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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Burke, Edgar. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged with additional color plates and new chapters on spinning for trout, Fourth printing. Inscribed. Inscribed on the half title to the proprietor of the legendary New York City tackle shop, The Anglers Roost: “To Jimmy Deren, Best..... Read More about Trout
Price: $150
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Burke, Edgar. First trade edition. In Dust Jacket. Laid in are 3 glassine leader Envelopes of gut from Ray Bergman. Read More about Trout
Price: $500
New York: William Morrow, 1947. First edition. No. 98 of 249 copies, signed by the author. Read More about With Fly, Plug, and Bait
Price: $750
New York: William Morrow, 1947. Burke, Dr. Edgar. First edition. No. 218 of 249 copies, signed by the author. Read More about With Fly, Plug, and Bait
Price: $300
New York: William Morrow, 1947. Burke, Dr. Edgar. First edition. No. 203 of 249 copies, signed by the author. Read More about With Fly, Plug, and Bait
Price: $300
New York: [Jas. L. Black], 1875. First American edition. Inscribed to Charles H Truax. INSCRIBED by the editor Van Siclen to Chas H. Truax: "Chas. H. Truax esq "Compliments of the "The American Editor." This is actually only the third separate edition of "Fysshynge with an Angle" (which first appeared..... Read More about An American edition of The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth An Angle, from The Boke of St. Albans by...
Price: $400
![Item #13811 The Art of Angling [together with] The Complete Troller, by Robert Nobbs. Thomas Best](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13811.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700509221)
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Eleventh edition. Read More about The Art of Angling [together with] The Complete Troller, by Robert Nobbs
Price: $125
London: Printed for C. Stalker, 1787. First edition, with half title. Begins with a chapter on the natural history of fish, goes on to the best manner of making and choosing rods, lines, hooks, etc. Chapter IV provides a description of flies. "Best was Keeper of His Majesty's Drawing-room in..... Read More about A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling. Confirmed by actual Experience, and Minute Observations...
Price: $2,500
London: Macmillan, 1896. A wonderful item, with explicit instructions as promised in the title, and enhanced with a colored folding plate featuring a completed stocking of striking elegance. Read More about Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings: how to knit them with plain and fancy turnover tops
Price: $250
London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. A lively account of the author's adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan, Ladakh, and Kashmir. The map of Jummoo and Kashmir with the author’s travel route is present; the map of The Great Bend of the Indus is lacking. Read More about Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of eight months’ trip in the Baltistan and...
Price: $500
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1891. New edition, with index. A scarce and classic work of big game hunting in the mountains of Central Asia. Read More about Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas
Price: $200
London: Nisbet & Co, 1928. First edition. Further recollections of African hunting (lions to snakes) characterized by an extraordinarily wide range of subjects, by the author of A Game Ranger's Note-Book. Read More about A Game Ranger on Safari. Edited by E.D. Cuming
Price: $250
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First Edition, an unnumbered copy, one of 950. Tales of wildfowl shooting and the good life in the sporting South. Read More about Gunnerman. Foreword by Col. Harold P. Sheldon
Price: $150
Madison, Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1994. Duncan, T. O. Limited edition, no. 17 of 289 numbered copies signed by the author. A highly useful bibliography, this is also a leaf book containing tipped-in leaves gathered from imperfect copies. Read More about American Sporting Book Series. [Introduction by F. Phillips Willamson
Price: $150
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 75 copies, signed by author and artist. Deluxe Copy, One of 75, An Indispensable Work. A continuation of John Phillips's A Bibliography of American Sporting Books 1582-1925, this indispensable update contains some 5,000 detailed entries by author..... Read More about A Bibliography of American Sporting Books, 1926-1985. Foreword by Gene Hill
Price: $700
St. Paul, Minn: Brown & Bigelow, 1948. Limited first edition, privately distributed. A handsome presentation of one of America's most skillful and beloved wildfowl illustrators. Read More about Bishop's Wildfowl: A collection of etching and oil painting reproductions
Price: $225
Wilmington, Delaware: (Privately Printed. Printed by the Anthoensen Press Portland, Me), 1965. First edition. Probably 50 or 100 copies. Mostly reminiscences of the Tuscarora Club, near Margaretville in the Catskills, but also with a trip to the Beaverkill one rainy April day. Portraits of Ogden Pleissner, Carl Martin, Jr., etc...... Read More about Tuscarora Recollections, [Preface by David J. Reinhardt, Jr
Price: $3,000
London: Smith, Elder, 1891. First edition. History of the (British) Jockey Club from the library of the American Jockey Club. Read More about The Jockey Club and Its Founders in Three Periods
Price: $100
Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC..... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $900
London: Blacker of 54, Dean St., Soho, 1855. Third edition, "Rewritten & revised by the author", later issue with three pages of reviews after list of plates. Best edition of an important and much sought-after volume, an expanded version of two smaller editions, the first published in 1842; the plates..... Read More about Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. … with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies
Price: $1,750
London: John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square, 1856. First edition. Westwood & Satchell spend the greater part of an entire page disparaging Blakey's work, but add that it is redeemed from utter worthlessness by the excellent bibliography added by the publisher. Scarce. Read More about Historical Sketches of the Angling Literature of All Nations ... to which is added A Bibliography...
Price: $200
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1788. First edition. Read More about Cynegetica; or, Essays on Sporting: Consisting of Observations on Hare Hunting...To which is...
Price: $400
[London: [Privately printed for the Fly-Fisher’s Club, Croydon Advertiser Printing Works, 36 High Street, Croydon], 1934]. First edition. History of the club and some of its notable members, with a description of the premises in Piccadilly and lists of books by member authors and of significant gifts. Read More about The Book of the Flyfishers' Club 1884-1934
Price: $150
Hidden House Center Conway, NH: June 25, 1928. Reading in part: "It would give me great pleasure if I could contribute to the proposed Club Volume. Unfortunately I have made no trip which had as its object hunting, exploration or natural history. My advanced years for some time debarred me..... Read More about T.L.S. To George Bird Grinnell, Honorary President of The Boone & Crockett Club
Price: $150
New York: The Derrydale Press for the Boone and Crockett Club, [1933]. First edition. No. 147 of 250 copies. The seventh book of the Boone and Crockett Club, with Preface by Grinnell, articles by Roosevelt, Prentiss Gray, Henry Shoemaker, Charles P. Curtis, et. al., on a wide variety of game..... Read More about Hunting Trails on Three Continents
Price: $1,250