AMERICAN FISHING BOOKS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES UP TO 1948 TOGETHER WITH A HISTORY OF ANGLING AND ANGLING LITERATURE IN AMERICA. . 235 pp. originally at Newark, Delaware: Privately Printed, 1950. According to Wetzel, this important bibliography contains over 2,000 titles pertaining to American fish and fishing. (Besterman cites it as having only 1,250 titles). American Fishing Books is arranged into three parts.