Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1966. Inscribed by Ellmann to W.H. Auden. Inscribed on the first blank: "To W.H. Auden / with admiration / Richard Ellmann." Ellmann was author of the definitive biography of Wilde published in 1987 and winner of the Pulitzer prize. Read More

Philadelphia: Reynier Jansen, 1701. First edition. Previously unrecorded copy of the first printing of the laws of Pennsylvania, printed by the colony's second printer, the Dutch-born Quaker Reynier Jansen. Number 79 on Charles Hildrebrun's chronological list of Pennsylvania printing and number 22 of Jansen's 43 known works printed 1699-1706, the... Read More

London: Riddle, Smith & Duffus, [1922]. Excellent, well illustrated narrative of the sporting travels of a Briton with a post-war appointment to South America, with accounts of shooting duck, geese, and upland game, as well as hunting deer, carpincho, peccary, guanaco; and some angling for trout and salmon in Chile. Read More

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847. Darley, F.O.C. First Edition. Collection of stories, many on sporting themes, edited by William T. Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical “Spirit of the Times,” and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and... Read More

Philadelphia: Printed for the State in Schuylkill, 1906. “The Fishing Company...prior to the Revolution was ‘The Fishing Colony in Schuylkill.’ Apparently it was a little satire as far as the name is concerned, insofar as being a separate colony and later a state.” (Bruns, p. 406).RARE record of the oldest..... Read More

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page "W.H. Cliffordale/ with the respect of/ the author." Thorpe is best remembered for the short story "The Big Bear of Arkansas", here the great humourist has chapters entitled, "Alligator Killing, "Grizzly Bear Hunt, "American Wild-Cat", "Tom Owen the... Read More

London: Whittaker & Co, 1843. First edition. First edition of this "famous book which was issued in the form of an autobiography of this sporting animal. The author was master of the Pytchley when he wrote the book … [T]he tales told by the foxes themselves of their experiences, and... Read More

Dublin: Robert T. White, 1871. First edition. "Contains many accounts of fishing and in the Nepisiquit, Restigouche and other rivers". Sage p76, Wetzel p128. As an Officer of the 15th Foot Regiment, Dashwood left Cork for St. John, N.B. where he was stationed from 1862 until 1868. He was an... Read More

[London]: sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain, Price 6 d, [n.d., 1705?, i.e., 1706]. First edition. An Outstanding Angling Miniature. A superb copy of this rare miniature angling work. “Exceedingly rare but not unique as stated in the sale catalogue of the Huth Library" (Schwerdt). Although the work... Read More

Scribners, 1929. First edition, number 252 of 510 copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. The Only Signed Limited Hemingway; with a Hemingway-family letter. The only signed limited issue of Hemingway's work, and one of the greatest war novels of all time. "His first full-length novel and probably... Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1813. Read More

Paris: Dumoulin, 1883. First edition. Read More