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Van DeWater, Frederick: "In Defense of Worms" , 1949 Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st Edition, Good (with edgewear) without DJ,

Varley John D. and Paul Schullery: "Yellowstone Fishes", 1998 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine (new) Paperback, Signed by Paul Schullery.

Veverka, Bob:"Innovative Saltwater Flies" , 2004 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $49.95.   (DJ Excerpt) Fly Fishing in salt water dates back to the 1800s, but the sport’s enormous popularity in recent years has inspired an explosion of new patterns from some of the most creative and gifted tiers in the world. This is a record of their contributions. This sumptuously illustrated reference documents more than 270 of the most effective and innovative patterns yet developed for salt water and profiles the men and women behind them. Each chapter is devoted to a tier and includes highlights of his or her fishing history, along with comments on the development of favorite patterns and advice on how to fish them. The patterns range from tiny crab imitations to giant streamers, from variations on classics to radical new creations. The range of techniques and materials, both synthetic and natural, seems limited only by the imagination, and the thirty-seven tiers here represent the elite of today’s innovators.

Veverka, Bob:"Innovative Saltwater Flies" , 2004 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 2nd Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $49.95.  

Veverka, Bob:"Spey Flies and How to Tie Them " , 2004 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, [168 pgs, 8.5" x 11"] Cover Price $39.95.   (Book Description) "Elegant and graceful, Spey flies originated on the River Spey in northeastern Scotland and are well over 150 years old. Author Bob Veverka, passionate about Spey flies, gives us the history and background on classic Spey, Dee, Don, Eagle, and Steelhead Spey patterns, including step-by-step instructions for tying the Lady Caroline, White-Winged Akroyd Dee, and Orange Heron. The chapter on materials is loaded with insights from decades of tying--and the descriptions of salmon-fly materials will quickly become a standard reference for all those who tie salmon or steelhead flies. The special challenges of tying Spey and Spey-style flies--winding the long body hackles, wrapping the collars, mounting the unique wings, finding substitutes for materials no longer available--are explained and solved. Although the original patterns from the River Spey and River Dee have fathered a large, varied, and ever-growing family, a common theme ties all these flies together. "The essence of the Spey style remains the same," Bob Veverka writes, "a body of silk and fur; a long, mobile body hackle; a set of low-set wings; and a small, neat head."

Volk, Mark: "Hickory Wind" , 1999 Winding Ridge Press, Limited Edition of 100, Fine in Very Good Slipcase (has a 1" by 2" section of slipcase leather is torn off, Signed by the Author, including a grouse feather bookmark harvested by the Author.  

Volk, Mark: "Homesick" , 2000 Winding Ridge Press, Limited Edition of 100, Fine in Fine Slipcase, Signed by the Author. This copy the Publisher's Proof

Volk, Mark: "Pages from a Mountain Journal, Vol. II" , 2003 Winding Ridge Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $28.50.

Volk, Mark: "Pages from a Mountain Journal, Vol. II" , 2003 Winding Ridge Press, Limited Edition of 100, As New in Fine SC, Signed by the Author.

von Essen, Carl: "The Revenge of the Fishgod" , 1996 Eriksson Printers, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $21.95.

Waite, John: "Serious Flyfishing, with Survey Results ", 1997 Serious Fisherman Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $29.95 [287 pgs, 5.75" x 8.5"].  (Dust jacket excerpt:) Serious Flyfishing emphasizes wise and best practice from over 500 years of flyfishing history... Full results of the most comprehensive survey of knowledgeable, experienced flyfishers ever are revealed. Serious Flyfishing is packed with useful information and designed for easy reference. Color plates, appendices, index, illustrations, extensive tackle and fly tying discussions are included...

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Waldie, Scott: "Travers Corners", 1997 Lyons & Burford, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ, [178 pgs, 6" x 9"] Signed/Inscribed (to previous owner) by the Author. 

Waldie, Scott: "Return to Travers Corners", 2002 The Lyons Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in VG DJ (DJ edges bumped in shipping), [288 pgs, 6" x 9"] Signed by the Author, Cover Price $22.95.  (Review) With stories full of the "witty homespun characters" of his first collection, Return to Travers Corners brings us farther along in the lives of the townspeople. Travers Corners is not much more than Main Street. There's Ed's Garage and Filling Station; McCracken's General Store-still owned and run by Junior, the worst fisherman who ever lived to fish; the Tin Cup Bar and Cafe; Delores's Beauty Parlor; and The Carrie Creek Boat Works and Guide Service-Judson C. Clark proprietor. Travers Corners is an outpost for all things wild and beautiful-rivers and creeks, wildlife, cattle ranches, glaciated benchlands sweeping into the timbered mountains. Travers is a fly-fishing paradise. Here are stories of love interests and fishing dories, of famous fishermen full of hot air and simple ones filled with awe. From the explosive businessman who gets his due to the humble genius whose fondest desire comes true, we're privileged to fish with, and wish with, the people of Travers Corners. The simplicity of the rural West beckons from every tale-written with a wit that puts it all in perspective. The world would be a better place if we had all spent a spell in Travers Corners.

Waldie, Scott: " Travers Corners: The Final Chapters" , 2005 Lyons Press (Globe-Pequot), 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in VG+ (edges bumped) DJ, Signed by the Author, [271 pgs, 6.25" x 9.25"] (DJ Excerpt) Travers Corners, Montana, is not much more than Main Street. There’s Ed’s Garage and Filling Station; McCracken’s General Store - still owned and run by Junior, the worst fisherman who ever lived to fish; the Tin Cup Bar and Café; Dolores’s Beauty Parlor; and The Carrie Creek Boat Works and Guide Service - Judson C. Clark proprietor.     And yet, Travers Corners is also much more than that main street: it’s an outpost for all things wild and beautiful - rivers and creeks, wildlife, cattle ranches, glaciated benchlands sweeping into the timbered mountains. Travers is a fly-fishing paradise. And it is peopled with the same cast of "witty homespun characters" (Library Journal) as Waldie’s first book of stories, Travers Corners. Now, in TRAVERS CORNERS: THE FINAL CHAPTERS, Waldie delivers the final volume in the series, bringing joy and tears, love and closure to the lives of the characters we’ve grown to know and care so much about.

Waller, Lani: " River of Dreams" , 2004 West River Publishing, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in NF (edges slightly bumped) DJ, Signed by the Author,  (Description) A wonderful & poignant collection of stories written by one of the most recognized names in steelheading, & angling travel. The author has weaved the fishing experiences that have impacted him most into a compilation that is presented in a descriptively comfortable prose.

Warner, Bob: "Don't Blame the Fish", 1974 Winchester Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in Good (Price-clipped) DJ, [210 pgs, 6.5" x 9"].  (DJ Excerpt) Not quite fiction, but certainly not nonfiction either, ‘Don’t Blame the Fish’ is described by its author as nonsense based on actual happenings. Bob Warner has come to believe that the extracurricular activities on lakes and streams are sometimes more memorable than the big fish, and he argues the point persuasively in this splendid collection of lively and often hilarious angling anecdotes.

Waterman, Charles F. (Charley): "Mist on the River", 1986 Yellowstone Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in VG (edgewear) DJ,  “Remembrances of Dan Bailey”.

Waterman, Charles F. (Charley): "A History of Angling", 1981 Winchester Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in VG (small chips and closed tears) DJ.

Waters, Thomas F.:"Wildstream" , 2000 Riparian Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine Soft cover, Signed by the Author, Cover Price $22.00 [607 pgs, 6.5" x 9.5"].  "A Natural History of the Free Flowing River". This book is as close to a definitive text on rivers as I've found, including my old college texts. Waters covers how they are formed, how they change and are damaged, the aquatic and botanic ecosystems, and all with an eye towards their use as a recreational fishing resource. Should be required reading for all fly fishermen.

Wetherell, W.D.: "Vermont River", 1984, Winchester Press, 1st edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in NF DJ

Wetherell, W.D.: " Upland Stream", 1991 Little, Brown & Co., 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, [204 pgs 6” x 9”].

Wetherell, W.D.: "One River More", 1998 The Lyons Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, New, [259 pgs 6” x 9”].

White, Randy Wayne: "Batfishing in the Rain Forest", 1991 Lyons & Burford, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ

White, Randy Wayne: "The Sharks of Lake Nicaragua", 1999 Lyons Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ

Wickstrom, Gordon:"Notes from an Old Fly Book " , 2001 Univ. Press of Colorado, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, [211 pgs, 5.75" x 8.75"]  (Publisher's Description) Notes From an Old Fly Book is a new book of fly-fishing lore that casts a line across sixty years of fishing in Colorado’s high country. Drawing from his personal experiences, Gordon Wickstrom meditates in essays, stories, poems, and even a song on who anglers are, what they do, and why in the world they do it. Narrative, memorial, and critical - sometimes cranky but always lucid - each story searches the deeper, often turbulent waters of the fly fishing phenomenon and uncovers compelling but restrained reasons why it has such a hold on so many today. The book casts itself deep into the reader’s soul and searches for answers there as well.

 Wickstrom, Gordon: "Late in an Angler's Life", 2004 Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ, Signed by the Author, [195 pgs, 5.75" x 8.75"] Cover Price $19.95.   (Book Description) Fishing is a pursuit for which writers had an affinity even before Izaak Walton; still, it is Walton's spirit that hovers over this collection of musings by well-known writer and fisherman Gordon Wickstrom. These writings use fishing as a lens through which to view and evaluate most things in life: politics, art, friendship, religion, globalization, relations between the sexes, time, and old age. The result is a book that will lift your spirits even when it tells you when it is acceptable to use live grasshoppers as bait.                                       

White, Randy Wayne: "Last Flight Out", 2001 Lyons Press, Signed by the Author. Advanced Uncorrected Proof, Fine paperback.

White, Randy Wayne: "Last Flight Out", 2002 Lyons Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ

Whitlock, Dave: "Guide to Aquatic Trout Foods", 1982 Nick Lyons Books, Special Signed & Numbered Edition of 1500, Good with highlighting on numerous pages, missing DJ, Signed by the Author.

Wilson, Eugene: "A Pilgrimage of Anglers", 1952 Connecticut Printers, Signed & Numbered Edition of 450, Very Fine book in Good slipcase that has some wear and is delaminating at one corner.  Signed by the Author.      A fictitious account of the curious adventures of a company of salmon fishermen making their annual pilgrimage from Quebec City to that legendary angler’s paradise Anticosti Island, including the poem "A ‘Gaggle’ of Geese" inspired by The Dictionary Of Venerv.

Woods, Craig: "Waters Swift and Still", 1982 Winchester Press, 1st Printing, Fine - missing DJ.

Woods, Craig: "The River as Looking Glass", 1988 Stephen Greene Press, 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, [121 pgs, 6" x 9"] Cover Price: $16.95.

Wright, Leonard: "Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect", 1972 E.P. Dutton, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine DJ,            

Wright, Leonard: "Fly Fishing Heresies", 1975 Winchester Press, 1st Edition, Fine in Fine DJ, “A New gospel for American anglers”.

Wright, Leonard: "Where the Fish Are", 1978 New York Times Books, 1st Edition, Fine in VG DJ,

Wright, Leonard: “The Ways of Trout”, 1985 Nick Lyons Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Signed by the Author, Fine in Fine DJ.

Wright, Leonard: “Neversink”, 1991 Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, “One angler’s intense exploration of a Trout River”.

Wright, Leonard: "Trout Maverick", 1996 Lyons & Burford, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Fine in Fine DJ, Signed by the Author,

Wulff, Lee (Editor): "The Sportsman's Companion", 1968 Harper & Row, 1st Edition, Very Good in Good (Price Clipped, several 1/4" tears) DJ, An Anthology on fishing and hunting stories

Wulff, Lee: "The Atlantic Salmon", 1985 Nick Lyons Books, 2nd Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine but missing DJ. A revised and updated version of the 1958 classic that's the cornerstone of the Atlantic Salmon anglers library.

Wulff, Lee: "The Atlantic Salmon", 1985 Lyons & Burford, 2nd Edition 2nd Printing, Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. A revised and updated version of the 1958 classic that's the cornerstone of the Atlantic Salmon anglers library. Has original L&B catalog request card laid in

Wulff, Joan: "Fly-Casting Accuracy", 1997 Lyons Press, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Near Fine in VG DJ.    An outstanding text that will help any fly-fisher's success by improving accuracy - Dave Whitlock

Wyatt, Bob: "Trout Hunting", 2004 Stackpole Books, 1st Edition 1st Printing, Fine in Near Fine DJ, [191 pgs, 7.5" x 10"], Cover Price $39.95.     Trout Hunting is for those who take fly-fishing's traditions seriously, for whom it is more than just a pastime. Bob Wyatt gets to the heart of the matter in a book packed with insight and challenges to conventional thinking. Well known to readers of Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine, Wyatt presents a wide-ranging and entertaining investigation of some of fly fishing's central mysteries, including a fresh look at the theory of the selective trout. Trout Hunting will help get your strategies organized and inspire reflection on the nature of this fascinating pursuit.

Zern, Ed: "Hunting and Fishing from A to Zern", 1985 Nick Lyons Books (Winchester Press), 1st Edition 1st Printing, Very Good in Very Good DJ (shelfwear and three 1/4" closed tears) . A treasury of Ed Zern stories and cartoons.