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There are 59 books in this catalogue.
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
O'Hanlon, Redmond
Book Number: 40152
ISBN: 0241140153
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton 2003
8vo. softcover. 339pp. colour illus. very good

Price: $15.00


Fishing with John
Iglauer, Ed
Book Number: 44143
ISBN: 0374155240
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988
8vo hardcover 305pp. very good. / Very good d/w. From Publishers WeeklynA widely traveled reporter for the New Yorker , author of Inuit Journey and Denison's Ice Road , and former foreign correspondent and White House reporter, Iglauer met and married John Daly, a salmon fisherman, while working in Vancouver, B.C. She spent the next four years, until his death in 1978, aboard his 41-foot troller, the Morekelp. Daly was a Canadian eccentric, a man with a deep love of nature, dedicated to the sea. Iglauer's memoir of their life together is a moving appreciation of the precise, hard labor of fishermen, of stunning land- and seascapes along the Pacific coast, of a remarkable man. Time spent with him included listening to radio concerts, visits to old friends in isolated places, joining strikers on a seagoing picket line, savoring the minor pleasures of life. This superb book could be subtitled "A Study in Serenity." A portion of it previously appeared in the New Yorker. nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. nnFrom Library JournalnThis book of love, marriage, fishing, and the sea reflects the author's profound respect and affection for John Daly, the unusual man whom she married. It chronicles her four years with Daly, a small commercial salmon fisherman in British Columbia. As such, it has only fleeting relevance for salt or freshwater sports fishermen. Instead, the book appeals as a fine tribute to a man and a way of life that general readers interested in the outdoors will appreciate greatly. As companion and observer aboard the Morekelp , Iglauerauthor of four previous books and numerous magazine articlestook so thoroughly to her new circumstances that she continues to reside in Penders Harbour ten years after John's death.

Price: $15.00


Fish Might Fly
Pepperell, Julian G
Book Number: 46697
ISBN: 0790007983
Publisher: Reed 2001
8vo softcover 207pp near fine. This book answers many fascinating questions about fish, such as Do flying fish flap their wings, Why do many fish have stripes? What is the largest shark? What makes the crater-shaped wounds found on many large fishes? Are fish colour blind, Can fish learn to avoid hooks, Do fish care for their young? Do marlin change sex? Illustrated thoughout with colour photo's.

Price: $22.00


Otter Board Design and Performance - FAO Fishing Manuals
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations based on a manuscript prepared by J.J. Foster, G.M. Cameron, A. Corrigal, R.S.T. Ferro and E.S Strange
Book Number: 47063
ISBN: 
Publisher: FAO Rome 1974
8vo. Softcover. 82pp. Very good. Illustrated thoughout with figures. For the use of Trawl fishing.

Price: $15.00


New South Wales Fishing Atlas
Penguin Books
Book Number: 47871
ISBN: 0140263373
Publisher: Penguin January 1, 1998
4to softcover 128pp very good. Includes over 100 detailed fishing maps for Estuaries and bays, Inland rivers and lakes, Rocks and Beaches, Offshore fishing. Detailed coastal and inland fishing maps showing what fish to catch, where to catch them facilities available, bait to use. Includes Fishing Regulations, weather guide and boating information.

Price: $15.00


Time Bandit - Two Brothers, The Bering Sean and One of the World's deadliest jobs.
Hillstrand, Andy and Johnathan with Malcolm MacPherson
Book Number: 50684
ISBN: 9780733624452
Publisher: Hachette, 2009
8vo. Softcover. 226pp. very good. Signed 'Go Fish Capt Andy'. Illustrated. Braving ice floes, and 60 ft. waves, Andy and Johnathan fish for Alaskan king crabs from the ocean floor.

Price: $12.00


How to Catch a Fish
Ireland, Kevin
Book Number: 55910
ISBN: 0958283562
Publisher: AWA Press 2005 The Ginger Series 06
8vo. Sovtcover. 113pp. Near fine. For award-winning writer and poet Kevin Ireland, fishing - especially for the elusive trout - is not an idle pastime but a passionate love affair with the natural world. This fine, funny, beautiful book should be on the shelf of every fisherman and woman - and their long-suffering friends and family.

Price: $10.00


Back to Nature Guide to Tanganyika Cichlids.
Konings, Ad.
Book Number: 60266
ISBN: 3928457373
Publisher: Back to Nature, Sweden 1996
8vo. laminated boards, hardcover. 128pp. index, colour illus. Fine.

Price: $28.00


Living Reefs of the Indo-Pacific - A Photographic Guide
van der Loos, Rob
Book Number: 60788
ISBN: 1876334657
Publisher: New Holland 2001
8vo. Softcover. 176pp. Index of Common Names and Latin Names Index. Contents includes Living Habitats, Cowries, Sea Slugs, Scorpion-fish, Anemones and their Residents, Sandy Weed and Rubble zones, Photographing the Creatures. Every Imagae in this book is accompanied by specifications of the ideal lens for photographing these creatures underwater.

Price: $22.00


How To Tie A Fishing Fly
Griffiths, 'Fadg'
Book Number: 61959
ISBN: 0909950962
Publisher: Jack Pollard, North Sydney, 1975.
Oblong 8vo. softcover. 159pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good.

Price: $15.00


Salmon Fishing. Lonsdale Library Volume X.
Taverner, Eric
Book Number: 61560
ISBN: 
Publisher: Seeley Service & Co Ltd, London, 1931.
8vo. tan cloth hardcover. 448pp. index, b/w illus, colour frontis. Very good, light foxing to prelims, light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

Price: $95.00


Trout Fishing From All Angles. Lonsdale Library
Taverner, Eric
Book Number: 61559
ISBN: 
Publisher: Seeley Service & Co Ltd, London, 1929.
8vo. tan cloth hardcover. 448pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to prelims, foxing to endpapers, paper on rear hinge cracked(repaired).

Price: $75.00


Littoral Penaeinae From New South Wales and Adjacent Queensland Waters
Racek, A. A.
Book Number: 52545
ISBN: 
Publisher: State Fisheries NSW 1957
8vo.softcover. 241pp. b/w illus. Good, crease on top corner, spine worn.

Price: $15.00


Fishes of Australia and Their Technology
Roughley, T.C.
Book Number: 59676
ISBN: 
Publisher: Deptartment of Education, NSW 1916.
Small 4to. Orig. dec. red cloth hardcover.296pp. Very good, a few spots on cover, spine faded.

Price: $250.00


An American Angler in Australia
Grey, Zane (signed by Lina Elise Grey and cameraman Gus Bagnard)
Book Number: 60342
ISBN: 
Publisher: Harper and Brothers Publisher New York and London 1937 First Edition B.M. Stated
oversized 8vo. Green cloth with gilt title to front board and spine. Very good. Signed on Fep Nov. 16, 1943, To Squadron Leader Robert Gibbes Good Luck ! Lina Elise Grey (Mrs Zane Grey) and on reverse To Bob Gibbes, All the best & trust we may tangle with a few of these sharks to-gether after you finish of the nips. cheers, Gus Bagnard (Mr Paddy Tebbutt) Altadena 17-17-1943 - Paddy Tebbutt was and Australian Socialite. Sepia Frontis. Illustrated with photographs which include World record Tiger Shark, Leaping Green Fox Thresher Shark, The Great Leaping Mako, Australian Record Black Marlin, Yellow-Fin Tuna first to be reported on Australian coast, The Wandering Albatross, Gaffing a Gray Nurse Shark, Z.G. on the Rod, The Wobbegong, The Avalon, Whaler Shark, Leaping Striped Marlin, White Death Shark.

Price: $1850.00


Spot X Diving New Zealand
Moran, Dave and Jenny & Tony Enderby
Book Number: 59766
ISBN: 1877374598
Publisher: Spot X 2007
4to. Softcover. 200pp. Maps, Illustrations. The whole of New Zealand is split into 13 mapped areas describing over 750 diving spots. Each one has GPS Marks and Access, Depth, Current, Restrictions and Special Conditions, Spots rated for Experience and Fitness. Preview of species and Items of interest

Price: $25.00


The world encyclopedia of fishes
Wheeler
Book Number: 32127
ISBN: 0356107159
Publisher: Macdonald 1985
4to hardcover 368pp colour & b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep. / good, chipped d/w.

Price: $25.00


The Haig guide to salmon fishing in Scotland
Books
Book Number: 39073
ISBN: 0362005540
Publisher: London Queen Anne 1981
4to hardcover 192pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w.

Price: $12.00


The Complete Book of Flyfishing
Cederberg, Goran, Steen Ulnitz, Arthur Oglesby, Bengt Oste, Lefty Kreh
Book Number: 39593
ISBN: 1855019116
Publisher: Tiger Books International 1997
Square 4to. Pictorial laminated boards in same d/w. Very good copy with no marks.D/whas small tear at top of spine 237pp. Originated and produced in Sweden. Illustrated by Gunnar Johnson and Tommy Gustavsson. Pictorial end pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Contents includes The Evolution of Modern Flyfishing, The fish, the Insects, and the Fly, Equipment and casting technique, Flyfishing in Still Waters, Flyfishing in streams, fishing for salmon and sea trout, Saltwater flyfishing, Flyfishing dream waters.

Price: $25.00


Australian sea fishes south of 30s
Coleman, Neville
Book Number: 45849
ISBN: 0868240184
Publisher: Sydney Doubleday 1980
4to hardcover 302pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. maps on lining papers.

Price: $25.00


Koi: Living Jewels of the Orient
Hickling, Steve
Book Number: 48011
ISBN: 0764154486
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series 2002
4to. hardcover. 205pp. index, colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.

Price: $45.00


Classic Salmon Flies
Frodin, Mikael
Book Number: 48203
ISBN: 051705888X
Publisher: Bonanza 1991
4to hardcover 200pp index, colour illus. very good, owner's details on fep. / very good d/w.

Price: $20.00


Fiberglass Rod Making
Clemens, Dale P.
Book Number: 48208
ISBN: 087691136x
Publisher: Winchester Press, New York, 1974
Large 8vo. hardcover. 189pp. colour & b/w illus. Good+, spine slightly slanted. / Good d/w with tear on spine & crease on front panel.

Price: $20.00


The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Aquarium Fish & Fish Care
Bailey, Mary & Sandford, Gina
Book Number: 58073
ISBN: 1840384816
Publisher: Hermes House, London 1999
4to softcover 256pp index, colour illus. very good.

Price: $22.00


Adult Only Fishing Jokes Guaranteed to Make You gGggle
Writers, Scribblers and
Book Number: 50367
ISBN: 1741216605
Publisher: Hinkler Books 2004
8vo softcover 205pp good. The most fascinating collection of fishing funnies that you are likely to find. These jokes proudly defy good taste.

Price: $6.00


Dead Men Tapping: The End of the Heather Lynne II
Yeomans, Kate
Book Number: 62236
ISBN: 0071380345
Publisher: International Marine / McGraw-Hill, 2004.
8vo. softcover. 403pp. Very good.

Price: $14.00


Gone Fishing
Hordern, Sir Michael (Editor)
Book Number: 32783
ISBN: 1854797115
Publisher: Macmillan 1999
8vo hardcover 248pp, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. An anthology of stories and extracts from books about fishing. Included is the writing of John Buchan, H.E. Bates, Neil Gunn, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Maclean and Patrick O'Brien.

Price: $18.00


The Geisha and the Cherry Blossom Fishing Book All About gut Fishing Lines and Fishing with a Few Caustic Comments on Fishermen Themselves
none stated
Book Number: 62124
ISBN: 
Publisher: Standard Publishing House, Sydney 1937.
8vo. softcover. 120pp. b/w illus. Good, foxing throughout, small rectangular piece cut from front cover.

Price: $25.00


Ancient Land, Sacred Whale: The Inuit Hunt and Its Rituals
Lowenstein, Tom
Book Number: 60648
ISBN: 0374104972
Publisher: Bloomsbury 1993
8vo. Hardcover 189pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w with remnants of sticker on front panel.

Price: $15.00