Pools and Ripples; Fishing Essays.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Cloth. 12mo. 102 pgs. Small tears and chips to jacket edges, jacket soiled and rubbed. Cloth faded at edges, spine and corners bumped.
HUNTING & FISHING
Atlantic Salmon Fishing.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Limited edition. Cloth. 193 pp, folio. Decorative green cloth w/ a.e.g., in scarce dj. One of edition limited to 950 copies, signed by Phair on the half-title. Lt bumping/wear to spine ends and corners, lt. spotting to boards, textblock age-toned. Sl. musty odor. Minor.....
Game Birds:; Rearing, Preservation and Shooting
London/ Boston and New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode/ Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929. Cloth. 185 pp, 4to. Cloth. Sunned and lightly scuffed/soiled, spine ends and corners bumped, small knicks missing from spine head and rear joint. P.o.'s bookplate and pencil notation to fpd. Foxing to textblock, endpapers, and some margins; minor.....
Firearms Self-Defense: An Introductory Guide.
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 1981. Cloth. 4to. 157 pp. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge. Interior clean and tight. Why own a gun?, Ammunition, weapons, marksmanship, combat shooting, safety, maintenance, legal issues, more. B/w photos.
Do Everything Manual Covering the Luger 9mm:; Assembly, Disassembly, Lubrication, Ammunition, Maintenance, Storage
Assonet, MA: JEM Enterprises, 2009. Paperback. 26 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Very light shelfwear & sunning to covers & spine; stickers to rear cover. Binding tight. Pgs quite clean.
Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc, 1993. First edition. Hard Cover. 352 pp, 8vo. Practically ike new. Previous owner's bookplate to fep, otherwise book is clean and crisp. Dj is slightly shelfworn and has sticker adhesive to the back panel. Stated first edition.
Modern Bait and Fly Casting.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. First edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 250 pp. Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Instructional book on types of bait and fly casting.
Hunt Close!
Canaan, NH: Jerome B. Robinson, 1978. Hardcover. 221 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Shelfworn, textblock lightly foxed, v. minor foxing to feps. Otherwise clean, binding tight. Dj lightly edgeworn and scuffed, front panel lightly soiled, few creases to flaps. "A Realistic Guide to Training Close-Working Gun Dogs for Today's Tight.....
Jill and I and the Salmon.
Lake Oswego, OR: Great Outdoors Book Exchange, 1950. Limited edition. Leather. 204 pp. 8vo. Leather. Signed limited edition. Minor shelfwear, in excellent condition. Some pages uncut. With illustrations by Ralph L. Boyer. signed.
Trapping with Havahart Traps:; A practical guide for trappers and a catalog describing these famous traps and the best ways to use them
Ossining, NY: Havahart, 1969. Revised. Paperback. 38 pp., stapled 12mo. Paperback. Revised from 1945 edition. Light shelfwear to covers; po address info in pen to rear cover. Textblock clean & crisp. Illustrated w/ photos & line drawings.
Trapping with Humane Havhart Traps:; A Practical guide for trappers and a catalog describing these famous traps and the best ways to use them
Ossining, NY: Havahart, 1974. Revised. Paperback. 37 pp., 12mo. Stapled paperback. Revised edition. Illustrated w/ b&w line drawings. Po pen name & address to rear cover. Very light sunning & shelfwear to covers. Textblock interior clean & crisp. Numerous advertisements, coupon offers, price lists and order forms laid in.
The Water-Fowl Family.
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1903. First edition. Cloth. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2". 598 pp. The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Bright gilt lettering and illustration to cover. Gilt top fore-edge. Dent to spine of cover that runs from top down to middle. Small sticker to bottom.....
American Gun Makers.
Buffalo, NY: Otto Ulbrich Co., Inc., 1940. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 186 pp. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, faint yellowing to spine. Dj has sunning to spine, small pieces missing to corners and foot of spine, 1/2 inch missing to head of spine, large piece missing.....
Coverts & Casts.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co, 1946. Cloth. 136 pp. 4to. Cloth. Light wear and lt damp staining to board edges. Bumping to spine ends, lt sunning to spine. Minimal soiling to ffep and half title page. "Field Sports and Angling in Words and Pictures"
Mega Mink Minds:; A Complete Guide to effective Mink Trapping
New Ulm, MN: Schmitt Enterprises, Inc., 2000. Paperback. 71 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Filled w/ b&w photos & line drawings. Covers fine. Textblock clean & crisp.
Fishing for Salmon and Trout.
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. Cloth. 8vo. 185 pp. Light wear to corners and spine ends, light faint spotty staining to front cover. Former owner's name to ffep. Dj has edgewear, few nicks, long tear at joint and spine, soiling, creasing to edges, tear to side edge.....
The School-Boy Trapper:; The Standard Guide for Young, Sub-teen and Teen-age Trappers
Uniontown, PA: Pat Sedlak, 1975. Fifth edition. Paperback. 164 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Fifth edition. Sunning & discoloration to covers & spine. Po pen signature & date to title pg, otherwise textblock clean & crisp. Illustrated w/ b&w photos & line drawings.
The American Shotgunner.
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1962. Hardcover. 301 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. Edgeworn w/ lt. chipping to sp. head, lt. foxing/ soil to textblock and eps. Musty odor. Interior otherwise clean. Dj heavily edgeworn w/ several tears and chipping, lg. piece missing from head of rear panel and spine, sp.....
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1899. First UK edition. Hardcover. 112 pp. 12mo. Quarter cloth. First UK edition. Original green cloth publisher's binding crudely covered in green paper, removed at spine to show title and author. New ep's have blue ball-point markings, text remains readable save for foxing throughout.
The Science of Fly Fishing for Trout.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. Hard Cover. 8v. 341 pp. Light bumping to spine ends.
The Best of O.S.
Sutton, NE: Spearman, circa 1981. Paperback. 38 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Signed by author. Reprints of 11 articles previously submitted to various trapping/hunting periodicals. Illustrated w/ b&w photos. Light shelfwear to covers; some light dampstaining to rear cover. Textblock clean & crisp. Signed by author.
Wing Shots: A Series of Camera Studies of American Game Birds and Other Birds of Field and Stream on the Wing.
Lyon, MS: The Derrydale Press, 1990. Cloth. 4to. Unpaginated. Gilt decorative cover, AEG. Black and white photos of game birds in flight.
Once Upon An Isle: The story of fishing families on Isle Royale.
Mount Horeb, WI: Wisconsin Folk Museum, 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo (oblong). 111pp. Light bumping to cover corners & head of spine. Signed to title page. Autobiographical paintings based on a boyhood growing up on a wilderness island in Lake Superior. Illustrated.
Fishin' Jimmy.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Hardcover. 46 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. Light soiling to boards w/ slight sunning to spine & light bumping to edges. Dampstaining to fpd at hinge. Binding stable & pgs clean.
A Sporting Tour (2 volumes).
Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1925. Limited edition. Cloth. 2 vol; 437 pp total. 8vo's. Limited edition, signed by author. Both volumes lightly scuffed, and edgeworn, spines sunned, rough cut textblocks, top edges gilt. Vol I has glue action to half title page from signed plate on verso. Front hingesplit.....