PFLUEGER FISHING TACKLE. POCKET CATALOG 158. 1938.

Pflueger Fishing Tackle. Pocket Catalog 158. 1938.

Akron, Ohio. The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. 1938. 8vo. (7 x 5). 128 pp. including index plus order blank. Black and white photos, line drawings showing all the reels, rods, lures and accessories this well-known tackle company has been known for since 1864. The book is bound in its original colorful pictorial wrappers with red and white titles. Top corner edge of front cover frayed a bit, small, inked date of 1938 in a neat hand on the front cover, otherwise very good.

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Book number: 008047

Keywords: Fishing Tackle Catalogue

PFLUEGER FISHING TACKLE. POCKET CATALOG 156. 1936.

Pflueger Fishing Tackle. Pocket Catalog 156. 1936.

Akron, Ohio. The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. 1936. 8vo. (7 x 5). 128 pp. including index plus order blank. Pocket Catalog 156. Black and white photos, line drawings showing all the reels, rods, lines, lures and accessories this well-known tackle company has been known for since 1864. The book is bound in its original colorful pictorial wrappers with a bass on the front cover and a tarpon on the back, red and green titles. A nice book. Very good.

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Book number: 008049

Keywords: Fishing Tackle Catalogue

ABBEY & IMBRIE CENTENNIAL FISH STORIES.

Abbey & Imbrie Centennial Fish Stories.

New York. Baker, Murray & Inbrie, Inc. 1920. First Edition. 8vo. (9 x 6). 48 pp. Illustrated plates with descriptive captions. From the front fly leaf: 'The stories contained in this volume were selected from 2,980 manuscripts submitted from all over the United States and abroad.' Includes stories from authors mostly not heard of before appearing herein and mostly not heard from after. Some essay titles: Fish Crazy - War Minnows - The Jugger Jugged - Tarpon on Fly Tackle - At the end of the Line - Golf Balls as Bass Baits, etc. The book is bound in its original green pictorial wrappers with orange and white titles. With the bookplate of angling book collector Jeffrey Norton. Very scarce. Light edge wear, otherwise very good.

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Book number: 008069

HENRY ABBOTT.

North Bay Brook. {Signed by Henry Abbott}.

New York. Privately published. 1929. First Edition. 16mo. (5 ½ x 3 ½). 56 pp. One of less than 100 copies published as Christmas keepsakes by the author. Signed by Henry Abbott on the front free end paper. With 12 tipped-in black and white plates. Mr. Abbott's books describe fishing, hunting and outdoor adventures in the Adirondack mountains. The birch bark books of Henry Abbott. This is one 19 titles published annually by the author between the years 1914 and 1932 . The book is bound in its original simulated birch bark paper over boards with gray title on the front cover. Top of spine chipped, light edge wear, otherwise very good.

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Book number: 009123

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH COMPANY.

Fresh Water Tackle.

New York. Abercrombie and Fitch. The Greatest Sporting Goods Store in the World. 1938. 8vo. (7 ½ x 5 ½). 72 pp. Black and white photos. Text illustrations. A comprehensive catalogue showing a large variety fly reels, rods, lines, flies, waders, vests, fly boxes, creels, etc. The book is bound in its original pictorial wrappers showing a fisherman and a trout going after the fisherman's fly. Light staining on the top corner, a bit of creasing to page corners, otherwise very good.

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Book number: 009441

JAMES R. ADAMS.

Adams Angling. Angling Paraphernalia - Hunting and Fishing Books - Fishing Tackle. A Compleat Run of 78 Catalogues Issued by Jim Adams, From the First in 1979 to the Last in 2014.

Berkeley, California. Adams Angling. Books on Fishing and Hunting, Fly Fishing Tackle and Paraphernalia. A complete run of 78 catalogues published by Jim Adams over a 35 year period. Jim always offered choice books on fishing an hunting as well as a grand selection of prime rods, reels, flies, and miscellaneous tackle. Each item is well described with recommendations based on Jim’s first-hand experience and use of the tackle offered for sale. Jim has traveled the world many times fly fishing waters from British Columbia to Eastern Canada to New Zealand to Florida to Russia to Norway and points north and south, east and west. The catalogues issued in pictorial wrappers with black titles. The lot. All are in very good to fine condition.

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Book number: 010179

C. T. PASKE; FREDERICK G. AFLALO

The Sea and the Rod.

London. Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1892. First Edition. 8vo. 224 pp. including index. Text illustrations. Covers overview of sea fishing, ethics, species and diversity, chapters on the primary species, angler's equipment, literature, etc. Bound in the original black cloth with gilt titles. A nice copy. Fine.

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Book number: 004390

JOHN YONGE AKERMAN.

Spring-Tide; or, the Angler and His Friends.

First Edition. London. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1850. First Edition. 12mo. (7 x 4 ½). 192 pp. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. With a total of six plates with tissue guards. Those two fine English bibliographers, Westwood and Satchell, heaped an unusual amount of praise on this book: Quoting from Gentleman's Magazine "has the contemplative man's recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest in these pleasant pages." Whew. The book is bound in its original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and decoration on the front cover. The spine is faded to brown and the top of the spine is a little frayed; otherwise clean and very good.

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Book number: 009501

AL & GRETCHEN BEATTY [EDITORS].

Federation of Fly Fishers Fly Pattern Encyclopedia. {Inscribed and Signed by Both Editors}.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications. 2000. First Edition. 4to. (10 x 8). 232 pp. including fly tier profiles, tier index, pattern index. Inscribed and signed by both editors on the half-title page. Hundreds of excellent color photos of every type and kind of fly imaginable - over 1600 in all. With material lists for all the patterns. Color photos. An important contribution to fly fishing and fly dressing. The book is bound in color pictorial boards, spiral hard cover. A nice book. Fine.

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Book number: 009254

Keywords: Signed.

AL & GRETCHEN BEATTY.

Innovative Flies and Techniques.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications. 2005. First Edition. 4to. (10 x 8). 195 pp. The book includes innovative fly patterns dressed primarily for trout and steelhead. The flies are dressed by 47 fly dressers and a list of materials needed to dress the flies is included. The flies are shown in step-by-step color photos and there is photo of each fly dresser. There are many unique patterns on display herein. The book is bound in colorful green cloth (spiral hardbound) with black and white titles. A nice book. Fine.

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Book number: 009377

A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON ANGLING BELONGING TO MR. DEAN SAGE OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

A Catalogue of the Collection of Books on Angling Belonging to Mr. Dean Sage of Albany, New York.

Mansfield, Connecticut. Maurizio Martino Published. 1995. Limited to 200 copies published. 8vo. (8 x 5). 245 pp. Approximately 2000 book, pamphlets, and catalogs are listed. Mr. Sage's angling library was substantial with many of the milestones in angling represented and fully described. The book is bound in turquoise cloth with gilt titles. A nice book. Fine.

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Book number: 008085

RON ALCOTT

Building Classic Salmon Flies. {Deluxe Edition With a Silver Doctor Atlantic Salmon Fly Dressed on a Size 3/0 Hook}.

Woodstock, Vermont. The Countryman Press. 1995. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7). 197 pp. including bibliography, index. Limited Edition. Book number 5 of 50 copies published. Signed by Ron Alcott on the limitation leaf. Foreword by Dick Stewart. Sixteen color plates of flies, materials and tying tools. Black and white illustrations by the author. Step-by-step black and white photo instructions on how to dress these most beautiful of flies. Mounted on a separate triple mat-board within a oval cutout covered with clear thick plastic is Mr. Alcott's Atlantic salmon fly, the Silver Doctor, dressed on a size 3/0 gut-eye hook. The fly is beautiful beyond all senses. The mat-board is also signed by Ron Alcott. With the book’s prospectus laid-in. The book is bound in full burgundy morocco with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Matching burgundy leather slipcase. A beautiful book. Fine in a fine slip case. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 010187

W. H. ALDAM.

A Quaint Treatise on Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making. By an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago. With Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies & Samples of Materials for Making Each Fly. [etc.].

London. John B. Day, 3 Savoy Street, Strand. 1875. First Edition, First Issue. 4to. (11 x 9). [ix] x-xiii [xiv-xvi], 1-91 [92] pp. With two mounted chromolithographs from original watercolours by James Poole - Llugwy, North Wales and Offerton Stepping Stones near Hathersage, Derbyshire. Title page printed in red and black. With 25 artificial flies and the materials to dress them mounted within 22 oval recesses on 6 thick double-sided matt boards. The flies and materials are attached with colored wafers within the oval frames. Each text page and matt board is within double red rule borders. The flies are dressed on gut leaders and eyeless, except the final two examples which were dressed by James Ogden on size 10 eyed hooks supplied by Bartletts - these two large mayflies, numbered 21 and 22, were dressed with extended bodies, which points up the fact there is little really new in fly dressing, as these 140 year old patterns demonstrate. An exquisite book. The book is bound in its original dark green cloth with gilt titles and black decorations on the spine and front cover. All edges gilt. The spine has been professionally restored at the top and bottom edges (almost seamlessly), occasional spots of foxing, evidence of residue from a tipped-in note on the verso on one plate, small piece of clear tape over one of the wafers. The flies and materials are fresh and complete. According to angling historian David Beazley, there were 15 to 20 copies of the 1875 first issue published. A bright, nice, very good book in its most desirable first issue.

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Book number: 008339

JOHN ALEVRAS.

Leaves from a Steelheader's Diary. {Limited Edition}.

Portland, Oregon. Frank Amato Publications, Inc. 2010. Limited Edition. Book number 52 of 100 copies published. Signed by the author and Eldridge Hardie on the limitation page. 8vo. (8 x 6). 158 pp. Text drawings by Eldridge Hardie. The author recounts his days steelheading on the Kispiox and Babine rivers in British Columbia. The book is bound in cream and burgundy cloth with gilt titles and silk ribbon marker. Matching thick burgundy cloth slip case with a fly dressed by the author mounted within a recess on the side panel. A nice book. Fine in a fine slip case.

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Book number: 008806

WILLIAM ALEXANDER.

A Journey to Beresford Hall The Seat of Charles Cotton Esq. The Celebrated Author and Angler.

London. John Russell Smith, 4 Old Compton Street, Soho. 1840. First Edition. Large octavo (9 x 7 ½). 32 pp. in total ([16], 7 [1] pp.). Printed on rectos. Illustrated frontispiece showing Charles Cotton and Izaak Walton seated at a table in their Fishing House ."an hour to spend, and by the marble table set them down." Title page with an exterior illustration of the Fishing House. With the author's Preface and Memoir of the Author preceding the manuscript. William Alexander's account of his visit to Beresford is a facsimile printing of his original handwritten manuscript, so that "no one may be disappointed." There is a small hand colored fly ornament at the start of the manuscript. The ms. was originally penned in 1815 and is dedicated to the anglers of Great Britain. Westwood and Satchell note the oddity of the work by extensively quoting the author's Preface. Odd or not, this book is quite scarce. The book is bound in its original green cloth with paper titling label on the front cover. Light wear to the cloth with some of the pages darkened around the margins. Very good.

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Book number: 010369