New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. 246 pp., oblong 12mo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Contains 48 stories, recollections, essays & poems. Very light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some very light creasing to joints. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy.....
Millwood, VA: The American Foxhound Club, 1970. Cloth. Folio. 212pp. Light shelf wear to spine ends & cover corners; light rubbing to covers. Signed by author; one of 2500 copies. 79 Classic stories, sketches, essays & poems Illustrated by 128 paintings, drawings, prints & photographs.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894. First edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 293 pp. Wear, sunning and small tears to spine. Rear joint repaired. Light soil to covers, bottom corners bumped. Browning to edges; spotting to endpapers. Light foxing and spotting on some pages. Illustrated frontispiece.
Rugby: Anthony Atha Publishers and the Game Conservancy, 1979. First edition. Quarter Leather in Slipcase. Folio. 252 pp. #227 of 1100 copies. Fine but for previous owner's inscription on half-title, very faint musty odor (no visible cause), slight bump to lower corner of front cover. Green cloth and leather, gilt.....
Seattle: Sports Vision, Inc., 1984. First edition. Paperback. 147 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Soiling and rubbing to wraps, price sticker to upper right corner of cover, staining to text block edges, two address labels from publisher affixed to the copyright page. Vision training for use in clay pigeon shooting and other.....
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 332 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Educational stories by the editor of 30 years for Field & Stream magazine. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some faint soiling to textblock edges. Po library imprint.....
NY: Coward McCann, Inc, 1956. Cloth. 8vo. 152pp. Book in great condition. Edgewear w/ tear to front head corner; light rubbing to rear of dj " A book for everybody particularly armchair sportsmen a satire on people and things in part also an autobiography revealing a philosophical approach to something.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 205 pp, 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Lightly shelfworn, light foxing/soil to edges. Faint dampstain and minor rippling to lower edge and corner of last approx. 70 pgs and reps. Interior otherwise clean, binding tight. Dj scuffed and lt. soiled.....
R. H. McLaughlin, 1946. Hardcover. 31 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Methods of hunting, tracking, time to hunt, turning, scaring from dens, crossings, size shot, trapping fox & owls. Some light soiling & wear to covers. Pgs clean & crisp.
Garden City, NY: Nick Lyons Books/Doubleday, 1980. First edition. Quarter Cloth. 4to. 223 pp. Dj light soil, sl. rubbing. Back panel of dj torn in half. Inscribed by Merwin on half-title. Some light pencil markings in margin. B/w drawings by Victor Ichioka, photos. Signed.
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 1990. Cloth. 143 pp. 4to (squarish oblong). Cloth in dj. Light scuffing and scratching to dj, minor wear to edges, sm. chip to color coating on front upper corner. Sl. edgewear to book, sm. dk stain to bottom front edge at corner. Illustrated with photographs.....
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj. First edition. An intensely educational text on the subject of fly-fishing compiled by 18 masters of the craft, including Ed Zern, Bernard "Lefty" Kreh, Art Flick, Ernest Schwiebert, Michael Fong & Robert Warner. Profusely.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Cloth. 8vo. 315 pp. Rubbing, sunning to spine and top edge of back cover, scratching and soiling to cover, former owner signed ffep in pencil, foxing to fep and endpapers.
Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1980. Hardcover. 239 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. An Illustrated Guide to Clothing, Shelter, Equipment and Wilderness Living. Light scuffing, flexing & shelfwear to boards. Slight cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Some very light foxing to textblock fore edge. Pgs clean & crisp.....
New York: Fisherman Publishing Corp. circa 1988. Paperback. 94 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Some sm creases, light scuffing & shelfwear to covers & spine. Po imprint to ffep otherwise pgs clean & crisp.
Stillwater, ME: Bob Noonan, 1989. Paperback. 52 pp., 8vo. Paperback. Photos & drawings by author. Slight scuffing, soiling & shelfwear to covers & stapled spine. Po pen inscription to title pg, otherwise textblock clean & crisp.
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1864. Cloth. 8vo. 604 pp. Cover is has brown marks. Back board is coming apart along hinge at the top. Sunned. Ex-library markings are a bookplate on f.p.d. Stamp on f.f.e.p. and title page, and pocket and date due slip torn off r.p.d. and.....
London: New Burlington Books, 1977. Hardcover. 255 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj. Light flexing & shelfwear to boards. Some shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Some faint foxing & wrinkling to textblock edges. Pgs clean & crisp. Slight scuffing & shelfwear to dj; some sunning to spine.....
Ludlow, Shropshire: Merlin Unwin Books, 1996. Cloth. 163 pp, 8vo (wide). Cloth in dj. Signed and briefly inscribed by O'Reilly on title pg. Lt shelfwear, lt soil to textblock and feps, faint yellowing to margins. Interior otherwise clean. Dj shelfworn w/ creasing and 1" tear to fore-edge of rear panel.....
Horrocks Ibbotson, Co., 1948. Paperback. 128 pp., squarish 12mo. Stapled paperback. Moderate soiling, discoloration, dampstaining & wear to covers & spine. Binding sturdy. Some light soiling & perforations scattered to very clean textblock. Illustrated w/ b&w photos & art.
Fridley, MN: Firearms of the Ages Magazine, 1970. Paperback. 81 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Illustrated w/ b&w plates of guns & parts. Mild discoloration, foxing, soiling, some peeling & wear to covers & spine; vertical crease to rear cover. Binding sturdy. Slight foxing to textblock edges & scattered lightly to.....
Fridley, MN: Firearms, 1971. Paperback. 82 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Illustrated w/ b&w plates of guns & parts. Mild discoloration, foxing, soiling, & wear to covers & spine. Binding sturdy. Slight foxing to textblock edges & scattered lightly to interior.
Iola, WI: Krause, 2002. Hardcover. 143 pp., 4to. Hardcover in dj. Light rubbing/scuffing, flexing & shelfwear to boards. Slight shelfwear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Creasing to hinges. Pgs clean & crisp. Light scuffing & shelfwear to dj; some sticker residue to front cover.
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.
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.....
