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	AMES, FRANCIS H. Fishing the Oregon Country. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers April, 1972. 3rd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 324 pages. Description: Illustrated with 62 b&w photographs and 9 in color; the photos and text are all printed on a lightly coated stock, yielding clear text and images. Chapter titles include: Fishing the High Lakes; Chinook in Fresh Water; The Winter Steelhead; The Pacific Sturgeon; Ocean Fish, Clams and Crustaceans; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: light yellow-green cloth with black text; owner's brief gift inscription, a small tape ghost on the rear endpaper, otherwise the book is Near Fine, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: B0006BNUV4 USD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1633] Book number: 012859 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	AMES, FRANCIS H. Fishing the Oregon Country. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers 1966. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 324 pages. Description: Illustrated with 62 b&w photographs and 9 in color; the photos and text are all printed on a lightly coated stock, yielding clear text and images. Chapter titles include: Fishing the High Lakes; Chinook in Fresh Water; The Winter Steelhead; The Pacific Sturgeon; Ocean Fish, Clams and Crustaceans; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: yellow cloth with black text; the cloth is bright and clean, owner's gift note, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006BNUV4 USD 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 \| £UK 13.75 \| JP¥ 1986] Book number: 055682 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BROWNING, ROBERT J. Fisheries of the North Pacific: History, Species, Gear & Processes. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest June, 1974. 2nd Printing. Hardbound 4to (12.25 inches tall) 408 pages. Appendices, index. Description: Well illustrated in b&w and includes a section of color plates. A study of all phases of commercial fishing in the North Pacific. Describes and illustrates the changing vessels, methods and gear that have been used for various types of fishing in these waters, and covers over 70 species of fish and shellfish. BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise cloth with gilt; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-88240-008-8 USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2427] Book number: 056051 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	FITZ, GRANCEL. North American Head Hunting. New York: Oxford University Press 1957. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 188 pages. Description: Includes a color frontis and a two b&w photo plates. A collection of hunting stories relating to North American big game animals. The style and format of the book are suggestive of Jim Corbett's books, also published by Oxford. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with red text; very light rubbing to the spine ends and corners; corners barely bumped, one-inch long split at the top of the rear hinge, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000JLXQG0 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 056057 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	GROSZ, TERRY. A Sword for Mother Nature: The Further Adventures of a Fish and Game Warden. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books 2002. 1st Printing. Trade size paperback 8vo (9 inches tall) 323 pages. Description: The author worked for the California Department of Fish and Game from 1966 through 1970, and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1970 through 1998. These are accounts of his experiences as a Fish and Wildlife agent. This book follows Wildlife Wars and For Love of Wildness. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Very Good condition. ISBN: 1-55566-281-1 USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 057235 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HOLM, DON. Pacific North! SeaTrails for the Sportsman on the North Pacific Rim. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers 1969. 1st Edition. Hardbound 4to (11.25 inches tall) 283 pages. color photographic endpapers. Description: Well illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, and drawings; also includes a few color photos. The author tells of skin diving for abalone and cabezon in Monterey Bay, salmon fishing in British Columbia, heading offshore for albacore, fighting a steelhead in the tidal waters of a coastal river, and jigging for tomcod and halibut in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. In addition to being a sports fishing guide, this presents the story of the North Pacific itself, its historical background, weather, marine attractions, about pleasure cruising among the island waterways, the harbors and 'dog holes' of this part of the world's largest ocean. BINDING/CONDITION: bright orange cloth; a sturdy reinforced binding; owner's gift note, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-87004-134-7 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 054372 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	LYTLE, HORACE. How to Train Your Bird Dog. Dayton, Ohio: A F Hochwalt 1956. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) 236 pages. illustrated endpapers. Description: Includes a frontis with nine additional b&w photo plates. Two different b&w endpaper scenes by C W Love. Chapter headings include: Avoiding Gun-shyness; Retrieving; Backing; Teaching to Point; Steadiness to Wing and Shot; Bolters; Blinkers; Field Trial Ideals vs. Shooting Conceptions; Dog Whistle Signals; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial cloth covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket. ISBN: B000NXH43U USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 056270 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	EDITORS OF OUTDOOR LIFE; PAINTINGS BY RALPH CROSBY SMITH; DRAWINGS BY NICHOLAS EFGENHOFER AND RAY PIOCH. The Story of American Hunting and Firearms; Revised Edition. New York: Outdoor Life / E P Dutton 1976. Revised and Updated Edition. Hardbound 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) 172 pages. Index. illustrated endpapers. Description: This lavishly illustrated book presents the panorama of hunting and firearms during more than 400 exciting years of American history. The editors of Outdoor Life have assembled the lore of the buck-skinned frontiersmen, who could ''shoot the eye out of the wind'' with their Kentucky rifles. Here too, are the Indian warrior, the market hunters are more. Also presents histories of the many hunting weapons of our history, such as the Kentucky rifle, the Sharps, the Winchester 1873, and many others. Features fourteen full-color, full-page paintings by Ralph Crosby Smith and numerous b&w illustrations by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. This was originally published in 1959; this revised edition is issued in a somewhat smaller format (the 1959 edition was about 13 inches tall, this edition is a little over 11 inches tall). BINDING/CONDITION: dark brown imitation leather binding; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-87690-213-1 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 047092 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SCHWIEBERT, JR, ERNEST G. Matching the Hatch: A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern and Western Trout Waters. South Hackensack, New Jersey: Stoeger Publishing Company June, 1981. 2nd Printing, this edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 221 pages. Appendix, bibliography, index. Description: The illustrations by the author include four color plates. Region by region, season by season, Ernest Schwiebert takes you through the trouting year, showing exactly what insects emerge from what type of water and in what time of the month and the day. He describes minutely, in layman's terms, the structure and appearance of not only the adults, but the nymphal, larval or subimago (dun) forms as well. He signalizes the artificials that have proved most effective in his experience, gives their preferred dressings, and describes their use, with many illuminating incidents thrown in. In all, Schwiebert deals with 46 May flies, 19 stone flies, 20 caddises; and in addition, he covers a round handful of such less important forms as crane flies, dragonflies and damsel flies, fish flies, backswimmers and scuds. The basic data on these insects -- structure, water type frequented, season and hour of emergence, size and name of matching artificial -- are given in easy tabular form. Other tables show the recommended dressings of the artificials. This was originally published in hardcover by Macmillan in 1955; this is a second printing of the 1978 paperback edition. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; a few markings: Fair condition. ISBN: 0-88317-076-0 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 056996 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WOLTERS, RICHARD A. Gun Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method. New York: E P Dutton & Company 1961. 25th Printing. Hardbound about 9.25 inches tall by 6.75 wide 150 pages. Index. photo endpapers. Description: Illustrated with b&w photographs by Joan Sydlow. Foreword by John W Randolph. The author of Water Dog, Family Dog, City Dog and other dog books, here presents a book written for the hunter with limited time and facilities who wants a gun dog and wants to train it himself. Shows the complete step by step training procedures with picture sequences. Originally published in 1961, this is a later printing. BINDING/CONDITION: red paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-525-12005-X USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 056276 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WOLTERS, RICHARD A. Water Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method. New York: E P Dutton February, 1971. 7th Printing. Hardbound 9.25 inches tall by 6.75 wide 179 pages. Index. photo endpapers. Description: This book is written for the person with limited time who wants to train a working retriever fast and who wants to train it himself. Extensively illustrated in b&w with instructional photographs. Introduction by Art Smith. This was originally published in 1964. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with silver spine text; a Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-525-23021-1 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 056277 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.

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	AMES, FRANCIS H. Fishing the Oregon Country. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers April, 1972. 3rd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 324 pages. Description: Illustrated with 62 b&w photographs and 9 in color; the photos and text are all printed on a lightly coated stock, yielding clear text and images. Chapter titles include: Fishing the High Lakes; Chinook in Fresh Water; The Winter Steelhead; The Pacific Sturgeon; Ocean Fish, Clams and Crustaceans; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: light yellow-green cloth with black text; owner's brief gift inscription, a small tape ghost on the rear endpaper, otherwise the book is Near Fine, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: B0006BNUV4 USD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1633] Book number: 012859 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	AMES, FRANCIS H. Fishing the Oregon Country. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers 1966. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 324 pages. Description: Illustrated with 62 b&w photographs and 9 in color; the photos and text are all printed on a lightly coated stock, yielding clear text and images. Chapter titles include: Fishing the High Lakes; Chinook in Fresh Water; The Winter Steelhead; The Pacific Sturgeon; Ocean Fish, Clams and Crustaceans; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: yellow cloth with black text; the cloth is bright and clean, owner's gift note, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006BNUV4 USD 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.25 \| £UK 13.75 \| JP¥ 1986] Book number: 055682 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BROWNING, ROBERT J. Fisheries of the North Pacific: History, Species, Gear & Processes. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest June, 1974. 2nd Printing. Hardbound 4to (12.25 inches tall) 408 pages. Appendices, index. Description: Well illustrated in b&w and includes a section of color plates. A study of all phases of commercial fishing in the North Pacific. Describes and illustrates the changing vessels, methods and gear that have been used for various types of fishing in these waters, and covers over 70 species of fish and shellfish. BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise cloth with gilt; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-88240-008-8 USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2427] Book number: 056051 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	FITZ, GRANCEL. North American Head Hunting. New York: Oxford University Press 1957. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 188 pages. Description: Includes a color frontis and a two b&w photo plates. A collection of hunting stories relating to North American big game animals. The style and format of the book are suggestive of Jim Corbett's books, also published by Oxford. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth with red text; very light rubbing to the spine ends and corners; corners barely bumped, one-inch long split at the top of the rear hinge, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000JLXQG0 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 056057 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	GROSZ, TERRY. A Sword for Mother Nature: The Further Adventures of a Fish and Game Warden. Boulder, Colorado: Johnson Books 2002. 1st Printing. Trade size paperback 8vo (9 inches tall) 323 pages. Description: The author worked for the California Department of Fish and Game from 1966 through 1970, and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1970 through 1998. These are accounts of his experiences as a Fish and Wildlife agent. This book follows Wildlife Wars and For Love of Wildness. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Very Good condition. ISBN: 1-55566-281-1 USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 057235 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HOLM, DON. Pacific North! SeaTrails for the Sportsman on the North Pacific Rim. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers 1969. 1st Edition. Hardbound 4to (11.25 inches tall) 283 pages. color photographic endpapers. Description: Well illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, and drawings; also includes a few color photos. The author tells of skin diving for abalone and cabezon in Monterey Bay, salmon fishing in British Columbia, heading offshore for albacore, fighting a steelhead in the tidal waters of a coastal river, and jigging for tomcod and halibut in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. In addition to being a sports fishing guide, this presents the story of the North Pacific itself, its historical background, weather, marine attractions, about pleasure cruising among the island waterways, the harbors and 'dog holes' of this part of the world's largest ocean. BINDING/CONDITION: bright orange cloth; a sturdy reinforced binding; owner's gift note, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-87004-134-7 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 054372 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	LYTLE, HORACE. How to Train Your Bird Dog. Dayton, Ohio: A F Hochwalt 1956. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) 236 pages. illustrated endpapers. Description: Includes a frontis with nine additional b&w photo plates. Two different b&w endpaper scenes by C W Love. Chapter headings include: Avoiding Gun-shyness; Retrieving; Backing; Teaching to Point; Steadiness to Wing and Shot; Bolters; Blinkers; Field Trial Ideals vs. Shooting Conceptions; Dog Whistle Signals; and more. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial cloth covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket. ISBN: B000NXH43U USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 056270 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	EDITORS OF OUTDOOR LIFE; PAINTINGS BY RALPH CROSBY SMITH; DRAWINGS BY NICHOLAS EFGENHOFER AND RAY PIOCH. The Story of American Hunting and Firearms; Revised Edition. New York: Outdoor Life / E P Dutton 1976. Revised and Updated Edition. Hardbound 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall) 172 pages. Index. illustrated endpapers. Description: This lavishly illustrated book presents the panorama of hunting and firearms during more than 400 exciting years of American history. The editors of Outdoor Life have assembled the lore of the buck-skinned frontiersmen, who could ''shoot the eye out of the wind'' with their Kentucky rifles. Here too, are the Indian warrior, the market hunters are more. Also presents histories of the many hunting weapons of our history, such as the Kentucky rifle, the Sharps, the Winchester 1873, and many others. Features fourteen full-color, full-page paintings by Ralph Crosby Smith and numerous b&w illustrations by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. This was originally published in 1959; this revised edition is issued in a somewhat smaller format (the 1959 edition was about 13 inches tall, this edition is a little over 11 inches tall). BINDING/CONDITION: dark brown imitation leather binding; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-87690-213-1 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 047092 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SCHWIEBERT, JR, ERNEST G. Matching the Hatch: A Practical Guide to Imitation of Insects Found on Eastern and Western Trout Waters. South Hackensack, New Jersey: Stoeger Publishing Company June, 1981. 2nd Printing, this edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 221 pages. Appendix, bibliography, index. Description: The illustrations by the author include four color plates. Region by region, season by season, Ernest Schwiebert takes you through the trouting year, showing exactly what insects emerge from what type of water and in what time of the month and the day. He describes minutely, in layman's terms, the structure and appearance of not only the adults, but the nymphal, larval or subimago (dun) forms as well. He signalizes the artificials that have proved most effective in his experience, gives their preferred dressings, and describes their use, with many illuminating incidents thrown in. In all, Schwiebert deals with 46 May flies, 19 stone flies, 20 caddises; and in addition, he covers a round handful of such less important forms as crane flies, dragonflies and damsel flies, fish flies, backswimmers and scuds. The basic data on these insects -- structure, water type frequented, season and hour of emergence, size and name of matching artificial -- are given in easy tabular form. Other tables show the recommended dressings of the artificials. This was originally published in hardcover by Macmillan in 1955; this is a second printing of the 1978 paperback edition. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; a few markings: Fair condition. ISBN: 0-88317-076-0 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 750] Book number: 056996 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WOLTERS, RICHARD A. Gun Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method. New York: E P Dutton & Company 1961. 25th Printing. Hardbound about 9.25 inches tall by 6.75 wide 150 pages. Index. photo endpapers. Description: Illustrated with b&w photographs by Joan Sydlow. Foreword by John W Randolph. The author of Water Dog, Family Dog, City Dog and other dog books, here presents a book written for the hunter with limited time and facilities who wants a gun dog and wants to train it himself. Shows the complete step by step training procedures with picture sequences. Originally published in 1961, this is a later printing. BINDING/CONDITION: red paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-525-12005-X USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 056276 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WOLTERS, RICHARD A. Water Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method. New York: E P Dutton February, 1971. 7th Printing. Hardbound 9.25 inches tall by 6.75 wide 179 pages. Index. photo endpapers. Description: This book is written for the person with limited time who wants to train a working retriever fast and who wants to train it himself. Extensively illustrated in b&w with instructional photographs. Introduction by Art Smith. This was originally published in 1964. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with silver spine text; a Good+ book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-525-23021-1 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 056277 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.