Category: Sports (hunting, fishing)

BIG GAME SHOOTING RECORDS, Together With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes on the Most Prominent Big Game Hunters of Ancient and Modern Times

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, H.F. & G. Witherby : 1932

Seller ID: 008694

Condition: Good

From the killing of African and Asiatic elephants to buffaloes, tigers, boar, wapiti, and most things in between, the author records for posterity the hunting exploits of a number of big game hunters. Brown cloth, 288 pages, illustrated. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, splash-soil to cloth, tanned/foxed/dusty edges, foxing, front end paper excised, 1 detached-but-present sheet (pages 199-202 -- in the absence of stitch holes at fold, appearing to never have been properly bound in the first place).
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Fresh and Salt Water Spinning

By: Burns, Eugene

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, A.S. Barnes & Company : 1952

Seller ID: 011544

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A title from the Barnes Sports Library. The "main purpose in this book is to get the casual reader and fisherman excited about spinning -- explains the sport of spinning and tells why spinning with fine tackle produces bigger fish." Contains chapters on equipment, technique, fishing for trophy fish, and how to build a spinning rod. 96 pages, including index. Semi-circular crease to back cover, moderate corner/spine end wear, in rubbed, price-clipped and moderately edgeworn dust jacket.
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Hunting & Fishing in Canada, January-February/Jan.-Feb. 1966, Volume/Vol. 37 Number/No./#1

By: Dawson, Alan (hunting), and Robert Turnbull (fishing), (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Jardine & Young Limited : 1966

Seller ID: 017052

Binding: Magazine

Condition: About Very Good

Features articles on a wide variety of subjects, including a moose hunter's tall tales, ice fishing, the best weapons for hunting rabbits, beer-and-game recipes, suggestions for building an ice hut, and more, by the editors, James Alverton, David Proulx, Marily Cooper, Jordan Hill, Ian Paterson, Grant Hopkins, Kerry Wood, Tiny Bennett, Eldon Stonehouse, John Ayriss, and George Carnegie. 32 pages (including covers), illustrated. Address sticker to top of front cover, rubbing, small puncture from back cover through to middle of magazine.
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BOYS' SINGLE-SHOT RIFLES, With Further Data on Other Rifles

By: Grant, James J.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company : 1967

Seller ID: 018995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 597 pages (including appendix/index), illustrated. Strongly cocked, edgewear, bumped/worn corners/spine ends. previous owner's name/address to front free end paper.
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160 Years of Salmon Stories

By: Green, Morris

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Doaktown, Central Miramichi Historical Society : 2014

Seller ID: 018721

ISBN-13: 9781771362962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Contains 128 brief profiles of renowned fishers, flytiers, guides, and others who have contributed to the Miramichi area's well-deserved reputation in the salmon-fishing world. Among those inducted into the Atlantic Salmon Museum's Hall of Fame during the 30-year span from 1983 until 2013, and whose stories/reminiscences are included, are Ted Williams (who apparently could hit a baseball), David Adams Richards (who apparently could write a bestselling novel), and Lee and Joan Wulff (who apparently could catch more fish than almost anyone else in the entire book). Black boards w/silver foil c...
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Atlantic Salmon Flies / Mouches pour le saumon atlantique

By: Heroux, Jacques, & Marc LeBlanc (book project coordinators)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dieppe, Dieppe Fly Tying Club : 2012

Seller ID: 018565

ISBN-13: 9780987933409

Binding: Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Contains both English and French text. "A total of 219 flies representing the five common fly categories are included in this book," the categories being dry flies, wet flies, bombers, bugs, and streamers. Spiral-bound stiff card wraps, 63 pages (including hook chart, list of fly-tiers, pattern index), illustrated w/photographs by Isabelle Levesque. Rubbing, scratches, moderate general wear.
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MacLEAN'S, Canada's National Magazine, August 1, 1936, Vol. 49, No. 15

By: Moore, H. Napier (editor)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, MacLean Publishing Company Limited : 1936

Seller ID: 018384

Binding: Side-stapled wraps

Condition: Fair to Good

Contains a variety of stories and articles, among them short fiction by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ("Pink Soap Princess"), Borden Chase ("The Runt"), and James Francis Dwyer ("The Red Ape of Pontianak"), and the second (concluding) part of the serial, "Horse Doctor," by James A. Cowan. There are articles by Will R. Bird, Leslie Roberts, Beverley Baxter, and the conclusion of Victor C. Soucisse's three-part report, "Revolt in Quebec." Additionally there are editorials, humourous articles, an article on fishing the small-mouth black bass ("The Gamest Fish," by Ozark Ripley with Dink Carroll), reci...
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MEN OF THE AUTUMN WOODS, Non-Resident Big-Game Hunting in New Brunswick, The Golden Years, 1895-1935

By: Parker, Gerry

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Privately Published : 2005

Seller ID: 018843

ISBN-13: 9780973518108

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Second printing (April 2005) of the first edition (September 2004) "By 1890 moose and caribou were becoming scarce in the northeastern United States, due to overhunting and deforestation." When the New England Sportsmen's Show was held in Boston in 1898, an exhibit by the New Brunswick Guide Association made the province's "secluded preserve of lakes, streams and unbroken wilderness" known to American outdoorsmen, and the rush was on to bag the wild trophies previously unknown to any but the locals. An extremely well-researched and well-written history of the people and the times, now long-g...
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ANGLING MAP of the British Isles

By: Rashbrook, F.G. (compiler)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.

Seller ID: 008374

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

No date (circa 1973). 30" x 40" folded map w/full colour illustrations, locations for river and sea fishing, and general information on fishing records. Some edgewear, uneven 1.5" tear to bottom edge, moderate general wear.
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Life on the Miramichi (signed)

By: Stewart, Clayton Stanley

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Privately Printed : 1986

Seller ID: 018979

ISBN-13: 9780920209325

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

Stewart details "his early life, logging and logging camps, log drives in the Streams (sic), guiding and outfitting fishing and hunting parties." 303 pages, illustrated. Moderately cocked, some edgewear, bottom left corner of back cover creased, reading crease to spine, uneven tear/abrasion to bottom right spine edge, moderate handling wear.
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Life on the Miramichi (signed)

By: Stewart, Clayton Stanley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Privately Printed : 1986

Seller ID: 018980

ISBN-13: 9780920209325

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Stewart details "his early life, logging and logging camps, log drives in the Streams (sic), guiding and outfitting fishing and hunting parties." 303 pages, illustrated. A bit of wear to corners/spine ends, thin reading crease to spine, light general wear.
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Spinning Reels & Tackle

By: Thommen, George V.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Oliver Durrell, Inc. : 1949

Seller ID: 010784

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

a complete guide to spinning reels and spinning tackle for the fly-caster, bait-caster, surf or lake fisherman; brown cloth, 72 pgs., illustrated; light wear to corners/spine ends, small/faint soil mark to first end paper; price-clipped dj w/edgewear, 2" x 1" piece missing from top edge of front panel, 1/2" x 1/2" chip from bottom edge of front panel, 1/2" chipping to spine ends, corner wear, tears, subsequent creasing, handling wear; Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall
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Legends, Leaders and Characters of Ducks Unlimited

By: Tomke, John (editor)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Memphis, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. : 2012

Seller ID: 019044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Collects 36 stories of members of Ducks Unlimited, published to commemorate 75 years of the organization's existence. Foreword by John W. Newman, president, with an introduction by Jeff Churan. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine/back cover, tipped-on illustration to front cover, 236 pages (including brief contributor biographies), illustrated. A hint of general wear.
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Five Months' Sport in Somali Land

By: Wolverton, Lord (Frederick Glyn)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall : 1894

Seller ID: 017611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

An account of Wolverton's hunting adventures in Somali Land, where he and Arthur Colonel Paget bagged lions, gazelles, crocodiles, and a variety of other animals. Beige cloth w/small lion illustration/lettering in gilt to front cover (unfortunately, the scan doesn't show them all that clearly), gilt spine lettering, 108 pages, 23 mainly full-page illustrations, folding map. This copy from the library of naturalist/writer Lieutenant-Commander Bruce S. Wright, and bears his embossed seal to top right corner of title page. Moderately soiled cloth, edgewear, bumped/worn corners/spine ends, sun-dar...
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Category: Sports (hunting, fishing)