McGrail, Joie and Bill

The Catch and the Feast; Photography by Mark Shaw

New York, Weybright and Talley, 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; (x), 196; color photography by Mark Shaw; blue cloth lettered in black in a dust jacket. Great game dinners. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14713

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting, Hunting; Fishing; Cookery; Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Mendoza, George

Secret Places of Trout Fishermen

New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 112; Illustrated with photographs;blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Ernest Hemingway, Charles Ritz and many others, an interesting diverting angling travelogue. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 16234

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fly Fishing; Trout; Fishing; Angling; Fly Fishing & Angling

Menzies, W. J. M.

Salmon Fishing; Ftrqd1

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First American edition from English sheets. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.5"), red cloth, gilt and decorated iin blind. 255pp. with index and bibliography. Illustrated primarily by photographs. Very good or better in like jacket. Jacket has some chipping, particularly at the bottom edge and some dampstaining on the back panel which shows faintly on the back board. A title of "The sportsman's Library" A complete library for the sportsman and athlete. Menzies was inspector of the Salmon fisheries in Scotland and an accomplished fisherman and writer. Good +/good +.

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Book number: 14080

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fishing; Fly Fishing; Salmon; Salmon Fishing Fly Fishing & Angling

Migdalski, Ed

The Inquisitive Angler

(New York), Lyons & Burford, Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Octavo; pp. (x), 221 with index; Illustrated; black cloth and blue boards, gilt in a dust jacket. Science as applied to practical angling. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13037

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fly Fishing & Angling

Morgan, Joe with Richard Lally

Long Balls, No Strikes; What Baseball Must Do to Keep the Good Times Rolling

New York, Crown Publishers, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, (ii), 289, index; red cloth and green paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Hall of Famer Joe Morgan speaks out on how to improve the game, raise the mound, abolish the DH & make the umpires learn the strike zone and that is just the beginning. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17831

Catalogue: Sporting

Netboy, Anthony

The Salmon, Their Fight for Survival

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1973. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xix, (iii), 613, index; illustrated with photographs, drawings, tables, charts, maps, by Samuel Bryant; green cloth with dark green title tiles on spine and upper board lettered in gilt, map endpapers, in a pictorial dust jacket. Not an uncommon book but an important contribution. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 16228

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fishing; Fly Fishing; Salmon; Fly Conservation; Fishing Technique; Fly Fishing & Angling

Nutter, Waldo E.

Manhattan Firearms

Harrisburg, Stackpole Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. (1958). Quarto, green cloth, gilt. (xii), 250pp. with index. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light moderate wear. Good + .

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Book number: 12096

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Guns; Firearms; Manhattan; Manhattan Firearms Firearms / Guns / Knives

Ovington, Ray

A Sportsman-Artist's Game Bag; with Special Preface by Jim Rikhoff

Clinton NJ, Amwell Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xix (i), 335, (v), colphon, notes; Illustrated with the author's own specially commissioned art in color and black and white; decorated robin's egg blue bonded leather in a slipcase. Ovington's outdoor experiences hunting for upland game birds, waterfowl, deer, and fishing for trout, bass, salmon, and bear. Includes chapters on hunting dogs, American water spaniels, curly-coated, flat-coated and labrador retrievers. Amwell Press Books make wonderful gifts for the Sportsman!. Near fine ina very good slipcase.

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Book number: 18300

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Hunting / Shooting / Trapping Fly Fishing & Angling

Rampersad, Arnold

Jackie Robinson, a Biography

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 512, (iv), index; black and white photographs; brown cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. An authorized biography with granted access to private papers. There is no more inspirational story than Robinson's triumph as the first African-American ball-player in the major leagues. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17832

Catalogue: Sporting

Rousch, Jr., John H.

Antlers Afield; Foreword by Bernard Minarik

Clinton, New Jersey, Amwell Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi (ii), 225, (i), glossary, colphon; Illustrated with pfhotographs from the author's private collection; decorated terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial slipcase, also fine. Big Game Hunting on multiple continents. Amwell Press Books make wonderful gifts for the Sportsman!. Fine .

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Book number: 15132

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Hunting; Big Game; Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Russell, Jack

Jill and I and the Salmon; a Facsimile Limited Edition, 1 of 149 Copies, Signed by the Publisher, with a Foreword by Alec Jackson and the Original Introduction by H.T. Webster

Lake Oswego OR, Great Outdoors Book Exchange, 1992. First edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 204, (i), colophon; illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer; full green gilt lettered cowhide. Bruns R-126. Beautifully produced limited facsimile of the 1950 first edition. Mostly uncut. Fine .

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Book number: 14376

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Angling; Fishing; Salmon; Fly Fishing; Fly Fishing & Angling

Sajna, Mike

Days on the Water; the Angling Tradition in Pennsylvania

(Pittsburgh), University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), (2), 3-202, index; beige cloth, gilt in a dust jacket. Fishing the Ohio, Susquehanna, and the Delaware Rivers. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13934

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting, Fly Fishing, Angling; Rivers, Trout Streams; Pennsylvania; Fly Fishing & Angling

Schwiebert, E.

Death of a Riverkeeper

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xii), 287, (ii); Illustrated by the author; grey cloth lettered in silver in dust jacket. Author of Trout and Matching the Hatch, The late Ernie Schwiebert was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished fisherman-writers. Transporting and vividly descriptive stories of fishing the streams of the world. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17720

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fishing; Fly Fishing; Ermest Schwiebert; Fly Fishing & Angling

Seybold, David, Editor

Seasons of the Angler; a Fisherman's Anthology

New York, A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuster, 1989. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Square octavo; pp; xvii, (i), 266, (ii); Illustrated by Joseph Fornelli; original printed green pictorial wrappers. Stories by Carver, Chatham, Harrison, McGuane and others. A nice collection. Very good .

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Book number: 16107

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fly Fishing; Angling; Salt Water; Fishing; Fly Fishing & Angling

Sparce Grey Hackle

Fishless Days, Angling Nights

New York, Crown Publishers, Inc, 1971. First trade edition. Hardcover. (1971). Octavo (6" x 9.25"), green cloth in pictorial jacket. 223pp. Illustrated primarily with photos of famous fishermen and women. Very good ingood or better price-clipped jacket. Former owner's bookplate. Classic stories, reminiscences and lore about fishing and camping. Includes insights into George LaBranche, Theodore Gordon and Edward Hewitt, among others. Very good/good +.

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Book number: 14073

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: George Labranche; Theodore Gordon; Edward Hewitt; Fly Fishing; Fly Fishing & Angling