True Love and the Woolly Bugger.
Greycliff Publishing, 1996. Second printing.
Fishing
The Best Of The Anglers' Club Bulletin, 1920-1972.
New York: Privately Printed, 1972. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Green cloth with gilt spine titles.
Wisdom of the Guides, Rocky Mountain Trout Guides Talk Fly Fishing.
Amato, 1998. First edition.
Fish in a Flash! A Personal Guide to Spin-Fishing.
Bradbury Press, 1991. First edition, first printing.
Distant Water.
Random House, 1997. First U.S. edition.
Trout and Salmon.
The Lyons Press, 1999. First edition, first printing. Nice inscription by author.
The Sweet of the Year.
William Morrow, 1965. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed presentation copy from author to Tony Lyons, which additionally has a brief handwritten note signed by the author affixed to half title.
Tight Lines.
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 500 numbered copies. This copy out of series and not numbered. Full wrap-around leather with gilt swordfish to front panel. Although the bibliographies call for the limited edition to be in this leather binding, all copies that are.....
The Dry Fly: Progress since Halford.
Merlin Unwin Books, 1996. First edition.
Fishing Atlantic Salmon: The Flies and the Patterns.
Stackpole Books, 1996. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to noted Fly Tyer and author, John Betts.
The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly.
David R. Godine, 1987. Deluxe edition of 85 copies. Red quarter leather over beige cloth in matching cloth clamshell. Signed by author.
Atlantic Salmon Flies and Fishing.
Stackpole, 1970. Deluxe first edition of 600 copies. Gray cloth spine over blue boards in slipcase. This copy an author's presentation with "au" in number field. Signed and warmly inscribed by author. Also includes a brief autograph letter signed by author laid in.
Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing; together with: Atlantic Salmon Flies and Fishing.
Stackpole, 1966, 1970. Limited editions. Cloth spines over boards in slipcases and felt lined mahogany overcase with inset fly. Each signed by author and numbered. Bates issued approximately 25 sets in this format.
Streamers & Bucktails, the Big Fish Flies.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition, first printing.
Trout and Salmon of North America.
The Free Press, 2002. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Robert Behnke and signed by Donald S. Proebstel (introduction).
With Fly, Plug, and Bait.
William Morrow, 1949. Second printing.
A Treatise on Fishing with a Hook.
North River Press, 1979. First printing thus. Includes a new preface by Glenn Sapir.
Angling for Pike: A Practical and Comprehensive Work on the Most Approved Methods of Fishing for Pike or Jack; Including an Account of Some New Tackles for Spinning, Live-Baiting, and Trolling.
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1888. First edition, first printing. Deep blue/green cloth titled in silver. With the bookplate of noted angling collector Dean Sage.
Positive Fly Fishing. Be A Better Angler with the Right Techniques...and Attitude.
The Lyons Press, 2005. First edition, first printing. Inscribed and signed by the author.
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail.
Harvard U. Press, 2012. First edition, first printing.
Pacific Salmon Fishing.
A.S. Barnes & Co., 1980. First edition, first printing.
Nymphing, A Basic Book.
Stackpole, 1979. First edition, first printing.
Fishing Yellowstone Waters.
Nick Lyons Books, 1984. First edition, first printing.
Megalops: An Angler's Affair with Tarpon.
Meadow Run Press, 2001. 1 of 1500 copies. Purple cloth, no dust jacket.
Fly Casting with Bill Cairns.
Stone Wall Press, 1974. First edition, first printing.