n.a. n.p., 1900. Soft cover. Silver gelatin print of fly fisherman at edge of water practicing his casting. Likely late 19th C or early 20th C; also possibly Ontario, Canada, as that is where I acquired this photo. Mat size 6 7/8" x 8 7/8". Image size 3 1/8" x......
Portland OR: Midwest Portrait Studios, 1936. No Binding. Hand-tinted convex photograph under glass of a hunter holding a rifle with a dead cougar laying on a rack behind him. Frame size 12" x 18". Small chips to the frame. The framing was done by Midwest Portrait Studios in Portland, Oregon.....
U of Nebr., Lincoln, 1976, 1976. Reprint. Soft cover. Reprint. Pictorial trade wraps. 480pp. Illust. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Lightly soiled. Vg.
Denver: Sage, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 117pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Endpaper drawings by the author. Presentation copy dated June, 1959, to a couple and signed "Joe and Mary Back." Laid in is a well-executed original drawing of rope, on now brown paper; could be.....
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 432pp. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Index. Two large folding maps in back pocket: "Rocky Mountains Trappers Area 1823-1840" and "Extended Area of Trappers 1823-1840." Former owner's name / date on ffep. Fine copy in near fine dj. For some reason.....
Montreal: Canadian National Railways, 1954. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of this year's edition. Tall pictorial wraps. 136pp. Illus. The folding map in the back has been torn off leaving only British Columbia and part of Alberta. Otherwise textually complete with each province represented town by town with.....
Toronto: CFC, 1919. First Thus. Soft cover. Original sheet 10 1/2" x 16", printed on both sides, folded, then tri-folded. Dated Feb. 1st, 1919. Illustrated with the Consolidated Fur Corp masthead drawing of polar bears with sun's rays behind them. Gives price list of seventeen fur bearing animals plus wild.....
OU, Norman, 1953, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth with silver-stamped spine. 394pp. Illustrated by Olaus J. Murie. Index. "Game Animals, Game Birds, Predators, Game Fish, Coarse Fish". "Hunting Equipment and Methods", "Fishing Tackle and Methods". Fine in worn dj with chips & tears & splits to flaps.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. 237pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Signed (signed only) by Dobie on the half-title. A wonderful and extensively researched book by the great Texas writer about one of the remarkable and almost legendary Texas characters, bear-hunters and all around.....
n.p. North American Productions, Oreg., Ltd, 1977. Soft cover. ORIGINAL movie poster (not one of the reproductions) of one of the better Bigfoot movies according to David Coleman, author of The Bigfoot Filmography. Near fine to fine on glossy stock in folded condition (and will be shipped folded) with folds.....
Norman: OU, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 324pp. Illustrated with drawings by Nic Eggenhofer and with photos and prints. Bibliography. Index. History of the presence and demise of the bison of the Great Plains. Near fine in very slightly chipped dj and a closed diagonal tear on the.....
NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial gilt-stamped cloth. 353pp. Illustrated by John M. Phillips. Index. The hinges have been professionally repaired & binding tightened. fos of H. L. Stimson in 1906 on ffep. Because of where I purchased this copy years ago (Wash., D. C.).....
Seattle: U of Washington Press, 2000. q. ARC. Soft cover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. 4to trade glossy pictorial wraps. 161pp. A memoir of fly fishing and birding on British Columbia's Bella Coola River. Fine, like new.
Lansdowne ONT: Plumsweep Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 339pp. Illus. Inscribed by the author to your bookseller and his wife during a lovely visit to Roger and his wife, Margery, in Ivy Lea, Ontario on May 16, 2006. If ever there was a labor of love in.....
Victoria BC: Provincial Archives, 1975. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. 4to black and white pictorial wraps. 104pp. Illustrated with b/w photos & a map showing Vancouver, New Westminster, Steveston and the Lower Mainland District. A fine and necessary book revealing the lives of several Japanese-Canadians in the fishing and.....
Providence: Privately published, 1937. First Edition. Soft cover. Apparent 1st printing. Pictorial wraps. 35pp. Illustrated with drawings & a photo of the author. Clean red three-line stamp on front & back covers, "Compliments of Howard & Lewis Ford-Mercury & Lincoln-Zephry 186 Fountain St (,) Providence, R.I." Much practical info such.....
Chicago & Detroit: Rand McNally & Gil Schaefer, 1953. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of this edition. Colorful folio stapled wraps, 13" x 20". 20pp. Each map is pleasingly illustrated by vignette drawings of various wildlife species in different parts of the state. Thus on a given page's map.....
London, 1879. 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt & blindstamped cloth. 404pp. Murphy spent seven years in the American West. This work focuses on the habits & haunts of all the large animals. The author relates a few episodes & tales a long the way. In the Preface he states that.....
Portland OR: WestWinds Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Small 4to pictorial wraps with French fold. 96pp. Illus. Index. "Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series." Presentation signed to J____ and signed by Nims. Fine, like new.
Vantage, NY, 1972, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto red cloth with image imprinted in the cloth. 185pp. Wonderful illustrations, a few in color, by Ovenden. Pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy to Lee Brown, "my former Wenatchee World Carrier... signed by Ovenden. Foreword by Senator Henry Jackson. "The subject of hunting ducks.....
Privately Printed, Waukesha, 1936, 1936. First Edition. Soft cover. 12mo pictorial wraps, very lovely. 39pp. Illust. "This is a narrative of a hunting trip, together with several poems of the outdoors. Printed privately by the author for his friends." Fine. Never been opened & read. A scarce & attractive, highly.....
Tucson: Settlers West, 2002. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition ltd to 1,500 copies hardbound. Oblong 4to cloth. 143 pp.. Sumptuously illustrated in color & b/w by some of the West's finest artists, particularly those who lived & hung around Glacier National Park: Grinnell, McClintock, Hill, Reiss, Reed, Russell, Goodwin.....
NY: Outing, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. "Binding" is listed as hardcover, but although this is a cloth binding, the covers flex. Small 8vo. 197pp. Wonderfully descriptive drawings showing, step by step, how to pack a mule, horse, or I suppose donkey. Index. Several pages in rear of other.....
Caxton, Caldwell, 1985, 1985. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Ltd to 500 copies (this copy being #268). Bound in an excellent simulated leather binding, gilt-stamp initials on front cover & with gilt spine lettering & devices. 227pp. Illust. Photographic endpapers. Opposite limitation page is quote from Richardson beginning with, "The Idaho I like.....
Toronto: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards.305pp. Illus. Laid in is the publisher's review copy promo, once side legal side, folded. Fine memoir of the Canadian Rockies hunting guide and effectively modern mountain man. Fine in vg dj with a trace of.....