Bates, Jr., Joseph D. Streamers & Bucktails. The Big Fish Flies. Illustrated with pencil drawings by Bill Elliott, and pen-and-ink drawings by Milton C. Weiler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition.Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. With TLS signed by Bates, as well as an.....

Bergman, Ray. Just Fishing. Illustrated in Color and Line by Fred Everett. Fly Plates Pained by Dr. Edgar Burke. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, [1932]. First edition. Large octavo. 418 pages. Illustrated with lovely inserted color plates, plus with line drawings in the text. Publisher's original blue cloth, stamped in gilt.....

John Steinbeck. Tortilla Flat. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. New York: Covici Friede, [1935]. First edition. Octavo. vi, [vii-viii, section title], 9-316 pp. Illustrations in the text, some full page. Quarter modern dark red crushed morocco over red cloth boards, lettered in gilt and ruled in black, top edge with original.....

Marilynne Robinson. Gilead. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First edition. Signed by the author. Octavo. 247pp. Publisher's tan quarter cloth over tan paper boards, spine lettered in silver, original unclipped dust jacket.