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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Omaha / NYC: Max Geisler Bird Co., 1926. 64p., steel-engraved vignette illustrations throughout the text, which is verbose and personal. Softbound, an 8.5x5.5 inch stapled pamphlet, its cover decorations accentuated in green and yellow, a presentable item with repairs: both covers have been mended and strengthened with clear document tape... More
Cat.No: 242476
Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1985. [49p.], staplebound wraps, 8.25x11.5 inches, very good. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Topic Review no. 27. More
Cat.No: 238391
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
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
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
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
