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. 

In 1992 the story was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford.   Made into a movie starring Robert Redford. -Very Fine                                                                            

Witherby & Co. London 1909, 8vo Illust 251p. Blue cloth cover. Fishing and travelling in the Caribbean,, the Pacific slope, California and Canada. Sl rubbing on edges. ex lib, lacking frontis, spine marked - Good

Witherby & Co. London 1909 1st Edn, 8vo Illust 251p. Blue cloth cover. Fishing and travelling in the Caribbean,, the Pacific slope, California and Canada. Sl rubbing on edges- Very Good

Stackpole Books Harrisburg 1978, 8vo Illust 238p 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

Willow Creek Press  Wautoma WI.1987  2nd revised and expanded edn. .  8vo Illust. 157p, 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. 157p, 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 395p. 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 1978. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo Illust 517p. Soft Cover. Illustrated in colour and line by Fred Everett; fly plates painted by Dr Edgar Burke. The Trout, The Bass, Miscellaneous (The Pike Family), angling ethics, common fish of our lakes and streams, wet flies and methods, the art of dry fly practice, trout tackle, fly rod lures and methods, plug and casting rod. Alan Jarvis bookplate. A near Fine copy.- Fine