DICK STEWART; FARROW ALLEN.

Flies for Steelhead.

First Edition. Intervale, New Hampshire. Published by Northland Press, Inc. 1992. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 9). 80 pp. plus bibliography, index. Color plates showing a large variety steelhead feather-wing patterns, hair-wing flies, streamers, nymphs, and wet flies. The flies photographed were dressed by well-known fly fishing personalities, including Dick Stewart - John Shewey - Bill Bakke - Randy Stetzer - Joe Howell - Harry Lemire - Bill McMillan - Mike Maxwell - Lani Waller - Dave Hall - Brad Jackson - Bob Veverka - Alec Jackson - Farrow Allen - Andre Puyans - Trey Combs - Mike Mercer - Lloyd Silvius - Mark Waslick, and many others. Includes material lists for all the flies shown. The book is bound in dark red cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011040

DICK STEWART; FARROW ALLEN.

Flies for Steelhead.

First Edition. Intervale, New Hampshire. Published by Northland Press, Inc. 1992. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 9). 80 pp. plus bibliography, index. Color plates showing a large variety steelhead feather-wing patterns, hair-wing flies, streamers, nymphs, and wet flies. The flies photographed were dressed by well-known fly fishing personalities, including Dick Stewart - John Shewey - Bill Bakke - Randy Stetzer - Joe Howell - Harry Lemire - Bill McMillan - Mike Maxwell - Lani Waller - Dave Hall - Brad Jackson - Bob Veverka - Alec Jackson - Farrow Allen - Andre Puyans - Trey Combs - Mike Mercer - Lloyd Silvius - Mark Waslick, and many others. Includes material lists for all the flies shown. The book is bound in dark red cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011041

DICK STEWART; FARROW ALLEN.

Flies for Atlantic Salmon.

Intervale, New Hampshire. Published by Northland Press. 1991. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 9). 80 pp. plus bibliography, index. Color plates showing Atlantic salmon feather-wing patterns, hair-wing flies, streamers, and wet flies, dressed by the most accomplished dressers of the time, including Ron Alcott - Bob Warren - Eric Leiser - Francis Betters - Paul Leblanc - Lee Wulff - Jerry Doak - Dick Stewart - Bob Veverka - Gary Anderson - Keith Fulsher - Daniel Dufour - Poul Jorgensen - Farrow Allen - Bill Hunter, and others. With material lists for all the flies listed. The book is bound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011043

GERALD ALMY.

Tying & Fishing Terrestrials. {Inscribed and Signed by Gerald Almy}.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 1978. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6). 238 pp. including bibliography, index. Inscribed and signed by Gerald Almy on the front fly leaf. Black and white photos throughout the book showing the significant variety of terrestrial insects available to trout (and other fishes, too) and how to dress imitations which effectively mimic the natural insects. Text illustrations. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 010816

GARY ANDERSON.

Atlantic Salmon & The Fly Fisherman. {Limited Edition}.

Toronto, Canada. Doubleday Canada Limited. 1985. Limited Edition. Copy number 77 of 150 copies published. Signed by Gary Anderson and the illustrator, Ed Sutton on the limitation page, with a small drawing of a salmon. 4to. (11 x 9). 241 pp. including appendices, index. Color plates of salmon and salmon fly fishermen. Black and white photos. Text drawings. The book is bound in full beige 'kid leather made in Bangladesh and personally selected by the author during a visit to that country. Because of the hand tanning and use of vegetable dyes, the leather on each book varies in colour, texture and thickness,' (that's a mouthful describing the selection of binding material). Brown titles on the spine and a gilt salmon fly on the front cover. Brown cloth slip case with gilt salmon fly on the side panel. Fine in a fine slip case.

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Book number: 008199

GARY ANDERSON.

Atlantic Salmon Fact & Fantasy. {Limited Edition}.

Montreal, Canada. Salar Publishing. Limited Edition. Copy number 19 of 150 copies published. Signed by Gary Anderson and the illustrator, Ed Sutton on the limitation page, with a small drawing of a salmon. 4to. (11 x 9). 175 pp. including bibliography, index. Color plates of salmon and salmon fly fishermen. Black and white photos. Text drawings in color and black and white. The book is bound in full burgundy padded morocco with gilt titles on the spine and a gilt salmon fly on the front cover. Matching burgundy leather slip case. A nice book. Fine in a fine slip case.

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Book number: 008200

GARY ANDERSON.

Atlantic Salmon Fact & Fantasy. {Limited Edition}.

Montreal, Canada. Salar Publishing. Limited Edition. Book number 94 of 150 copies published. Signed by Gary Anderson and the illustrator, Ed Sutton, on the limitation page. Quarto (11 x 9). 175 pp. including bibliography, index. Color plates of salmon. salmon fly fishermen, and salmon flies. And there's water colors by Ed Sutton. Black and white photos. Text drawings in color and black and white. The book is bound in full burgundy padded morocco with gilt titles on the spine and a gilt salmon fly on the front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine jacket.

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Book number: 011026

BOB ARNOLD.

Steelhead Water. {Limited Edition}.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications. 1993. Limited Edition. Book number 57 of 60 numbered copies published. Signed by Bob Arnold and Loren Smith, the book’s illustrator, on the tipped-in card. A steelhead fly dressed by Bob Arnold is mounted on the card affixed to the front pastedown. Octavo. (8 x 5 ½). 296 pp. Includes chapters on Deer Creek - One Memorable Spring - Trophy Time - The Cult of the Spade - Big Yellow Rock - Drowning in Air - Dry Fly Dream - Wet Fly Tactics, etc. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. The limited edition has become quite scarce. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 011179

BOB ARNOLD.

Steelhead & The Floating Line. A Meditation. {Limited Edition}.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications. 1995. Octavo (8 x 6). 167 pp. Limited Edition. Book number 138 of 160 copies published. Signed by the author on the limitation page. With a size 3/0 steelhead fly dressed by the author on a folding card affixed to the front pastedown. Ten color plates showing a variety of attractively dressed flies, river scenes, and a beautiful steelhead or two. Includes chapters on The Pleasures of Fishing on Top - What is Dry-Fly Fishing? - Wandering and Waffling - Syd Glasso - Riffling a Fly - Mending - Grande Ronde Fish - A Writer Who Fishes, etc. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover with a steelhead in gilt on the front cover. A nice book. Fine. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 011180

DAVID M. ATWOOD.

An Angler for All Seasons. The Scrapbook of Willis K. Chip Stauffer. {Signed by the Author}.

Chestertown, Maryland. Privately published by Zanzibar Press. 2023. Quarto (11 x 9). xii, [1], 2-191, [192-194] pp. including index. Signed by David Atwood on the title page. Edited and Introduction by William A. Harms. Captivating essays and stories together with black and white photos throughout the book chronicling "Chip" Stauffer and his circle of friends and fly fishing personalities, including James E. Leisenring, Preston Jennings, Herman Christian, Roy Steenrod, George Parker Holden, Vern Hidy, Dick Clark, Dana Lamb, Ed Hewitt, John Atherton, Sparse Grey Hackle, Art Flick, Keith Fulsher, Charles De Feo, Wes Drain, and others. Mr. Stauffer was a friend of these men and fished regularly with them. Reproduced in its entirety is the 1930-1935 hand written Fishing Album compiled by Chip and it includes photos of him and his wife, Marjorie, and their companions. The book is a splendid account of fly fishing in the sport’s halcyon days, beginning in the 1920s through the 1970s. The author, David Atwood, is a gifted writer; he was a friend of Chip’s and knew him for many years; the book is a homage to a talented, thoughtful, kind, skilled fly fisherman. You will enjoy this book. The production qualities are superb - fine heavy stock paper sewn in the binding. It’s bound in beige cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. In fine condition.

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Book number: 011054

MORPHY AUCTIONS. (FISHING).

Antique Fishing Tackle. Morphy Auctions.

Denver, Pennsylvania. Morphy Auctions. 2015. 4to. (10 x 8). 250 pp. This is Morphy's Antique Fishing Tackle Catalogue. The auction was held on October 24, 2015. There were a total of 550 lots sold. With a multitude of spectacular color photos along with well-crafted descriptions showing many high-end lures (Hosmer, Harry Comstock, Creek Chub, Miller, etc. etc.), rods (Leonard, Orvis, H.S. Gillum), reels (Talbot, J. F. and B. F. Meek, H. L. Leonard Raised Pillar Salmon Reel, etc.). The catalogue is bound in pictorial cloth with brown and white titles. A nice catalogue. Fine.

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Book number: 009640

R. PALMER BAKER, JR., KEVIN BEGOS & THOMAS AQUINAS DALY.

The Sweet of the Year. {Limited Edition}.

New York, New York. Kevin Begos Publishing, Inc. 1996. Quarto. (10 x 8). 138 pp. plus colophon. Limited Edition. Book number 2 of 250 copies published (although others suggest that maybe 100 copies or fewer were published, but who knows, except the publisher, and he ain’t talking). Signed by Palmer Baker and Thomas Aquinas Daly on the limitation page. With six reproductions of watercolors by Thomas Aquinas Daly tipped-in. Also with six additional stories not included in the 1965 first edition. This is a fine letterpress edition, printed on Artemis paper. With the four-page prospectus laid-in. The book is bound in gray cloth spine with a paper titling label and handmade paper with pieces of flora mixed in. Blue cloth slip case. It's attractive. Fine in a fine slip case.

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Book number: 009756

BANGOR & AROOSTOOK RAILROAD.

In Pine-Tree Jungles. A Hand-Book for Campers in the Great Maine Woods.

Bangor, Maine. Published by the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. 1902. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). 174 pp. A large folding map titled "Northern Maine Hunting & Fishing Region" is tipped-in facing the title page. Numerous black and white photos. Some of the chapters include: Where Big Fish are Plenty - Fish Laws in Brief - Table of B. & A. Fishing Waters - Jungle Voyages by Canoe - Camping and Canoeing - Equipment - Women in the Woods - Excursion Rates on the B. & A. R. R. There are some 40 pp. of illustrated ads. The book is bound in its original colorful pictorial wrappers with red titles. It also has the bookplate of Maine humorist Robert A. Ryan. There is edge wear to the covers and a chip at the top of the front cover. The folding map has a small tear on the top edge. The spine is reinforced with clear archival tape. Good-Very good.

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Book number: 010948

BARBARA AND MIKE WOLVERTON [EDITORS].

Flyfishing Always. {Deluxe Edition}.

West Yellowstone, Montana. Federation of Fly Fishers. 1984. Octavo (9 x 6). 150 pp. Deluxe Edition. Book number 4 of 100 copies published. Signed by the editors, Barbara and Mike Wolverton, on the title page. The book has an artificial fly, a Mayfly Emerger, dressed by Rene and Bonnie Harrop, mounted on the limitation page. The illustration showing a "Caddis and Cutthroat" drawn by Rene Harrop is also signed by him in ink. Dedicated to the International Fly Fishing Center. Dedication by former President Jimmy Carter. The book is a series of essays and stories by many of the leading writers of the day, including Nick Lyons, Steve Raymond, Lee Wulff, Mike Lawson, Ed Zern, George F. Grant, Maggie Merriman, Ernest Schwiebert, Lefty Kreh, John Randolph, Joan Wulff, Dave and Joan Whitlock, etc. The book is bound in full blue leather with elaborate gilt decorations on the front and back covers. Raised hubs on the spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. Silk ribbon marker. A near fine book. Signed by Editors.

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Book number: 011092

JOHN S. BARR.

Barr Flies. How to Tie and Fish the Copper John, the Barr Emerger and Dozens of Other Patterns, Variations and Rigs.

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 2007. First Edition. Quarto (10 x 8). 172 pp. including index. A multitude of color photos showing the author’s favorite fly patterns - a mixture of nymphs and dries; there’s precise color photos showing how to dress each fly. Mr. Barr describes how to effectively fish his patterns. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011064