streamer fly. Illustrated frontispiece. Color drawings, many full-page. Black and white text illustrations. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1988. First edition. Octavo (9 x 7). 208 pp. Illustrated by the author. Foreword by Nick Lyons. With a tipped-in color print of a Striped Bass illustrated by Chatham on the title page. Laid-in is a colored pencil drawing by Russell showing a fly fisherman (it’s Russ) wading waist deep in a river fly casting. This original drawing was published by Russ in his 1978 book, "Silent Seasons," and it appears on page 197. The drawing measures 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches and it has Russ’s Papermill Creek/Tomales Bay Monogram and the year (77), which can be seen on the back of his waders at water level. These are compelling stories by a master writer; Russ wrote an especially sensitive piece on Roderick Haig-Brown. With Russell Chatham’s death in November 2019, the West Coast voice of Steelhead and Salmon preservation expressed through his writings, is at an end. The book is bound in white wrappers with green titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book.… Read More

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1994. Octavo (8 1/2 x 7). 205 pp. plus colophon. Deluxe Limited Edition. Book number 10 of 200 copies published. Signed by Russell on the half-title page. The limited edition was issued with a Silver Salmon print, signed and also numbered (10) by Russ. Accompanying this book is an original colored pencil drawing by Russell Chatham showing a fly fisherman (Russ) in a row boat. The colored drawing measures 8 x 5 inches and it has Russ’s Papermill Creek/Tomales Bay Monogram and the year (1977), which can be seen by the gunwale in the foreground. This same colored drawing was used as a black and white illustration in the 1978 first edition of Russ’s book "Silent Seasons" on page 103, edited by Russell Chatham and published by E. P. Dutton. These essays and stories are among the finest outdoor/sporting themes published over the last 40 years. The book is bound in burgundy cloth with Russell's facsimile signature in gilt and date on the front… Read More

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1994. Octavo (8 1/2 x 7). 205 pp. plus colophon. Deluxe Limited Edition. Book number 75 of 200 copies published. Signed by Russell on the half-title page. The limited edition includes a Silver Salmon print, signed and also numbered (75) by Russ. Accompanying this book is a striped bass fly dressed by Russ, his 7 inch long "Black Phantom" striper fly dressed on a size 3/0 saltwater hook. This is the same fly pattern he used to catch his 36 pound world record stripper in 1966. Included too is a color photo showing the record fish exhibited in the Golden Gate Angling & Casting Club in San Francisco. These essays and stories are among the finest outdoor/sporting themes published over the last 40 years. The book is bound in burgundy cloth with Russell's facsimile signature in gilt and date on the front cover and title on the spine. The book is kept in a matching burgundy cloth slip case. The book, slip case, and fly in fine condition..

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1991 [1988]. Second printing. Octavo (9 x 7). 208 pp. Illustrated by the author. Black and white photos. Foreword by Nick Lyons. Compelling, interesting stories penned by a master writer. No other west coast writer has captured and expressed in such absorbing language fly fishing for salmon, steelhead and stripers as has Russ Chatham. The black and white photo on the front cover was taken by Russ of his friend Guy de la Valdene during a successful salmon fly fishing trip to Iceland. If you would like to read about the adventure from Guy’s point-of-view, read his book "On the Water." The book is bound in pictorial wrappers with white titles. Just a touch of edge wear, otherwise a fine book..

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1988. Octavo (9 x 7). 208 pp. Illustrated by the author. This was Russ’s personal copy of Dark Waters with his bookplate on the half-title page. Tipped-in on the title page is Russell’s colored Striper print. Foreword by Nick Lyons. The book is bound in light cream colored wrappers with brown titles on the spine and front cover. I examined all of Russ’s angling books and there were just four books (only his books) with his personal bookplate. A unique rarity. With Russ’s white page markers still in place. The book is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket..

New York. Nick Lyons Books. 1982. First Edition. 4to. (11 x 9). 216 pp. including glossary. Color plates showing a variety of fly natural insects. Black and white text drawings. A good book for identifying and dressing effective fly patterns. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Very good in a near very good dust jacket with a little edge wear..

Cincinnati, Ohio. Stewart Kidd Company. [n.d., but 1921]. First American Edition. 8vo. (7 ½ x 5). 281 pp. including appendix, index. Illustrated color frontispiece. Color plates, including plates showing full-dress salmon flies. Black and white photos. Probably the best and brightest of all salmon fishing titles. The book is bound in its original green cloth with black titles. Some moderate fading at the edges of the cloth, some scattered foxing, otherwise very good..

London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1843. First Edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 x 7). xvii, [xviii-xx], [1], 2- 298 pp. including appendix. Extra engraved title page and printed title page. Color tinted frontispiece titled "Burning the Water." Thirteen plates in total. Ten color tinted lithograph plates. Three hand-colored plates - one showing six beautifully crafted salmon flies and two of salmon. Wood engravings by L. Haghe, T. Landseer and S. Williams from paintings by Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Landseer. Text illustrations. Eleven chapters in which Mr. Scrope delights his readers with poignant, beguiling prose. The book is elegantly bound in full tan calf with raised hubs, gilt rules and titles within six compartments on the spine, intertwined with gilt decorations. Inside gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. It’s simply sophisticated. The book and its contents in fine condition. . First Edition..

Devon, England. The Flyfisher's Classic Library. 1999. Deluxe Edition. Numbered copy of 55. With a size 3/0 'The Toppy' fly tied by Steen Orvad Jansen and signed by him; mounted within an oval recess on a marbled panel on the inside front cover. 8vo. (9 x 6). 292 pp. plus colophon. Illustrated color frontispiece. Color plates showing salmon flies and fish. Text illustrations. Bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and decorations. Marbled end sheets. Matching black cloth clamshell box lined with silk moiré and with gilt titles on the spine. A spectacular presentation and quite scarce. A beautiful example. The book is fine in a fine clamshell box. .

Devon, England. The Flyfisher's Classic Library. 1995. 8vo. (8 x 6). 292 pp. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies published. Two color plates of salmon and a color plate showing salmon flies. Black and white plates. Numerous black and white photos. Scrope's beguiling prose is still fresh and vibrant today; this is one of the finest books published on salmon fishing. The book is bound in half green leather and green cloth; top edge gilt, silk ribbon marker. Matching green cloth slip case. A beautiful book. Fine in a fine slip case..

New York. Foster & Reynolds Company. 1917. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 5). [14], 5-104 [105-106] pp. Signed by E.E.M. (Edward Eames Millard) on the front end paper. Photo frontispiece showing a raging Nepigon river. Black and white plates of the river in various locations. The author writes with a good sense of self-consciousness describing fly fishing for trout: "Putting one’s flies on the water like thistledown or snowflakes is unessential here on the Nepigon. Nor is accuracy required on these ripples and rapids." That simple thought should endear Mr. Millard to the angler who sneeringly flogs the water. The book is bound in the original green cloth with gilt title on the front cover. A nice book. Clean and very good.. Signed by Author..

Vancouver, British Columbia. Evergreen Press Ltd. Gouvernement du Canada/Government of Canada. 1980. Limited Edition. Book number 238 of 250 copies published. Quarto (11 x 9). 143 pp. including bibliography plus Limitation Page. Tipped-in color photo frontispiece of Roderick Haig-Brown. Introduction by Andy Russell. Illustrated by Robert Fish with color plates plus ink drawings showing a variety of fish species. Numerous vivid color plates of fish and angling scenes by Christopher Springmann. The French language edition of Bright Waters, Bright Fish is a scarce Haig-Brown title. The book is bound in brown leather spine with titles in gilt and dark brown buckram cloth with Haig-Brown's facsimile signature in gilt on the front cover. Black silk ribbon marker. Matching buckram slipcase. In fine condition..

New York. E. P. Dutton. 1980. First Edition. Octavo (7 ½ x 5). 287 pp. plus acknowledgment. Inscribed and signed by Ernest Schwiebert on the front fly leaf to a former owner of an Orvis fly shop. Illustrated by the author. Fasten your seat belt, as Ernest Schwiebert takes you around the planet fly fishing exotic locations populated with interesting characters and enormous fish, mostly salmon, steelhead, and trout. The chapter, "The Platforms of Despair", is not to be missed - fly fishing for huge Atlantic salmon with the mysterious and wealthy Nicholas Denissoff on the Aroy River in Norway; Denissoff was a Russian émigré after the 1917 revolution, and leased the beat on the Aroy when Mr. Schwiebert fished it in the early 1960s. There was intrigue and mystique surrounding Denissoff and it lends itself to the thrill of the fishing. The book is bound in gray cloth with silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edge… Read More

Leipzig, Germany. Wilhelm Goldmann Berlag. 1938. First German Edition. Octavo (8 x 5). 240 pp. plus ads. Translated from the English by Dr. van Bebber. The German edition was translated from the 1936 printing of Pool and Rapid published by Jonathan Cape, London. Haig-Brown’s literary agent in New York had no record of the number of copies sold. The German edition of Pool and Rapid is a handsome book. Bound by the publisher in green and cream tweed cloth with an eagle tastefully illustrated on the front cover. Illustrated end papers in light green showing deer at the edge of a stream. Top edge yellow. The book is in fine condition..

Leipzig, Germany. Wilhelm Goldmann Berlag. 1938. First German Edition. Octavo (8 x 5). 240 pp. plus ads. Translated from the English by Dr. van Bebber. The German edition was translated from the 1936 printing of Pool and Rapid published by Jonathan Cape, London. Haig-Brown’s literary agent in New York had no record of the number of copies sold. This edition is destined for the Haig-Brown completest. The German edition of Pool and Rapid is a handsome book and it’s scarce in the dust jacket. Bound by the publisher in green and cream tweed cloth with an eagle tastefully illustrated on the front cover. Illustrated end papers in light green showing deer at the edge of a stream. Top edge yellow. Pictorial dust jacket. The book is in fine condition and the jacket is very good with just a touch of edge wear.. First Edition..

Goshen, Connecticut. The Angler's & Shooters Press. 1981. An un-numbered copy of 1250. 8vo. 266 pp. plus colophon. Photo frontispiece. Black and white plates. Facsimile signatures of Derrydale authors. Complete collations, with detailed descriptions of contents, bindings, limitation numbers, etc. An essential work for anyone with an interest in the Press. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Blue cloth slip case. Fine in a fine slip case. .

Dant, Oregon. Privately published. 1991. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 9). 131 pp. Printed on rectos only. This is a 22 year diary which includes extensive accounts of fly fishing for trout and steelhead on the Deschutes River in central Oregon between the years 1959 and 1981. There are additional day-to-day accounts of life on the river, with good descriptions of the natural history of the area. A scarce book, with likely just a small number published. The book is bound in green paper covers with a black comb ring binder. There’s some creasing to the front cover, otherwise a very good book..