Angling print:”Coming to a Fly”.
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Coming to a Fly”
Price: $300
Sports & Games
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.
Angling print:”Rising to a Fly”.
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Rising to a Fly”
Price: $300
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, No. 774 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $500
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, #486 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $400
Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William...
Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel, 1971. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
Price: $200
Modern Pedigrees.
New York: Metroploitan Job Print 224-232 West 26th St, [1895]. Read More about Modern Pedigrees
Price: $400
The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod.
London: John Murray, 1837. First edition. Read More about The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod
Price: $500
Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego].
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, [c. 1903]. Alken, Henry. Reprint. Read More about Memors of John Mytton. [Note on Henry Alken's "Mytton Illustrations" by Joseph Grego
Price: $200
Arrian on Coursing. The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translated from the Greek, with classical and practical annotations, and a....
London: J. Bohn, 17, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1831. First Edition thus. One of 250 copies printed. Ex Æedibus Valpianus. Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (c. 92 -c. 175), known in English as Arrian, and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Greek historian and philosopher of the Roman period. As with other..... Read More about Arrian on Coursing. The Cynegeticus of the Younger Xenophon, Translated from the Greek, with...
Price: $250
The Fly and the Fish.
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, limited issue of 222 copies, with two inserted color plates of flies. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. Read More about The Fly and the Fish
Price: $650
RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP
Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title].
[N.p., Vancouver? August 1961]. RARE ALASKAN FISHING TRIP. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and “one Indian” (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the..... Read More about Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title
Price: $1,250
INSCRIBED
The Tarpon.
[N.p: Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 92 of 250 copies initialled by the author. INSCRIBED. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon", at pp. 147-150. Privately printed, and re-issued in several editions through 1951. All are scarce. Inscribed..... Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $1,000
INSCRIBED
The Tarpon.
[N.p: Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 62 of 250 copies initialled by the author. INSCRIBED. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon", at pp. 147-150. Privately printed, first in 1921 and re-issued in five editions through 1951. All..... Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $1,000
The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture.
[N.p., Buffalo: Privately printed], 1951. Fifth edition. No. 37 of 250 copies, signed by the author. The fifth edition of Babcock’s classic work (first published in 1920). With a nostalgic preface, noting “Fifteen years have passed since the publication of the fourth edition of this book. … I have lost..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture
Price: $500
EMERSON TUTTLE'S COPY
Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 681 of 950 copies. EMERSON TUTTLE'S COPY. With the bookplate of Nantucket Artist Emerson Tuttle and the inscription "Emerson Tuttle Dec 42 from AFT" Read More about Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
Price: $250
The Fly Fisher's Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell). Read More about The Fly Fisher's Guide
Price: $2,000
The South American Gentleman's Companion, Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Up & Down the Andes with Jigger, Beaker &...
New York: Crown Publishers, 1951. First edition. Read More about The South American Gentleman's Companion, Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Up & Down the...
Price: $125
Indian Pigeons and Doves.
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More about Indian Pigeons and Doves
Price: $400
Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed.
9-3/4 x 7-1/32 inches, 1989. Read More about Photograph of boys with surf boards on a towed flat bed
Price: $500
Men, Fish and Tackle: The Story of J.A. Coxe as told to Ralph Bandini.
Bronson, MI: Published Privately by the Bronson Reel Company, May 1, 1936. First edition. Reminiscences of big game fishing and fishermen by the inventor of the famous Coxe reels (published by the company into which his company merged, and not entirely free of some informative promotion!). Bandini was the author..... Read More about Men, Fish and Tackle: The Story of J.A. Coxe as told to Ralph Bandini
Price: $600
’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. Limited edition. Number 612 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Read More about ’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller
Price: $750
’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. Limited First Edition. Number 428 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Inscribed on the half-title, " Joel Barber with the kindest regards to Robert Winthrop." Read More about ’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller
Price: $450
'Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. Limited Edition. Number 160 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Read More about 'Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand
Price: $550
Catalogue. An Exhibition of American Wild Fowl Decoys. The Joel Barber Colection of Old Decoys. [With related ephemera].
New York: Abercrombie & Fitch Company [Charles Francis Press], 1932. Comprising: 1) Catalogue. An Exhibition of American Wild Fowl Decoys. The Joel Barber Colection of Old Decoys. Modern Decoys by Charles E. Wheeler. "In the Log Cabin" Abercrombie & Fitch Company, October 1 to 8, 1932. Listing 116 old decoys..... Read More about Catalogue. An Exhibition of American Wild Fowl Decoys. The Joel Barber Colection of Old Decoys....
Price: $500