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Caldwell, Michael: "The World's Great Luxury Fishing Resorts" 2003 Lifestyle Publishing, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine Fine DJ. [175 pgs, 10.25" x 9.25" Oblong]  Cover Price: $50.00.     (Excerpt/Review:) The Worlds Great Luxury Fishing Resorts, through more than 150 stunning color photographs and a wealth of clear, concise prose, captures the majesty and magic of the North American fishing experience. It offers the reader a keen insight into twenty of the fines fishing lodges visited by the author.     He believes that although there are literally hundreds of good fishing lodges throughout the United States and Canada, only a very small percentage of them can be called "great." They achieve this title not merely because of their top amenities and the quality of the fishing, but for the consummate professionalism of their staff and management.     The places profiled in this book combine the best of two worlds - world-class fishing and first-class resort living. From cover to cover, Michael Caldwell creates a memorable mosaic that you are bound to enjoy. He hopes that The World’s Great Luxury Fishing Resorts will help you in your quest for the fishing vacation of a lifetime.

Campbell, A.J.: "Classic & Antique Fly-Fishing Tackle" 1997 Lyons & Burford, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Signed by the Author, Fine in Fine DJ. [358 pgs, 9" x 11.5"]  Cover Price: $50.00.     (Excerpt/Review:) Anglers are always fascinated with fly fishing's Golden Age, and nothing brings back those years a vividly as a fine old rod and reel bearing the honorable scars of a lifetime afield. Classic & Antique Fly-Fishing Tackle features in-depth coverage of traditional gear from the 1860s to the 1920s and affordable production tackle from the 1930s through the 1960s.

        Campbell discusses the history, design, construction, fishing characteristics, and identification of important gear, and offers tips on future collectibles; he adds specific instructions for the care and repair of antique and classic tackle.

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Cardenas, Jeffrey: "Sea Level" 2002 Meadow Run Press, Limited Edition of 1500, New in New Slipcase, [186 pgs, 6" x 9"] Cover Price $50.00.     (Excerpt/Review:) 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.

Carroll, David M: "Trout Reflections" 1993 St Martin's Press, 1st Printing, Fine in a Fine DJ, [143 pgs, 7.25" x 9.25"] Cover Price $18.95     (Excerpt/Review:) Drawing from his "fisherman's journal" spanning over 40 years, Carroll conveys a charming and personal account of the yearly cycle and watery environment of the trout. The text is nicely complemented by the author's watercolor and line drawings. This book provides an in-depth look at the yearly cycle of the trout, examines other creatures that inhabit its world, and ends with the trout's mating season, which marks the close of the fishing season.

Cattanach, Wayne: "Handcrafting Bamboo Fly Rods" 2000 Lyons Press, Revised (2nd) Edition 1st Printing, Fine in a Fine DJ. [211 pgs, 9" x 11.25"]  

Chatham, Russell: "The Anglers Coast" 1976 Doubleday , 1976, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in VG DJ with previous owners imprint on FEP. [158 pgs, 5.75" x 8.5"]  

Chatham, Russell: "The Anglers Coast" 1990 Clark City Press , 1st Edition Thus 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ. [163 pgs, 9" x 11"]  

Checchio, Michael: "A Clean Well-Lighted Stream" 1995 Soho Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing,  Fine w/o DJ as issued. [196 pgs]

Checchio, Michael: "Being, Nothingness and Flyfishing" 2001 The Lyons Press (Globe-Pequot Press), 1st Edition 1st Printing, Signed by the Author, Fine in Near Fine (edgewear from shipping) DJ. [226 pgs, 5.75" x 8.5"]  Cover Price: $24.95.     (Excerpt/Review:) For Michael Checchio, fly fishing has been a process of refinement and personal introspection, a journey that included dropping everything and moving to the West to fly fish - particularly the North Umpqua for steelhead. In humorous and beautiful prose, Checchio recounts his years as a novice and self-taught New Jersey fly fisherman, and how he set out to find the hallowed trout-fishing Mecca's of the Rocky Mountain West. Along the way we meet iconoclasts, wildlife, and the breathtaking landscapes of fly fishing's most fabled Western rivers, and at journey's end is the West Coast, and the pursuit of the beautiful and elusive steelhead.

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Chiappone, Richard: "Water of an Undetermined Depth" 2002 Stackpole Books, 1st Printing, Fine in Fine or better DJ.  [144 pgs, 6" x 9"] Cover Price:$19.95.    (Excerpt/Review:) What's a man to do when his life is just work and trouble? Some hunt, some fish, some drink, some gamble. Richard Chiappone writes about them all--men living their lives, doing what they have to, and getting through the day. These characters are real, gritty, imperfect working men, who make the wrong choices and mess up. These stories about real people, tough and resilient, making hard choices, are a powerful and inspiring collection.

Clarke, Brian: "The Stream", 2004 The Overlook Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Signed by the Author (on special publishers bookplate), Fine in Near Fine DJ. [6" x 9", 175 pgs.] Cover Price: $23.95.  (Publishers Description) Apart from a few protesters, the announcement of an industrial pak in a depressed rural area is widely welcomed. It promises new jobs and new hope for those who live there. A few miles away, in a small valley with a stream running through it, ownership of a farm passes from father to son. Over time, these two events take their toll. The pressures are felt most powerfullly in the stream itself, as, little by little, the creatures that live in it are sucked into a mute and unseen struggle for survival.  With grace and objectivity, and with a narrative rhythm echoing the patterns of nature, The Stream records the consequences of environmental degradation from the inside. As The Times (London) wrote, this is "a devastatingly effective novel which ought to be required reading for schoolchildren, government ministers, businessmen, enironmentalists, and anyone else who has an interest in the environment."

Cole, John: "Fish of My Years" 1995 Meadow Run Press, Limited Edition of 1500, New in original shrink-wrap, slipcased. Signed by the Author. [134 pgs, 6.25" x 9.25"]      (Excerpt/Review:) The memories of a lifetime told through the various fishes the author has encountered during his unusual, eccentric and eventful journey. The author has lived the kind of angling life we all at times might aspire to – and has survived!      This is John Cole at his best - great humor, insight, irreverence for all things that get in his way of fishing; the deepest reverence for the fish themselves. A delight.

Combs, Trey: "Bluewater Flyfishing " 1995 Lyons & Burford, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author,  (Excerpt/Review:) This is a beautiful, large book full of incredible photos of saltwater fishing. (Dust Jacket Excerpt:) Here is the first major book devoted exclusively to the exciting world of big-game fly fishing. Trey Combs has found the prime destinations (from Baja California to Australia) for seventeen different species - and each has its own chapter... Combs gives a short history and fly-fishing strategies for each gamefish as well as delightful anecdotes of his own fishing experiences.

Connett, Eugene: "My Friend the Trout" 1991 Meadow Run Press, Limited Edition of 950, New in original shrink-wrap, slipcased. Signed by Ernest Schwiebert who wrote the Introduction. [122 pgs, 5.5" x 8.25"] Issue Price: $50.00 (Excerpt/Review:) This is the author’s last book, written in 1961. After having spent a lifetime fly fishing for trout, studying the fish and the waters, any erudite, thoughtful angler would have to learn something. Connett certainly did and writes about it here. Very insightful information. The author was the founder, editor and publisher of The Derrydale Press, the premier American publisher of sporting books in the twentieth century.

Cooper, John: "The Art of The Compleat Angler", 1968 Duke Univ. Press, 1st Edition, Very Good with minor edgewear, in a Very Good dustjacket (edgewear,price-clipped). (DJ Excerpt) Izaak Walton’s seventeenth-century manual of angling has been through over three hundred editions since the author’s death. Walton’s extraordinary combination of a practical, informative handbook on angling with its passages of narration, description, and moral and religious meditation, has long begged adequate critical attention, particularly to the question of genre. Although literary greats like Wordsworth, Hazlitt, and Lamb have praised it highly, The Compleat Angler has not previously received an intensive analytical examination. John R. Cooper answers this deficit with the present masterful study of the political, social, religious, literary, and stylistic aspects of the Angler.

Cordes, Ron and Randall Kaufmann: "Lake Fishing with a Fly", 1984 Frank Amato, 1st Edition 1st Printing,  Inscribed by the Author to the Previous Owner. Good+ (with highlighting throughout) in a Good+ dustjacket (with edgewear and small chips, 2" closed tear, light soiling, but price intact).

Corodimas, Peter (Editor): "In Trout Country", 1971 Little, Brown & Co., 1st Edition,  Very Good in a Near Fine dustjacket.

Coykendall, Ralf (ed.): "The Golden Age of Fly Fishing" 1997 The Countryman Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, [173 pgs, 8.25" x 10.25"] Cover Price $32.50     (Excerpt/Review:) A collection of 26 articles and dozens of illustrations from the pages of The Sportsman, America's premier sporting magazine in its time: 1927-37. Authors include Eugene Connett, Frederick White, John Alden Knight, Edward R. Hewitt, Robert Page Lincoln, George D.B. Bonbright, and Jack Russell; illustrations are by A.L. Ripley and Ralph Boyer. When Ralf Coykendall Jr. was but a gleam in his father's eye, Ralf Sr. was working as the advertising director of The Sportsman.

Crawford Lesley: "Trout Talk", 2004 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine issued w/o DJ, [192 pgs, 6.5" x 9.5"] (Excerpt/Review:) Have you ever wished you were better informed on the unique language of trout fishing? Do you really know your Blot from your Bibio, your Clouser from your Clunker or your Flays from your Fluorocarbon? Are you unable to keep up with the changes in tackle and tactic terminology? Look no further for Trout Talk will give you all these fishy answers and much more besides. Trout fishermen everywhere are held together by a common bond of communication, quite simply they speak their own language, isn’t it about time you brought yourself up to speed...

Daignault, Frank: "Eastern Tides: a surfcaster's life", 2002 Burford Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, [223 pgs, 6.25" x 9.25"] Issue Price $22.95     (Excerpt/Review:) For every surfcaster who has felt the tug of striped bass on the line and on the heart, here is a memoir by a renowned striper fisherman. These are the stories of a life spent in pursuit of striped bass not only with rod and reel, but also with knowledge, wisdom, and even love. For the past fortyyears, Daignault has lived to fish and fished to live, and has produced a book filled with people, places and fish of a lifetime - a book to be read in oilskins and waders.

Daignault, Frank: "Fly Fishing the Striper Surf", 2004 Burford Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine Paperback, Signed by the Author, [192 pgs, 6" x 9"] Issue Price $16.95     (Publisher's Description:) Although best know as a surfcaster, Frank Daignault has fly-fished for striped bass for over thirty years. Here the legendary striper fisherman turns his intimate knowledge of bass fishing to their pursuit with the fly rod. With his characteristic no-nonsense approach, Daignault details the equipment, timing, techniques, and fish-knowledge that have helped him catch thousands of stripers on the fly. Includes descriptions of fly-fishing hot-spots from New Jersey to Maine.

Dance, Charles: "Izaak Walton, A Drama in Four Parts", 2000 Meadow Run Press, Limited Edition of 1000, New in original shrink-wrap, Slipcased, Signed by Hoagy Carmichael who wrote the Introduction, [67 pgs, 6.25" x 9.25"] Issue Price $50.00     (Excerpt/Review:) First produced for the stage in 1839 in London, this is the only known English language play ever performed with an angling theme. This is not simply a dramatized version of The Complete Angler, but rather, it is the engaging and unfolding story of a particular day in the life of Izaak Walton - presented here amusingly, a bit out of character. It is funny, clever, crisp and biting, utilizing all the elements of farce and melodrama: mistaken identity, the imperiled heroine, the bad guys (Gypsies) and the savior, Father Izaak (of course).

Davis, Edmund W.: "Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapdedia", 1994 Fly Fisher's Classic Library,  Limited Edition of 750, Fine in Near Fine (slight smudge)  Slipcase, Scarce original limited edition of this already scarce title!!

Davis, Edmund W.: "Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapdedia", 2001 Fly Fisher's Classic Library, Numbered Reprinted Limited Edition of 950, New in As New  Slipcase, [206 pgs, 6.5" x 10"] Issue Price $125.00     (Extract from a review by John Mundt Jr in The American Fly Fisher, Summer, 2002)     For those historians and sportsmen wishing to learn more about the golden era of salmon fishing on one of the world’s most famous rivers… The Flyfisher’s Classic Library (FFCL) has recently published a 950-copy edition of Salmon-Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia for about five percent of what an original now costs.  A profound sense of awe is usually felt when holding original copies of rare works, but the modern reader is often left alone in such circumstances to reflect on what had been written without the aid of third-party analysis or other scholarly insight. Having had the pleasure of examining several original copies of Salmon-Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia, I was impressed that the FFCL editions had faithfully reproduced the Davis text and photographs in their original format. The new editions go much further in that they also provide the reader with a brilliant introduction and related bibliography prepared by the esteemed sporting historian, J. David Zincavage.        3 colour plates and 16 sepia plates • Fully bound in leather • Marbled endpapers • Silk marker ribbon

Deeter, Kirk & A. Steketee: "Castwork", 2002 Willow Creek Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Good DJ (DJ has 1/4 inch tear at spine), Signed by Both Authors, [200 pgs, 10.25" x 8.25" Oblong] Cover Price $40.00

(Excerpt/Review:) A thoughtful & candid portrait of 13 of the best fly-fishing guides of the West and the rivers they fish. Stunning B&W Photos by Liz Steketee capture the essence of their adventurous lifestyles & illustrate how men and women can be shaped by the landscapes around them. The Colorado, the Snake, the Missouri, the Bighorn - each of these great western rivers conjures images of catching beautiful trout under big open skies. B&W photos.

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Detweiler, M. David: "The Guide and the CEO", 2002 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Signed by the Author, As New in Fine DJ. [192 pgs, 6" x 9"] Cover Price: $19.95.

A down-on-his-luck Rocky Mountain fly-fishing guide and his client for the day, a Fortune 500 executive, clash over everything in this smart, engaging novel. Sean Boldt, hard-charging executive and fly-fishing aficionado, is in town for merger negotiations when he gets fed up and decides to take the day off to go fishing in the mountains. He'll need a guide. Immediately. The best. He's offering triple scale. But things better be done right. That would be Rick Tamerlin's job. Rick can use the money, so on short notice, he assembles the gear, packs his old pick-up, and takes Boldt up to a surefire backcountry lake. What could go wrong?

Duncan, David James: "The River Why",  2002 Sierra Club Books, 20th Anniversary Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ. [311 pgs, 6" x 9"] Issue Price: $24.95.     David James Duncan's first novel has gained an increasingly wide audience over the years--some might even call it a following. This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters.