Deluxe & Limited Editions
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This is our DELUXE EDITIONS & RARE LIMITED EDITIONS page. If you're looking for that One-of-a-Kind collectable book, this is the place. Feel free to email us with questions about these books, we recognize that these represent a significant investment and we'll be glad to provide any information we can to help decide if this is something you want.
| Cardenas, Jeffrey: "Sea Level", 2003 Meadow Run Press, Deluxe Edition of 67, New in New Clamshell Box, [186 pgs, 7.75" x 11"], Signed by the Author, and by Jimmy Buffett who wrote the Introduction!! Printed Letterpress on imported German mouldmade paper, handbound in quarter leather. New book in New Clamshell box. (Book Description:) A collection of vivid essays on saltwater fly fishing written over the past twenty years. Sea Level is a pure delight--so filled with fresh original language that it forms a unique portrait of an artist, a writer, and an expert angler and naturalist. |
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| John Gierach: "Fishing Bamboo", 1997 Lyons & Burford, Signed Deluxe Edition of 55 copies. This book has been Signed by the Author as well as the illustrator Glenn Wolff, the binder Carolyn Chadwick, and the publisher Nick Lyons. The book comes half-bound with Nigerian Leather in a handmade cloth slipcase with a piece of hand-planed bamboo from Mike Clark inset into the spine. Also included is a page of the Original Manuscript. The book is in As New condition and is becoming very hard to find. (Book Description) Fishing Bamboo is an attempt to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about split bamboo fly rods: Who fishes them and why..? Are they really better than graphite? Who makes them?.. And what the hell are you trying to prove? There's a lot of interest in bamboo rods,.. They're a large part of the tradition and mythology of fly fishing, but some fishermen are surprised to learn they're as alive and well now as they've ever been. |
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| John Gierach: "Standing in a River, Waving a Stick", 1999 Lyons Press (By arrangement with Simon & Schuster), Signed Deluxe Edition of 25 copies.[235 pgs, 6.5" x 10"] This book has been signed by the Author as well the publisher, Nick Lyons. The book is printed on mould-made paper and comes quarter-bound in Nigerian Leather in a handmade leather-covered slipcase. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) This is John Gierach's perspective on fishing and life, and isn't entirely tongue-in-cheek. But Gierach knows that there is more to fishing than actually catching fish, or as he puts it, "The real lessons of fishing are the ones that come after you've caught some fish. They have to do with things like solitude, quietude, patience, perspective, humor and the sublime coffee break" In this new book, Gierach visits his favorite trout-filled waters, from the Colorado foothills to British Columbia and points between, recounting both memorable fishing spots and memorable fish. |
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| John Gierach: "Good Flies", 2000 Lyons Press, Signed Deluxe Edition of 25 copies.[179 pgs, 6.25" x 9.5"] This book has been signed by the Author as well the publisher, Nick Lyons. The book comes quarter-bound in Nigerian Leather in a handmade cloth-covered slipcase, and has a fly tied by the author inset into the slipcase. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) This intimate glimpse behind John Gierach's vise focuses on the trout flies he has found most successful and how he ties them. There are chapters on how he developed as a fly tyer - from being a hopeless tinkerer who tried every pattern there was to settling on a large handful of favorite patterns that now catch most of his trout... Throughout, the book is punctuated with fishing stories and observations on days astream as well as days at his vise, all in Gierach's inimitable style... rambling a little, following this thread and that, always full of wit and deft experience and that special down-home style that has made him America's favorite fly-fishing author. |
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| Nick Lyons: "A Fly Fisher's World", 1996 W. Thomas Taylor, Signed Deluxe Edition of 25 copies.[287 pgs, 6" x 9"] This book has been signed by the Author Nick Lyons, and Illustrator, Mari Lyons. The book comes quarter-bound in Nigerian Leather in a handmade cloth-covered slipcase, and contains an original watercolor by Mari Lyons, and a page of the original manuscript. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) This ample selection of articles and essays by one of America's most popular writers about fly fishing begins with the moment, on Michigan's Au Sable River, when the author lost his heart to fly fishing, and it chronicles a fishing life punctuated by a revealing trip with one of his grown sons and mellow reflections from a hospital bed. This is the broadest of Nick Lyon's books, with sections on Tarpon and pike fishing in the Marquesas and France, bass bugging on a small Connecticut pond, and trout fishing on unnamed creeks and blue-ribbon western rivers. |
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| James Prosek: "The Complete
Angler",
1999 Harper Collins, Signed Deluxe Edition of 25 copies.[324 pgs, 8.5" x
9.5" (Oblong)] This book has been Signed by the Author as well the
Binder, Carolyn Chadwick. The book comes quarter-bound in
Nigerian Goatskin in a
handmade cloth-covered slipcase and contains an original watercolor by
James Prosek. The
book is in As New condition. (Book Description)
James Prosek has been called "the Audubon of the fishing world" by the
New York Times. A Passionate fisherman and talented artist from a young age,
he published two illustrated book on fish and fishing while still an
undergraduate at Yale... He was fascinated by (Izaak) Walton, a humble man
who won the friendship of kings, and he was intrigued by the book's
philosophies concerning the timelessness and immortality that could be
achieved by fishing. This is the story of a young man's pilgrimage through England, fishing the waters that Walton fished three centuries ago... Along with wonderful stories about good times, great fishing, and fine eating, this trip becomes an exploration of Waltonian ideals: how to live with humor, wisdom, contentment, and simplicity.. |
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$1225
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| James Prosek: "Fly Fishing the 41st Parallel", 2003 Harper Collins, Signed Deluxe Edition of 18 copies.[312 pgs, 6" x 9"] This book has been Signed by the Author as well the Producer, Tony Lyons. The book comes quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin in a handmade cloth-covered slipcase and contains an original watercolor by James Prosek. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) Prosek takes his passion for trout across the world in a travel narrative that is like a river, sometimes meandering and often refreshing. Realizing that he has happily fished his entire life around his home of Easton, Conn., Prosek decides to fish that parallel because that's where trout thrive. He first travels to Spain where he fishes the freshwater streams within the Moorish Alhambra, then goes on to Paris. There, he meets an eccentric group of artists and fishermen whose ringleader is a man named Pierre, and together they fish the Seine for a catfishlike monster, the silure. Prosek vibrantly contrasts the grandness of Paris with the remote calm of the early morning Seine. He next meets a fanatic (sometimes annoyingly so) Austrian baker, and fisherman, named Johannes, who takes Prosek to such far-flung regions as Corsica, Turkey, Armenia and Mongolia. It is during Prosek's travels with Johannes (who snorkels rather than casts for fish) that the reader realizes that the fishing is secondary to the adventure. Some of Prosek's best moments happen on a solo journey to Japan. There, he describes the food and countryside-on crisp autumn walks to streams-as evocatively as he describes the varied colors of the fish. Prosek's passion and earnest investigation more than make up for any absence of tall fish tales. |
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$1225
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| James Prosek: "Trout of the World", 2003 Stewart Tabory & Chang, Signed Deluxe Edition of 12 copies.[224 pgs, 10.25" x 7.25" (Oblong)] This book has been Signed by the Author as well the Producer, Tony Lyons. The book comes quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin in a handmade cloth-covered slipcase and contains an original watercolor trout by James Prosek. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) From the extinct giant trout of the Caspian Sea to the small golden brown trout of British chalk streams, James Prosek has dedicated his unique painting talent to bringing to life trout from around the world, several of which are the few remaining of their type. Prosek has a passion for trout and conveys their beauty with the stroke of his brush in this collection of 100 gorgeous watercolors. The text provides an historical profile of each fish along with personal reflections by the author. Prosek savors the beauty of various fishing spots, ponders the fate of the species, and contemplates man’s role in extinction of animals. Both sensitive and informative, Trout of the World is a must for the library of the recreational fisherman as well as the ichthyologist. |
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$1225
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Schanilec, Gaylord: "Mayflies of the Driftless Region", 2005 Self-Published, Limited Edition of 300 Signed/Numbered copies, New in New Slipcase. Quarter bound in goat leather with tooled imprint of fly in front cover, printed entirely on handmade paper, with 12 color prints done by progressive wood engraving. [75 pgs, 7.5" x 10.75"] (Book Description) Here in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin we have a handful of annual rituals, or signs, that we look to before we can shut off the heat for the year. We watch the ice on the river, the Mississippi, for signs of a thaw: cracks appear, and then a narrow blue tongue of open water begins its work on the ice. We watch for returning birds: the first robins arriving along the margins of the retreating snow; the turkey vultures; the eagles. It was four years ago then, that it occurred to me: "I will do a mayfly book". This was not a simple, romantic notion. The previous spring, I was in a fly fishing shop, and the proprietor asked me if I needed help with fly selection. I knew practically nothing about mayflies, and, to hide my ignorance, I mumbled something about being a "terrestrial man". [Terrestrials being] not dependant on the specific combination of predictable factors involved in putting a mayfly on the water, but this pales in comparison to the craft, and science, required for the successful presentation of a counterfeit mayfly. |
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| Stephen Sloan & James Prosek: "Fly Fishing is Spoken Here", 2001 Meadow Run Press, Signed Deluxe Edition of 36 copies.[225 pgs, 7.5" x 10.5"] This book has been signed by the Author as well the Illustrator, James Prosek. The book comes quarter-bound in Leather in a handmade cloth-covered clamshell box and contains an original watercolor by James Prosek. The book is in As New condition. (Book Description) As Irresistible as listening in on spirited private conversations, Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here provides rare and revealing portraits of some very accomplished anglers, writers and artists. This is a diverse and varied collection of live interviews from "The Fishing Zone," a nationally syndicated radio program that includes interviews with James Prosek, Ernest Schwiebert, Valerie Haig-Brown, Joseph Heywood, Joseph Humphreys, Fen Montaigne, and Robert Linsenman, among others. The exciting live conversational format enables the reader to experience and grasp all of the nuances of style, personality and drive that have made these anglers the very best at what they do. Each interview is hosted by Stephen Sloan, himself an expert angler, who skillfully leads the conversations through the unique aspects of craft, vision and technique that are the hallmarks of these innovative sportsman. |
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$995
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