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John Gierach's newest book, NO SHORTAGE OF GOOD DAYS is being published in America at the end of May 2011.
I hope to have copies signed by the author and flown over in time to have them on sale at the BFFI on 18th June.
Hardback. £19.95

FOOL'S PARADISE by John Gierach

Gierach's most recent collection of angling wisdom and humour. Lots of fishing as the author seeks out new waters and tries trout fishing in the winter. Also includes a sprinkling of deer and elk shooting. Bull trout, steelhead, pike and muskie, in Gierach's home territory as well as British Columbia, Labrador, Nebraska, Oregon and elsewhere. Hardback edition.

Previous Price £19.95 - Now £7.95

SEX, DEATH & FLY-FISHING
"Gierach's quest takes us from his quiet home water to Yellowstone River; from Utah's famous Green River to unknown creeks... Paperback.
Was £9.95 Now £4.95

STILL LIFE WITH BROOK TROUT
Paperback edition of this cracking collection of essays by America's finest fishing writer. Pbk.
Was £9.95 Now £5.95

THREE GREAT BARGAINS FOR CARP ANGLERS

Cassien.... And Beyond. By Steve Briggs.

This book is not just about Cassien, it is a virtual travel guide to some of the world's best known carp lakes, and Steve's successes and failures whilst fishing them. From the wild, untapped wildernesses of Lake Raduta, Rainbow Lake and the South African lakes, to the Colne Valley.

Light My Fire. By Ian “Chilly” Chillcott.

Autobiographical account of many years of carp fishing, with an unusual emphasis on the co-operative aspects of the pursuit. As much about the carp angling tribe as about the fish.

A technical book on carp fishing which also makes "sure that the basics are fully covered. ...Rods, reels, line, luggage, shelters ...landing nets, unhooking maps, leaders, leads, lead attachments, hooklines and hooks etc.

Digging The Dirt: Volume 1, by Johnny Bluck

This is the first book in a series of three, compiled and edited by Johnny Bluck. Johnny Bluck interviews thirteen contemporary terriermen, and women. Edition limited to 1,500 signed, numbered copies. Contains a DVD.

Price : £37.50

Earth Dogs & Running Dogs, by Colin Didriksen

This book contains much advice on terrier and lurcher breeding which is carried along by a bold narrative of the author's experiences in the field.  �It will probably become a classic." writes David Harcombe.

Price : £29.95

An Obsession: The Nick Stevens Story, by Nick Stevens.

A new book, edited by Jonathan Darcy, in which hunt servant and professional terrierman Nick Stevens chronicles his career from the end of the seventies up to the imposition of the hunting ban.

Price : £26.50

The Works Of Ronald Stevens: Four volumes.

These new editions of Observations on Modern Falconry, The Taming of Genghis, Laggard and A Life with Birds are available separately from Coch-y-Bonddu Books at £25.00 each.

This Special Offer: All four of these Ronald Stevens books are now available as a set for only £75.00

BOSS & CO.: BEST GUNMAKERS. The Definitive History.
Authorised by Boss & Co. By Donald Dallas

"Brand new edition ...brings the history of the firm right up to date". Eighty pages longer than the first edition, with over 100 extra photographs. New appendices give, for example, serial numbers up to the present day and names of engravers matched to each gun.

Was £50.00  Now only £20.00

THE BRITISH SPORTING GUN AND RIFLE: Pursuit of Perfection. 1850-1900
By Donald Dallas

"The period 1850 to 1900 witnessed the most far reaching changes sporting gun and rifle design had ever experienced. Prior to this, changes had been pedestrian and the muzzle-loader still ruled the day in 1850 as it had done for previous centuries. In this major work the author details the many changes that occurred.

Was £60.00  Now only £25.00

Emrys Evans, Manod, was a well-known North Wales fisherman and a keen historian of Welsh angling. He formed a collection of 133 fly patterns used in the multitude of hill lakes in the area of Blaenau Ffestiniog, together with extensive manuscript notes.

SEE CLEVE ON TV NOW -http://www.fieldsportschannel.tv/index.php

Growing up in the East End of London, Cleve Edmonston might have been drawn to the bright lights of the city. Instead, he followed the instincts that led him to a secret world; a world where wildfowl and wood-pigeons flighted to and fro on the great London reservoirs... Following in the tradition of countryside writing set by The King Of The Norfolk Poachers, Cleve tells us, in his own words, his Tales Of A London Poacher.

There are memoirs of pigeon shooting and fishing, of netting rabbits with “Hardman V.J.” (Vinny Jones) and of his night time experiences with badgers, foxes and deer; of owls, falcons...and not forgetting rats the size of cats!

FOWLER'S MOON. by Nigel Thornycroft

A delightful and nostalgic book on east coast wildfowling, written (and smuggled out) by Nigel Thornycroft while in a P.O.W. camp, using an illegal pencil and scraps of toilet paper. 'Fowlers Moon' was originally published in 1955, and is now scarce and highly collectable.

Price - GBP 19.95                        Available now!

NIGEL & CORONA - A STORY OF ADVENTURE, SPORT, WILDERNESS & WAR FROM ENGLAND TO AFRICA. By David Thornycroft.

A family biography, recording the lives of Nigel and Corona Thornycroft, both of whom were born into privileged English backgrounds but gave this up to pioneer a tobacco and game farm under eccentric conditions in Rhodesia.

It includes 70 wildlife sketches from Corona's game book and 60 black and white photographs.

Price -  GBP 19.95                        Publication date 1st November 2010

Both volumes can be ordered together, in a slipcase, and with a bookplate signed by the authors, at a special price of GBP 36.00. Limited to 100 sets only.
Both volumes will also be available in a leather quarter-bound hardback Collector's Edition.
Combined editions available from 1st November 2010.

The Mitchell Classic 300 Spinning Reel. 1939-1898.

By Wallace Carney.

70th Anniversary 1939-2009. Special European Edition.

Signed by the Author.

"In this exhaustive study of the famous Mitchell 300 spinning reel, noted fishing historian Wallace Carney has detailed the origins and development of the most popular spinning reel in history. This book includes numerous detailed full color photographs.

It also includes an analysis of various boxes, super rare, presentation and one of a kind reels that have never been published...."

Game Season by Humphreys, Humphreys & McPhail

"An irresistible combination of the work of three of the most renowned contributors to countryside art, literature and cuisine". Readable pieces by John Humphreys on grouse, pheasant, partridge, wildfowl, pigeon, rabbit, hare, venison, trout and salmon, "delicious and stimulating recipes" by Angela Humphreys, illustrated by paintings by Rodger McPhail.

A really interesting and beautifully illustrated book at a great price.  We recommend as the perfect gift for any country man or woman.

Was £30.00  NOW £9.95

Pheasant Shooting by David Hudson

"Comprehensive guide ...from the formal driven shoot to the simplest of rough shoots. ...Practical advice on ...guns and ammunition, clothing, gundogs and the different types of shoot".

Was £19.95  NOW £4.95

This book looks at the development of grouse shooting and the natural history of the grouse, moorland management and the work of the grouse keeper as well as looking in depth at the three methods of grouse shooting - walked up, driven and shooting over dogs".

Was £19.95  NOW £7.95

Was £19.95  NOW £7.95

"Over the past five years country sports journalist Ian Valentine has reported on a wide range of seasonal pursuits for Shooting Times, witnessing the fifty-two activities covered here almost always for the first time. His journey has taken him to the most beautiful parts of the British Isles and beyond.

THE RABBIT SKIN CAP: A TALE OF A NORFOLK COUNTRYMAN'S YOUTH. WRITTEN IN HIS OLD AGE BY GEORGE BALDRY

The Rabbit Skin Cap tells the story of George Baldry, a resourceful and practical countryman, a shoemaker and a poacher. It is a fascinating account of old Norfolk, its extraordinary characters and how they survived the deprivations of the nineteenth century East Anglian countryside. A classic of the English countryside.

Price 19.95

I WALKED BY NIGHT: BEING THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE KING OF THE NORFOLK POACHERS. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Fred Rolfe was the 'King of the Norfolk Poachers.' From the time when, as a child, he went to prison and the tread-mill for snaring a rabbit, he lived "against the law."  He wrote I Walked by Night in old age, recording the lives of many tough, fascinating characters struggling to survive in an era of rural hardship.

Price 19.95

Hatches is Here:
"Hatches is an annual publication with a strong devotion to professional writing, beautiful photography and informative articles pertaining to both the artistic and practical aspects of fly tying."

HATCHES: PRACTICAL & ARTISTIC FLY TYING.
Premier issue. 2007 Issue 1.

This is an annual magazine specialising in flies and fly-tying, both
practical and artistic. Subjects covered include dubbing, married wings, pike flies, deer hair, hoppers, the flies of Charles and Mary Orvis, crayfish patterns, panfish patterns, dry flies and streamers.
Many well known contributors along with full colour photographs.

£4.95

HATCHES: PRACTICAL & ARTISTIC FLY TYING.
Fall 2008. Issue 2.

Subjects covered include fishing the Great Lakes, dry fly wings, mastering the overhand weave, articulated baitfish, monster streamers, the royal coachman, the Roshambo, thematic flies, barbless hooks, some Fly tyer of the Year entries, Lofsdalen caddis pupa, gar fish, interview with Jason Borger.
Many well known contributors along with full colour photographs.

£4.95

HATCHES: PRACTICAL & ARTISTIC FLY TYING.
Fall 2009. Issue 3.

This is an annual magazine specialising in flies and fly-tying, both
practical and artistic. Subjects covered include, tying emergers, goby imitations for the Great Lakes, tying the Dr. Rockbottom, modern flies for  steelhead, advanced techniques for deer hair, freehand tying, crayfish imitations, water boatman imitations, tying the esoxulator, the history of Smoky Mountain trout flies.
Many well known contributors along with full colour photographs.

£4.95

HATCHES MAGAZINE: ISSUES 1, 2 & 3.

Buy the set of all three 1st issues of this exciting fly tying magazine at the special introductory price of :

£12.95

  Memoirs Of A Hunter: Experiences In Finland And Russia
1904 - 1930
Fredrich Remmler.

Translated By Ingmar Remmler Editor Martin Hollinshead 

Remmler pursues wolves with borzois as a guest of the Neratovs, runs down lynx, bears & more wolves with famous Finnish huntsmen, hunts seals on ice floes with commercial sealers where he is swept off in an ice storm, surviving only by luck. He buys eagles at Russia's greatest eagle market, and makes innumerable observations on the society around him. After WWI Remmler moved to Sweden where he ran a business collecting wild animals live for zoos & collections around the world, pioneering the safe trapping of elk. This is a fascinating and unique account of a life divided between middle class St. Petersburg, the Russian aristocracy & the vast multinational peasantry.

£25.00

One of the first angling books to illustrate the materials required for fly patterns using colour photographs, this is an indispensable book giving detailed instruction on tying traditional North Country wet flies and remains invaluable to the practical fly-tyer.  The scarce first edition of this important book was privately published by the authors in 1916.

With detailed instructions, colour photographs and colour chart of the full range of Pearsall’s “Gossamer” silks which is an essential reference to those hunting original Gossamers or finding alternative silks, this should be on the bookshelf of any discerning fly-tyer.  With a new introduction by Oliver Edwards.

Rural Reflections

by Stuart Haddon-Riddoch

A comprehensive guide to the history of trapmakers and traps. Fully illustrated and a much revised 2nd edition.

Reduced from £40.00 to £20.00

Dyeing and Bleaching Natural fly-Tying Material

by A. K. Best

2004 2nd ed reprint, revised to include "over a decade of new tips, techniques, and refinement". Indispensible for any flytyer keen to prepare his own materials.

Reduced from £19.95 to £9.95

A Guide to Salmon Flies

by John Buckland and Arthur Oglesby

"With almost 400 salmon flies from the major countries where salmon are found [this] is a most comprehensive source book. The dressing for each fly is given in detail with information on its use, its history or its design, with an accompanying colour photograph."

Reduced from £25.00 to £9.95

Casting with Lefty Kreh

by Lefty Kreh

"Learn how to cast from a master. Over 40 casts covered in step-by-step detail with full colour photographs."

Reduced from £30.00 to £9.95

Breaking Through
By Johnny Bluck

A large and well-illustrated account of the author's career in terrier work with much useful advice.

£35 In stock now

Scooby
By Jonathan Darcy

Darcy's lates book recounting his adventures with his saluki cross, Scooby. Fallow, roe, munjac and Chinese water deer, fox, rabbit and mountain hares are pursued. One chapter describes coursing feral goats - claimed by the author as a first in the field.

£25 In stock now

Worse Country Mischief
by Colin Didriksen

The second book in the Country Mischief series, Didriksen continues in his uncompromising style with more stories of country life involving lurchers, terriers, foxes and leopards and the larger than life characters that make his writing come alive. Both hilarious and brutal, Didriksen writes with a passion about country living and the people and creatures who live it.

£25 In stock now

Sky Hunters: The Passion of Falconry

By Hossein Amirsadeghi

An exhaustive history of this magnificent sport, with hundreds of excellent illustrations, most of which will be unfamiliar to the widely-read falconer. The wide-ranging text covers falconry from its beginnings and takes in practically every country where it has ever been practiced. Much space is also given to the sport's colourful characters. Arabian, Persian and Mongolian falconry are of course covered, as well as Germany, the Czech lands, Austria, France, much on the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal, modern North America and elsewhere. The main text is by Hossein Amirsadeghi, with additional essays by Sir Mark Allen, Roger Upton, Patrick Morel, Sir Terence Clark and S. Kent Carnie. A stunning book that covers the history and pursuit of "the sport of Kings", from it's beginnings in Central Asia to its present revival. To be enjoyed by both falconry enthusiasts and those interested in the subjects surrounding the sport such as history, nature, hunting, art, and human drama to name a few.

£45.00 In stock now.