AL AND GRETCHEN BEATTY.

LaFontaine’s Legacy: The Last Flies from an American Master. {Signed by Both Authors}.

First Edition. Guilford, Connecticut. The Lyons Press. 2008. First Edition. Quarto (10 x 8). 135 pp. including index. Signed by Al and Gretchen Beatty on the title page. Foreword by David Klausmeyer. Step-by-step color photos showing how to dress Mr. LaFontaine’s fly patterns. This book is a homage to the late Gary LaFontaine and the largely unknown flies he created prior to his death in 2002. The book is bound in gray cloth with white titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 011257

AL AND GRETCHEN BEATTY.

LaFontaine’s Legacy: The Last Flies from an American Master. {Signed by Both Authors}.

First Edition. Guilford, Connecticut. The Lyons Press. 2008. First Edition. Quarto (10 x 8). 135 pp. including index. Signed by Al and Gretchen Beatty on the title page. Foreword by David Klausmeyer. Step-by-step color photos showing how to dress Mr. LaFontaine’s fly patterns. This book is a homage to the late Gary LaFontaine and the largely unknown fly patterns he created prior to his death in 2002. The book is bound in gray cloth with white titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 011258

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

FRANK W. AMATO, PUBLISHER. (DON ROBERTS, EDITOR).

Flyfishing the West. {Volume 1, Number 1}.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato, Publisher. 1978. Volume 1, number 1. March-April 1978. 4to. (10 x 8). 70 pp. This is the first issue of the well-known periodical which focused on fly fishing in the West. Its editor, Don Roberts, always edgy, focused, outspoken, funny, and entertaining, shepherded the magazine along through its early years. Color photos, colored fly plates, and interesting articles. The magazine is bound in colorful pictorial wrappers with yellow titles. A nice magazine and scarce. Fine.

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Book number: 009701

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

DAVID M. ATWOOD.

An Angler for All Seasons. The Scrapbook of Willis K. Chip Stauffer. {Limited Edition}.

Limited Edition. Chestertown, Maryland. Privately published by Zanzibar Press. 2023. Quarto (11 x 9). xii, [1], 2-191, [192-194] pp. including index. Limited Edition. Book number 7 of 50 copies published. Signed by David Atwood on the limitation page. The limited edition includes an Old English Blue Gamecock dry fly feather from Chip Stauffer’s flock, 1937-1966. The mounted feather is inside a folding card with same limitation number. There’s also a colored photo showing a few birds from Chip’s flock. 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. 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 book is bound in full burgundy buckram with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Matching burgundy cloth slip case. The book is fine in a fine slip case. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 011300

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

GEORGE W. BARNES.

How to Make Bamboo Fly Rods.

New York. Winchester Press. 1977. First Edition. Large octavo (9 x 7). 110 pp. including index. Step-by-step instructional photos. Text illustrations. Includes chapters on the planning block, hand tools and equipment, making special tools and aids, obtaining materials, selecting a rod, heat treating, assembling and gluing strips, assembling reel seats, winding snake guides, etc. The book is bound in black cloth with silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine jacket.

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Book number: 011311

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

ROBERT BATEMAN.

Gentoo Penguins and Whale Bones {Signed and Numbered Double Matted and Framed in Walnut}.

Two Gentoo penguins mingle among the remains of whale bones on the shores of the Antarctic, majestic mammals which once circumnavigated the Earth’s southern oceans. 1982. The print is number 230 of 950 issued. Signed by Robert Bateman on the lower margin. The print and frame measure 30 by 41 inches. The print is double matted and framed in walnut under glass. My photos don’t capture the subtle coloration of the print. It’s beautiful. Shipping at cost; packaging and shipment of the print requires handling by a commercial shipper. In fine condition. Signed by Illustrator.

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Book number: 010127