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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2011 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2011
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
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Local Identifier: SCP_2011_FordExhibit
Text preview (might not show all results): American Fly Fishing Literature Images from the Waters 2011 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Southeast Alaska sprin
Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature Images from the Waters 2011 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Southeast Alaska spring steelhead water What can a man desire more when standing knee-deep in a mountain river, rod in hand, with trout on the rise? Here he has earth and air and sky before him, strangely interfused and woven into one element. The brook runs over the bones of the planet and carries the sky on its back, so that one who gazes into this crystal long and steadily will find there not food and drink only but work and play, patience and excitement, knowledge and wisdom, fact and dream. Odell Shepard. Thy Rod and Thy Creel. 1930 Images from theWaters This year’s book exhibit includes three parts. The first illustrates the arts of fly fishing that are painting and drawing, fine fly tying, reel making and book making. The second is the fine art of boasting “big tails” from the Adirondacks. And — what better a conclusion that a catch of sea runs from the Northwest salt-chuck? Fishing Artists Brown, James. A Treasury of Reels. (Photographs by Bob O’Shaughnessy.). The American Museum of Fly Fishing. Manchester, Vermont. 1990. Pp.199. Deluxe limited edition. 88/100. Signed. A painting (print) titled “New Moon” signed and dated by John Swan is inset as frontis. Quarter-bound in brown Nigerian goatskin with boards of Dutch linen and leather along the fore-edge of each board. Housed in clamshell box of matching linen with gold embossed title on its spine. This history and picture catalogue has a fine section dedicated to reels created in the United States. There are some real beauties here that give the lie to the oft-repeated judgment, “Well, a reel is just a place to store your fly line.” Not so to those of us who have ever played a salmon or steelhead, bonefish or tarpon and seen a poorly made reel jam or fly to pieces! 1 _____________. Trade edition of the above. Second printing. Blue boards with gold embossed cover and title on spine. 2 Dunham, Judith. The Atlantic Salmon Fly, The Tyers and Their Art. Chronicle Books. San Francisco. 1991. Pp. 137. First edition. DJ. Green linen boards. The art of twenty three eminent tyers illustrates flies created from common and exotic materials to dress flies that appear too beautiful to fish! You will see art from the talents of Poul Jorgensen to that of Ted Niemeyer. What a show! 3 Frodin, Mikael. Classic Salmon Flies, History & Patterns. Random House. New York. 1991. Pp. 200. DJ. Gold embossed title on front board. Atlantic salmon fly fishing was a northern European sport that found its way to North American waters from Quebec New York. Some fly patterns or their variations have found their way to Northwest steelhead rivers. This book, originally published in Sweden (1990), with its color illustrations, is a history of flies for a noble fish. 4 Hardie, Eldridge. The Paintings of Eldridge Hardie. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg. 2002. Pp. 133. Limited edition. 32/200. Signed. Water-patterned endpapers. Half leather bound with green linen boards. Gold embossed spine title. 5 Hardie painting is inset on matching slipcase. Watercolor and oil from the Miramichi to Eagle River, Colorado. What a treat! 6 7 8 9 10 Homer, Winslow. Fishing in the North Woods. (Edited and signed by David Tatham.) Museum of Fine Arts. Boston. 1995. Pp. 80. DJ. Frontis is “Fly Fishing Saranac Lake” (1889) by Homer. Appears to be third edition. Paintings and stories of one of America’s most beloved angler-artists. We see Homer’s rod, his camp and club, his flies and fish, and his guide in the Adirondacks life—a splendid remembrance. Inman, Diane. The Fine Art of Angling. DIS LIS Books. Incline Village, Nevada. 2007. Pp. 205. First edition. DJ. White linen boards. Inman displays many of the angling works of Cleary, Crossman, Daly, Frazier, Hardie, Renson, Shilstone, Brett James Smith, Stidham and Swan. The artists’ styles include gouche, oil, lithograph, etching and watercolor styles. An artist’s facsimile signature introduces his/her work. This is a magnificent art collection with an introduction by Stephen O’Brien, Jr. Inman’s fine commentary runs throughout. (See brief correspondence with Fords inside.) Ordeman, John T. William J. Schaldach: Artist, Author, Sportsman. John T. Ordeman. St. Petersburg. 1988. PP. Limited edition. 625/1150. Signed. DJ. Gold embossed on white linen boards. Pp. 118. Bill Schaldach was a master of watercolor, etching, drypoint and oil. His angling art was characterized by brilliance in casting light across the wonderful world of fish. The art here will please WJS. Schwiebert, Ernest. Death of A Riverkeeper. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, N.J. 1995. Pp. 287. Deluxe limited edition 19/35. The first (1980) edition “block” has been quarter bound in black goat with green and black boards. Schweibert has done a partially handtinted brook trout lithograph that is included in an envelope under the book’s front cover. Schwiebert dressed an Atlantic salmon fly known as Evening Star that is inset in the inside cover of the rust-colored drop spine box in which the book is held. Signed beneath Evening Star. Book title is embossed in gold on black leather on the book case’s spine. Many of the book’s stories are about Atlantic salmon. The book’s physical presentation is an artistic masterpiece designed by William Trego at Meadow Run Press. Sloan, Stephan. (ed.) James Prosek, illustrator. Fly Fishing Is Spoken Here. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, N. J. 2001. Pp. 225. Deluxe limited edition 4/36 . Contains an original watercolor painting of an “English Mayfly Pattern” created, signed and dated by Prosek—with the dated signature being “16 Sept. ’02.” Odd! This edition is quarter bound in brown goat with light-green silken boards and Sloan and Prosek names impressed into the cover. Gold embossed title and authors’ names on spine. Light green matching drop spine case. Beautiful presentation except that the prose copy is printed on the same seventy pound Finch Opaque paper as the trade edition. ( See below.) _______________. 2001. First edition, slipcase. James Prosek’s superb trout stream painting (print) pasted on book cover with another Prosek painting (print) pasted on the slipcase The book contains edited copies of Sloan’s radio interviews with wellknown fly fishing personalities including Ernest Schwiebert, James Prosek, Joseph Heywod, Valerie Haig-Brown and Jack Samson. (PF edited the first draft of this. (See correspondence inside front cover.) Adirondack Stories “Harry,” the storyteller. “And the truth w as no t in him .” During the late 19th century, introduction of train service and improved roads from metropolitan areas such as Boston, New York City and Philadelphia opened travel access to what previously had been considered inaccessible “wilds.” Spurred by 11 grandly enthusiastic and popular books and magazine articles written by a Congregational clergyman named W.H.H. Murray (“Adirondack Murray”), literally hundreds and perhaps thousands of wealthy “sports” flocked to the Adirondacks of northern New York state for fish and game. “Murray’s Fools,” as they were called by some newspapers, found the Adirondacks much to their liking. Two cultures met in the Adirondacks—the highly educated, socially and economically prominent who demanded not only the best of sport, but the best of food and spirits— and the dirt poor locals who served in expert ways, but always with that sly smile that spoke more than words. Here are some titles that tell the story. 12 Betters, Francis. Fishing the Adirondacks. Adirondacks Sports Publication. Wilmington, New York. 1982. Pp. 114. First edition. DJ. Signed. 13 14 .___________________. “Fish Are Smarter in the Adirondacks.” Adirondacks Sports Publication. Wilmington, New York. 1983. Pp. 101. First edition. DJ. Signed. 15 Deming, P. Adirondack Stories. Houghton, Osgood and Company. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1880. Pp. 192. First edition. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Boardman, William H. The Lovers of the Woods. McClure, Phillips & Co. New York. MCMI (1901). Pp. 239. First Edition. Engles, Vincent. Adirondack Fishing in the 1930s, A Lost Paradise. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse. 1978. Pp. 155. First edition. Murray, W. H. H. Adirondack Tales. The Golden Rule Publishing Company. Boston. 1877. Pp. 459. First edition. ________________. Cones for the Campfire. De Wolfe, Fiske & Company. Boston. 1891. Pp. 189 plus advertising. First edition. ________________. How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Kept New Years. Cupples and Hurd. Boston. 1888. Pp.196. First edition. ________________. The Story That the Keg Told Me – And The Story of the Man Who Didn’t Know Much. Cupples and Hurd. Boston. 1889. Pp. 454. First edition. Radford, Harry V. Adirondack Murray, A Biographical Appreciation. Broadway Publishing Company. New York. 1901. Pp. 84. DJ. First edition. Warner, Charles Dudley. In the Wilderness. Franklin Press. Boston. 1878. Pp. 176. First edition. You’ll learn here how to catch three trout at a time. Northwest Sea Runs The fish in these books are sea run cutthroat, Dolly Varden, the five groups of Pacific salmon and the steelhead. There is variance among distributions of the different fish, but their overall range was once from California to northern Alaska and to Russia. Our display focuses on the Pacific Northwest. James G. Swan, an explorer/entrepreneur in Washington Territory’s Willapa Bay area was among the very first to try to lure sea runs to his European flies. ( See his The Northwest Coast (1857). But his efforts were a flop! The Native American bait fishers foxed him every time with salmon eggs! Titles below speak of the success that eluded Mr. Swan! Ferguson, B., Les Johnson, Pat Trotter. Fly Fishing For Pacific Salmon. Frank Amato Publications. Portland, Oregon. 1985. Pp. 118. Limited edition. 119/300. Signed with fly under front board. Boards in green leatherette with silver embossed title. Matching slipcase. This is a concise but comprehensive treatment of our five Pacific salmon types and how to take them with a fly from salt and fresh water. Many attractive color fly illustrations grouped separately for salt and fresh water. Johnson, Les. Sea Run, Complete Guide to Fishing for Sea-Run Cutthroat Trout. Frank Amato Publications. Portland, Oregon. 1979. Pp. 76. Second edition. Eye-catching dust jacket art. Nice section on fly fishing shallow bays and rivers. But the author pretty much missed the great fishing and fishers from the Everett-Priest Point areas—people like Mary and Everett Bundt from Arlington who tied fine Thors, and, he missed Al Knudsen of Marysville with his Yellow Spider which was the killer for cutts and Dollies that prowled Priest Point in April and then the Stilly into the fall. ( Ed note: 1970’s fishing at Priest Point for giant Dollies, using local minnow imitations, was particularly good and where PF learned ”rotation” etiquette from some of the Northwest’s best anglers.) Helvie, H.Kent. Steelhead Fly Tying Guide. Frank Amato Publications. Portland, Oregon. 1994. Pp. 94. Signed. Brilliant color illustrations throughout this superb guide to one handed and spey steelhead fishing. Landeen, Dan. Steelhead Fly Fishing Nez Perce Country, Snake River Tributaries. Frank Amato Publications. Portland, Oregon. 2006. Pp. 112. Limited 7/100. Gold embossed cover and spine. DJ. This is the fly fishing history of waters, characters, flies and fish 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 found in the territory abutting Clarkston, Washington, Lewiston, Idaho and the northeastern tip of Oregon. Mostly it is about steelhead in rivers such as the Snake, Clearwater, and Grande Ronde. It includes vignettes from famous fishers and is beautifully illustrated. This is a must read for anyone who would fish this gloriously beautiful and yet dangerous territory. There’s even the occasional “rattler.” (Ed. note: For years, PF lived in this area and fished its rivers and harassed quail, chukkars and Huns .) Stewart, Dick, and Farrow Allen. Flies for Steelhead. Northland Press. Intervale, N.H. 1992. Pp. 80, plus notes. First edition. Dust jacket is a riot of flies. Five chapters include surface flies, nymphs, wet flies, shrimp flies and egg flies. Each fly is pictured in color with tying instructions and the fly’s history. A must for serious steelheaders! Werthern, Bob. (ed). The Creel, McKenzie River Edition. Fly Fishers Club of Oregon. N.P. 2001. Pp. 167. First edition. This is the history of a challenging river and the characters who fished it. This river was the model Roderick Haig-Brown used for his story of a Chinook salmon’s life in Return to the River. ________________. The Creel, North Umpqua River Edition. The Fly Fisher’s Club of Oregon. N.P. 2008. Pp. 176. Deluxe limited edition. 4/300 with gold embossed cover and in gold embossed black slipcase. This is the river of great steelhead, memorable characters, and the world famous Steamboat Inn—a never to be forgotten history. Haig-Brown. Roderick. Return to the River; a story of the Chinook Run. William Morrow and Company. New York. 1941. Pp. 259. Deluxe first edition 17/520. Signed by the author and artist. Frontis and drawings by Charles De Feo. Quarter bound in red leather with tan linen boards in matching linen clam-shell box. Uncut page edges. The title of this masterpiece speaks for the book’s content. This is Haig-Brown at his best-angler, sage, conservationist and writer. Introduction & annotations by Paul Ford Previous Exhibits Of the Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection The “Arts” of Fly Fishing, Inaugural Exhibit, Dec. 2003-Jan. 2004 The Arts of Fly Fishing: “Mostly the Northwest,” 2004/05 The Arts of Fly Fishing, 2005/06 American Fishing & Fly Fishing Literature: From Colonial Tmes to the Present Day, 2006/07 American Fly Fishing Literature: The Twentieth Century, 2008. American Fly Fishing Literature: “Of Flats & Fishers,” 2009. American Fly Fishing Literature: Of Flowing Waters, 2010 Catalogs Available in Special Collections The Paul & Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections/Ford Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Bellingham, WA www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections 360-650-3193 speccoll@wwu.edu
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2012 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2012
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Special Collections Publications
Local Identifier: SCP_2012_FordExhibit
Text preview (might not show all results): American Fly Fishing Literature Of Streams and Dreams Rocky Ford Creek 2012 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections A department of Heritage Resources Western Was
Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature Of Streams and Dreams Rocky Ford Creek 2012 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections A department of Heritage Resources Western Washington University Libraries 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9103 360.650.3193 “Mike” counted cross stitched by Mary A nn Ford “Sparse Gray Hackle” wrote famously that reading about fishing was almost as good as pursuing the sport--unforgettable advice. “Mike “ studied “Sparse” and concluded the canny gentleman had a point. Read well, friends. Of Streams and Dreams Our journey this year begins on British Columbia’s steelhead waters. There, in distant pubs and camps, with ladies and gents well into their nut brown ale, fact and fiction are sometimes interchanged. “Tales” of fly-fishing North America’s magnificent silver lightening—the steelhead—become very ”long.” Then we travel south to our beloved Stilly’s North Fork and beyond. Too, the reader will find splendid trout along water paths of compelling seduction. A bit of whimsy is our last offering. Steelhead Titles A snippet to start us off. I stood with boot feet toes barely touching the Dean River’s slightly off color flow. My first cast was poor—the Black Practitioner way too short I thought. Two rod lengths down my abbreviated drift, silver lightning grabbed hold and catapulted across the river and up over a tree limb on the opposite bank. “Snap!” Tough twelve- pound Maxima leader busted. And I thought. “The fish are here, they are against the bank and my faith is fulfilled.” That was forty years ago. Alevras, John. Leaves from a Steelheader’s Diary. Amato, Portland. 2010. Introduction by Alec Jackson. Illustrated by Eldridge Hardie. Pp. 158. First edition. Paper cover over boards is beautifully designed. Boards are maroon fabric with gold leaf imprinting on face and spine. Ribbon page marker. This is of a steelheader’s camp life--fishing the Babine and Kispiox. The book is unusual for two reasons: it tells us a story about the ups and downs of camp and fishing life in terms we have experienced and he doesn’t bore us with “how-to-do it” minutiae; too, for a trade edition book, its presentation is superb. ______________. Leaves from a Steelheader’s Diary. Deluxe limited edition. 31/100. Signed by the author and illustrator. Quarter bound in white leatherette with maroon leatherette boards and gold leaf imprint on face and spine. Slipcase is heavy maroon leatherette with one of the author’s favorite steelhead flies inset. Arnold, Bob. Steelhead Water. Amato, Portland, 1993. Pp. 296. Illus. by Loren Smith. First edition. He loves the Stilly Norrth Fork and beyond o the Skagit, Sauk, Wenatchee and Grand Ronde. His dedication includes the names of scores of well-known steelhead anglers with whom he fished or talked. Lots of interesting anecdotes. BUT, he likes hatchery bred steelhead. That is anathema to this angler who sees them as the bane of native fish. ____________. Steelhead & the Floating Line. Amato, Portland. 1995. Pp. 162. Illus. by Loren Smith. Photos by Alec Jackson. Introduction by Alec Jackson. Limited edition. 47/60. Steelhead fly inset under front cover. Signed. Angling with the likes of George McLeod, Lee Wulff and Mike Kinney on the North Fork Stilly and elsewhere. ____________. Country/City: A Year at the River. Kingfisher Press, Rochester, WA. 1998. Pp. 278. Limited edition. 8/100. “Skunk” fly inset under front cover. Signed. Arnold tells of a year spent mostly at his rustic cabin above Oso on the North Fork Stilly. These vignettes describe the beauty, challenges and characters of country life as a steelhead fly fisher pursues his sport. autumn on the Methow ____________. Country/City: A Year at the River. Kingfisher Press, Rochester, WA. 1998. Pp. 278. Limited edition. 8/100. “Skunk” fly inset under front cover. Signed. Arnold tells of a year spent mostly at his rustic cabin above Oso on the North Fork Stilly. These vignettes describe the beauty, challenges and characters of country life as a steelhead fly fisher pursues his sport. Clegg, Pierce and Peter McMullan. Babine: A 50-Year Celebration of a World-Renowned Steelhead and Trout River. Amato, Portland. 2010. Pp.192. First edition. DJ. Green boards with silver printing insets. Fabulous cover designed by Dave Hull. This is of fish, and tradition and “characters.” It is for those who see beyond the river. McMillan, Bill. Dry Line Steelhead And Other Subjects. Amato, Portland. 1988. Pp. 144. Deluxe limited edition in gray slip case. 82/200. Signed. Bill tied a Washougal Olive inset in this edition. Bill McMillan is a scholar of the waters who understood early on that Washington State’s ill-advised steelhead hatchery program would succeed in failure. Bill is an angler of almost divine “catching “ talent with emphasis on taking fish on the surface. A note from Bill’s fiancée to PF is inset under cover. Sirois, James. KIMSQUIT CHRONICLES: Dean River, British Columbia. Skookum Press, Hagensborg, B.C. 1996. Pp. 161. First edition. Paper. Large format. Signed. Superb black and white photos. This is a social, economic and fishing history of an immense natural resource. This is River Journals a local friend F rank Amato, a talented fly fisher, tier, writer and most importantly, Portland, Oregon publisher of fishing magazines and books, introduced his River Journal book series in 1993. His approach was formulamatic. The volumes are about famous American waters and were written by talented, well-known authors. The books are large format with eyecatching color photography on their covers and throughout the copy. Narrative combines storytelling with where to fish and how to fish. The books are of fifty pages or so. Hard back editions are printed in editions of 450 to 500 or so. In addition to the hard backs, Amato published the same series in paper back. The list that follows does not contain annotations. The Journals are new with their paper covers unblemished over synthetic fabric-like boards. River Journal titles tell the prospective reader enough! 1993 Holt, John. Madison. Volume 1, Number 1. Joyce, W. David. Silver Creek. Volume 1, Number 2. Tullis, Larry. Green River. Volume 1, Number 3. 1994 Route, Anthony, J. Kenai River. Volume 2, Number 1. Probasco, Steve. Yakima River. Volume 2, Number 2. Lingren, Arthur, J. Thompson River. Volume 2, Number 3. Supinski, Matthew. A. Pere Marquette. Volume 2, Number 4. 1995 Tullis, Larry. Henry’s Fork. Volume 3, Number 1. Kustich, Rick. Salmon River. Volume 3, Number 2. Probasco, Steve. Big Hole. Volume 3, Number 3. Shields, Daniel. Penn’s Creek. Volume 3, Number 4. 1996 Staples, Bruce. Yellowstone Park. Volume 4, Number 1. O’Brien, Chip. Sacramento River. Volume 4, Number 2. Meyer, Deke. McKenzie River. Volume 4, Number 3. Marriner, Paul. Miramichi River. Volume 4, Number 4. 1997 Martin, Craig. Rio Grande. Volume 5, Number 1. Thomas, Greg. Clark Fork. Volume 5, Number 2. Linsenman, Bob. Au Sable. (Mi.) Volume 5, Number 3. (Shows internal 1998 date.) Richmond, Scott. Crane Prairie—Deschutes Headwaters. Volume 5, Number 4. 1998 Richmond, Scott. Rogue River. Volume 6, Number 1. Pettine, Eric. North Platte. Volume 6, Number 2. Whimsy? A rtist and publisher Jane Timken of New York City issued her deluxe, limited, twenty-six copy edition of Cotton in 2001. Yes, the Cotton of Walton fame. Special Collections (the Ford Collection) holds copy “K” of that luxurious title. But earlier, Ms. Timkin, had conceived the notion of depicting the English alphabet in book form, with each letter representing a fishing object. She described the book as follows: “ AN ANGLER’S ALPHABET is 70 pages, 9.5 inches square, handset with wood and metal type, and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. The end sheets are Hahnemuhle Bugra Butte; the boards are covered with Zerkall, printed as a flat. Each letter is illustrated with a pochoir stencil. The edition is slip-cased and bound by Carolyn Chadwick. “ Timkin Editions, New York, 2000. This is copy “i.” The “i” page shows a fish over a ruler. What caused the artist to produce such an extremely expensive deluxe limited edition? What would the market have been in 2000? Perhaps anglers who were art collectors? Or did Ms. Timkin care? One can only speculate. Annotations by Paul Ford “Whitehorse” overlooks the Stilly North Fork
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2013 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2013
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Special Collections Publications
Local Identifier: SCP_2013_FordExhibit
Text preview (might not show all results): . 1991. pp. 78. Illus. by Nathan Wagoner. #3 of 85. Signed by author, artist and publisher. Deluxe limited edition. Bound in Oasis goatskin and linen at Jovonis Bindery in Springfield, Mass. Text pape
Show more. 1991. pp. 78. Illus. by Nathan Wagoner. #3 of 85. Signed by author, artist and publisher. Deluxe limited edition. Bound in Oasis goatskin and linen at Jovonis Bindery in Springfield, Mass. Text paper is Rives Buff and etchings are chine colle on Gampi and Magnani papers. Prospectus included. Cover housed in maroon, linen slipcase. A masterpiece of writing and art. Rare. New. Nemes, Sylvester
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2014 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2014
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: Special Collections Publications
Local Identifier: SCP_2014_FordExhibit
Text preview (might not show all results): American Fly Fishing Literature “Beauty” 2014 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections A department of Heritage Resources Western Washington University Libraries 5
Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature “Beauty” 2014 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections A department of Heritage Resources Western Washington University Libraries 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9103 360.650.3193 Ames, Dave. True Love and the Wooly Bugger. Greycliff Publishing Company, Helena, MT. 1996. Pp. 189. First trade edition. Signed. New, in original dust jacket. Travail, travel and fishing from a fun-loving Montana guy. ___________________. A Good Life Wasted or Twenty Years as a Fishing Guide. The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT. 2003. Pp. 247. Signed. First trade edition. New, in original dust jacket. Have you ever met a stock broker on your favorite water who would rather talk about dollars than “sense”? Read on for belly laughs and fish. ___________________. Dances With Sharks. Lodge Pole Pr ess, Elliston, MT. 2005. Pp. 184. Signed. First trade edition. New, in original dust jacket. Beatty, Al and Gretchen. LaFontaine’s Legacy. The Lyons Press, Guilford, CT. 2008. Pp. 135. Two signatures. First printing. First edition. New, in original dust jacket. (See also under Gary LaFontaine). Chatham, Russell. Dark Waters. Clark City Press, Livingston, MT. 1991/94. Pp. 205. Signed, deluxe limited edition number 63/200. Maroon cloth cover is gold-embossed with the author’s signature and the date “1994.” Author’s black ink rendering of a salmonoid is laid in under book’s cover. New in cloth slip case. Musings of one of America’s greatest living fly angler artists. __________________. One Hundred Paintings. Clar k City Pr ess, Livingston, MT. 1990. Pp. 135. Signed deluxe limited edition number 190/275. Large pencil Remarque by author/artist on half-title page. Tipped-in, “The Seasons” appears opposite copyright page. New in tan boards in matching new tan cloth slip case. The book is of outdoor scenes that framed this genius life. Clegg, Pierce and Peter McMullan. (Art by Dave Hill). Babine. Amato, Portland, OR. 2010. Pp. 192. This is #92 of 200. Deluxe, signed, limited edition. New, in black slipcase. No consequential difference between this edition and the trade edition except signature page and paperboard slipcase. Cordes, Ron and Randall Kaufmann. Lake Fishing with a Fly. Amato, Portland, OR. 1984. Pp. 149. Number 130 of 300 deluxe, signed edition. Inset Green Damsel originated and tied by Cordes and Marabou Damsel by Kaufmann. New with maroon leatherette book cover embossed with gold fish images and lettering in maroon leatherette slipcase. Davy, Alfred G. (compiler) ‘The Gilly’—A Fly Fisher’s Guide to British Columbia. Alf Davy was original publisher. Kelowna, BC. 1985. Pp. 184. True first printing of first edition. (No mention of BC Flyfishers on copyright page). New, original dust jacket. Twelve acknowledged contributors. Brilliant expositions of BC fly fishing—especially the inland waters. One can never forget learning the chironomid at this outpost! Harrop, Rene. Trout Hunter—The Way of an Angler. Pr uett, Boulder , CO. 2003. Pp. 205. Signature laid in. First trade edition. New, original dust jacket. Of insects, flies and strategies, this is a work of genius. Hughes, Dave. American Fly Tying Manual. Amato, Portland, OR. 1986. Pp. 50. Number 144/500 of deluxe, signed edition. Cover is tan leatherette and inset with gold images. New. Kaufmann, Randall. Illustrations by Mike Stidham and Foreward by Charles Brooks. The Fly Tyers Nymph Manual. Wester n Fisher man’s Pr ess, Por tland, OR. 1986. Pp. 200. #125/200 of this signed limited edition. Cover is tan leatherette and imprinted with gold flies. New. Brilliant expansion of his 1975 A merican Fly Tying Manual. ___________________. This is the 1986 trade edition of the above. As new. ___________________. American Fly tying Manual. Salmon Tr out Steelheader , Por tland, OR. 1975. Pp. 92.. This copy is numbered “153” signed and inscribed to “Skip.” We have no information on these citations. The dust jacket is a bit faded, but the cover is new, goldinscribed leatherette. This appears to be one of the Randall’s earliest books. (See correspondence between Randall and Ford inside volume’s front cover). _______________. Illustrations by Mike Stidham. Tying Dry Flies. Western Fisherman’s Press, Portland, OR. 1991. Pp. 199 plus index. First edition. New, in original dust jacket with new black leatherette cover impressed with gold. _________________. Mike Stidham. Tying Dry Flies. Revised edition. 1995. As above except 144 pages. This copy is signed on title page. New in binder format. LaFontaine, Gary. Challenge of the Trout. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, MT. 1976. Pp. 243. Signed first edition, first printing and warmly inscribed to Paul Ford. Very fine in dust jacket. _________________. Caddisflies. Winchester Pr ess, NY. 1981. Pp. 336. Signed, fir st edition, first printing, in fine dust jacket. __________________. The Dry Fly. Gr eycliff, Helena, Mt. 1990. Pp. 308. Signed to Paul Ford. First edition, first printing. New in original jacket with one of Gary’s “Black ants.” __________________. Trout Flies: Proven Patterns. Gr eycliff, Helena, MT. 1993. Pp. 260. Signed to Paul Ford. First edition, first printing. New, in original dust jacket.. Rosborough, E. H. “Polly.” Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs. Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID. 1965. Pp. 88. Paperbound. First printing of the first edition. “Polly” found new materials, especially animal furs from animals he trapped, to create new flies for new generations of fly fishers—An obstreperous “ladies” man, he haunted the waters in and around Chiloquin, Oregon with artist Paul Pursell who was his neighbor. ____________________. Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs. Stackpole, Har r isbur g, PA. 1988. Pp. 190. Fourth edition. Revised, updated and enlarged. New in unclipped new dust jacket. ____________________. Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs. Number 105/300 of the Special Edition of the 1988 publications cited above. New. Signed. Polly invented and tied the Green Damsel Nymph inset in the book’s dark blue, gold-embossed leatherette cover. Book is enclosed in light blue cloth slipcase. ___________________. Reminiscences from 50 years of Flyrodding. Caxton Pr inter s, Caldwell, ID. 1982. Pp. 309. Number 133/150. Signed, special edition with gold-embossed green leatherette boards in matching slipcase. Nice color picture of Polly on “his” Williamson printed as a frontis of sorts and titled “The Old Satyr.” New. Polly was an accomplished storyteller and here are the stories of his life. And what a life it was! ___________________. Marten I Have Known. Np. Np. Nd. Pp. 91. Signed, limited paper edition with # unidentifiable. New. Fascinating read about trapping those critters he used to support himself and his fly rodding life. Rossman, Paul. Creative Salmon Fly Art-An Ornithological Schema. Volume1-Pheasants. Pine Meadow Publishing, Pine Meadow, CT. 2011. Pp. 91. Overzsized 13 x 9 3/4 in. A Treatise on the Creative Structure of Tying Artistic Salmon Flies.” This volume contains fifteen flies representing fifteen birds. New, original dust jacket and inscribed to Paul Ford. Rooted in the art of Traherne and Schmoolker/Sills, this goes well beyond in describing a process schema. For salmon fly creation. Beautiful. Journals: American Fly Fisher — Journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. Vol, 39, number 4, Fall 2013. __________________. Volume 40, number 1, Winter 2014. This is the Journal’s Sixth Index edition. Annotations and photography by Paul Ford The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections/ford
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2009 exhibit
Date: 2000-2009, 2009
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Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature “Of Flats & Fishers” 2009 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries What To Look For: “The “Big Three” Most books in this exhibit are about three species of fish caught in tropical salt water shallows, called flats, by anglers who wade the beaches or cast from skiffs. These fish are known among many anglers as the “big three” of tropical flats fishing. They are that mighty leaper, the tarpon, reverently called the Silver King; the speed-demon bonefish, sometimes called the Gray Ghost or Silver bullet; and the powerful permit which should probably be called Doctor Wiley—for the permit is the very devil to interest in even the most luscious looking fly. All of the fish can be caught by “sight-fishing.” That means the angler sees the fish to which the fly is to be cast as opposed to “blindcasting” where the water is too murky or deep for the fish to be seen—and so one casts to where fish may be! Anglers search beaches from Panama to Florida, from the Yucatan to the Bahamas and from Belize to the Central Pacific and Indian Ocean for one or more of these species. Arguments flare among anglers about which of the “big three” is the “best” fish. For this angler, though, there is nothing more awe-inspiring than to “jump” (that means hook) a giant tarpon, a fish of one hundred fifty pounds or so that leaps six feet above surface and is no more than fifty feet away. The Silver King’s “in-your-face” acrobatics are breathtaking. Granted, the literally sizzling run of a six pound bonefish across shin deep flats is beyond belief. Indeed, to touch fly line or backing during that run is likely to incur a deep burn. To lure a permit that may weigh upwards of thirty pounds to a phony crab is an act of sheer brilliance and luck. But neither the “bone” nor the permit jump. Ah, but the Silver King! Books in this section tell of vast, remote, enchanting pastel hued flats. A.D. Tinkham’s framed poster, displayed with the exhibit and executed for the cover of Jeffrey Cardenas’ Marquesa shows where these wondrous fish live. The “Cool One” A fine clutch of books is included to describe the “Cool One”—the striped bass, a purple/black-backed and silver-sided brute of summer’s shallows along America’s northern coasts. More about the striper later. Here are the “big three” books! Some Storytellers Wealthy, adventurous east coast fishermen began to fish tarpon in Florida’s canals, mangroves and inshore waters by mid 19th century. Arthur W. Dimock, New York banker, owner of steamship lines and multi-millionaire at age twenty-three, discovered Florida tarpon in 1882 and thereafter pursued them with weapons that ranged from hand line to harpoon, to bait casting tackle to fly rod. What a mix! His “mother ship” was a large sailing vessel known as the Irene. It carried food and potable water to last for weeks and so Dimock did not have to return to port after a day or week of fishing. He could sail Florida’s coast, cruise the Keys or anchor outside his beloved Everglades and launch a skiff or canoe to take him where the fish swam. In 1911 he published a book that would impact Florida tarpon fishing to this day. There is nothing quite like it. 1 2 3 4 5 Dimock, A.W. The Book of the Tarpon. Meadow Run Press. Stone Harbor, N.J. 1995. Pp. 256. (Probably the fifth reprint of this book since its original 1911 publication by Outing Publishing Company.) Photographs by Julian Dimock. Foreword by Thomas McGuane. Introduction by Lefty Kreh. Cover art by C.D. Clarke. New in new slipcase. Edition of 1500. Dimock’s stories are filled with the embarrassments of fishers who are almost always outgunned by the opposition. We see Dimock’s canoe swamped by giant tarpon, his fly rods shattered by twenty pound “babies,” his fly reels burned out, his lines torn apart, and his adoration for these fish of mythic jumps unabated. How could a reader not love such writing? The book is filled with some of the most gorgeous photos ever taken of jumping tarpon. Bruns, in Angling Books of the Americas (1975), wrote that no other book contained tarpon action-photographs to rival those made by young Julian. Dimock was the most famous of the early Florida inshore fishers. Spencer-Churchill, Edward, G. Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, NJ. 1998. Pp. 77. Introduction by Randy Wayne White. This short narrative, includes sixteen stereoscopic, 3-D view cards—no record of reprints since the first printing in London in 1906. Meadow Run edition has a leaping tarpon, goldembossed, on the book’s cover and John Rice art on slip case. Edition of 1500. New in new slipcase. Spencer-Churchill was retired British military and of some wealth who, while visiting Mexico City in 1904, discovered the lure and lore of tarpon fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off Tampico and on to Florida’s west coast. He was humbled by great fish and sometimes he was victorious. He was a bait caster. Most notable, he learned to use a gaff so as not to kill Silver Kings. Dry humor pervades this well-wrought narrative. ______. Tarpon Fishing In Mexico and Florida. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, NJ. 1998. Pp. 77. Introduction by White. Number 7 of a deluxe limited edition of fortyfive numbered copies and five presentation copies. Signed by White. Quarter bound in brown leather with gold-embossed title on spine and unique wave design on boards with gold embossed tarpon on cover. Letter-press printed on Strathmore Pastelle paper. Pages are uncut. Stereoscopic plates are included in a separate folder and may be viewed with the included lens. New in new drop-spine blue linen box with title goldembossed in black leather on spine. This is a work of art. Brown, Tosh. Megalops: An Angler’s Affair With Tarpon. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, N.J. 2001. Pp. 65. Photographs by the author. First edition of 1500 copies. New in new slipcase with jumping tarpon gold-embossed on book’s cover. Brown is a professional journalist and publicist who has fished the Silver King from Aransas Pass in Texas to the Florida Keys to the Yucatan and Costa Rica. Interesting experiences and superb photographs drawn from distant past and immediate present. ______. Megalops: An Angler’s Affair With Tarpon. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, N.J. 2001. Pp. 65. Number 3 of a deluxe limited edition of twenty-six. Signed. Quarter bound in green leather with silver embossed title on spine and pale green linen boards with silver tarpon head embossed on cover. Printed on Mohawk Superfine. Separate folder contains four original Iris prints. New in new drop-spine box covered with Dartmouth green cloth with title embossed in green leather on spine. Cardenas, Jeffrey. Marquesa: A Time and Place with Fish. Meadow Run Press. Stone Harbor, N.J. 1995. Pp. 121. Illustrated by A. D. Tinkham. First edition of 1500 copies. Gorgeous, inflected hand-made end-papers. New in new slipcase with A.D. Tinkham illustration on slipcase cover. Jeffrey was tired of guiding, tired of his fly shop and the rich dudes who pestered his sensibilities, and bored with the “schedule” imposed on him by obligations to magazine publishers. So, he took a sabbatical aboard his little houseboat, Huck Finn. He learned about “ a time and place with fish”— tarpon, bonefish and permit. Too, he learned about a life on the water that he had only imagined, but never experienced, even after all those years as a guide on that very same water. More than a story, this is a meditation—a remarkable book. 6 ______. Sea Level: Adventures Of A Saltwater Angler. Meadow Run Press Inc. Far Hills, N.J. 2002. Pp. 196. Introduction by Jimmy Buffett. First edition of 1500. New in new slipcase. Inscriptions by the author to Paul Ford who edited the book. A letter to PF from the publisher is included. This is a potpourri of Texas redfish, Cuban bones, Cape Cod stripers, and sharks, barracuda, and non-flats fish. Many of these short stories were previously printed in Fly Rod & Reel or other magazines. 7 Cleveland, John, M. Mangrove Tarpon: 40 Years. National Coalition for Marine Conservation. Savannah. 1993. Pp. 95. Bound in brown leatherette with title and a hooked tarpon embossed in gold on the cover. New. This is a family fishing history from 1953 to 1993 that includes fish of Florida’s Everglades, Coot Bay, Shark River, Tarpon Bay and Lostman’s River. Snook and “sea trout” (weakfish) fall into the fisherman’s bag, along with the splendid tarpon—all caught on bait casting tackle. An important history of the changing mangrove environment. Cole, John. Tarpon Quest. Lyons & Burford Inc. New York, 1991. Pp. 106. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. Cole was a former Long Island commercial fisherman and had a successful career as owner/publisher of Maine newspapers. At age sixty-three, he and his wife Jean moved to Key West so he could catch tarpon. This tragi-comedy is about a fine fly fisher who suffers every imaginable indignity a fish could visit on his stalker. Constantly and for more than three years, Cole thrashes on the flats, often in the company of world class guide Jeffery Cardenas, and to no avail until he makes the right mistake! A wonderful bit of writing. Some of Cole’s other fine books include: Striper; Salmon; Fishing Came First and Away All Boats. Cole, who died two years ago, is among our finest storytellers. Cole, John and Hawk Pollard, eds. West of Key West. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA. 1996. First edition, first printing. Pp. 206. Paintings by Peter Corbin; sidebar paintings by David Harrison Wright. Frontispiece “AIRBORNE” by John Rice. Signed by John Cole. New in new dust jacket. This “coffee-table” sized book includes reminiscences of a tropical, inshore fishing paradise. Thirty-two gifted modern writers including Tom McGuane, Russell Chatham, John Cole, Jeffery Cardenas Lefty Kreh, George Reiger and Jim Harrison contributed. The art, especially 8 9 10 that of Peter Corbin is stunning. Thought-provoking, the book is for those who dream the dream of ”fishing the flats.” 11 12 McGuane, Thomas. Nine-Two in the Shade. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York.1973. Pp. 197. First edition with portions previously printed in 1972 in Fiction and in TriQuarterly. Fine in fine dust jacket. This novel is about a fledgling Key West guide in search of bonefish, permit and himself in an age when booze and stronger stuff were part of the search for self. McGuane was one of the “gang” of roistering fishers/writers/ artists who “rocked” Key West in the “sixties and seventies,” but then “got religion” and moved on. This novel, like his previous two, received glowing notices in the New York Times. McGuane became an immensely successful novelist and screenwriter. ______. Sons. Lord John Press. Northridge, California.1993. Pp. 8. Unnumbered. Limited edition 106/265. Signed. Blue linen slipcase New. A moving and yet humorous short story about the father/son relationship—much of this within the context of fly fishing the flats for bonefish and permit. Some Storyteller Technical Writers 13 14 15 16 Brooks, Joe. Salt Water Fly Fishing. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. New York. 1950. Pp. 200. First edition, first printing. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket. This is the first book written about American salt water fly fishing. Brooks wrote fishing stories for the Miami Herald and popularized bonefish and permit fly fishing with his columns in national magazines, Outdoor Life and Field & Stream. Brooks describes fly tackle, techniques and locales for many saltwater species, and with interesting anecdotes along the way. Joe Brooks was a world class angler/writer. Babson, Stanley, M. Bonefishing. Harper & Row, Publishers. New York. 1965. Pp. 114. Foreword by Lee Wulff. First edition, first printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. This brief, but detailed account of tackle, techniques and some of the best geographic locations for bonefish in Florida and throughout the Caribbean and central America includes some attention to fly fishing, although he is more a spinning tackle type. But in those days most fishers were. Many of the so-called bonefish flies he displays, such as the Grey Ghost, are more appropriate to landlocked salmon or other freshwater species rather than anything a bonefish would ever see! Good anecdotes. ______. Bonefishing. Winchester Press, New York. 1973. Pp. 144. Reprint. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket. This is an enlarged version of the first edition. A detailed “Contents” has been added—thank heaven! A good read for those interested in the early popularization of bonefishing. Davidson, Tom. Bonefish B.S. and Other Good Fish Stories. Hudson Books. Canada. 2004. Pp. 204. First edition. Signed. New in new dust jacket. This is an excellent introduction to salt water flats fly fishing. Its first chapter describes the sport’s origins in the Florida Keys. Davidson writes of characters such as Capts. Billy Smith and Jimmy Albright and Albright’s wife, Frankie—a lady fly tier and fisher of great distinction. Chapters by Stu Apt, Chico Fernandez and Billy Pate blaze wakes to the Seychelles, Bahamas and Christmas Island to fish for bones, permit, trevally and tarpon. Lots of technical advice and colorful anecdotes are included together with pictures of some of the sport’s finest fishers and innovators. Kaufmann, Randall. Bonefishing! Fly Fishing the Flats—Bonefish, Permit, Tarpon, Trevally. Western Fisherman’s Press. Moose, Wy. 2000. Pp. 415. Photography by Brian O’Keefe. Illustrations by Mike Stidham. First edition, first printing. Signed. New in new dust jacket. Book’s cover has gold-embossed print. This 11 ¼ by 8 ¾ tome is Randall’s masterpiece follow-up to his Bonefishing With A Fly (1992). Pp. 180. This 2000 publication includes attention to important science, tackle, techniques, and worldwide fishing locales. For each locale, specific information is provided regarding weather, best months to fish, where to stay, tackle and flies to use, and the guide situation. This reader’s thought was: How could any one person know so much and then put it all together with the right photos and original art to create this one-of-a-kind book? Magnificent! Kreh, Lefty. Fly Fishing in Salt Water. Crown Publishers. New York. 1974. Pp. 252. Introduction by Frank Woolner. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. “Lefty” is famous, indeed beloved, in the international fly fishing world for his many world-record fish, his innovative approaches to fly casting, his casting records, and hundreds of “how-to-do-it” articles and a score of books—and his good-natured manner and willingness to share his knowledge and skill. Aside from a booklet on knot tying he did with Mark Sosin, this was Lefty’s first book. It explains fly-casting and ways to catch both inshore and offshore fish. Casting, tying, stalking and playing the fish—“Lefty” tells all. ______. Fly Fishing in Salt Water. Lyons & Burford. New York. 1986. Pp. 242. Updated reprint with some copy changes and added color photos. Line drawings by Barbara Lewis. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. ______. Fly Fishing In Salt Water. The Lyons Press. New York. 1997. Pp. 321. Third revised and fully augmented edition. First printing. New in new dust jacket. Lefty has learned some new stuff and passes it on—stalking, casting, new flies and ways to tie and how to cast from the deck of a skiff without falling overboard. 17 18 19 20 Samson, Jack. Saltwater Fly Fishing. Stackpole Books. Harrisburg, PA. 1991. Pp. 212. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. Signed. Samson, a dean of American salt water fishing, writes superbly of flats fishing and we get the bonus of his words about offshore fishing. 21 ______. Permit. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA. 1996. Pp. 202. Signed. New in new dust jacket. This volume is already in Special Collections in the Ford Collection. It is comprised of history, anecdotes and technical advice. Samson is a world-class fly fisher and writer whose books always attract national attention. This is a must read for the permit angler. 22 23 24 25 Sosin, Mark and Lefty Kreh. Fishing the Flats. Nick Lyons Books. Winchester Press. New York. 1983. Pp. 160. First edition, first printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Expert writing that includes a useful chapter on fly-fishing the flats. But there is much on spinning. Nevertheless, techniques for poling and stalking hold up for one who would flats fish. Sutton, Richard. Silver Kings of Aransas Pass and Other Stories. The BrownWhite Company. New York. 1937. Pp. 352. First edition, first printing. Fine. Of prime interest to the fly fisher is Sutton’s description of flies being used for tarpon at the east approach to the Panama Canal in 1909. Mostly, though, the book is of other fish species, and of hunting. Still, the references to tarpon to the fly (pp.128-136) are significant. Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. Backcountry Fly Fishing in Salt Water. Lyons & Burford. New York. 1995. First edition, first printing. Where do what fish hang out in warm water estuaries and mangrove swamps and how do we catch them? The authors stake us out on bonefish, snook, “baby” tarpon, sea trout, permit and redfish—all of which are good game. Accurate hand-drawn maps are included. In fact, this writer, (PF) found the very place where he spent three weeks on Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands as the guest of WWU Professor Emeritus Richard O. Starbird in 1976. Thanks to the authors for including that “backcountry” salt water fly fishing hangout! Striped Bass: “The “Cool One” Atlantic coast salt water striped bass were found first from Nova Scotia to Texas and served as a major food source for New England colonists. Late 19th century plantings were made near San Francisco and Coos Bay, Oregon. Stripers are voracious feeders slashing through schools of herring and other bait fish and they are especially fond of sand eels. Their fight is powerful and bullish, but they do not jump. Cape Cod guides “discovered” stripers to be splendid summer flats fishing targets twenty years ago and have since plastered salt water fly fishing magazines with articles and “big fish” pictures. (Note: Frank Forester was taking stripers on flies in the 1840’s!) A large summer fish will weigh upwards of thirty pounds. These brutes are found on the east coast from Maine to the Carolinas and in the west, most notably from San Francisco to Oregon. Some Storyteller Technical Writers 26 Chatham, Russell. Striped Bass On the Fly. San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco. 1977. Pp. 97. Paperback. First edition, first printing. (Rare signed copy.) New. This is one of the earliest American books written specifically about fly fishing for striped bass—and San Francisco waters were its birthplace. Russell’s introductory paragraph subtly snubs a snob who would have nothing to do with any fish other than a trout or (Atlantic) salmon. In 1968 Russell broke Joe Brooks’ record for the largest striper taken on a fly—thirty-six pounds. Over a drink Russell will claim he caught 4999 other stripers from the same place. That’s true! Chatham is also a distinguished artist whose work hangs in the White House. Cole, John. Striper: The Story of a Fish and A Man. Atlantic–Little-Brown. Boston-Toronto. 1978. Pp. 269. Illustrated by Marvin Kuhn. New in new dust jacket. This is a man’s life as a commercial fisher and sport fisher for his beloved striped bass. It is of a time filled with hard work, humorous stories and great fishing on northeast Atlantic beaches. More—it is a tribute to the “basse” that, as a food fish, helped America’s earliest colonists survive. Now, that very special fish needs protection if it is to survive. Superb narrative and description. Gartside. Jack. Striper Flies. PP. by Jack Gartside. Boston. 1993. Pp. 137. Paperback. First edition of 500. Wraps Two inscriptions to Paul Ford. New. Here is everything you need to know about striper flies and how to tie them. From poppers to bucktails, to floating minnows and sliders and deep-sunk flies, Jack has them all. He has included patterns created by this country’s great striper tiers including Letcher Lambuth, Lou Tabory, Eric Leiser, Lefty Kreh, Bob Clouser, Bill Catherwood, Dave Whitlock and many others as well as Jack’s own truly innovative creations. A humorous anecdote describes new materials found in an “old woman’s” stall in an Amsterdam “flea-market.” Though he has fished the world, he most loves native waters close to his Boston home. Cigarette hanging from a lip, a drink in hand, he can tell you about stripers. Karas. Nick. The Striped Bass. Karrmapco and Lyons & Burford. St. James, NY and New York, New York. 1993. Pp. 480. Stated first printing of second edition. (First edition published in 1973.) New in new dust jacket. This magnum opus contains everything anyone would want to know about the fish, its history and oceanic and freshwater distributions, catch records and fishing tackle and techniques—even what vehicles will make traction on promising beaches! Meyer, Deke. Saltwater Flies. Amato Publications. Portland, Or. 1995. Pp. 119. Photographs by Jim Schollmeyer. Paperback. Fine. More than seven hundred flies are pictured in color together with tying instructions for each. Gorgeous pictures of everything the flats fisherman needs and, more for the off-shore fisher. Meet “Crazy Charlie” and “Black Death.” Lots to see here. Mitchell, Ed. Fly Rodding the Coast. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA. 1995. Pp. 322. First edition. New in new dust jacket. This is a wide-ranging “how-to-do-it” with instructions about how to “read a beach,” as well as the right tackle and flies for the right fish at the right time. A very useful “Planner” regarding when to fish New England beaches is included. Reiger, George. The Striped Bass Chronicles: The Saga of America’s Great Game Fish. Lyons & Burford. New York. 1997. Pp. 194. Illustrated by Christopher Reiger. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. This is the history of the American striped bass, fishing for this intrepid fighter and conservation measures needed to insure its future. The book is partly historical, but more important, it is the story of Reiger’s personal relationship with a fish he treasures—a brilliantly told story. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Tabory, Lou. Inshore Fly Fishing. Lyons & Burford. New York. 1992. Pp. 312. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. This is a complete “how-to-do-it “ book about how to fly fish the middle and northeast Atlantic beaches and flats for striped bass, bluefish, albacore and more. Tabory’s advice covers everything from “reading” rips to selecting the proper fly tackle. The book contains a multitude of pictures and illustrations. First rate! Introduction & Annotations by Paul Ford Enjoy the accompanying display featuring related items, including: A loose-leaf book of images entitled Of Flats and Fishers The framed A.D. Tinkham poster that illustrates J. Cardenas’ Marquesa Sets of flies used for tarpon, bonefish, permit, trevally and striped bass Examples of tarpon and bonefish taper A framed map of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), South Pacific mecca of bonefish fishing, with memorabilia, including postage stamps, flies, and photographs Rods and reels for tarpon and bonefish fishing STRIPED BASS TARPON BONEFISH Paul & Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Bellingham, WA www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections 360-650-3193
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2010 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2010
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature Of Flowing Waters North Fork Stillaguamish River 2010 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Innocent stranger! Thou who readest these lines! Perhaps you never caught a trout. If so, thou knowest not for what life was originally intended. Thou art a vain, insignificant mortal pursuing shadows! Ambition lures thee, fame dazzles, wealth leads thee on, panting! Thou art chasing specters, goblins that satisfy not. If thou has not caught a trout, this world is to thee, as yet, a blank, existence is a dream. Go and weep. Thaddeus Norris Of Flowing Waters This year’s exhibit displays books about fly fishing on American creeks and brooks; streams and rivers—flowing waters. You will encounter fly fishers who have pursued their sport from cradles of fly fishing in the East to fly fishing frontiers in the West. The older books tend to be plain of typography and photography while many of the newer books include elaborate designs and stunning color photographs. The books reflect immense change in fly fishers’ attitudes concerning how to preserve good fishing. Older generations of gentlemen and lady anglers tended to catch and keep as many fish as they and their guides could carry. Early industrialists thought nothing of polluting and damming waters—so long as their own club waters were intact. Those actions and attitudes have changed somewhat today. But enough! Let’s look at some books. The East Dawson, George. Pleasures of Fishing, With Rod and Reel For Trout and Salmon. Sheldon & Company. New York. 1876. Pp. 264. First edition, first printing. Gold embossed lettering on a bright green cover. Very fine condition. Bruns, in Angling Books of the Americas (1970), states, “This was the first book dedicated (entirely) to fly fishing in America.” A New Yorker, who wrote for the Albany Evening Journal, Dawson was an example of the well-educated, prosperous and socially prominent associated with the development of American fly fishing. He traveled the northeast for trout and into Canada for salmon. Dawson is as much philosopher as fisher. Nevertheless, he counted, kept, weighed and killed the fish he caught. He fished in the grand style accorded the wealthy. When such folks talked about “camping” along a stream, they most often were accompanied by servant types who “facilitated” fishing trips. Fox, Charles, K. This Wonderful World of Trout. Foxcraft. Carlisle, PA. 1963. Pp. 296. Privately printed. First edition, first printing. 1532 of 3000. Signed. He writes, “Even when you know right where the trout are and you are sure you are going to catch some; it isn’t exactly wonderful; something doesn’t fit.” That was Charlie and his take on the wonderful world he created for all of us. This angler, a “limestone legend” from his beloved Pennsylvania waters, loved those waters as much as the fish and the subtle gentle deception of a well wrought and cast fly. _______________. This Wonderful World of Trout. Freshet Press. New York. 1971. Pp. 338. Revised and limited edition. Number 176 of 350. Signed. Blue leatherette boards 1 2 3 with gold embossed jumping trout and lettering. Water imaged marble end papers. Introduction by Ernie Schwiebert, Jr. Illustrations by Edward Everett and Ned Smith. In matching blue leatherette over fiber slipcase. 4 5 6 7 ________________. Rising Trout. Foxcraft. Carlisle, PA. 1967. Pp. 163. Privately printed. 842 of 3000. First edition. Signed and in an almost new dust jacket. A most interesting early chapter notes how introduction of the wily brown trout into eastern streams to replace the gullible and almost extinct native brook trout saved Pennsylvania’s limestone creek fly fishing. And Charlie pondered. “Why do big trout take after dark?” We know and won’t tell! Much written here about the world class Letort where Fox lived. Thanks be to the brown trout—especially when we recall that a brook trout is not a true trout but rather a char! Francis, Austin, McK. Land of Little Rivers, A Story in Photos of Catskill Fly Fishing. Beaverkill Press. New York. 1999. Pp. 279. Photography by Enrico Ferorelli. First edition. Signed. New in new dust jacket. Inside front and back covers are decorated with a full color map of the Catskills and its streams. This oversized 13 ¼ by 10 inch volume is a glorious pictorial history of what many claim to be the “cradle of American fly fishing.” The color photography is magnificent. Francis has written eloquently about the region’s waters and its fly fishers—the likes of Washington Irving, “Uncle” Thad Norris, Theodore Gordon and ladies who formed their own fly fishers club. Francis does us the great favor of including a chapter titled “Literature of Catskill Fly Fishing.” Land of Little Rivers is a brilliant contribution to our understanding and appreciation of Americana fly fishing. Herbert, William Henry. Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America. Richard Bentley. London. 1849. Pp. 455. First edition, first printing. Green leather boards with gold embossed spine, marbled endpapers and page fore-edges. A bit shelf-worn. Raised in London of wealthy parents and educated at Cambridge, Herbert was shipped off in 1831 to New York for some unknown reason and became one of the first among the Catskill fly fishers. Herbert adopted the pen name, Frank Forester and wrote scores of immensely popular sporting articles as well as novels and scholarly works. This encyclopedic work identifies most of North America’s sport and food fish as well as means to catch some of them. (Herbert was a fly fisher.) Forester, Frank. (William Henry Herbert). Trouting Along The Catasauqua. Second edition. Privately printed for the Angler’s Club of New York by the Derrydale Press. 1927. Pp. 39. Limited edition. Number 214 of 423. Frontis by Gordon Ross. Tan and black buckram boards with paper titles. Uncut page fore-edges from what appears to be hand-made paper. Very fine condition. Of trout and the finest cognac, this little story tells of experiences on a Catskill stream. It is a classic expressing the author’s appreciation of nature and fish—in the grand tradition of H.D. Thoreau. Humphreys, Joe. On the Trout Stream. Stackpole Books. Harrisburg, PA. 1989. Pp. 228. New in new dust jacket. Signed. Lots of photos. For the coffee table and study, this is most instructive about trouting the Pennsylvania’s great limestone creeks—and mostly for brown trout. This is “how-to-do-it” in the most positive sense. Irving, Washington. The Angler. Cassino. Boston. 1892. Privately printed. Pp. 21. Quarter bound in green leather with gilt edging and hand painted vellum boards and marble endpapers. Pages printed only on one side. Etched illustrations by Louis K. Harlow. Inscribed by Eugene Connett, founder of the Derrydale Press to actor Harry Caesar. Fine condition. This poetic-like narrative is taken from Irving’s The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819). Here we learn about an old angler with a one-eyed cat who lives in a one-room cabin in the Catskills. Judd, David, W. Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert). Orange Judd Company. New York. 1882. Volume 1, Pp. 299. Volume 2, Pp. 300. First edition, first printing. Green cloth boards. Gold embossed spines. Fine. This is an immensely useful contribution to the social history of American sport fishing and hunting. Limestone Legends. The Papers and Recollections of the Fly Fishers’ Club of Harrisburg 1947-1997. Compiled by Norm Shires and Jim Gifford. Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA. 1997. Pp. 356. Paper. First edition, first printing. This is more than a club history. It is filled with articles by the likes of Charlie Fox and Vince Marinaro who cut their teeth on brook trout that prospered in Pennsylvania’s limestone streams and who were true students of fly fishing as well as stream protection and restoration. Said another way, these individuals knew that there was more to fishing than just the fishing. The fact that university scientific resources were available at State College where the estimable George Harvey taught at Penn State was significant. But let’s not overdo the seriousness implied here. This collection is filled with good food and drink and laughter. Macdougall, Walter, M. Remembering Dud Dean. Countrysport Press. Camden, ME. 2001. Pp. 251. Compiled and introduced by Walter Macdougall. First edition, first printing in new dust jacket. Fine except for previous owner’s name on front end paper. Dud Dean was a fictitious, wise and witty Kennebec guide created by the inimitable Reverend Arthur Macdougall who wrote a raft of Dud Dean books, scores of fishing articles and served thirty-six years as pastor in a Kennebec, Maine village. Macdougall 8 9 10 11 12 made a unique contribution to Americana fishing literature with his use of the “down east” vernacular. Most of his books are held by Special Collections. This volume contains some stories not published previously in book form and, too, his son’s commentary. Great reading with a subtle undertone of social class difference between fly fishers and the “common man.” A spring creek rainbow 13 14 Van Put, Ed. Trout Fishing in the Catskills. Skyhorse Publishing. New York. 2007. Pp. 437. Introduction by John Merwin. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. Inside cover pages are a black and white map of “The Great Catskill Rivers.” This oversized 11 by 9 inch beauty tells us of the history and philosophies of trout fishing the Catskills. We walk the geology of a region rich in nutrients for native brook trout. And we learn of the near extinction of these fish and the rainbows and browns that would follow them because of the confused notions wealthy industrialists, often fly fishers, who seemed not to understand that mill and factory induced pollution destroyed their sport. We meet famous fly fishers and are introduced to wars over what techniques are best to attract a fish. Theodore Gordon and our beloved Sparse Gray Hackle show up. And we meet hope based in conservation. This is a must read. Wright, Leonard, M. Jr. Neversink. Atlantic Monthly Press. New York. 1991. Pp. 1991. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. Some science, some technique, some stories and much love for a Catskill River where Wright cast so many flies and did well in restoring depleted fish populations. He is guilty, however, of fishing for landlocked salmon in Neversink’s reservoir. But at least he cast from shore and did not troll a Grey Ghost. Or did he? The Mid-West Fields, Wayne. What The River Knows, An Angler in Mid-Stream. Poseidon Press. New York, 1990. Pp. 252. New in new dust jacket. Second edition. This is of the author’s thoughtful experience on one Upper Peninsula Michigan River. It is about how the author grows with a river that helps shape his life. This book is an example of the growing interest (in recent American angling literature) in introspection brought on by the angling experience. Traver, Robert. (John Voelker). Anatomy of a Fisherman. McGraw-Hill. New York. 1964. Pp. 117. Photographs by Robert W. Kelley. Oversized. 11 ¼ x 9. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Voelker, a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice, became famous for his book and major film, Anatomy of a Murder. Then this guy who liked to masquerade as an old reprobate with a tin cup of whiskey in one paw and a stogy in the other became world famous for his fly fishing books. (Trout Madness, 1960) and Trout Magic, 1974.) Anatomy of a Fisherman tells of Voelker’s yen for lots of fish, lots of toys that anglers collect—and he admits that he keeps his big fish! What a character. His cabin on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was filled with good cheer. He has popularized and enriched American fly fishing like few other fly fishers—dead or alive. ______________. Anatomy of a Fly Fisherman. Peregrine Smith. Inc. Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City. 1978. Reprint of the above. New in new dust jacket. McCullough, James. Voelker’s Pond, A Robert Traver Legacy. Huron River Press. Chelsea, MI. 2003. Pp. 144. Photography by Ed Wargin. First edition, first printing. Signed. New in new dust jacket. This gloriously illustrated book captures “cabin life” at Voelker’s one room fishing hangout hidden in woods on a little pond’s bank. From this place of both solitude and social pleasure, Voelker took off in his clunker and headed for secret fishing destinations. To see and read this book is to feel the joy of Voelker’s angling life. 15 16 17 18 The West Baughman, Michael. A River Seen Right, A Fly Fisherman’s North Umpqua. Lyons & Burford. New York. 1995. Pp. 134. Photography by J. D. Callaghan. New in new dust jacket. Signed. “Umpqua” means” thunder water” and there is enough of that in this 19 Oregon trout and steelhead river—and you might have heard plenty of “thunder” at the Steamboat Inn! Flowing below Douglas fir and sugar pine over black bedrock and white gravel, this is a place for fish of ferocity and strength. Baughman’s vignettes are stirring and so is a warning. The river utters, “Don’t destroy me with dams and deforestation and over fishing.” 20 21 22 23 24 Brooks, Charles, E. The Henry’s Fork. Winchester Press. New York. 1986. Pp. 209. Deluxe limited edition. Number 204 of 500. Superb map by Paul Chinelli. Oversized. 11 ½ x 9. Maroon leather boards and in matching gold embossed slipcase. Charlie Brooks of West Yellowstone wrote scores of magazine articles and several books about his beloved western rivers. The Henry’s Fork of the Snake River was one of his favorites. This delightful book tells the river’s story in terms of geography, big fish, new flies, novel fishers and a cast of “odd” characters. Every good trout drift was named—do you like Coffee Pot or Cardiac or Bathtub. Take your pick! __________________. Fishing Yellowstone Waters. Winchester Press. New York. 1984. Pp.160. Photography by Dan Callaghan. First edition, first printing. Fine hand-drawn map of the Yellowstone region. Oversized. 11 ½ x 9. Fine in fine dust jacket. Charlie describes and fishes some of the greatest of Yellowstone area rivers—the Madison, Gallatin, Firehole, Gibbon and Gardner. And more. Holt, John. Knee Deep in Montana’s Trout Streams. Pruett. Boulder, Co. 1991. Pp. 143. Deluxe limited edition. Number 16 of 100. Signed. Quarter bound in tan leather with blue marbled boards. Inside boards match cover. A black Woolly Bugger Holt tied is inset on back of front board. He has been a very popular angling author for years. Few write like Holt. We see him with a beer in one hand and steering his wreck of a truck over precipitous terrain watching for deer and elk—eyes certainly not on the road. He’s relaxed! Here we find him on the Bitterroot and Beaverhead, Bighorn and Musselshell. He fishes well and tells a great story. They don’t make many like him anymore. __________. Reel Deep in Montana’s Rivers. Pruett. Boulder, Co. 1993. Pp. 143. New in new dust jacket. Signed. He’s at it again. This time he’s fishing the Flathead, Swan River and on down to the Jefferson and back up to the Sun. Some of Holt’s humor is diminished by his concern for a changing Montana. Overgrazing is ruining streams. There seem to be more poachers. Industrial dumping is growing rather than decreasing. Be sure to read his short piece, “All Along the Watch Tower” at the book’s conclusion. Hughes, Dave. Big Indian Creek, October 23-29, 1994. Stackpole Books. 1996. Pp. 82. First edition, first printing. New in new dust jacket. Signed. “It’s all a matter of doing as opposed to not doing.” That’s the thought Dave leaves with us as we turn the last pages of his trip into Oregon’s Malheur Refuge—a vast area of desert with forest above—and a brook here and there where a trout or two may be taken for dinner. Hughes is probably the “dean” of northwest fly fishing writing. He is immensely productive and an ever popular speaker. Yet thinking through this little book must have given him second thoughts about what it means “ to do.” Lindsay, Charles, and Thomas McGuane. Upstream. Fly Fishing in the American West. Aperture. New York. 2000. Pp. 89. New in new dust jacket. Oversized. 11 ¼ x 11 ¼.. Boards are of gorgeous, heavy gray-green linen with title authors’ names embossed. Signed by both.. Lindsay did the exquisite and often impressionistic photography and McGuane the writing— glimpses and shadows of reality. Just brilliant! Meyers, Steven. Streamside Reflections, Fly-Fishing for Trout and Salmon. Thunder Bay Press. San Diego. 1990. Pp. 143. New in new dust jacket. Light gray heavy linen boards with silver embossed title. Oversized 12 ½ inches by 12 ½ inches. Meyers has published much about his fishing life in southern Colorado’s San Juan mountain country. But never anything like this. Here, his essays and his photography, including the frontis by Val Atkinson take us from one edge of America to the other and beyond. Introduction & annotations by Paul Ford Fall on the Wenatchee River 25 26 Enjoy thy stream, oh, harmless fish, And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony’s vile sin, Attempts—a wretch—to pull thee out, God give thee strength, oh, gentle trout, To pull the rascal in. Peter Pindar Ballad to a Fish in the Brook The Paul & Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections/Ford Special Collections Western Washington University Libraries Bellingham, WA www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections 360-6503193 speccoll@wwu.edu
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2015 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2015
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature Of Fish Tails Moccasin Lake’s Guardian, Billy” Moccasin Lake’s Guardian, “Billy” 2015 Exhibit The Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections A department of Heritage Resources Western Washington University Libraries 516 High St. Bellingham, WA 98225-9103 360.650.3193 Our Oso in 1970. The Past Recaptured Of Fish Tails Two Stories — The Angler’ Club and an Angler Stories tell our history and history sums those stories. Except that for the avid fly angler reality and illusion form mixed and often confounding images. Nevertheless stories and their history must be both our joy and solace. So this year’s Exhibit begins with “historical truth and fiction” from one of America’s most distinguished fly clubs whose membership had the good sense to keep quite careful records. Lucky for us, many of the members were talented writers or artists. And later we see the genius of a western American angler, writer, bamboo rod maker and artist. All this comprises stories that become our history. The Anglers’ Club of New York, whose membership considered itself a social club, gathered to meet weekly or so for lunch from 1905 until now. The anglers exchanged fish tails at the Club’s famous “long table,” eventually found permanent sumptuous quarters, gathered valuable possessions and created a splendid Bulletin and literature. BUT TWO NOTES FIRST: Anglers’ Club of New York publications are listed below by publication date. SECOND, many Club members were of that new class of “Wall Streeters” whose wealth and self-education came from hard work “on the street.” Others had made their money “in the law.” Others were of inherited wealth and Ivy League background. Some had married well. Still, the tails and tales we find in the Club’s publications and artistry seem dedicated to something more than “just the fishing.” And, to the best of our knowledge, the Club never purchased or executed leases to acquire exclusive fishing rights to waters—unlike the actions of some other “prestigious “ eastern clubs. ________________. The Anglers’ Club Story: Our First Fifty Years, 1906-1956—“To which is added an Account of its House Organ, its Library, its Book Plate and its Prized Possessions.” Privately Printed by the Anglers’ Club of New York. New York. 1956. Pp. 153. First edition. First printing of 750 copies. Interesting historic club photos. White linen boards with the Club’s seal on the front board. In brown cardboard slip case. Inside cover is signed by Alfred Miller aka “Sparse Grey Hackle.” Also Miller’s nomination of Walter Thomas is pasted in. Newspaper obituary of G.M.L. LaBranche laid in. This is the club of Atherton, Burke, Camp, Connett, Foote, Fox, Gray, Hewett, Knight, “Sparse,” Marinaro and the like—a literary and historic reasure. Very fine. _________________. The Best of the Anglers’ Club Bulletin. 1920-1972. Ed. by A. Ross Jones with introduction by Sparse Gray Hackle. Privately Printed by the Anglers’ Club of New York, New York. 1972. Pp. 168. First edition. First printing of 1000 copies. Club’s gold seal embossed on green faceboard. In tan cardboard slip case with pastoral scenes printed on it. These are wonderfully written pieces excerpted from this golden age of eastern writing. According to “Sparse,” the book was assembled for people who hadn’t had access to the limited number of the best Club bulletins/articles printed for club members. So here we have Atherton, Baker, Connett, Crowe, Hewett, Holden (our favorite Dana Lamb) and, of course, “Sparse” and the like. Brilliant pieces. Book and slip case are as new. Well Dressed Lines (Str ipped fr om the Reels of Five New Englander s). Ed. by Samuel Stratton Jennings. Privately Printed by the Anglers’ Club of New York. New York. 1962. Pp. 82. First edition. First printing of 500. In dark tan linen boards under plastic and in cardboard slip case. The story of this printing is amusing. Apparently a group from the New York Club went to Boston. Having heard the likes of Harvard professor and poet David McCord, the brilliant Leslie Thompson, Edward Weeks, and Edward Ware Smith, the New Yorkers were very impressed—especially with the group’s conviviality. So comes the book. (I (Paul) studied at Harvard where McCord taught poetry and I fly fished the Charles River above Cambridge close to the very time when Leslie Thompson fished that same water.) Very fine. Sparse Grey Hackle. Ed. by Austin M. Fr ancis. The Angler s’ Club of New Yor k. New York. 1993. Pp.169. First edition. First printing of 300. The author has collected many of Miller’s “war stories” off and on the waters. Fine biographical material taken from Miller’s long and eventful professional and fishing life. Blue fabric boards with front and spine labels. In cardboard slip case. Very fine. A Company of Anglers: Selections from the Anglers’ Club Bulletin 1972-1997. Ed. by Austin M. Francis. Privately printed by The Anglers’ Club of New York. New York. 1998. Pp. 153. First edition. First printing of 350 copies. These tales take us near and then much farther awater as we cast for fish other than trout. Of extreme import (at least as it seems to us) is the essay by William Sullivan titled “The Club’s Privately Printed Books.” Such history is at the heart of our hearts! Or to break one’s heart, one has only to read AMKF’s “Catskill River Industries.” Tan linen quarter bound with maroon boards and the club’s gold seal on face. In heavy cardboard slip case. As new. Sparse Grey Hackle. Fishless Days, Angling Nights. Crown Publishers. New York. 1971. Pp. 223. First edition. First printing. (Review copy) Inside cover bears dedication for Frank Amato and is signed “Alfred Miller, Sparse Grey Hackle.” Satirical letter dated October 1971 on Anglers’ Club of New York stationary is laid in. This volume includes stories, conversations and comments, about Sparse’s adventures with the great anglers of his time and The Anglers’ Club of New York. We find him a master of making fun of himself. This book is probably a followon to his 1954 Fishless Days now in WWU’s Ford Collection. Both are must reads. This copy is like new with flawless dust jacket under plastic cover. An Honest Angler: The Best of Sparse Grey Hackle. Ed. by Patr icia Miller Sher wood. The Lyons Press. New York. 1998. Pp. 260. First edition. First printing. Signed and created by Ms. Sherwood, Sparse’s youngest daughter, this Sparse collection includes exchanges with America’s first generation of “original” fly fishers, his own adventures and his hilarious selfflagellation. No one wrote like Sparse and no cared more about the New York Club’s health. His pals were the likes of the Darbees, Dana Lamb, Hewett, LaBranch and Marinaro. A must read. New in new dust jacket. We have always wondered how Calvinist clergy—such as Bethune, Beecher and Van Dyke could partake of the pleasures of the flesh, namely fly fishing and the accompanying rich life style that went with it in their lives. READ ON: We stumbled across the two books below and citations from a member of the Anglers’ Club that brought sense to our question. For Pastor Henry Van Dyke, a member of the Club, brought an answer and so his thinking appears here. He was raised, the son of a Presbyterian preacher, taught English and theology at Princeton and had his own church. He, like Bethune and Beecher loved food and “spirits.” Van Dyke, Henry. Fisherman’s Luck and some other uncertain things. Charles Scribner’s Sons. New York. 1899. Pp. 247. First edition. First printing. Van Dyke reasons thusly: (With Martin Luther, Van Dyke concludes that this world would never have been left so full of uncertainties nor human nature framed as to find a peculiar joy and exhilaration in meeting them bravely and cheerfully, if it had not been divinely intended that most of our amusement and much of our education should come from this source.) ( pp. 10-11.) Van Dyke goes on to support William James’ “brilliant defense” of chance or luck. To paraphrase: God knows even though we don’t. Applied to casting the fly, we often encounter chance or luck—the luck of being at the right place at the right time with the right fly and heaven knows what else. Said another way, that of the Christian existentialist, “there crosses the angler’s life, the uncertainty of certainty and in that uncertainty is the joy of amusement that God intended for us---even though God knows and we don’t.” But there is more to come from Van Dyke. The above edition is fine with original light green boards etched in gold. _________________. The Travel Diary of An Angler. The Der r ydale Pr ess. New Yor k. 1929. Pp. 144. First edition. First printing of 750 copies. Several photos. Though this work is of Van Dyke’s vocation, for the angler it has implications cited here. “Of course it is man’s high duty and privilege to study the universe and to think reverently of the Maker of all. But it is not man’s business, even though he be a preacher, to explain the Supreme Bring. The chief end of man says a good old book is to glorify and enjoy him forever. He is glorified in useful work and useful worship. He is enjoyed in grateful praise and happy play. That is why I turn, when study is done and work is finished, yes, and when the mind is weary and spirit depressed, to follow the word and the example of St. Peter, who said, “I go a-fishing.” (p. 5). And Van Dyke, Presbyterian theologian and Anglers’ Club member went a-fishing. We are perplexed as always about what “his father in the faith” would have thought! Blue linen boards with handsome gold title shield inset on cover and similar on deeper blue spine. Plastic cover. Fine. John Gierach—The Compleat Angler Stories comprise this “trout bum’s” life. And that “trout bum’s” life is now our history. This is about that guy who walks around in shabby hip boots (probably got leaks in them), a fuzzy red plaid shirt, dumpy cattleman’s hat and a beard that would admit him to jail. He looks good now compared to when he published his poetry, “Signs of Life.” His pal A. K. Best may have reclaimed him before he showed “signs of dry rot.” Nevertheless, Gierach, journalist, artist, bamboo rod maker, story teller, water-bound philosopher and fly fisher supreme committed his heart to what he choose as his life—fly angling. Here are many of his books—the last few with abbreviated annotations. His home base is always within Colorado’s best fishing area. Here is the compleat angler. He follows the “path not taken.” Gierach, John. Signs of Life. Cherry Valley Editions. Somerville, MA. 1977. Unpaged. First edition. First printing. Signed. Poetry about people and places. Paperback in new condition. Very rare. _____________. Fishing the High Country. Pr uett Publishing Company. Boulder , CO. 1983. Pp. 108. First edition. Third printing. High lakes, high streams, beaver ponds, flies and tackle and plenty of brush-whacking. If you haven’t climbed into high country mysteries , this may entice you. Paper. New. _____________. Trout Bum. Pr uett Publishing Company. Boulder , CO. 1986. Pp. 227. Foreward by Gary LaFontaine. First edition. First printing. Dug into one of Colorado’s small towns, Gierach is dedicated to pursuing life on creeks, streams, rivers, lakes and in the mountains. He writes for journals and a newspaper beautifully to support his sparse needs in that quest. Mostly, though, he just does what he wants to do so long as it has to do with trout fishing. For Gierach, fly fishing is not a hobby; it is a life. New in new dust jacket. _____________. Trout Bum. Pr uett. Boulder , CO. 2006. Pp. 205. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Tr ibutes appear in the book’s intr oduction. Signed. We hear fr om the likes of Dave Hughes, Ed Engle, Ted Leeson, Nick Lyons, and Seth Norman. Gierach introductory essay tells why the fly fishing addict has to fish. It is an addiction that is his life. New in new dust jacket. ______________. Fly Fishing Small Streams. Stackpole Books. Har r isbur gh, PA. 1989. Pp. 159. First edition. First printing. Cover, Robert K. Abbett,” “Stalking the Brown.” Gierach says, “...let me introduce an idea—just something to kick around: Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn’t determined by how many big trout you catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed, and, of course that there’s a bigger one in there.” Paper. New. ______________. The View From Rat Lake. Pr uett. Boulder , CO. 1988. Pp. 193. Fir st edition. First printing. The book’s cover is of a glorious Westslope Cutthroat trout, the like of which we have never seen on a trade edition cover—though the Abel Company made an anodized reel much in the same colors. Rat Lake could be anywhere—as Gierach notes, it could be at the end of that slippery “son of a bitch of a trail” you’ve climbed to catch no fish in that mountain lake where nothing seems alive. Or it could be over in Idaho at Harriman where the Green Drakes can only be caught one way—a way you haven’t mastered. New in new dust jacket. ________________. The View From Rat Lake. Limited edition #65 of 250. Signed with blue cloth boards and gold-lettered face board and spine. New in blue cardboard slip case. _________________. Sex, Death and Fly Fishing. Simon & Schuster . New Yor k. 1990. Pp. 238. First edition. First Printing. New in new dust jacket. Rare. ________________. Where The Trout Are All As Long As Your Leg. Lyons and Bur ford. New York. 1991. Pp. 84. First edition. First printing. Signed. Gyotaku, an ancient Japanese art form, was used by Gierach to illustrate this book and its sister deluxe limited edition noted below. The artist places an inked object over paper or fabric and creates a print. (See the cover of this book and its inside cover as well as the deluxe limited edition cited below.) Gierach notes in this book’s opening line, “The secret places are the soul of fishing.” Perhaps that is all we need to know about Gierach and his “good life.” Except to say that he loves his secret places including the ”East Fork of the Nowhere.” It’s over in Montana! No, by golly, make that Idaho. New in new dust jacket.” __________________. Where The Trout Are All As Long As Your Leg. Deluxe limited edition #30/100. Signed. Hand sewn and bound in morocco grained goat. Slip case is in cheap cardboard. A 16 by 12 inch artist’s proof of this Gyotaku art created by Gierach is available with the book. Rare. Best, A.K. A.K.’s Fly Box. Lyons and Burford. Hong Kong. 1996. Pp. 191. Intro. by John Gierach. First edition. First printing. This is of fly tying and it may be that Best’s best friend and fishing companion catches his fish using Best’s flies. All anglers are suspect! New in and fishing companion catches his fish using Best’s flies. All anglers are suspect! New in slip case. There is a major typographical error on the slip cover. See if you can find it! Gierach, John. Even Brook Trout Get the Blues. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1992. Pp. 243. Illus. by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing of the trade edition. Signed. “Around here, the large brook trout comes from water where it doesn’t belong—out of nowhere....” And so it is as Gierach sees the fishing life. You just never know what’s going to happen –the big seven pound brookie comes from a place where it shouldn’t be but you release it rather than “show it around” town because that is a way to prove yourself. The fact is that no one will believe you caught such a fish in such a place is beside the point. What matters is what matters to you, even if it takes you to farm ponds, making bamboo rods and making yourself of yourself. New in dust jacket. ______________. Even Brook Trout Get the Blues. Pp. 223. Deluxe limited edition #13/110. Signed. Quarter bound in Nigerian goat with 16th century custom pasted blue and gold paper on boards. Signed and in blue paste board box with spine label. Laid in envelop with brook trout painting that Gierach hand colored. Gorgeous. Rare. __________________. Dances With Trout. Simon & Schuster . New Yor k. 1994. Pp. 205. Illus. by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing. “Just one good fish.” Part of hooking and landing that “nice one,” the one you can tell the story of the day about to your campside pals is skill. But the other part you might not admit to is luck—the chance whisper of breeze that lands your #18 Elk Hair Caddis in just the right place at the right time midst quarreling mosquitoes and caddis at twilight. Luck and skill live in these stories. Reminds us of what Van Dyke said above. New in new dust jacket. __________________. Another Lousy Day in Paradise. Simon & Schuster . New Yor k. 1996. Pp. 233. Illus. by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing. Signed. Gierach travels to find fish that don’t inhabit his home water—Colorado’s St. Vrain River. We see his trials with Splake and the big-lipped carp! His political agenda is pretty simple. “....we should have a clean, healthy, diverse natural environment so I can go fishing. Because fishing makes me happy.” New in new dust jacket. __________________. Fishing Bamboo—One Man’s Love Affair with Bamboo Fly Rods. 1997. Pp. 113. Fir st edition. Fir st pr inting. Signed. New in new dust jacket. A deluxe limited edition of this is already in the Ford Collection. _________________. Good Flies—Favorite Trout Patterns and How They Got That Way. 2000. Pp. 179. Intr o. by Bar r y Glickman. Fir st edition. Fir st pr inting. Signed. In the end, the author prefers flies that are just ordinary workers rather than the “snazzy” ones. But and this is a big BUTT, he’s as much a sucker for the “pretty” boys as most of us! New in new dust jacket. ___________________. At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman. 2003. Pp. 184. Illus. by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing. Signed. We’re with Gierach on this one because we do silly things like fly fishing in a blasting snow storm; getting lost because we can’t follow a map; or, driving through ice-fog so we can fish in more ice-fog. But as Gierach says, we’re getting to be “geezers” and there’s not much we can do about it except go fishing! New in new dust jacket. ___________________. Still Life with Brook Trout. 2005. Pp. 213. Illus by Glen Wolff. First edition. First Printing. Signed. “Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good guide can’t is write prescriptions”. New in new dust jacket. ___________________. Fool’s Paradise. 2008. Pp. 211. Illus. by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing. Signed. New in new dust jacket. ___________________. No Shortage of Good Days. Pp. 210. Fir st edition. Fir st pr inting. His trip to the Skagit is of special interest. Signed. New in new dust jacket. _____________________. All Fishermen Are Liars. Simon & Schuster . New Yor k. 2014. Pp. 211. Illus by Glen Wolff. First edition. First printing. Our “hero” fishes steelhead on the Columbia’s Hanford reach in a chapter called “The Nuclear Option.” Guess he likes those irradiated fish! And we ain’t lying! New in new dust jacket. John Gierach’s rendering for Even Brook Trout Get the Blues #13/110 We have tried in this year’s offering to present a series of stories, call that history, of two cultures. One history represents a sophisticated culture mostly hidden now; the other, almost “Thoreauvian,” lives on and we wonder what is next. — Paul and Mary Ann Ford The Paul & Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection www.library.wwu.edu/specialcollections/Ford
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2016 exhibit
Date: 2010-2019, 2016
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Text preview (might not show all results): , some grand salmon in Norway’s rivers. A few “characters” appear in the text. Very attractive presentation because the Electra text is printed on tan eighty pound Mohawk Super Fine paper. Book’s boar
Show more, some grand salmon in Norway’s rivers. A few “characters” appear in the text. Very attractive presentation because the Electra text is printed on tan eighty pound Mohawk Super Fine paper. Book’s board is black linen with picture pasted on. Book is housed in leatherette drop spine case with gold embossing. 2 copies. Annotations by Paul Ford Paul and Mary Ann Ford Professor Emeritus Paul Ford joined
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Title: The "arts" of fly fishing
Date: 2000-2009, 2003
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Show more'ffJtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-~JfI>-Jtf"-Jt!'"Jtf"-Jtf"-~-dft-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-Jtf"-W •• i •• .'r:Jf'E tt2-l~'rs"·i. !. ()~... !. • • !• yLY YIS:JfIN{j !• • ~ . • * • • • • !; • . I·. AnnotatedGuide,. ·1_·' ;1· • ! !. Inaugural Exhibit : The Paul and Mary AnnFord : : Fly Fishing Collection : •• •• • •• * : December 2003-January 2004 : •• •• •• •• •: : .Mabel Zoe Wilson Library • Western Washington University.· • • • • £+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++zl A Guide to the Exhibit 1 2 Annotations by Paul Ford IT effective and beautiful flies are to be tied, then certain materials must be acquired. Paul Schmookler and Ingrid SUs researched these materials and produced the book, Rare arul Unusual Fly Tying Mllterials: A Natural History: Volilme 1, Birds (1994). The book shows domestic and.exotic birds in full color and how feathers from these birds are·used in tying. flies. Birds and flies are exquisite. Very rare 1st edition, 1st printing. Schmookler's and SUs' work continued in Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History: Volume 2, Birds arul Mammals (1997). It traces the use of plumage and furs from birds and mammals for the use of lures and flies from about 200 AD. Its photography is magnificent and its prose instructive. 1st edition, 1st printing, signed In Forgotten Ries Schmookler and SUs capture the magic of American fly tying during the 3 4 5 6 7 first half of the twentieth century. The work of five illustrious tyers is higbJighted to illumine the "golden age" of American tying. The five honorees are John Raymond Bergman. Charles Defeo, Preston Jennings, Mary Orvis Marbury al;ld Carrie Gertrude Stevens. Each made particular contributions and the authors have caught those contributions with glorious photography and lucid prose. No lover of the fly tying art should be without this 1999 1st edition. , Steelhead Fly Fishing and Flies (1976) by Trey Combs, with illustrations by Jeff Dayne, is very difficult to find in this 1st hardback edition, thoUgh it has been reprinted in soft cover many tlriles. And for good reason. It was the first comprehensive description of Northwest steelhead fly fishing and fishers as well as techniques and flies used to catch the fish. Combs' later book, Steelhead Fly Fishing (1991), is a greatly expanded version of the display book and was issued in a standard edition and a deluxe limited edition of 250. James Prosek is a painter of trout. His first book nfpaintings titled Trout. displayed here, was published in 1996 when he was a junior at Yale University. The New York TImes has referred to hiIri as the "Audubon of the fly fishing world" Since Trout appeared, Prosek has published several other books about trout and trout fishing. His latest is Fly-Fishing the 41" (2003) in which he describes fishing for trout along the 41st parallel from his home in Easton, Connecticut, to the far comers of the world·and then back home. Prosek is a very special artist from whom we shall, no doubt, hear more. The display book is a signed 1st edition, 1st printing. George Grant was the father of fly-fishing in Montana. He lived in the Butte area in the early half of the twentieth century. The Big Hole, Madison, Beaverhead and Jefferson were among his haunts, though the Big Hole ~ame first and he was a key supporter of the Big Hole River Foundation (see also exhihit 11). Grant was an environmentalist before the word entered our dictionaries! He created flies special to Montana as compared with those used in the East. His two important book-length publications, both issued in editions of 1,950 copies, were The Master Fly Weaver (1980) and Montana Flies (1981), which is displayed here (1st edition, 1st printing). Tom McGuane's Live Water (1996) in its deluxe limited edition displayed here is elegant in design and execution. Its thoughtful stories take us all over the world to learn that there is .more to fly fishing than the fishing. The book has a drop spine case and is quarter bound in goatskin. It is letterpress printed on handmade paper and its colored illustrations by John Swan are laid in. This is copy 6 of an edition of 67 and is signed McGuane is famous for his movie scripts and such works as the Bushwhacked Piano, Panama, The Sporting Club, and most recently, The Cadence of the Grass (2002). One 8 9 Ralph Wahl's Man*s Steelhelid Shangri-La (1989) is the story of how Wahl discovered and fished a secret place on the Skagit River-an area of magical attraction and fish. We all need our secret places and Wahl found and treasured his. Then it disappeared like some mystical ephemera and Wahl was led to wonder if it ever existed. This is copy 62 of a limited edition of 200 copies and is signed by the author. . Roderick Haig-Brown came to Washington State from his native England in 1926 to work in logging ventures. Early on, he fished theStillagnamish NorthFork and Deer Creek, its thenfabulous steelhead tributary. Eventually he settled on the Campbell River on Vancouver Island where he pursued outdoor writing, served as a Magistrate and, for one term, as Chancellor ofthe University of Victoria. A fly fisher to the core, he was a vigorous propOnent of wildlife habitat protection for all of nature's creatures. Haig-Brown is internationally regarded as one of finest writers ever to touch on sport fishing (see also exhibit 15). His friend and sometime illustrator, the gifted Tommy Brayshaw, invented the steelhead flies shown alongside this copy of Rerum to the RIver (1946, 1st Canadian edition, illustrated by Charles Defeo) Gary lafontaine, a transplanted Easterner, lived in Deer Lodge, Montana, for many yea:(s and until his death two years ago, much too young, of AlS. He was the consummate 10 student of aquatic life and created flies from materials no one else had used-Antron (a nylon) and Creslan (an orlon). IDs "sparkle emergent pupa" pattern was a major breakthrough in tying creativity. He knew Montana's waters and those far beyond. The deluxe limited edition of Trout Flies in the display case features flies Gary inventedfor various Montana waters. This edition 1s quarter bound in goatskin with hand-marbled endsheets. This is copy 3 of 250 and is signed. 11 The pamphlet Big FIy/Big Fish was authored by George Grant (see also exhibit 6) in support of the Big Hole River FOl.m.datiOJi headquartered in Butte, Montana. A major figure in fly-fishing in the state, Grant dedicated profits from his writing and fly tying to the Foundation. His prowess in fly tying artistry is showcased here by examples of his woven flies created especially for use in Montana waters. 12 The 1st American edition of Izaak Walton's and John Cotton's The Complete Angler or the . Contemplative Man*s Recreation was published in 1847. It was annotated and edited by the Rev. George Washington Bethune. The edition is noteworthy for three reasons. It was the first edition of the Angler published in America. Its long introductory bibliographic essay is comprehensive and scholarly. But most important of all, a well-buried footnote describes American fly fishing in Bethune's day and dIscusses the question of whether a fly should imitate a living creature or, should it be an ~attractor." That argument continues today. The display book is a 1st edition, 1st printing, profusely illustrated and about 157 years old in a new hand-made drop spine box. A copy of this edition is not often found. 13 Ralph Wahl of Bellingham was a'master steelhead fly fisher and a master photographer. tIe teamed with Roderick Haig-Brown to produce the display book Come Wade the River (1971). Wahl has been called "the Izaak Walton of the camera." The display book shows Wahl at his best with many of the photographs taken, no doubt, on his beloved Skagit River. Prose excerpts that accompany the pictures are from Haig-Brown's A River Never Sleeps. 14 Sparse GreyHackle was·the pen name of AlfredW. Miller, a prominent New York City businessman. His books FishlessDays (1954) and Fishless Days, Angling Nights (1971) describe how well-ta-do EasterneJ,"s fly-fished in the first half of the twentieth centuryoften with flies tied by the Dettes (see exhibit 20) or their contemporaries. Sparse's writing . is dear and wittY and stands as a centerpiece of modern American fly fishing writing. illustrated by Charles DeFeo, the display edition is a 1st edition, 1st printing published in 1954 by the Anglers' Club of New York City. (To this day, membership in the Anglers' Club is limited to a select elite). . 15 16 17 18 Roderick Haig-Brown's TheWestem Angler (1974, 2nd edition), illustrated by TODlDlY Brayshaw, describes his experiences fishing for Padtic salmon and western trout in British Columbia. A$ is the case with his Return to the River (see exhibit 9), this work speaks to the author's deep concern for salmon steelhead and other fish that were his sport and the world's rich reSOlU'ce. In 1971, Steve Raymond of Bellingham published- the first book ever written about British Columbia's feistY Kamloops trout, CaIled KlImloo"s, with color plates by Alan Pratt,the book is aremarkable study of the fish, its environs and how fly fishers pursue it. The book is of particular interest to local.areafly fishers who make many trips north in search of the lively fish. The copy on display is from the Ist printing of the 1st edition. John Gierach, who has Written a dozenfiy fishing books, builds bamboo fly rods and, as an artist,illustrated his Where Trout Are All As Long AS Your Leg (1991) usmg the anctent . Japanese Gyotaku technique. The.displaybook. Fishing &imboo (1997),is.of Gieracb's romance With the aft and craft of building and fishing with bamboo. The b()()k's cover is of unique design because a piece of bamboo fishing rod is imbedd,ed in its spine. Thec:over is quarter bound in leather and the book is letterpress printed on mouldtnade paper. A page of Gierach's original manuscript is laid in at the book's conclusion. 'Ibis is copy 5 of a deluxe limited edition of 55 copies. A work of art, Hemingway on Fishfng(2000), Ist edition, Ist printing, is a collection of the great man's writing about fishing. His short story, "Big Two-Hearted River" with its ~acter,Nick Adams, is considered by many to be world.,classwritijlg. Hemingway graduated to.fish of great size such as marlin and swordfish. The OldMan and the seQ. (1952) won him. a Pulitzer Prize and·later he became a Nobel laureate but gavems acceptance speech in absentia. ; 19 20 21 Charles E. Brooks retired from the Air Force in the 1950s and settled in West Yellowstone, Montana, not far from the Henry's Fork of the Snake River. At that time the Henry's Fork was wonderful fly fi$ing and it is to this day-classic fly water with j;)igfish. Brooks wrote and published much about the river and that, of course, brought hordes of less fortunate Easterners to fish it. Not Brooks' intent at all, but nevertheless the truth. The Henry's Fork. (1986) tells the history of the Henry's Fork country and is must reading for one who would understand the development of fly fishing in the West. 1st edition, 1st printing. American professional fly tying originated on the East coast. The Denes, A Catskill Legend . (1992) by mc Leiser tells the story of the Dette family, Walt, Winnie and Mary. They lived in the Catskills region of upper New York State close upon the Beaverkill andWillowemoc Riv~ ers. The Dettes were innovative tyers-mventors as well as production tyers. A good portion of this book is devoted to tying techiJique. The display copy is a deluxe limited edition, quarter bound in almond leather with imprints in the leather and enclosed in matching slipcase. The slipcase Windows show three dry flies tied by the Dettes. Signed by the Dettes and the author. . ,. . During the early twentieth century and even to this day, many well-to-do eastern fishers, ladies as·well as gentlemen, made their way north to eastern Canadlan provinces wbere they cast flies to what many call the king of game fish-the Atlantic salmon. They fished rivers with exotic names--the Margaree and Miramichi .and Restigouche. And they fished in a tradition inherited from England. Joseph D. Bates, Jr., in his The Art of tile Atlantic Salmon Fly (1987), with color plates by Henry McDaniel, describes the history of Atlantic salmontlies and their use in several countries. 1st edition, 1st printing.
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Title: American fishing & fly fishing literature
Date: 2000-2009, 2006
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Text preview (might not show all results): included in the text. F. First published in 1864. Written by a Philadelphia fishing tackle merchant, this book is considered by many to be the most important statement about fly-fishing in 19th centu
Show more included in the text. F. First published in 1864. Written by a Philadelphia fishing tackle merchant, this book is considered by many to be the most important statement about fly-fishing in 19th century America. “Uncle” Thad Norris took Americans from fishing as a social event to “Fly-Fishing – Alone.” He was a splendid fly fisher, tackle and fly rod-maker; and writer. Too, Norris practiced catch
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Title: The arts of fly fishing
Date: 2000-2009, 2004
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Text preview (might not show all results): t t t t t t t t t tt t t t t t t t t t t t t t : '1fie Jlrts of :Fry :Fisfiing i t. t : ! t : "Mostly the Northwest" .: t : • t t t tt .. • .. • t · 2004/05 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Fo
Show moret t t t t t t t t tt t t t t t t t t t t t t t : '1fie Jlrts of :Fry :Fisfiing i t. t : ! t : "Mostly the Northwest" .: t : • t t t tt .. • .. • t · 2004/05 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection t : • t t t Leeew;{is fa6ricatea of oaaCore,..-some factuaC liistory, some reverie ana memory t ana aCways a 6it of wislifuC efa6oration. Nortliwest steeDieaafCy fisliine is hut a t WWU Libraries Special Collections liunarea years or so oca, yet its im.rprint is etclieaforever in tlie literature of ~ort fisliine-fisli of enormous power ana couraoe, fishers of ineenious ta£ent ana aetermination; waters of softness anavioCence. ~any of. tlie 600is i~ tliis year's t.lZSpfay are of tlie Nortliwest steeDieaa CeeenrJ:: 'Rod:erici J{aiB-1Jrown, 7"rey C0m6s, 7"om Mc(juane, Xent J{eCvie ana'B06 .Jlrnolifare a:mone tliose wlio fiveatlie CeeenrJ:: .. • .. • t .. Other azspfay 600is are of Nortliwest a{pine, a.esert ana meadOw fakes ana t • pondS; ana offreestone ana ~ne creeis witli 6eaver aam water just arountf tlie . tt next 6entf. Jolin (jieracf4 'Dave J{UfJlies, Jolin Sliewey, 'Bi£{'Barnett ana'Be({inBliam's t 'Dan J{omeCliave toliftlieirstories. t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t t tt t 1 Dr. Thomas W. Lambert was an English physician who arrived in British Columbia in 1892, practiced at Kamloops for about twelve years, and served as president of the British Columbia College of Physicians. The Written record he left of fly and bait fishing throughout interior and coastal B. C. is extraordinary. Fishing British Columbia, published in London in 1907, is a great read and a distinguished forerunner of all that would be written about the Thompson River and itssteelhead. The display copy is a re-issue by W. Richard Olmsted, himself a Thompson River fanatic. Copy L of a deluxe limited edition lettered A-Z.; quarter bound in blue leather with gold lettering in slipcase. Signed by the publisher and designer. (1996). Roderick 1. Haig-Brown wrote scores of articles and books on topics ranging from wildlife (Panther, 1934), to primitive people fighting for existence (The Whale People, 1962) to the poli- 2 -4 tics of conservation; he also wrote fiction. But Haig-Brown is best known for the fishing literature he created. The Western Anglerwas issued in 1939 by the world famous Derrydale Press in a two-volume, large format limited edition of 950 copies. The frontispiece of Volume 1 is a color plate of British Columbia interior flies; that for Volume n is a color plate of coastal flies. The lower numbered copies, such as this one, include a map at the beginning of Volume 1, Chapter 1, said to have been drawn by Haig-Brown, highlighting his beloved British Columbia interior and coastal waters. Color and black and white artwork is by E.B.S. Logier. This book is HaigBrown's magnum opus on British Columbia interior and coastal trout, steelhead and salmon. It is of fishes and flies; lakes and rivers; fauna and friends-truly a magnificent tribute to HaigBrown country. Bound in red cloth, this is 111/950. Uncut. (1939). Trey Combs of Port Townsend, Washington, is an expert fly fisher and tier and a prolific writer about steelhead fly fishing. But, too, his adventures have taken him to the lUgh country and to the great deep blue in search of other game fish. The Steelhead Trout-Life History, Early Angling, Contemporary Steelheading [3J is the first definitive American effort to describe this fish and ways to take it with a fly. First edition, first state in dust jacket and signed by the author. Reprinted several times. (1971). Steelhead Fly Fishing [4J is a large volume filled with descriptions of the greatest Western steelhead rivers (American and Canadian) and the talented and sometimes- unusual characters who have plied them. Tackle and technique are given their due and there are splendid color plates of steelhead flies. Black and white photography fills the book, giving it just the right touch when one considers how many gray days fly fishers spend on coastal rivers. On display are a copy of the trade issue with dust jacket, and copy number 95 (signed) of the limited edition of 250, issued in a slipcase inset with a fly tied by Combs. (1991). Bluewater Fly Fishing [5], also by Combs, deals mostly with "offshore" fish, including sailfishes 5 6 7 8 and marlins; tunas and wahoo; our albacore and salmon; and, of course, the glowing dorado. Fly tackle and technique are discussed but what makes this book so attractive is the color photography. The book was tssuedin a trade edition and a deluxe limited edition of 25 copies bound in navy blue Nigerian goatskin in a matching silk slipcase. Here we have a copy of the trade edition in dust jacket, signed by the author and the deluxe limited edition 4/25, signed by the author, publisher and designer. (1995). Fishing the High Country (6J is an odd little paperback published early on in Combs' career. It is of golden trout and "brookies" taken well above the horizon; and, indelicately, it speaks to' such low life activities as spin fishing. But·Combs was young then. The book is long on tackle and technique and short on the fishing life-and its end-pages carry advertising we no longer see. This is a first edition, first printing. (1973). Kent Helvie's Steelhead Fly Tying Guide is one of the most beautifully illustrated books ever published about the sport. Photographs of materials and flies are stunning. Patterns shown represent the best of the best among Northwest tiers. This is signed copy of the trade edition. (1994). Bob Arnold is seen often by fly rod steelheaders along the banks of the Skagit and Sauk Rivers. But for more than thirty years his first love has been the native steelhead of the Stillaguamish North Fork where he keeps a comfortable old cabin close by the river. Steelhe4ld Water, illustrated by Loren Smith, was Arnold's first book and is must reading for those who live to fly fish for steelhead. The book is of the river and its characters-an insight into nature's ways; This is a limited edition with a fly tied by Arnold mounted inside the front cover. The cover is blue leatherette under a dust jacket. 21/60. Signed by the author and illustrator. (1993). Bellingham auth~>r Dan Homel published Diary of Northwest Trout Flies in a paperback trade edition in 1991. The copy displayed is unusual because it is also signed by Ralph Wahl and by Ed Ruckey, the illustrator; and an author-tied fly is under the,front cover. An inexpensive limited edition, also included in the display, was issued in 1997. This short book is of flies frequently useful in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, although there are no references to specific waters. An extra original drawing by Ruckey of a. spey fly is housed in an envelope under the front cover of the limited edition. The book's cover is maroon leatherette with custom endpapers and there is a matching maroon ribbon place marker. This is copy 18/35. Signed by author and illustrator on the limitation page. {l997). Another Homel work, The Quiet Pool-Fly Fishing the Rivers and Still Waters of Washington, was published in a hardback trade edition (1996) and in an inexpensive limited edition (1995), illustrated by Ariel Shimodle with black and white photos by Ralph Wahl and four color plates. Also published in softbound with a pastel done by Richard Van Demark on its cover. In this, the limited edition, Demark's pastel of the Methow River has been photographed and included in an envelope under the front cover. The stories in this little book are charming and deceivingly simple. Yet the reader is always left with the complex question: Where is your quiet pool? Maroon leatherette boards.; copy 8/100. Signed by the author. (1995). Dave Hughes of Astoria, Oregon, editor of Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, has been fly fishing, fly tying and writing about both, especially in the Northwest, for more than three decades. His major interest is in trout, but an occasional steelhead or salmon sneaks into his fishing life. His book An Anglers Astoria is a collection of stories Hughes wrote early in his career. They are of his native Oregon and sometimes beyond, and are both instructive anci humorous, with less "how to do it" and more "why we do it" than in much of his later writing. This is a deluxe edition quarter bound in tan leather and matching tan sailcloth boards. Hughes' "March Brown Flymph" is inset on the limitation page. Copy 77/100; signed by the author. (1982). In his Western· Streamside Guide (12), Hughes tells the fly fisher precisely when and where to find specific fly hatches, how to imitate them and how to fish the imitations. An invaluable guide, this is a limited edition, full-bound in tan leather with a Hughes-tied fly set on the limitation page. This is copy 17/20 and is signed by,the author. (1987). American Fly Tying Manual [13] is a beautifully illustrated "how to do it" book for serious fly fishers. Color plates of materials and flies enhance lucid writing. This is a limited edition with full brown boards under glassine, copy 119/500. Signed by the author. (1986). Deschutes (14) is about Oregon's dream stream-an inland river, tributary of the Columbia, that some say has been loved to death. Hughes writes of its multi-form topography, its flora and. fauna and of its grand trout and steelhead fishing. The color photography is most appealing with a cover photo by Bill McMillan. First edition, first printing. New, in dust jacket. Signed by the author. (1990). The Yellowstone River and Its Angling is a large format, full color illustrated tour byHughes of one of the West's premier trout rivers, telling of its geologic history, its flora and fauna; and of its spirited Yellowstone cutthroat trout and rainbows. Hughes offers advice about hatches, flies and where to fish. This book is typical of the new generation of publications for fly fishers. That is, it features as much first rate color photography as prose, is printed in Hong Kong on glossy paper and emphasizes "how to do it." This is a limited edition. copy 31/62, and features a leatherette cover. New, in dust jacket. Signed by the author. (1992). John Shewey lives in Bend, Oregon, and writes frequently about fly fishing the Northwest. His' style ranges from "how to do it" to interesting anecdotal quips. This type of writing and heavily illustrated presentation dominates today's fishing literature. Fly fishers are more interested now in practicalities, reflecting a considerable shift during the past dozen years in their literary tastes. In Northwest Fly Fishing-Trout and Beyond, Shewey explores fly fishing opportunities throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho with visits to saltwater for such unlikely game fish prospects as surfperch and striped bass, then inland for shad and then the regulars-trout, salmon and steelhead. Lots of practical advice, with many fly recipes. Striking photographs. New. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. Signed. (1992). 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 In Mastering the Spring Creeks [17], Shewey presents the technical aspects of spring creek . fishing and then visits the great spring creeks of Idaho, California, Oregon Washington and Montana. A spring creek, because it is spring-fed, tends to be pretty much the same temperature year round. So, it probably doesn't freeze over in the winter or become too warm for trout during summer. Great color photos. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. (1994). Shewey's Alpine Angler [18] is another beautifully illustrated large format book. lbis is of the high and difficult places to reach and of jewels that swim there-brook trout, cutthroats, golden trout and even grayling. The author's range is from Wyoming to Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. (1995). Bill Barnett was a Wenatchee gentleman fly fisher of the old school whose passion for fly fishing extended from the wildest British Columbia steelhead waters to the tiniest secret Montana rivulets. His wit and wisdom, together with the characters he cultivated, are gathered in Mostly Reel Memories, illustrated by Betty M. Bell. lbis good-humored man would never stoop to touch a "how to do it" book and, except in rare instances, would use nothing but a #14 Royal Wulff dry fly-come hail or snow! The display copy is ora limited edition with maroon leather. ette boards. The book jacket shows the view from Barnett's home overlooking the Wenatchee River. If one looks closely at the point jutting out into the river, Barnett can be seen just offshore casting his fly. 428/500. Signed by the author. (1993). John Gierach is among the most prolific and widely read of all American fly fishing writers. Beyond that, despite the advent some forty years ago of chest high waders and shortly thereafter of glass, graphite and boron fly rods, he still fishes in ratty old hip boots-but·with only the best of bamboo rods! He has mastered the ancient Japanese Gyotaku ~chnique for creating illustrations for his works and is an accomplished fly tier and bamboo rod maker-a fly fisher exttaordinaire. The display book, Standing in a River Waving a Stick. was illustrated by Glenn Wolff. Its stories range geographically from Colorado to British Columbia. Gierach speaks with humor and wisdom of places and people and fly patterns; and never takes himself too seriously. lbis copy is letterpress printed on Arches mould-made paper and is half bound in red Nigerian goatskin.'The book's boards are of muted red, blue and white marbled paper separated from the red leather by gold inlays. The marbled pattern is repeated on the endpapers. Uncut and housed in a red slipcase. lbis is a masterpiece of the book crafters art. Signed by the author and illustrator. Copy 19/25. (1999). A copy of the trade edition of this . work is also displayed. New, in dust jacket. Signed by the author. (1999). Special Collections has a deluxe limited edition of Gierach's Fishing Bamboo (5/55; 1997). Displayed here is an inexpensive, limited edition of that work. This copy has protective paper over its cover, which has a color picture by Glenn Wolff inset in its top quarter. The book is housed in a heavy cloth slipcase. Mint. First edition, first printing and limited to 1750 copies.. Signed by the author and illustrator. (1997). The novelist Tom McGuane is well known in the fly fishing world for books such as LiVe Water (1996) and The Longest Silence-A Life in Fishing (1999). On display is the advance uncorrected m:oof of his first novel, The Sporting Club. At publication, the work was compared favorably with that of the young Hemingway-though the sometimes Rabelaisian moods of McGuane's novel are not seen in early Hemingway. An oddity about the proof copy front page is that it reads 1969, while the inside cover reads, correctly, 1968, the year the book was actually published. The proof copy is pristine, housed in a hand-made drop spin case. lbis art-piece is a rare find and complements the Special Collections' first edition copy. Signed. (1968). The Ford Fly Fishing Collection in Special Collections has a copy of the deluxe limited edition of Tom McGuane's Live Water (6/67; 1996), illustrated by John Swan. Displayed here is a copy of the trade edition of 1500 copies, published the same year. In a slipcase and printed on Mohawk Superfine paper, this is a first edition, first printing. Note how Swan's painting is inset . into the book's cover. Signed by the author. (1996), -Introduction & Annotations by Paul Ford
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Title: The arts of fly fishing
Date: 2000-2009, 2005
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Text preview (might not show all results): ~ .... . . ..... , .' ~ .... ' . .\. . The J!\.rts I t of :fry :fisfiinB . • 2005/06 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly.Fishing Collection Special Collections WWUUbraries - 1 The American Fl
Show more~ .... . . ..... , .' ~ .... ' . .\. . The J!\.rts I t of :fry :fisfiinB . • 2005/06 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly.Fishing Collection Special Collections WWUUbraries - 1 The American Fly Fisher. Issued quarterly with some exceptions, Volumes 1 through 31-approximately 120 issues (we lack some Issues); first published in winter of 1974 as the official journal of the Museum of American Fly Fishing. The Museum, founded in 1967 and situated in Manchester, Vermont, was to collect and preserve the artifacts, art, and literature of American fly fishing from its origins through the present and into the future. The Museum has become repository for the world's largest collection of angling and angling-related objects-including items from abroad and dating from the sixteenth century. The journal is unique. For decades during the middle and late twentieth century American sportsmen read glossy-covered Field and Stream, Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. These magazines were filled with "how to do it" stories, true stories of "how I caught my big fish," some fiction and plenty of practical advice from the likes of "Gadabout" Gaddis and "Tap" Tapply. The Fly Fisherman, a magazine of high quality technical-type writing, appeared in the 1960's. Replete with gaudy rod, reel line and bait makers' ads, these magazines were the Wish-books of generations. Today, there must be several dozen "fishin' magazines. You can buy them· at most newsstands. But there is nothing like the journal. Its cover is simple, without glare. Its content is "a mixture of past and present, vintage remembrance and modern research." about America and abroad:' You will read a Mashpee Indian chiefs description of Daniel Webster's lecture to a large Cape Cod trout about its stupidity for falling to the good Senator's fly. You will begin, and perhaps not finish a research piece written about how many times a reference is made to fish or fishing in james joyce's Finnegan's Wake. You will find few ads. The journal is available only to Museum members. 2 Schullery, Paul. Royal Coachman. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1999. pp. 220. Art by Eldridge Hardy. New, dust jacket, signed. Schullery was executive director of the Museum of American Fly Fishing and has spent a lifetime in natural resources management, especially in the Yellowstone region. He is a prolific writer about American fly fishing history. Here he writes about the lesser known places and people of fly fishing and what it takes to be considered a "trout bum." About Bamboo fly Rods American fly fishers have had a longtime romance with the bamboo fly rod-its design, construction, fishing qualities and probably, most of all, with its beauty. Special Collections has john Gierach's book about the bamboo rod (Fishing Bamboo). Several other titles are now added. 3 Garrison, Everett, and Carmichael, Hoagy B. A Master's Guide to Building A Bamboo Fly Rod. Meadow Run Press, Far Hills, New jersey, 1999.. 8 Y2 by 10 ~ . Pp. 296. Sixth printing. New. Signed. This is book number 4 of a deluxe limited edition of 36. The book has endpapers made from bamboo and its boards are of green linen. A separate portfolio made from bamboo paper includes a letterpress printed essay about Carmichael's association with Garrison written and signed by Hoagy Carmichael. Another part of the portfolio contains a picture of Garrison with his wife and daughter; another photograph is of Carmichael at his workbench. Two letters written by Garrison 2 to his mother in 1918 are included. The book is housed in a tan and green linen dropspine case lined with bamboo paper. The device on the bookcase spine is a variation on the Mandarin symbol fot bamboo. Garrison, a genius rod designer and builder began his work in 1927, having become "unemployable" because of damage done to his central nervous system while undergoing training in the U;S. Army in 1916 and 1917. Young Carmichael became his'friend and student and completed work on this book. , . A Master's Guide to Building A Bamboo Fly Rod. Meadow Run Press, Stone Harbor, New Jersey, 1994. printing. New in Slipcase. 8~ by/l0~. 3a pp. 296. Third Meadow Run Press ______________, A Master's Guide to Building A Bamboo Fly Rod. Martha's Glen Pub- lishing Company, Katonah, New York, 1977. 8 1/2/ by 10 second printing. Fine. ' ~. pp. 296. First edition, , Spurr, Dick, and Jordon, Gloria.Wes Jordan, Pro(ileo( a Rodmaker. Centennial Publications, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1992. ,8 % by 11 %. pp.192. This is number 23 of a deluxe limited edition of 23. New. Signed. Leatherette,cover with gold lettering. Wes Jordan was born in 1894 and became a great rod designer and b¢lder whose career peaked when he became chief of rod making and vice-president of the fOrld famous Orvis Company of Manchester, Vermont. This book is filled with testimonials to Jordan's proficiency as a rod builder and fisherman. Mr; Jordan built a rod for Paul Ford in 1972 and it is displayed with, this Year's fly fishing exhibit. The book is an interesting and quick read. Marden, Luis. The Angler's Bamboo. Lyons & Burford, New York, 1997. Pp. 88. First edition, new in dust jacket. This is the story of Tonkin bamboo-a plant that grows in China's KwantungProvince and practically nowhere else. It is the history of how split bamboo fly rods came to be made of this plant. Nicely illustrated. Howell, Jack. The Lovely Reed. Pruett, Boulder, Colorado, 1998. pp.191. First edition, new in dust jacket. Signed. This is an enthusiast's guide to building bamboo fly rods. Most fly fishers today use graphite or possibly boron rods. Despite that fact, a small cottage industry of bamboo rod builders now thrives and is growing, despite the hefty cost of these handcrafted gems. 3b ' 4, 5 6 About the East Coast Bates, Joseph D, Jr., line drawings by Milton C Weiler. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing.The Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1966. Pp. 368. First edition in dust jacket. Fine. It is said that the advertising on the dust jacket's back board authenticates that this is a first edition' and first printing. Bates, an Easterner, traveled extensively, fishing both fresh and salt water. The book is filled with stories and techniques that depict a master of prose and practice. Leiser, Eric. The Denes A Catskill Legend. Willowkill Press, Fishkill, New York, 1992. Pp. 267. First edition, first printing, fine in a dust jacket. Signed. This is the trade edition of the deluxe limit~d edition already held in Special Collections. It is the story of an inventive and highly productive trio of Eastern fly tyers whose genius graced the 3 7 8 period from 1927 into the 1980's. The Dettes were known as "the first family of fly tyirig." 9 10 Francis, Austin. Catskill Rivers: Birthplace of American Fly Fishing. Winchester Press, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1983. pp. 258. Maps by John Manikowski. 8 ~ byIO ~. First edition, first printing in scuffed dust jacket. This is a beautifully written, easy to read history of land and water; men and fish; rods and flies. Large maps display fabled rivers and locations of fabled fishing clubs and camps. Great personages of our fishing history appear in these pages. Harvey, George and Shields, D. George Harvey - Memories, Patterns and Tactics. DLS Enterprises, Lemont, Pennsylvania. 1998. pp. 102. Limited edition, number 37 of 325. New. Fine in slipcase. This is a story of Pennsylvania's incomparable trout streams and a gentleman and scholar who was expert in inventing, tying and casting flies. It spans the period from 1917 through the 1990's and introduces some of the most famous trout streams and fly fishers the country has known. 11 Salmon, Richard. Trout Flies. Sportsman's Edge Press, New York, 1975. pp. 30. Introductionby Arnold Gingrich. 8 ~ by 10 ~. Number 353 of 529. Signed. New in slipcase. Richard "Dick" Salmon, a New York City businessman and fly fisher, created a book, all of which is printed in his scnpt, and Gingrich's introductifm reproduced in his own hand. The book is unusual and even extraordinary. Its contents tell about how various trout fly patterns are created-but the pages include tastefully pasted-in examples of each material used. The book is an art piece. 12 Zern, Ed. To Hell With Fishing. D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., New York and London, 1945. pp. 87. Cartoon~ by H.T. Webster. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. Fine. The author was a successful New York businessman.who traveled exten.., sively in pursuit of fish, and so it would seem, funny stories. He wrote 'these stories for the leading sportsmen's magazines of the mid-twentieth century. The cartoons that accompany the stories are, in themselves, reason enough to buy the book. The first chapter of this book is titled, "How to Dispose of pead Fish." 'Nuff said! 13 _____________. How To Catch Fishermen. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. New York,1951.pp. 118. Cartoons by the author. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. Fine. The Dedication reads: "According 'to the most reliable scientific information available, fish are on the lowermost rung of the intelligence ladder, being surpassed in stupidity only by garter snakes, cherrystone clams and stuffed owls. This book is respectively dedicated to those millions of Americans who spend a large portion of their leisure time in an effort to outsmart fish. " E.z. 14 _________-'- . Are Fishermen People? Harper & Brothers. New York, 1955. Pp. 119. illustrated by the author. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. Fine. More good humor! _____________. A Fine Kettle of Fish Stories. Winchester Press, New York, January 15 1973. pp. 122. illustrated by the author. First edition, second printing in dust jacket. Fine. Here are lots of funny stories, but with just a few illustrations. His casting arm must have gotten tired of making those pen scratches! 4 Words from the West Russell Chatham of Livingston, Montana, is a one-of-a-kind. I have watched him lure three steelhead to a dry fly in the course of twenty minutes on a Wenatchee River drift where even the most expert are lucky to take one fish on a dry. His writing has achieved national repute. And his painting-with its soft seductive yet modest rendering of the out-of-doors graces even the White House. His paintings, captured in a book titled Russell Chatham, One Hundred Paintings (1990), tells the story. Here are most of Russell. Chatham's books about the angling life: Chatham, Russell. Striped Bass on th.e Fly. San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, 1977. pp. 96. First edition, first printing. Paper. New. Chatham did his own simple artwork. This was Chatham's second published piece-done when he was a very young man-and while it shows his promise as a fly fisher and writer, it is a bit boring. Nevertheless, this title is difficult to find. 16 _____________. The Anglers Coast. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1976.pp. 158. illustrated by the author. Introduction by Thomas McGuane. First edition,first printing. Fine in dust jacket. This is of Chatham and Chinool\ salmon, in California and Oregon and his tutor and pal,·Bill Schaadt-who taught rom about deep sinking tips and lines-real deep! Occasionally a steelhead sneaks in. But there is a serious tone here, too. McGuane says, "Chatham knows everything has gone to hell just as well as you do." But don't let it get to you. "Take shots at bigger things, but keep your standards ...." 17 _____________. The Angler's Coast. Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana, 1990. Pp. 163. 8 ~ by 10 ~. Deluxe limited edition. This is number 16 of 26. Matching slipcase. New. Lots of photos and· new copy were added to the earlier edition. The author/ illustrator has included his separate 'pencil draWing of a striped bass and signed and numbered it 16/26; it is enclosed in a special onion skin wrapper. . _____-'- . Silent Seasons. E.P. Dutton, New York, 18 pp. 204. First edition, first printing in dust jacket. Fine. Chatham admires certain outdoor writers-many of whom happen. to be intellectual and/or social rebels. This anthology includes the writing of Tom McGuane, William Hjortsberg, Jack Curtis, Harmon Henkin, Charles Waterman, Jim Harrisoh and Chatham. 19 _____________. Dark Waters. Clark City Press, Livingston, Montana, 1988. pp. 205. First edition, paper. Fine. Front coVer isa painting by Chatham. A deluxe limited edition of this was published in 1991. This book is of Chatham's passions for fishing, hunting, wine, women,song and other seductions. In his foreword to the book, Nick Lyons says, "He likes privacy and companionship, stillness and camaraderie. Chatham is a 20 1978~ voluptuous pilgrim, reveling in his senses." Comment: I once asked Russell why he had stopped writing. He said that he couldn't afford to write-that he couldn't make enough money. Rather, he loved his painting and besides, paintings would pay the bills. s· 21 Chatham. Hugh and McClain, Dan. The Art ofthe CreeL Blue Heron Publications, Ennis, Montana, 1997. pp. 196. Signed. Photography by Gretchen Duykers. 10 % by 10/1/2. New in dust jacket. This is an absolutely beautiful book of photos and prose about the history of the creel. It is a must read for those interested in American creel making. The four books noted below are by the gifted and prolific John Gierach-a Coloradobased angler, fly tyer, artist, bamboo rod-builder and writer. 22 Gierach, John. Trout B.um. Pruett, Boulder, Colorado, 1986; pp. 227. Introduction by Gary Lafontaine. First edition, fourth printing, fine in dust jacket. A trout bum is an otherwise jntellig~nt person, who could be successful in many occupations, but who makes the comlnitment to give up all else to pursue fish; the trout bum is almost always a person of modest income. Trout Bum is an early Gierach book. The stories are fresh and' rich and Visit the "uncommQn in fly fishing. we 23 _____________. The View From Rat Lake. Pruett, Boulder. Colorado, 1988. pp.193. First edition, first printing, fine in dust jacket. The view from rat lake is really the author's view of life and specifically the fly fishing life. The Rockies frame much of this scene. The stories are of homespun fish and fishers. There is no pretension bere, just a lot of witty wisdom. • __-' 24 - __. Where The .Trout Are As' Long As Your Leg. Lyons and Burford, New York, 1991. pp. 84. First edition, first printing, new in dust jacket. "The secret places are the soul of fishing, say Gierach. Secret places are important to the fisher because they contain special fish and because the secret, in itself, is. so cherished. Oh, how fishers love their'secrets. Gierach provided the artwork, called Gyotaku, for this book. . This artwork is an ancient Japanese form in which prints' are created by inking a fish and pressiDg rice paper on it. The art presentation in this book is stunning. II _____________. Even Brook Trout Get the Blues. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992. 25 pp. 223. First edition, first printing new in dust jacket. Signed. illustrations by Glenn Wolff. Here are more entertaining stories about the fishing life-including Gierach's childhood experiences with pond fish and, of course, more of trout in the Rockies. ____________...;. Another Lousy DaY jn Ppradise. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996. 26 pp. 233. First edition, first printing, new in dust jacket,. signed. Gierach and his favorite bamboo rods travel in search of salmon and carp and grayling. His essay on solitude is fascinating in-as-much-as Gierach fishes mostly in the company of a friend or two. But, he remarks that even when fly fishing With others, one fishes alone; that statement is telling and true.' A Gem Writer-publisher Paul Schmookler and photographer Ingrid Sils produced at Millis, Massachusetts, three of the grandest pieces of prose and photography concerning rare and unusual fly tying materials (1994 and 1997) and forgotten flies (1999) ever to meet the eye. But the fly fishing world's early reception of these over-sized, scholarly, and elegantly illustrated books was at best, reserved." But, then, for whatever reasons 6 - ~. move collectors, individuals began to snap up these books. Now they are in great demand with enormously inflated prices. Special Collections has the three volumes and in new condition. But, for a while, the public seemed unaware that Schmookler and SUs had done an earlier book. This book now becomes the possession of Special Collections. Schmookler, Paul. (ed.), and SUs, Ingrid. The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traheme (1826-1901): Their Descriptions and Variations as Presented by George M. Kelson in The Fishing Gazette, Land and Water and· The Salmon Fly. The Complete Sportsman, Millis, Massachusetts, 1993. pp. 122. Special edition. Number 194 of 300. Quarter bound in tan calf with marbled boards and gold fore-edged pages. Matching tan linen slipcase. New. George M. Kelson was one of England's most renowned 19 th century Atlantic salmon fly fishers. His essays are about another great English salmon fisher, Traherne. Schmookler has edited Kelson's essays, tied flies to imitate those of Traheme to which Kelson alluded; and finally Sils has photographed the flies. The edited essays and flies comprise this book. 27 This book is included in a collection of Americana because Americans produced it and some of Traherne's flies are used for our Atlantic salmon and for steelhead. The book, largely ignored for years, now fetches a very significant price,:; though it is nearly impossible to find this gorgeous work of art. Two Pictures The water color of a fly fisherman and leaping trout in a gushing creek was done by . James Milton Sessions (1882-1962). Born in Rome, New York, he lived most of his adult life in Chicago. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago, he supplemented his meager art earnings with jobs as a wheelsman on Great Lakes ships. Much of his art was dedicated to out of door subjects. This American Museum of Fly Fishing poster celebrates the Museum's place in preserving America's fly fishing heritage. Created under the supervision of Joseph D. Bates, Jr., the poster depicts an Atlantic salmon fly. Bates wrote a score of books about fly fishing for trout and. salmon. His book, The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly, issued in trade, limited and deluxe limited editions (1987) is considered by many to be the crown jewel of modern writing about the Atlantic salmon. Annotations by Paul Ford J'isfiing, in my estimation, is not a Fio66y, adlversion, a pastime, a syort, an interest, a cfiaffenge, or an escaye....It is a necessary yassion. Russell Chatham, Dark Waters (20) Jisfierrnen are 60rn honest, 6ut tfiey get over it. Ed Zern, To Hell With Fishing (12) 7 28 . 29
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Title: American fly fishing literature: 2008 exhibit
Date: 2000-2009, 2008
Digital Collection: Special Collections Publications
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Text preview (might not show all results): American Fly Fishing Literature The Twentieth Century 2008 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections The Fly Fishing Collection Western Washington University Libraries
Show moreAmerican Fly Fishing Literature The Twentieth Century 2008 Exhibit Paul and Mary Ann Ford Fly Fishing Collection Special Collections The Fly Fishing Collection Western Washington University Libraries This year’s books are examples of story-telling, fishing art and fishing club histories that enlarge and enrich our understanding and appreciation of American fly fishing. Sometimes we find inventiveness unique to the American experience. But beware! We encounter, too, crafty, seemingly aloof and purist fly fishers who slip angleworms into their otherwise pristine vests—or worse yet, villains who bury lively bait-minnows in the recesses of their fern-lined creels! A Few Storytellers One of the most interesting characters in American fly fishing history never lived at all! His name was Dud Dean. His winter work was logging in Maine’s vast, mysterious and brutal Upper Kennebec region. During fishing season he was a fly fishing guide of wit, wisdom and of a philosophical bent and kindly mien who would set straight any wise guy, no matter the man’s wealth or station in life. Dud fished for blue-backed, gorgeously bespeckled Eastern brook trout known locally as “squaretails” and for landlocked salmon. Dud spoke in a vernacular peculiar to his people—people who had settled the region before 1700 and since had lived in relative isolation. Dud was a composite figure created from the experience and imagination of Congregationalist Pastor Arthur R. MacDougall, Jr., D.D., of Greenville, Maine. The Reverend Doctor lived close by the Kennebec River and fished frequently with Maine guides. Here is how he captured Dud’s vernacular as they tried to land a huge landlocked salmon: “It’s the best non-migratory salmon I ever saw,” I said. “I w’dn’t go that far,” drawled Dud, “but if I sh’ud happen to git him near to the boat, draw a pitcher of him, Mak, becuz I’m beginnin’ to be a little a-feared that we ain’t never goin’—Thar! What did I tell ye? By crotch a-mighty—!” Dud Dean stories began to appear in Field & Stream magazine in the late 1920s. MacDougall was greeted with praise by most readers. A few malcontents objected to Dud’s use of “crude” language. They did not understand, for example, that the word, “crotch,” could mean, “Oh darn,” or “wonderful,” or whatever—and most often served as the end punctuation for a sentence—a period! The Pastor was a great story-teller and, based on the numbers of stories he published, must have earned fine wages! Here are some of his books. 1 MACDOUGALL, JR., ARTHUR J. The Sun Stood Still and other Dud Dean Stories. Bingham, Maine. 1939. Pp. 179. First edition. #529/1400. Inscribed and signed. Condition: Fine. This book’s first chapter tells us about Dud’s 2 people, their heritage, their language and living in Maine’s vast wilderness. The other chapters are Dud Dean stories in which the author, known as Mak, and Dud pursue native brook trout and Maine’s famed landlocked salmon. There is some hunting, an odd character here and there and the sweet scent of whiskey and pipe tobacco. __________. If It Returns With Scars. Bingham, Maine. 1942. Pp. 240. First edition. 207/750. Inscribed and signed. Condition: Fine. Introduction by Bliss Perry. (Harvard Professor of English Literature and author of the classic Fishing With A Worm.) Illustrated by Stanley W. Greene. Green inked imprint of a fish rising to a fly on the book’s linen cover. While guiding the Kennebec for Mak, Dud renews acquaintances with a lovely lady. Too, we hear about catching salmon with a live mouse and worse yet a worm—not just the dry and wet fly! __________. Dud Dean and His Country. Coward-McCann, Inc. New York. 1946. Pp. 171. First edition. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler. Signed by George Grant. Condition: Fine. The same introductory essay also appears in The Sun Stood Still. We learn that in addition to the Eastern brook trout and land locked salmon, Dud and Mak pursue the lake trout, called a “togue” in Moosehead Lake. Lots of fun here with the likes of “The Man from Athens”” and “Crazy Stiller.” __________. Dud Dean and His Country. This is the deluxe limited edition. 244/450. Signed. Condition: Fine. Frontispiece is a river fishing scene by Weiler. Cover is quarter bound in red linen and the boards are light gray linen. Gold fish imprint on the cover. It appears that the same “block” was used for the internals of this book as that used in the trade edition. __________. Under A Willow Tree. Coward-McCann, Inc. New York. 1946. Pp. 200. First edition. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler. Very fine in fine dust jacket. Women fly fishers enter these Dud Dean stories. Their appearance broadens scope of Dud Dean’s adventures—not always to his pleasure! __________. Where Flows the Kennebec. Coward-McCann, Inc., New York. 1947. Pp. 180. First edition. Illustrated by Milton C. Weiler. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. More Dud Dean adventures filled with humor and that undercurrent of seriousness that causes us to ponder this guide-philosopher’s Yankee wisdom. __________. The Trout Fisherman’s Bedside Book. Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1964. Pp. 224. (First U.S. edition was published by Simon and Schuster in 1963.) Illustrated by John Pimlot. Condition: Fine in good dust jacket. These short stories, each of which includes “how to do it” elements of fishing or hunting, do not include Dud Dean. We find an overt seriousness not 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 seen in the Dud Dean stories. 8 9 WILLIAMS, BEN AMES. The Happy End. The Derrydale Press. New York. 1939. Pp. 240. Foreword by Kenneth Roberts; illustrated by Churchill Ettinger. 506/1250. Conditon: Fine. Gold print on green leather patch on spine. Quarter bound in heavy gray linen with green fabric boards. In clear acetate. This volume was produced during the legendary Derrydale Press’s greatest days. Its author was born into wealth, educated in private school and at Dartmouth College, and was immensely successful in his career in nonfiction and fiction writing. He was an avid fly fisher and gunner. This book is famous for its Atlantic salmon fishing fiction piece called, “The Fog Blew Over the Mountain.” The book is considered a classic in Americana sports fiction writing. __________. The Happy End. The “new” Derrydale Press. Lyon, Mississippi. 1991. Pp. 240. Facsimile edition. Condition: New. Bound in blue leather with gold imprinted title on the spine, gold imprinted angler on the cover and giltedged pages. Endpapers are of peacock hued designs. Fonts and page designs used in the facsimile production are exactly the same as those in the original (see above). A beautiful production. Corey Ford invented the “Lower Forty Shooting, Angling and Inside Straight Club.” He wrote numerous short stories, constructed as the club’s meeting minutes, and published them in Field & Stream magazine. The club’s characters, who lived in the mythical town of Hardscrabble (New Hampshire) are irresponsible, irrepressible reprobates who abandon their familial and occupational obligations for field, stream and cards. They are, to the man, unadulterated liars, who punctuate hilarious utterances with slugs of “Old Stump Blower” from Uncle Perk’s jug kept handy at their meeting place, Uncle Perk’s store. Most trout and salmon are safe from their misplaced casts—and so, too, grouse and woodcock from their errant shotgun aim. Born in Manhattan in 1902, Corey Ford was educated at Columbia University and was an immensely successful Hollywood screenwriter and one of America’s most popular humorists. His “Road to Tinkhamtown” is regarded by many as one of the finest sporting short stories ever written. He lived the life of a country squire in Hanover, New Hampshire and patterned the Lower Forty’s characters after his sporting cronies. Here are four books that evoke laughter and nostalgia. 10 FORD, COREY. You Can Always Tell a Fisherman But You Can’t Tell Him Much. Henry Holt and Company. New York. 1958. Pp. 159. Illustrated by Walter Dower. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. The Lower Forty Shooting, Angling and Inside Straight Club’s disorganized members are trying to concoct their Constitution, figure out whether or not they will ever take in new members, learn to catch a horn pout and outwit the Widow Libbey 4 who they suspect may kick them off their favorite woodcock cover. They debate weighty issues--such as “going on the wagon.” __________. Minutes of the Lower Forty. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York. 1962. Pp. 159. First edition. Illustrated by Walter Dower. Fine in fine dust jacket. Mr. MacNab’s hearse has disappeared. Stolen? Borrowed? Who knows? This is no ordinary hearse—for it has been especially tricked out as a fishing vehicle. Too, we learn that the club’s Constitution has been completed and contains just three “Artickles”. To wit: “No Rules.” “Everybody’s President.” “If ennybody else wants to join this club go ahead, but don’t bother us about it. We’ve went fishing.” __________. Uncle Perk’s Jug. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York 1964. Pp. 150. First edition. Illustrated by Walter Dower. Condition: Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The “juice” flows in this one as Deacon Godfrey sues the club for defamation of character—with opening arguments in the suit held on opening day of trout fishing season. We hear of a flying fish house and more about the words, “You can’t get there from here.” The self-righteous Deacon Godfrey, villain of Hardscrabble, is nabbed stealing trees. Uncle Perk’s Jug never seems to run dry. __________. Ed. by Laurie Morrow. Trout Tales and Other Angling Stories. Wilderness Adventures Press. Bozeman, Montana. 1995. Pp. 185. Inscribed and signed by the editor. Condition: New in new dust jacket. “Men Are Fish” or “How to Live with A Fisherman” are among these entertaining stories. But more important, Morrow’s few comments on Ford’s personal life are enlightening. He lived alone, but with a gun dog or two at his feet, a pipe close at hand and the finest of spirits in his liquor cabinet. His housekeeper managed his brick colonial home on the edge of the Dartmouth College campus. He was mentor and friend to Dartmouth students. A cosmopolite—he traveled the worlds of Manhattan and Hollywood and Chile and back to Hardscrabble. Yet, he had no funeral and his forgotten gravesite was discovered by the editor years after his death. As Corey might have asked with that grin and uplifted brow of his, “Was he what he was?” LAMB, DANA S. On Trout Streams and Salmon Rivers. Barre Publishers. Barre, Massachusetts. 1963. Pp. 97. First edition of fifteen hundred copies. Condition: Fine. Green cloth boards with a gold fly imprinted cover and spine titled in gold. In glassine cover. Born in 1900, Lamb studied European literature at Dartmouth and Princeton and became a very successful New York City investment broker as well as President of the Anglers’ Club of New York. He was especially fond of Canadian Atlantic salmon fishing, but loved his New England trout and grouse, too. The money he earned from his many books went to conservation groups. The language of his books is lyric, the chapters brief, the experience and wisdom compelling. This was his first book. 5 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 __________. On Trout Streams and Salmon Rivers. Biographical introduction by Faith, Lawton and Gordon Lamb. Meadow Run Press, Far Hills, New Jersey. 1996. Pp. 97. Edition of 1500. Added artwork by Gordon Allen. New. Reprint of the 1963 edition, using the same copper plates. Elegant art on slipcase. __________. Bright Salmon and Brown Trout. Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts. 1964. Pp. 111. Limited first edition. 58/350. Signed. Condition: Very fine in fine slipcase. Tan board slipcase has landing net imprinted in gold on its face. Book is quarter-bound in brown leather with tan boards and imprinted landing net. Heavy endpapers are decorated with fly images. Lamb loved the dry fly and those browns and salmon he might lure with it. Too, he loved campfire smoke and camp life as well as the companionship of good guides and polite fishing company in the Northeast’s fishing and hunting haunts. Lamb wrote in another place, “The fishing is only part of it.” __________. Bright Salmon and Brown Trout. Meadow Run Press, Far Hills, New Jersey. 1996. Pp. 111. Edition of 1500. Added artwork by Gordon Allen. Condition: New in new slipcase. Reprint of the 1963 edition. using the same copper plates. Elegant art on slipcase. LYONS, NICK. The Seasonable Angler: Journeys through a Fisherman’s Year. Funk & Wagnalls, New York. 1970. Pp. 177. First edition, first printing. Condition: Very fine in new dust jacket. Nick Lyons is the dean of America’s living fishing writers. A Columbia University Professor of English, Lyons not only has written brilliantly about fly fishing, but he has been an editor, and publisher-underwriter of what became America’s “golden age” of fly fishing publishing from about 1980-2000. This book ranges from very funny opening days to deeper contemplative moments in the life of a guy who was born with a “stick” in his “paw.” Great storytelling. __________. Fishing Widows. Crown Publishers, Inc. New York. 1974. Pp. 154. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The question Nick poses is whether addiction to fly fishing is comparable in some way to adultery? Read the book and learn how various personalities deal with an imminent threat to their moral integrity! A. RUSTY RAT. Summer’s Salmon. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, New Jersey. 1997. Pp. 70. First edition. Edition of 1500. Condition: New in new slipcase. Blue paper slipcase with a John Swan painting of “Summer” on its face. The book is quarter bound in burgundy linen with buckram boards and gold title on its spine. This somewhat erotic spoof about a gorgeous young woman’s impact on an Atlantic salmon fishing camp roused a few “hackles” within the elitist crowd. Rusty Rat is a well-known Atlantic salmon fly. So who wrote the book? 6 Artist-Fly Fishers Winslow Homer, proper Bostonian, artist-laureate of American fly fishing during the late 19th and early 20th century, was precursor to an illustrious group of artist-fly fishers who captured the sport with pencil, pen and ink, water-color, oil and acrylic in the 20th century. His art takes us cross-stream from one century to the next, though there was precious little fly fishing art before his time. His work ranges from a quality of stark detail to one of illusiveness. He loved fly fishing and he caught its fullness especially in watercolor over graphite on paper and oil on canvas. William J. Schaldach, a Midwest transplant to New York City and Vermont and eventually to Tubac, Arizona, was born in 1896. Though he studied art formally, he was his own genius, mastering oil painting, water color, dry point, aquatint on copper plate, pen and ink and pencil. He wrote beautifully of fly fishing and hunting—his two beloved sports. He was editor at New Yorkbased Forest & Stream magazine until it became Field & Stream where he was fishing editor. But Bill Schaldach’s heart was in his art and writing and he lived long and highly productive years in Tubac, where we have walked his footsteps so often. His art graces museums such as the “Met,” libraries, and universities and our Library of Congress. Schladach was a master fly fisher, hunter, writer and artist. His only American peer as artist-writer-sportsman was Roland Clark. Peter Stockton Corbin was born in 1945 in New Jersey, a son of wealth who attended private schools where his instinctive interests in creating sculpture and in painting were nurtured. Corbin is a master of acrylic on canvas and oil on canvas, watercolor and pencil. He has illustrated fishing classics such as Reiger’s The Silver King and The Bonefish. But his reputation has grown so that now most of his works sell as individual pieces. Critics say that there is a universality caught in the subtly of his work. That is, the viewer almost never sees a full human face in his paintings or drawings. Rather these features are subsumed in universality of setting. JUNKER, PATRICIA, WITH SARAH BURNS. Winslow Homer: Artist and Angler. Thames & Hudson. New York. 2002. Pp. 238. First edition. Condition: New in new dust jacket. Much of this publication is based on exhibitions by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Adirondacks, Florida and Quebec were Homer’s favorite locales. No written words can do justice to the wonders reprinted in this book. It is enough to say, “Look through it. Read the wellwrought chapters written by fine scholars. Appreciate America’s first major fly fishing artist.” 7 21 22 23 24 25 26 SCHALDACH, WILLIAM J. Fish: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Water Colors of Trout, Salmon and Other Game Fish. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1937. Unnumbered pages. 1471/1560. First printing. Oversized. Condition: Fine. Leaping trout impressed in gold on book’s board cover. Schaldach’s introduction explains how he creates drypoints and etchings and comments on water color and other techniques he used to create this book’s wonderful fish. The book’s main body has just a bit of prose explanation-otherwise, just fish! __________. Coverts and Casts. A.S. Barnes and Company, Inc. New York. 1943. Pp. 138. First Printing. Oversized. Condition: Fine in chipped dust jacket. Here are eight autobiographical essays about fishing and hunting by one of America’s best known writers of that day. Much of the art is in black and white. Be sure to see color plate, “Brook Trout Feeding.” (p. 91). __________. Coverts and Casts. 1943. Author’s Autograph Edition 77/160. Condition: Fine. Quarter bound in dark tan fabric with light tan hard-board covers. __________. Currents and Eddies: Chips from the Log of an Artist-Angler. A.S. Barnes and Company. New York. 1944. Pp. 138. First printing. Oversized. Condition: Fine. Maroon boards with rising trout imprinted in black on cover. “Stream fishing is a most satisfying and comforting occupation, a never-ending source of joy to those who follow it with the right spirit. It stirs the imagination and keeps alive the feeling of wonderment, without which life means little. It leads to reverence and respect.” With that, the author introduces eight stories about his fishing and hunting life. See the color plate “Brownie Somersaulting.”(p. 51). DAVIS, TOM. Peter Corbin: An Artist’s Creel. Hudson Hills Press. New York and Manchester. 2005. Pp. 195. First edition. Oversized. Signed by Davis. Condition: New in new dust jacket. This is a large collection of Corbin’s fishing and hunting paintings as well as some other subjects. Corbin says that his fishing and hunting paintings are divided into three scenes. The first is called anticipation—casting to a tailing permit or rising trout. The second is the moment—the tarpon’s gill-rattling leap. The third is reflection—the mellow, contemplative afterglow when images, sensations and emotions coalesce into living memories. (p. 19.) How do we talk about such art? Perhaps it is best just to look and consider Corbin’s three scenes. Clubs Special Collections now holds the oldest of American fishing club histories— that published in 1830 of the Schuylkill Fishing Company. This year we add 8 four other volumes—all written in the 20th century. These present us with a paradox. Often the wealthy men of high social status who founded the clubs to preserve and protect streams, ponds and woodlands they purchased to be pristine refuges for wildlife available only to them, were the same people whose manufacturing mills dumped toxins into their hometown waters. Mills—-sawdust mills, mills that refined ores, leather and textiles—polluted rivers and ponds wherever those mills were operated. The problem spread throughout the northeast—and so did the clubs. Membership tended to depend on “social “status, which most often was a function of inherited wealth. To be wealthy was not enough. Old wealth—that provided the privilege of “legacy”. BELL, RICHARD G. WHOOPS: For the Wind! Tantivity Press. North Haven, Connecticut. 1999. Pp. 129. Paper. Signed. First edition. Four hundred unnumbered copies. Condition: New in new dust jacket. Brook trout in color imprinted on tan cover. This history of the Walton Fishing Club of Cornwall Bridge in Connecticut’s southern Berkshires, and abreast the fabled Housatanic River reaches back into the early 19th century. It resounds with chuckles, good fish tales, good booze and good times. Its humor is quite different from other club histories. 27 Three hundred years ago iron ore was discovered in this region. Local economies were based in iron ore reduction. Towns prospered. Some streams were contaminated and died—others were not touched. (See George Black’s The Trout Pool Paradox (2004)) for a stunning report on how industry-based contamination impacted waters close by the club’s front porch. The club and its waters live on. AUSTIN, REED. The Old and Dear Tihonet Club. Rip Cunningham. 1997. Pp. 113. First edition. Inscribed by the publisher to Paul Ford. Condition: New. Gold title imprinted on Harvard crimson leatherette. This club was founded by wealthy Boston area anglers in 1891 near Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts near the head of Cape Cod. It leased or owned brooks and small ponds that served the area’s cranberry bogs. Its first home was near the Tihonet Iron Works and leased from the Tremont Nail Company. By 1828 the Tihonet Iron works had become one of the largest and best rolling mills in the country—the land’s plentiful bog iron ore was smelted to steel—and, of course, stream pollution occurred. But the club’s water lay above contamination points. Club membership tended to be passed, by legacy, from father to son. Presidents and diplomats were among guests invited to fish. The anglers arrived from Boston by train and were given lavish service by staff. As years passed men invited family to partake of the club’s facilities. To this day, the club has maintained a socially elite status. But the record shows that some of these Boston elitists stooped to using 9 28 herring roe, lures and the forbidden worm—and worse yet, live-bait such as minnows. Alas, even the elite were (are!) fallible. Parker Perry, Tihonet’s longtime Secretary-Treasurer, often declared, “Ours is a club of gentlemen first, and fisherman second.” (p. 95). But Sparse Gray Hackle would respond, “ No gentleman fishes with bait; nothing but the dry fly.” Woe to the unwary Tihonet brook trout or brown! The club’s history is reflected in personalized essays by club members— certainly not a formal history—but fine reading. Original art and club photos. 29 30 KNADE, JR., OSCAR, JOHN A. BONYA, DONALD S. MILLER. The History and Highlights of the Spruce Creek Rod and Gun Club, 1904 to 2003. Published for the club by Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, New Jersey. 2004. Pp. 216. First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Allen. 288/300. Numbered and signed. Ornate slipcase. Condition: New. The club was founded in Pennsylvania’s rich limestone creek Spruce Creek Valley region by men of social position and wealth. They purchased and leased waters they believed should be protected. “They recognized that private control of Spruce Creek would allow for better protection of and improvements to the stream.” (p. xiv). The club stocked brook trout and browns. As late as 1990 certain members of the club were observed using worms. A battle royal ensued with no resolution reached. This is a professionally written and illustrated fishing and social history and is not available in the national marketplace. SCHWIEBERT, ERNEST. The Henryville Flyfishers. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, New Jersey, 1998. Pp. 206. 750 copies. Illustrated by Taylor Kane. Marvelous Kane art on the slipcase. Condition: New, signed in slipcase,. It appears that this was Schwiebert’s last book before his death in 2005. The book is practically impossible to find in the national marketplace. This lyric history takes us to the Brodhead River located only eighty miles north of Philadelphia and to the mid-19th century when Henryville House served as one of America’s first fishing hotels. Fishing celebrities from Bethune to LaBranche to Hewitt to “Sparse” and Lamb fished the river. To protect its waters and their sources, well-heeled fly fishers formed an association and began the purchase and lease of prized waters. This is a brilliant wide-ranging historical essay. A Bibliography 31 THACHER, CHARLES. Angling Books: A Guide for Collectors. Meadow Run Press. Far Hills, New Jersey. 2006. Pp. 600. (2006). Edition of 600. First edition. New in new gray slipcase with a salmon fly, “The Major,” on its face-board. Quarter bound in red leather with gray fabric boards. Frontispiece is a photograph of the title page of A Booke of Angling by 10 Samuel Gardiner (1606). This is an annotated bibliography of 15,000 collectible angling books sold during the period from 1998 to 2006. The book is of enormous value to collectors and libraries. No comparable bibliography has been published in this country. (Note that this title was presented to Special Collections on April 9, 2007 for inclusion in the 2008 year donation.) All annotations by Paul Ford who found these sources useful in assembling the Americana Twentieth Century Fly Fishing book display. • • Black. George. The Trout Pool Paradox. (2004). Paul and Mary Ann FordFly Fishing Collection QH105.C8B57 2004 Thacher, Charles. Angling Books: A Guide for Collectors (2006). 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