Random Casts by Connett 3rd Eugene (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Premier Press Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine condition in very good glassine dust jacket. Full green leather decorative binding. Glassine is bumped at spine tips and corners and has sharp wrinkles on back panel. 195 pages. 27 illustrations. All edges gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939, # 979 of 1075 Copies, 195p. First Edition, illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer & Milton C. Weiler and b&w photographs. Techniques for catching those difficult trout. Blue/Green patterned cloth with gilt spine title on dark blue label, gilt cover title and gilt decoration. A Very Good+ copy with light wear, paper is lightly age-toned, tiny rubbed spots at spine edges. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos. Ralph L. Boyer & Milton C. Weiler (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited. 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. xviii 195pp. Bound into green and blue marbled cloth. Line drawings. Limited to 1075 of which this is copy 622. Light fraying to head and tail of spine. Ralph L. Boyer; Milton C. Weiler (illustrator).

First edition, 1/1075 copies, the one marked "Artist's Copy" in manuscript. 8vo. xxix, (4), 195 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Inscribed by the author to one of the illustrators of this work, Ralph Boyer. A very good association copy, inscribed by the author to an important sporting book illustrator. Publisher's gilt-stamped decorated green and blue cloth. (11291).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 633 of 1,075 copies. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To E. B. Gresser / who contributed a great / deal to this effort. / With my most sincere / thanks. / Eugene Connett." A fine association copy -- according to "Nymphs volume I, The Mayflies, The Major Species" by Ernest G. Schwiebert, "Connett devoted most of 'My Friend the Trout' to research on the behavior and sensory skills of the fish, with particular emphasis on the unique physiology of the trout's eyes. These investigations included a collaborative effort with the distinguished Manhattan ophthamologist, Edward Bellamy Gresser. Their studies remain the most sophisticated evluation of the trout's eye. The work was performed in the Hackettstown trout hatchery on the little Musconetcong in northern New Jersey and at New York University" (p. 75). Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer & Milton C. Weiler (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). Book.…