WANDERING FISHERMAN. By V. Fox-Strangways.

WANDERING FISHERMAN. By V. Fox-Strangways.

FISHING THE PACIFIC: OFFSHORE AND ON. By S. Kip Farrington, Jr.

FISHING THE PACIFIC: OFFSHORE AND ON. By S. Kip Farrington, Jr.

SALT WATER FISHING. By Van Campen Heilner.

(1937) 1946 Knopf reprint (9th printing). 8vo. (160mm x 240mm). Pp452. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by W. Goadby Lawrence, a large section of b/w photographs, a b/w painting by Lynn Bogue Hunt, b/w drawings and pictorial end-papers. Maroon cloth, spine titled in gilt, Borzoi Books blind-stamp on upper board.

This was (perhaps still is) the definitive American book on saltwater gamefishing. Chapters on weakfish, fluke, bluefish, striped bass, channel bass, Pacific stripers, sailfish, broadbill and marlin, tuna, tarpon, and tyee salmon, with further sections on boats and cruising, saltwater game fishing around the world, an appendix on sea serpents, and a two-page bibliography.
£34.00
Availability: In stock
Book Code
2594
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Author Heilner (Van Campen).
Book Code 2594
ISBN B001AVWPKG.
Book Description Very good in frayed and chipped dust-wrapper.
Book Cover Hardcover
Published Date 1946
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
Place New York.