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

New York. The Derrydale Press. 1939 Limited Edition. Number 136 of 950 copies. Royal 8vo. 222 pp. Photo frontispiece. Black and white plates. A particularly interesting Derrydale item because Mr. Bandini reports the sighting of the "Clemente Monster." See Siegel et al., number 155. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Small stain to top and bottom of spine, small tape residue on end papers. An unopened copy. Very good. .

New York. Lyons & Burford, Publishers. 1990. 4to. (10 x 8). 339 pp. Eight color plates showing a variety of flies - dries, nymphs, wets, salmon flies. Detailed black and white photos. Mr. Talleur is a great instructor and this book will make you a better dresser of most any type of fly. This is one of the titles published in The Gentleman's Fly-Fishing Library. The book is bound in brown decorated cloth with gilt titles and decorations. A nice book. Fine. .

Lyons & Burford, Publishers. New York. 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. 4 to. 339 pp. Eight color plates of flies. Detailed black and white photos. Mr. Talleur is a great instructor and this book will make you a better tyer or start you off on the right foot if you are just starting. As New. Bound in brown simulated leather. Published without a dust jacket.. F. Hardcover.

Ottawa, Canada. Privately published in 1958. Octavo (9 x 6). 16 pp. Black and white photos throughout the book. Inscribed and signed by Eric Morse to the American Ambassador to Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Wigglesworth on the title page. Black and white photos taken by Eric Morse. Text map showing the route of the Voyageurs. The day-by-day diary account describes a 225 mile canoe trip, over ten days, beginning on August 6 and concluding on August 16, which originated at Ile a La Crosse, Saskatchewan on the Churchill River River, then up and through Peter Pond Lake to the tail of Methye River, and then up to the Clearwater River, and concluding at Waterways in Alberta. There were four men on the trip : The author, Eric W. Morse, National Director of Canadian Clubs; Major-General N. E. Rodger, former Vice-Chief of the General Staff; Major-General J. M. Rockingham, G.O.C. Quebec Command; Arthur Maybee, Vice-President and General Manager Brakeley & Company, Toronto. The Voyageurs retraced the route of… Read More

Ottawa, Canada. Privately published in 1956. Octavo (9 x 6). 24 pp. plus a large folding map (31 x 15 inches) showing the campsites pitched during the canoe trip. Black and white photos throughout the book. Text map. The day-by-day diary account describes a 407 mile canoe trip, over twenty days, beginning on July 21 and concluding on August 12, which originated at Norway House on the Nelson River, then to the Hayes River at the head of Lake Winnipeg, and concludes on the Hayes, south of Hudson’s Bay, in Northeastern Manitoba. There were four men on the trip : The author, J. Frank Delaute, Secretary to Canada’s Governor General; Anthony Lovink, Netherlands Ambassador to Canada; Eric W. Morse, National Director of Canadian Clubs; and Tyler Thompson, United States Minister to Canada. The trip retraced a route originally taken by the Hudson Bay Company. There was periodical fishing and the catching of mostly pike, pickerel, and the uncommon trout. The diary records some difficult portages, and… Read More