Hunting & Fishing from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

Washington: Privately Printed, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 92 pages. Bound in marbled paper over boards backed in dark green cloth. Gilt-stamped spine titles. Mild extremity rubs. Near fine overall.. A delightful volume of fishing reminiscences by a prominent Yale geologist and petrologist. Pirsson writes of fishing for trout in New England, ouananiche in Quebec, grayling in… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1836. First Nicolas edition. 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Quartos. ccxii, 129 and [130]-436, [32] pages. Dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides, gilt ruled boards, marbled endpapers, and all edges of textblocks gilt. Spines are titled and ornamented in gilt with five raised bands. Mild rubs to leather along joints, some… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan Company, 1903. Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages. Near fine. Some minor extremity rubs to exterior, small prior owner name stamped at top of half title and title pages. Leather spine and fore corners, marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt.… Read more about this item

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited edition. Copy #362 of 950 sets. Cloth hardcovers Quartos. xviii, 200 pages and x, 192 pages. Near fine. Slight wear at extremities. Both volumes have a neat prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Lacking the slipcase. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, deckle edges. A… Read more about this item

Barre: Barre Publishers, 1971. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [viii], 92, [1] pages. Fine in a near fine glassine jacket.. `. A fine collection of Lamb's essays on fly-fishing for trout and salmon and other outdoor sporting adventures. Edition limited to 1500, this copy is SIGNED by Lamb but not numbered. Lacks the slipcase. <br /> <br… Read more about this item

(London): Honey Dun Press, 1975. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi],32, 6 plates. Fine in a fine box. Normal shallow fraying to end of the box's ribbon pull.. Six hand-colored plates by John Simpson. A study of one of the rarest books in angling literature. There are six hand-colored plates by John Simpson depicting 30 flies. The frontispiece is… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1919. First printing. Cloth hardcover. Duodecimo. xvi, 264 pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Very good, with some light extremity rubs. Prior owner name penned on front free endpaper. Front hinge apparently re-glued at some point, small split at rear hinge.. Profusely illustrated,… Read more about this item

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1839. First edition. Expertly rebacked original cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 327 pages. Good. Bound in green cloth over boards with embossed ornamental designs, gilt-stamped spine title. The book has been expertly restored, retaining the original binding cloth as much as possible. Interior pages show some foxing to pre- and postliminary leaves, occasional paper repairs, and… Read more about this item

Barre: Barre Publishers, 1964. Limited edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 111, [1] pages. Fine in a near fine slipcase with a few minor edge rubs and light stains.. Dana Lamb was one of the 20th century's best writers on fishing. This collection of 33 essays on trout and salmon adventures was limited to 1500 copies. In original… Read more about this item