Rare books, first editions, prints and original art related to sports and leisure. Specializing in angling/fishing, fencing, golf, polo, hunting/shooting and the Derrydale Press.
![Autograph Manuscript, signed:] Fishes of the East Coast and interior fresh waters of the U.S. Sherman Foote Denton.](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/267615.jpg?v=1669652195)
[Massachusetts, etc.? ca. late 1890s to 1924]. Sherman Foote Denton (1856-1937), a Massachusetts native and the child of... Read More about Autograph Manuscript, signed:] Fishes of the East Coast and interior fresh waters of the U.S....
Price: $1,250
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852. Second edition. "Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, "has the contemplative man's recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages."..... Read More about Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends
Price: $200
Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7..... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...
Price: $10,000
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Read More about A Summer in Alaska. A popular account of the travels of an Alaska exploring expedition along the...
Price: $350
Aboard the Hussar [Washington, Alaska, etc.]: May 8-June 3, 1934. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary, in a secretarial hand (or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post) but signed by each of the member of the travelling party, of a 1934 cruise of..... Read More about Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska, inscribed at the head of the...
Price: $6,000
Eagle Lake: 1938. This album depicts mostly members of the hunt on the water. Their names are identified on the front pastedown> John CaSSIDY, M.H. (Master of the Hunt?), Bert Meaderr, Bob Greenaway, Arthur Newton, Dave McIntosh; Guides Arthur Oulette, Henry Pleurde. Each photo has a caption. Read More about Album of a deer hunt on Eagle Lake, 1938
Price: $600
![Item #256937 Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris...](/pictures/thumb/256937.jpg?v=1669651743)
Venice: Baldassar di Costantini; [Comin de Tridino de Monferrato], 1544; 1540. First Italian edition of Alciati;Fourth Italian edition of Puteo. Two Important Sixteenth-Century Works on Duelling. Two early works on duelling bound together. The Alciati was first published in Latin as De Singulari Certamine (1543) and appears here in its..... Read More about Duello … Fatto di Latino Italinao à commune utilità [Bound with:] [PUTEO, Paris de]. Duello....
Price: $2,500
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALDIN. Inscribed obn ffep "To Mrs. George Philips from Cecil Aldin." Read More about Berkshire Vale. Poems by …
Price: $350
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More about Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with ...
Price: $250
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Read More about Salmon Fishing in Canada
Price: $300
London: J.M. Dent, 1906. First edition. Read More about Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”
Price: $175
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More about Salmon-Fishing in Canada. By a Resident
Price: $300
![Item #322102 [Coaching scene, an original watercolor drawing by Alken]. Henry Alken](/pictures/thumb/322102_2.jpg?v=1669655208)
A Choice Alken Watercolor. From the collection of John P. Kane, whose library and artwork were sold by American Art/Anderson Galleries on February 26-27, 1931. Read More about Coaching scene, an original watercolor drawing by Alken
Price: $6,000
London: J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street, March, 1826. First edition. Scarce Alken variant. Scarce Alken title, a variant collection of plates similar to those contained in Alken’s Characteristic Sketches, published by Dickinson in January 1826. The title and subtitle vary slightly in each of the copies described in Schwerdt..... Read More about Comparative Field Sports, Shooting, in Middlesex and elsewhere [Cover title
Price: $1,500
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...
Price: $30,000
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Alken, Henry. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. Schwerdt Copy. “This book differs from the folio edition … Alken himself seems ot have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account..... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions
Price: $6,000
[London]: Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" 1930. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400, signed by Mr Schwerdt. Read More about A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages"...
Price: $275
London: Thomas McClean, 1823 [watermarked 1821?]. Fiirst Edition. Read More about Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones
Price: $6,500
London: Thomas McLean, 1822. First edition. Alken's hilarious, multi-image plates depict a stunning variety of catastrophes, elaborating a favorite theme of his: the pitfalls of fun and games, especially any involving a horse or a gun. Read More about Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume 1 (all published
Price: $2,500
London: Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, Haynmarjket, 1822. First edition. Read More about Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume 1 (all published
Price: $2,000
London: Fuller, [1816]. First edition. 'First issue of a well drawn and finely coloured set of plates representing shooting accidents, not easily met with in perfect state' (Schwerdt). The plates each bear the publisher's name and date Feb. 1, 1816. Read More about Sporting Discoveries or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, being hints to...
Price: $6,000
New York: Sporting Incidents, 1893. Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and each plate accompanied by a leaf of text by H. Milford Steele. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and..... Read More about "Polo Match for Westchester Cups, Between Meadowbrook and Rockaway Teams, Newport, R.I.,...
Price: $400
Hamilton, MA: Myopia Hunt Club, 1931. First Edition. Read More about Myopia Races and Riders 1879-1930, Being an account of the various races under the auspices of...
Price: $300
[Rockaway, N.Y.]: Privately Printed by the Club, [1952]. First edition. Chapters on Hunting, racing, Polo, tennis, Golf, Squash & Shooting. Read More about The Rockaway Hunting Club
Price: $150
London: A. & C. Black, 1926. First edition. Read More about Better Golf. Introduction by George W. Greenwood
Price: $150