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n.p. n.d. Large 3 inch diameter pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 249396
Fish, Ichthyology
San Francisco Bay - recreational climate
San Francisco: California Sea Grant, Marine Advisory Publications, no date. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, maps, tables, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes tide and weather information, sport fish drawings, descriptions and limits, etc. More
Cat.No: 87717
Swift's Animal Fertilizers For California Soils
Kansas City KS: Swift and Company, 1899. Pamphlet. 32p., a narrow, shirt-pocket notebook, softbound in 6x3 inch clothbacked wraps, partially filled in. Find a few printed pages of sales-talk, then lined blanks for user's notes through p.24, then further instructions and printed endorsements. Find only three page-long entries, unclear if..... More
Cat.No: 235649
Turquia en la Feria de Barcelona. Conozca mejor Turquia
Barcelona: Impreso en los talleres de Poligrafica Sarria [for Turkish travel agencies?], early 1930s. Pamphlet. 32p., profusely illustrated with fuzzily-reproduced tinted site photography, line maps and table of exports. Softbound, an oblong pamphlet in 5.5x8 inch pictorial wraps, fastened with a stingy single staple but in quite good shape, clean..... More
Cat.No: 228297
A Code of Practice for Muslims in the West, in accordance with the edicts of Ayatullah al-udhma As-Sayyid Ali al-Husaini as-Seestani. Translated by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, Edited by Najim al-Khafaji
London: Imam Ali Foundation, 1999. Paperback. 306p., illustrated with 7 pages of color depictions of "scale fish," paperbound in 8x6 inch decorated wraps. The perfect-bound textblock has cracked in several places (no loss of leaves nor much risk of it), and the former owner has thoroughly investigated the book and..... More
Cat.No: 227803
![Receipt for initiation fees]. Alaska Fishermen's Benevolent Association](/pictures/thumb/243628.jpg?v=1570675002)
[Receipt for initiation fees]
San Francisco: the Association, 1938. 4.5x3.5 inch receipt for contribution made by Frank Kallio to the Association. Kallio is a Finnish surname. More
Cat.No: 243628
A Collection of Books on Angling (Listed in the First Alphabet) Belonging to Mrs Henry A. Portong, Manhasset, Long Island /with/ Printed Americana Presidential and Other American Auitographs Belonging to L. P. Merrell, Esq, Scottsdale, Arizona; And Other Owners. Public Auction Tuesday, March 9 at 1:45 p.m.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1965. 38p., 6x9.5 inches. no illustrations, catalogue of books on offer, pamphlet in green printed wraps. The overlapping or yapp edges of this softbound are rather worn, an else good copy with a blank bid-sheet laid in. Find plenty of trout, and in the Americana..... More
Cat.No: 221760
Crab is king; the colorful stories and the fascinating history of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, also some favorite Wharf recipes
San Francisco: Mabuhay Pub. 1973. Paperback. 190p., preface, introduction, recipes, illustrated with photos, cover is a little dusty with a sunned spine panel, a sound copy that is clean and unmarked within. More
Cat.No: 146997
Ti: a story of San Francisco's Chinatown
Chicago: David C. Cook Publishing Company, 1899. 93p., pen and ink and wash illustrations throughout the double-column text; first edition 8.5x6.5 inch boards gilt, half-cloth over marbled paper. Rather edgeworn with card showing, hinges slightly wiggly, textblock bears scattered handling soil and a short closed marginal tear at leaf 43/4..... More
Cat.No: 175863
Xtra Tuf no. 5: the strike issue
Portland: Microcosm Publishing, 2005. 192p., wraps, 5x7 inches, "free to commercial fishing women" This issue dedicated to the strike by salmon fishermen. More
Cat.No: 167228
"Genepesca" la Recostruzione
Rome: the company, 1948. Paperback. 65p., text in 3 languages (Italian, English, French) with numerous b&w site and vessel photographs, printed on glazed alkaline paperstock and softbound in 11.5x9 inch decorated wraps. Item mildly edgeworn and dust-soiled, quite clean and sound within, a good (good-only) copy. Large-scale Italian fisheries have..... More
Cat.No: 258904
An island chronicle
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Hardcover. 302p., first edition, very good condition in an edge worn dj with closed tears and creasing. Novel about "A Portugueses fishing village in New England." *Hanna 862. More
Cat.No: 240931
Preliminary fish and wildlife plan for San Francisco bay - estuary, October 1966
San Francisco: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, 1966. 118 p., 8.5 x 11 inch wraps with some soiling on covers, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 122946
The Parr & Salmon Controversy, with authentic reports of the legal judgments and judges' notes in the various law suits on the parr question, and also a brief sketch of some incidents connected with the dissemination of the modern parr theory.
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark / Wm. Paterson, Booksellers, 1871. Hardcover. 147p., small hardbound in 7.5x5 inch bevelled boards, green cloth titled gilt and panelled in blind. Worn copy; most seriously the front hinge is cracked through and practically detached (rear hinge has a crack but remains sound). Cloth is..... More
Cat.No: 230635
Arroyo: Vol. 7, No. 4, June 1994
Tucson, AZ: Water Resources Research Center, College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona, 1994. 7p., stapled wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, top corner dog-eared, address stamp on rear wrap, pen mark on front wrap else very good condition. Newsletter on water use and agriculture. This issue mostly focused on aquaculture..... More
Cat.No: 254391
Rock angling in South Africa (Cape Waters)
Riversdale: South Western Echo, no date. Hardcover. 104p., 5x7.25 inches, indexes, foreword, illustrated with drawings, cartoons, photos and ads, 3 /4ths of a foldout map laid-in at rear, first edition (so stated), worn and soiled in original brown cloth backed green pictorial boards. Previous owner's inscription. The foldout map was..... More
Cat.No: 110740
Coral and Desert the Magic of the Red Sea
Vercelli Italy: White Star Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. 240p., coated paperstock with profuse color photography (aerial, surface and undersea), first English-language edition 12x11 inch boards gilt in colorphoto dust jacket, jacket slightly edgeworn, entirely clean and sound, a near-fine copy. More
Cat.No: 178318
A sea within a sea; secrets of the Sargasso
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2000. Unpaginated, about 32p., profuse color illustrations with texts inset, a hardbound kids' book meant for grownups. Glossy color-image boards in ditto dust jacket, 9.5x10 inches, bravura illustrations showing weird undersea creatures and shipwrecks, a very good clean copy all round that is signed by..... More
Cat.No: 107502
Chaetognaths and pteropods as biological indicators in the North Pacific
Washington: US Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1957. 13p., 8x10.5 inches, illustrated with tables, graphs and figures, very good in original stapled wraps. Special Scientific Report - Fisheries No. 215. More
Cat.No: 92797
Trout Quintet
Richmond CA [?]: Hit & Run Press, 2015. Pamphlet. 5p., letterpress on veddy nice paper with a colophon that explains everything. Pamphlet in 9x6 inch sewn wraps, no.38 of a run of only 74 copies. Quite a pretty booklet in as-new shape, no damage or ownership stuff. Item in hand..... More
Cat.No: 226300
A man of our times; the life-history of a Japanese-Canadian fisherman
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1976. 135p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 11124
Some Icelandic Recipes. Translated By Holmfridur Jonsdottir
Iceland: Bokautgafan Orn og Orlygur Hf. 1975. Paperback. 76p., very good in oblong 5x7.5 inch wraps. Includes a couple of recipes for reindeer. More
Cat.No: 202910
![Bahama: iruka to hikari no meikyu [Bahamas: Labyrinth of Brightness and Dolphin] バハマ :...](/pictures/thumb/202260.jpg?v=1522631503)
Bahama: iruka to hikari no meikyu [Bahamas: Labyrinth of Brightness and Dolphin] バハマ : イルカと光の迷宮
Tokyo: Riverside Press 早川書房, 1996. 143p., very good in wraps. Text in Japanese. The focus of this richly illustrated book is on the dolphins of the Bahamas; it includes text narrating the author’s interaction with them in the course of fieldwork from 1985 to 1996. The author describes himself as..... More
Cat.No: 202260
Cheap wage labour; race and gender in the fisheries of British Columbia
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. x, 314p., maps, tables, dj. "Using the fishing industry in British Columbia as a case study, Alicja Muszynski explores how Marx's labour theory of value can be applied to a specific industry and the creation of a specific labour force. She reworks Marx's theory in..... More
Cat.No: 50756
Driftnetting of salmon in Ireland: allegations and truth
n.p. the Organisation, 1974. 16p., very good in wraps; not found in OCLC. Defends fishermen in the Republic of Ireland against charges that they were decimating the salmon population. More
Cat.No: 169644