HUNTING, FISHING & SHOOTING
(NOTE THAT BOOKS LISTED AS "very fine" ARE IN AS-NEW CONDITION)



ALMY, Gerald. Tying and Fishing Terrestials - Stackpole Press, 1st edition, 1978. Very fine in fine dust jacket (A never-read copy but with slight rubbing on corners and spine of dust jacket. --- US$ 45.00

BAUER, Erwin. Treasury of Big Game Animals - Harper & Row/Outdoor Life, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 20.00

BRAKEFIELD, Tom. Hunting Big-Game Trophies: A North American Guide - Outdoor Life, 1976. 1st edition. Very fine in fine dust jacket (jacket has tiny chip top front). --- US$ 18.00

CARTER, Jimmy. An Outdoor Journal - Bantam, 1988. 1st edition, signed by President Carter on the title page (not auto-pen). Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 90.00

EISENBERG, Lee and DeCourcy TAYLOR. The Ultimate Fishing Book - New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1981. 1st edition. Fine book in fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has a price-adjustment clip, i.e., after a certain date the jacket was clipped to effect an increase in the price of the book. Still a beautiful book in beautiful condition. --- US$ 60.00

ELMAN, Robert and George PEPER (editors). Hunting America's Game Animals and Birds - New York, Winchester Press, 1975. A collection of writings on all facets of American game hunting by 40 of the sport's eminate authorities. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. --- US$ 12.50

FLICK, Art. Art Flick's New Streamside Guide to Naturals and Their Imitations - New York, Crown, 1973. 9th printing. As new except for previous owner's name and address rubber-stamped on lower right-hand corner of ffep. --- US$ 21.00

FLICK, Art. Art Flick's New Streamside Guide to Naturals and Their Imitations - New York, Crown, 1973. 9th printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 28.00

FREW, Timothy. Salmon: The Angler's Guide - NY, Mallard Press, 1991, 1st U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Beutifully illustrated with color photos. --- US$ 12.50

GIBBS, Jerry. Bass Myths Exploded - David McKay, 1978, 1st edition. Very good plus in a nice very good plus dust jacket. --- US$13.50

GINGRICH, Arnold. The Fishing in Print: A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature - Winchester Press, 1974, 1st edition. Very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket; a bit of "bump" damage on lower left-hand side of fore-edge of the book; some creasing on bottom area of jacket near spine. Nevertheless, seems to be a never-read copy. Written by the founder, over 60 years ago, of Esquire magazine, this book is one of the greats of angling literature. --- US$ 45.00

GINGRICH, Arnold. The Fishing in Print: A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature - Winchester Press, 1974, 1st edition. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. This is a brand new never-read copy.Gingrich is the far-ranging founder, over 60 years ago, of Esquire magazine. He has written several other books on trout fishing, on toys, on music, and on the business aspects of artistic aesthetics. This book is one of the greats of fishing literature. --- US$ 52.50

Gray's Sporting Journal (Vols. 1-9) - So. Hamilton, MA, GSJ Press, 1976-1984. A complete set of the first nine volumes; 45 issues, including the 1975 Preliminary Issue. The first seven volumes were purchased as a set, one of only a handful remaining at that time (see, for example, vol.8, No.1, page 32), to which volumes 8 and 9 were then added. Although the cases GSJ provided with the seven-volume set were somewhat scuffed, the journals themselves have remained unread, and retain the original postcard inlays they were initially provided with. Price includes UPS shipping within the continental U.S. --- US$ 485.00

[This is too funny not to share with everyone: From LETTERS, vol.8, no.1, a clipping mailed in from an Oregon tabloid listed under Personals: SINGLE MAN would like to meet single woman, age 25 to 35 who likes the outdoors and is willing to retrieve ducks. Call Tom at ...] --- US$ 485.00

HALFORD, F.M. Dry-Fly Fishing - Barry Shurlock, 1973. Reprint of the original 1881 edition. Very good in good dust jacket. (Although not torn, the jacket shows signs of fairly hard wear.) Considered to be THE classic on the dry-fly. --- US$ 35.00

HENKIN, Harmon. Fly Tackle: A Guide to the Tools of the Trade - Lippincott, 1976, 1st edition. Very fine in a very good plus dust jacket. (Slight rubbing on bottom corners of spine of jacket.) The book itself does not appear to have even been read. --- US$32.50

HENSHALL, James. Book of the Black Bass - Bass Anglers Sportsmans Society of America, 1987. Third reproduction reprint of the 1881 classic. Very good plus -- no dust jacket, as issued. --- US$ 12.50

JENNINGS, Preston. A Book of Trout Flies Subtitle: The classic and pioneering book on the identification and imitation of trout-stream insects. - NY, Crown, 1970, 1st thus. Very good plus in a fine dust jacket. All in all, a nice copy, but with a small red-dot remainder mark in the middle of the bottom edge. --- US$25.00

LEESON, Ted (ed.). The Gift of Trout (A Trout Unlimited Book) - NY, Lyons & Burford, 1996, 1st edition. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. A collection of 19 essays ranging "from a section on 'Early American Trout Fishing' to 'Can Fly Fishing Survive the Twenty-first Century?'" --- US$ 15.50

PROPER, Datus. What the Trout Said - Knopf, 1982, 1st edition. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. This is a beautiful problem-free, as-new copy of a highly regarded flyfishing book. --- US$ 45.00

REIGER, George. Profiles in Saltwater Angling - Prentice-Hall, 1973, 1st edition. Very good in a fine dust jacket. Book itself is actually a fine copy except for an unexplainable pink discoloration forming a faint quarter-inch wide stripe along the full length of the first hundred pages or so of the fore-end. Perhaps not objectionable except to a demanding collector. --- US$ 20.00

SCHWIEBERT, Ernest. Matching the Hatch: A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern and Western Trout Waters. - New York, Macmillan, 1972 (8th printing of the 1955 edition). Very good in very good dust jacket. Written and illustrated by Schwiebert, an architect by training. This is a nice copy of his first book, considered a classic on American angling. --- US$ 22.50

SCHWIEBERT, Ernest. Remembrances of Rivers Past. - New York, Macmillan, 1972, 1st edtion. Fine in fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of one of the most important 20th-century books written on trout and flyfishing. --- US$ 65.00

SCHWIEBERT, Ernest. Trout (2 vols.) - New York, E.T. Dutton, 1978, 1st edition. Very good-plus boxed set. Not issued with dust jackets. A never-read set but with a slightly faded spine and a similarly faded 4 by 5 inch rectangular patch on rear of box. A true classic. --- US$ 250.00

SMITH, W.H.B. Gas, Air & Spring Guns of the World - Harrisburg, The Military Service Publishing Co., 1957, 1st printing (no other printings indicated). Fine-plus in good to very good dust jacket (a little rough along top and bottom of spine, one by one-and-a-quarter inch nip along front bottom edge of back of dust jacket). The book itself is in beautiful condition for being more than forty years old. --- US$ 170.00

STRUNG, Norman. Spinfishing: The System That Does It All. - Macmillan, 1973, 1st edition. Fine in very good-plus dust jacket. 150 black & white photos, step-by-step guide to both freshwater and saltwater spinfishing. --- US$ 16.50

SWISHER, Doug & Carl RICHARDS. Selective Trout: A Dramatically new and Scientific Approach to Trout Fishing on Eastern and Western Rivers. Crown, 1975. First PB printing, following 9 HB printings. VF (an as-new, never-read copy). --- US$ 20.00

TINSLEY, Russell - editor. All About Small-Game Hunting in America. - Winchester, 1976, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 30.00

[U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.] Sport Fishing USA. - G.P.O., Washington, DC, 1971. Good-plus (not issued with dust jacket). A nice general view of all aspects of angling in the fresh and salt waters of the U.S. --- US$ 12.50

UNDERWOOD, Bob. Lunker! - McGraw-Hill 1975, 1st edition. Fine in good-plus dust jacket (closed 1.25 inch tear and slight rumple on upper-left corner of rear of dust jacket). "A fresh-water bass fisherman who has spent 1700 underwater in bass habitats tells you why, when, and where they take your bait or lure." --- US$ 18.00

VINCENT, Serje. Basic Fly-Tying: A Step-by-Step Approach. - Toronto, Gage Publishing, 1977. 1st edition. Good plus. No dust jacket - possibly not issued with one. Translated from the French "La Mouche: Un guide photographique des e'tapes de montage." Fully illustrated with over 60 color plates and 200 superb black & white photos. Step-by-step procedures used to mount 75 different trout flies, streamers, bucktails, nymphs, wet and dry flies, et cetera. A nice sound copy. --- US$ 10.50

WILSON, R.L. Colt: An American Legend. - Abbeville Press. Date not apparent, but 5th printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 52.00

WILSON, R.L. Colt Engraving. Beinfeld Publishing, 1982. 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Absolutely mint. This is the upgraded and expanded version of Wilson's "The Book of Colt Engraving" published in 1974. --- US$ 625.00 ~~~~~~~~~ S O L D ~~~~~~~~~

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