San Francisco: California Sea Grant, Marine Advisory Publications, no date. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, maps, tables, very good in original pictorial wraps. Includes tide and weather information, sport fish drawings, descriptions and limits, etc. More
Cat.No: 87717
Eureka, CA: Commercial Fisherman's Wives of Humboldt, n.d. 70p., plastic comb binding, stain to front cover, interior clean. The Commercial Fisherman's Wives of Humboldt was established in 1970. More
Cat.No: 218930
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
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
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
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
Stevens Point WI: University of Wisconsin / Stevens Point Foundation Press, Inc., 1987. Magazine. 43p., high-gloss paperstock throughout, illustrated with a number of b&w photoillustrations of contemporary fleets and canneries, has a knowledgeable review of Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams. Magazine-like journal, 8.5x7 inches; slightest edgewear, unmarked and nearly as new. More
Cat.No: 226368
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
![Bottoming out,; useful and interesting notes collected for members of the Canal society of New York state [nine separate nos. including doubled nos., plus duplicates; with] Towpaths, canal society of Ohio [seven nos. plus duplicate; two broken runs as a small lot]. canal transportation.](/pictures/thumb/158112.jpg?v=1507867759)
Syracuse NY / New Philadelphia, Oberlin OH: the societies, 1959 - 1967. Identical formats, staplebound 8.5x5.5 inches, texts reproduced from typescript with plenty of photos, these reasonably well-produced, very good copies. To specify, Bottoming Out is represented by nos. 13 [2cc], 17, 18/19 [2cc], 20 [2cc], 21-22 [3cc], 23-24 [4cc]... More
Cat.No: 158112
![A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries; with an Appendix, containing all the statutes and case on the subject. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [only]. J. Chitty, Joseph.](/pictures/thumb/209007.jpg?v=1484089745)
London: Printed [by Harding and Wright] for W. Clarke and Sons et al. 1812. xii, 702 [+ 702a, 702b], bound in full calf with panelled boards and red leather spine labels gilt. A good copy of the first volume needing a drink of leather preservative following saddlesoap to labels. The... More
Cat.No: 209007
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
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
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. Hardcover. viii, 276p., very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 182605
London: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1998. Hardcover. xvii, 257p., very good condition in a slightly edgeworn dj. Comprehensive discussion of the crisis in the fishing industry. More
Cat.No: 138054
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
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
New York: The Smith, 1979. 68p., wraps in very good condition. Poet born in San Francisco but spent childhood and youth on the Oregon river, mill towns and fishing towns, falling in love (sort of) with lunks who ship out and sometimes get drowned. Good two-page reflection what peers and... More
Cat.No: 154303
San Francisco: Scottwall Associates, 1985. ix, 211p., coated paperstock, period snapshot and studio photography throughout the text; first edition 10.25 x 8.5 inch titled cloth boards in pictorial dj. The front flyleaf is out, neatly enough, otherwise clean and sound, the jacket shows a little rubbing. More
Cat.No: 76767
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
![I am a man happy to exist at this moment... [note card, with penned message inside from a Filipino American fishery worker in Alaska]. Victor Jara.](/pictures/thumb/207104.jpg?v=1518548958)
San Francisco: SF NICH, [197-]. 4x5 inch four-panel card with portrait of the Chilean songwriter who had been killed by the Pinochet regime; the blank inside and the back have been filled with handwritten notes to a friend from a cannery worker (signed John) who was working for the season... More
Cat.No: 207104
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
Mills College: The Eucalyptus Press, October 1949. Hardcover. 25p., 8.25x10.75 inches, introduction, hand set by the author's daughter in Centaur type and printed in an edition of 225 copies with two illustrations, errat slip bound-in, untrimmed edges, tan pictorial boards and cloth library tape binding; lower margins and corner-tips show... More
Cat.No: 213925
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1976. 135p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 11124
San Francisco: Fearon, 1958. [28p.], wraps with small faint stain on front cover, plastic comb binding. Seafood recipes and drawings of the docks and fishing scenes, back when it really was a fisherman's wharf. More
Cat.No: 170125
