Freshwater North America

The University of Chicago  (nd) indicates published in 1976 but is a later reprint, 8vo Illust 217p. Soft Cover. This book is a modern classic of collected short stories. The leading story, A River Runs Through, is about fly fishing in Montana's Big Blackfoot River. Fly fishing is the one common activity that helps bridge troubled relationships between a father and his sons. The first paragraph "In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christs disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea og Galiee were fly fisherman and that John the favorite is a dry fly fisherman.” sets the scene of this b classical book. ”It is earthy, whimsical, authoritative, wise, it touches the heart without blushing, and traces lasting images of the eye. One of those rare memoirs that can be called a masterpiece. ’…...….Nick Lyons. 

Witherby & Co. London 1909 1st Edn, 8vo. Illust. 251pp. Blue cloth cover. Information on fishing and travelling in California, western Canada and the West Indies. Fishing in British Columbia and Yosemite for trout, salmon and salt water fish also black bass in Quebec."  ,  Sl rubbing on edges- Very Good

Stackpole Books Harrisburg. 1978, 8vo. Illust. 238pp. D/J is sl. rubbed. Discusses stream strategy and the tying of terrestrials including ants, sawflies, bees, wasps, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, roaches, caterpillars, butterflies, moths, leafhoppers, cicadas and other minor terrestrials.- Very Fine

Anglers Club New York.  Assorted collection of seven issues for the years 1942, 1961 and 1962.    Articles by Dana Lamb, Stanley Babson, Sparse Grey Hackle and others. - Very Good

Michael Beazley London 1997. 1^St UK Edn.  4to, Illust. 192pp. D/J.  Edited by Judy Dean. Illustrated by Atkinson's superb colour photographs.   An anthology of writings by well known international anglers on their selection of fishing in exotic locations.  John Gierach writes on Alaska, Russell Chatham on the Florida Keys, Mike Fitzgerald on Norway, Peter Kaminski on Alaska, Verlyn  Klinkenborg on New Zealand, Art Lee on Iceland, Tom McGuane on Mexico, Neil Patterson on the English chalk streams, David Profumo on Russia, Ernest Schweibert on Argentina and Nick Lyons on the Rocky Mountains. D/J Slight sunned. - Fine    

Winchester Press New York .1973 revised edn, 8vo. Illust. 144pp. Blue cloth Cover.  Foreword by Lee Wulff.   B/W photographs and sketches. Introduces the angler to the exciting world of the bonefish. Locations, equipment, techniques and the excitement of the chase are discussed. - Fine

Willow Creek Press  Wautoma WI.1987  2nd revised and expanded edn.  8vo. Illust. 157pp, Black decor. cloth with gilt lettering and illustration   Illustrated by Eldridge Hardie.  Foreword Charles K Fox. ….Tactics and strategies of night fishing…notes on correct tackle… proven night flies and their dressing.  "No thing of beauty but this book comes in that special category hors concours” (Gingrich) - very fine                     

Dell Publishing New York 1987. 8vo. Illust. 157pp, Soft cover.  Tactics and strategies of night fishing for trout…notes on correct tackle… proven night flies and their dressing.  "No thing of beauty but this book comes in that special category hors concours” (Gingrich) Illustrated by Eldridge Hardie.  Foreword Charles K Fox. ….    1987. Revised and Expanded edn.  -Fine

Stackpole Books  Mechanicsville.  1995 revised and expanded ed.   8vo. Illust. 395pp. D/J  This  edition of the complete text and colour plates of the 1950 original publication makes available  additional colour plates,  artwork, history and notes   and more than three hundred fly patterns  of streamers and bucktails patterns.  Includes detailed discussion of tackle  and techniques and why fish take streamers.  Foreword by  Keith Fulsher –Mint    

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  New York, 1952. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo, Illust, 493pp. D/J.   Classic book on trout fishing with the first edition published in 1938. J "This was for a whole generation considered the one fishing book to have if your not having more than one …..a whole generation of fisherman grew up on it " –Gingrich .   With additional colour plates and new chapters on spinning for trout." D/J has been folded leaving creases at the fold lines lengthwise along spine centre and vertically across panels.  Coloured top edge; deckle fore-edge. Frontis Painting by William Schaldach. Color plates from paintings by Dr. Edgar Burke, photographs of fly-tying by Charles S. Krug, line diagrams by Ivan Sickles and G. Don Ray. Index. -  A near fine copy.