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

Frank Amato Publications. Portland, Oregon. 1996. First edition. Hardback. 4 to. Beautiful color photos of flies, trout, and scenic shots of the Sacramento. This book covers the upper and lower parts of the river, techniques, how to fish the different sections, in all seasons. As new in a new dust jacket.. F. Hardcover.

No place. [n.d., but ca. 1991]. 8vo. 16 pp. Black and white photos, illustrations. A brief tribute to Roderick Haig-Brown. Pictorial wrappers. Very good.. Soft cover.

Norwood, Massachusetts. The Plimpton Press. 1929. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5). [4], 3-28 pp. First Edition. Privately published by the author. Inscribed and signed by Frank Gray Griswold "To my friend / A. H. E. Wood / from / F. Gray Griswold," Mr. Wood was the first angler to describe greased line fly fishing for salmon and his methods were published in England under the pen-name "Jock Scott" in 1935. There are numerous marginal notes within the text by angling author William Menzies, author of "Salmon Fishing," and other titles. Mr. Griswold describes Atlantic salmon fishing in Eastern Canada in the 1920s, based on his own experiences and also taken from Club records of the Grand Cascapedia and Restigouche camps. The book is bound in its original red flexible morocco with gilt titles and a decoration on the front cover. Top edge gilt. With the armorial bookplate of A. H. E. Wood on the front paste-down. Also with a sporting bookplate on the fly leaf. There’s just a bit of… Read More

Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. First edition. Large Quarto (12 ½ x 8). 79 pp. Stunning color plates showing salmon as a valuable natural resource, especially so for Canada’s aboriginal peoples who depend on the annual return of spawning salmon for their existence. There are colored maps showing the routes salmon travel during their time at sea. Haig-Brown’s compassionate and thoughtful text celebrates salmon and pleads for their continued return to their home rivers. ////// "Pacific Salmon - River-born fugitives, red muscled under sheathing silver - Alive with lights of ocean’s changing colours, - The range of deeps and distances through wild salt years - Has gathered the sea’s plenty into your perfection. - Fullness is the long return from dark depths / Rendering toll of itself to the searching nets - Surging on to strife on brilliant gravel shallows - that opened long ago behind the failing ice. - In violence over gravel, under the… Read More

Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. First edition. Large Quarto (12 ½ x 8). 79 pp. Stunning color plates showing salmon as a valuable natural resource, especially so for Canada’s aboriginal peoples who depend on the annual return of spawning salmon for their existence. There are colored maps showing the routes salmon travel during their time at sea. Haig-Brown’s compassionate and thoughtful text celebrates salmon and pleads for their continued return to their home rivers. ////// "Pacific Salmon - River-born fugitives, red muscled under sheathing silver - Alive with lights of ocean’s changing colours, - The range of deeps and distances through wild salt years - Has gathered the sea’s plenty into your perfection. - Fullness is the long return from dark depths / Rendering toll of itself to the searching nets - Surging on to strife on brilliant gravel shallows - that opened long ago behind the failing ice. - In violence over gravel, under the… Read More

Ottawa. Environment Canada. 1974. First Edition. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8). 79 pp. The publication date shows 1974; however, the book wasn’t issued by the Canadian government until mid-1975, without charge. Stunning color plates and maps. Haig-Brown's text is a passionate plea to save and restore the salmon stocks. This was Russell Chatham’s copy of the book. The book is bound in gray printed wrappers with white titles and red decorations. A nice book. Near fine..

London. Collins. 1982. First Edition. 8vo. (8 ½ x 7). 160 pp. Historical black and white photos. Text illustrations. A well-balanced overview of salmon fishing. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. Deluxe Edition. Folio (12 1/2 x 9). 79 pp. This book of The Salmon is one of a few copies prepared and presented by Environment Canada in appreciation and gratitude to the folks who created, designed, and then produced the visually attractive Salmon Portfolios presented to the Heads of State and other government worthies representing 150 countries at the Third United Nations The Law of the Sea Conference convened in Caracas, Venezuela, in June 1974. It is briefly inscribed and signed by L. H. Legault (the book’s editor] on the front fly leaf. The portfolios, hand crafted in oak and cloth, held the same Haig-Brown book, The Salmon, along with several large color prints of salmon; the portfolios were formally presented to foreign government officials a month ahead of the conference in a concerted public relations campaign to influence governments to support Canada’s position of enacting a 200 mile coastal limitation on high seas… Read More

Holt, Missouri. Privately published. Edited and published by Michael Radencich. Nine Issues (1993: Vol. 5, Nos. 1 thru 4. 1994: Vol. 6. Nos. 1 thru 3. 1996: Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2). 4to. (11 x 8). Each issue averages 20 pp. Illustrated with color photos in some issues. Interesting articles and commentary on all aspects of dressing these most beautiful of flies by a slew of experts including Alec Jackson, Don Coleman, Ron Higashiyama, Michael McCoy, Tom Broderidge, William Chinn, Charles Judy, John Betts, Wayne Luallen, Marvin Nolte, Greg Bevard, etc. A beautifully produced periodical by the Titan of Atlantic salmon flies and quite scarce, as many of these were limited to 100 or 125 copies each. Each volume bound in colorful pictorial wrappers with black titles, and with several issues with tipped-on color plates. A handsome group. All in fine condition..

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 1999. Revised second edition with full color photos showing the salmon patterns of Mr. Jorgnesen. Oblong octavo (8 ½ x 7). 191 pp. including index. Poul Jorgensen has dressed a gorgeous feather-wing salmon fly with spey hackle on a size 1/0 hook, mounted on the front free end paper; he has signed and inscribed the book to a fellow fly dresser. With new color photos showing step-by-step sequence salmon fly dressing photos along with a listing of 180 salmon fly patterns with instructions and material lists. Includes a thorough discussion of the materials needed to dress these fancy flies. The book is bound in black cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book and fly. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

Devon, England. The Flyfishers' Classic Library. 1995. The Centenary Deluxe Edition. Book number 5 of 55 copies published. Thick 8vo. (9 x 6). 510 plus 45 pp. of illustrated advertisements. With a size 7/0 gut-eye salmon fly, Kelson's "Golden Eagle", exquisitely dressed by Kim Rasmussen of Denmark, signed by him, mounted within an oval recess inside the front cover. Introduction by John Buckland. Eight color plates of salmon flies. Portrait frontispiece of George Kelson. Black and white plates and text drawings. The book is bound in full Royal Nigerian purple morocco with gilt titles and decorations with marbled end papers, all edges gilt, and is kept in a matching purple cloth drop-back box lined with black silk moiré, with gilt titles and decorations. An exquisite and elegant book. Fine in a near fine slip case with a light bump on the corner of the slipcase..

Goshen, Connecticut. The Angler's and Shooter's Press. 1979. Facsimile Edition. Large octavo ((9 ½ x 7). 464 pp. Eight color plates of salmon flies. This book has the separate group of eight colored plates of salmon flies issued simultaneously with the book’s publication in 1979. Illustrated frontispiece showing George Kelson. Text illustrations showing the friends and methods of Mr. Kelson. This was the first facsimile edition and it remains the best, faithfully reproducing the 1895 first edition binding. The book is bound in scarlet cloth with gilt titles and decorations. There’s a some foxing to the front end sheet and page edges, otherwise a very good book and fine colored fly plates. .

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 1978. Large Octavo (9 x 7). 256 pp. including index. Limited Edition. Book number 63 of 250 published. Signed by Poul Jorgensen on the limitation page. With a size 4 low-water Blue Rat Hair Wing salmon fly dressed by the author mounted on the limitation page. Foreword by Joseph D. Bates. Color plates showing a large number of salmon flies tied by Mr. Jorgensen as well as the materials needed to dress them. Black and white step-by-step instructional photos. With author’s brief inscription and signature on the front fly leaf. The book is bound in full brown morocco with gilt titles. Brown textured elephant hide end papers. Silk ribbon marker. Cream sail cloth slip case. The book is in fine condition in a near fine slipcase with a touch of age-toning on the edges.. Signed by Author..

No place (Norwalk). Privately published. 2004. 8vo. 19 pp. An account of salmon fishing on the north coast of Mendocino County, California. This piece first appeared in The Overland Monthly in 1874. An interesting, lively story. This is a homemade book, published in a small edition of 30 or less copies. Hand colored illustrated paper covered boards, black cloth spine. As New.. Hardcover.

London. Published at the Offices of Country Life. 1907. First Edition. Octavo (9 x 6). 169 pp. Laid-in is the half-title leaf from another copy of Hardy’s Salmon Fishing that is inscribed by John J. Hardy to Scottish angler William Robertson in 1907. Photo frontispiece of the author. There’s a color plate with tissue guard showing a variety of Atlantic salmon flies. Black and white plates showing Hardy reels, rods, hooks, knots, casts, etc. Text illustrations. And there’s dressings for 344 salmon fly patterns. The book is bound in the original dark green cloth with gilt titles and decorations in gold. Occasional light foxing on the fore-edges, however the book is generally clean and bright. Curiously, the date of publication on the title page reads "MCM" rather than the actual date of "MCMVII." A very good book.. Signed by Author..

Devon, England. The Flyfisher's Classic Library. 2002. 8vo. (8 x 6). 98 pp. including index. With a list of other titles available in the series bound-in at the back of the book. Limited Edition. Book number 105 of 950 copies published. Preface by Crawford Little. Photo frontispiece of the author with his pet black bird. An excellent book on fishing for Atlantic salmon in low-water with sparsely dressed flies. Mr. Hill's treatise is also applicable in North America for salmon and steelhead. The book is bound in full green leather with gilt titles on the spine and the FCL logo on the front cover. Marbled endpapers. Green cloth slip case. A handsome book. Silk ribbon marker. Fine in a fine slip case. .

London. H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd. 1994 [1984]. Later printing. Thick 8vo. (9 x 6). 448 pp. including bibliography, index. Color photo frontispiece of Hugh Falkus with a few large salmon. Color plates of flies and scenic river views. Black and white photos. Text drawings. A masterful account of salmon fishing by one of the world's best at this sport. There is valuable information herein for angler's in the U.S. as well. The book is bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Fine in a brown dust jacket with the spine faded to green (actually attractive) that is otherwise fine..

Goshen, Connecticut. The Angler's and Shooter's Press. 1979. Facsimile Edition. Large octavo ((9 ½ x 7). 464 pp. Eight color plates of salmon flies. Illustrated frontispiece showing George Kelson with his distinctive handle-bar mustache and 18 foot Spey rod. Text illustrations showing the friends and methods of Mr. Kelson. This was the first facsimile edition and it remains the best, faithfully reproducing the 1895 first edition binding. The book is bound in scarlet cloth with gilt titles and decorations. A nice book. In fine condition..

Ottawa. Environment Canada. 1974. First edition. Quarto (10 ½ x 8). 79 pp. The book is inscribed and signed by Ann and Roderick Haig-Brown (in Roderick’s hand) on the half-title page. Stunning color plates showing salmon as well as maps and diagrams. Haig-Brown's text is a passionate plea to save and restore the salmon stocks. In more than 30 years pursuing Haig-Brown books, this is the only example of The Salmon I’ve seen that is signed by Haig-Brown. The book is bound in gray pictorial wrappers with a Haida salmon printed on the front cover and title on the spine. Light edge ware. Very good.. Signed by Author..

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications. 1995. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8). 48 pp. Limited Edition. One of 400 copies published in hard cover. Beautiful color photography of the Salmon River which flows through northwestern New York state. Colored text map. A precise guide to catching salmon and steelhead on the fly; there’s a color photo of the most effective patterns. The book is bound in gray cloth with silver titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket..