Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Attractive copy of this classic of Arabian travel, with considerable information on... Read More
Price: $1,000
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.
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The Horse and the Hound their various uses and treatment, including practical instructions in Horsemanship and Hunting etc. etc. By...
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1848. Third edition. Read More
Price: $300
Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men … To Which are Added Nimrod's Letters...
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836. First American edition. Read More
Price: $500
The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. A Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More
Price: $200
The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. New Edition with Illustrations by Henry Alken. Portrait by D. Maclise, R.A. and other Portraits. Read More
Price: $175
The Chace, The Turf, and The Road by Nimrod.
London: John Murray, 1870. Alken, Henry. New Edition. Read More
Price: $200
Present from a Prince
The Life of a Sportsman. By Nimrod.
London: Kegan Paul, 1914. Present from a Prince. Handsome standard edition of this classic sporting work, with the small engraved card of Prince Dimitri de Russie (1901-1980, nephew of tsar Nicholas II), and his handwritten birthday wishes, “Many happy returns of the day, and best wishes Dimitri” [with a flourish]..... Read More
Price: $375
The Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq...by Nimrod.
London: Keagn Paul Trench, nd (c. 1900). Fourth Edition. A late but attractive edition of Nimrod's classic, handsomely bound and with excellent coloring. Read More
Price: $150
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq....by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The "Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of 'Handley Cross'"[Surtees]. Read More
Price: $600
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition, third issue, with both engraved and printed titles dated 1851. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’”[Surtees]. Read More
Price: $475
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third edition. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’” [Surtees]. Read More
Price: $450
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.…by Nimrod. With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author...
London: Rudolf Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street, 1851. Alken, Henry. Third Edition. Desirable edition, as it is the first to include The “Brief Memoir of Nimrod, by the Author of ‘Handley Cross’” [Surtees]. Read More
Price: $750
In Boards
Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, and their Management: In a Series of Familiar Letters, originally...
London: Printed and Published by M.A. Pittman, 18, Warwick Square, 1831. First edition. In Boards. Read More
Price: $600
The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. By Nimrod.
London: John Murray, 1837. With an “Extract from The Road” for September 1st, 1892, laid in the back containing a notice on the spread of Glanders (some spotting). Read More
Price: $500
Sporting Embellished by Large Engravings Illustrative of British Field Sports.
London: A.H. Baily, 1838. First edition. Read More
Price: $850
Hunting Reminiscences: Comprising Memoirs of Masters of Hounds; Notices of Crack Riders; and Characteristics of the Hunting Counties of England...
London: Rudolph Ackerman, 1843. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
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
Price: $200
Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings, and Doings of Sporting Men., Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co, 1903. Read More
Price: $250
Beyond the Ural Mountains. The Adventures of a Siberian Hunter. Trnslated and Adapted by Michael Heron.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Read More
Price: $75
The Glory of the English Bow
The Bow-Mans Glory; or, Archery Revived. Giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to Archers and Archery by...
London: printed by S[amuel] R[oycroft] and are to be sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross, 1682. First edition. The Glory of the English Bow. One of the more important archery books of the period after Ascham’s TOXOPHILUS (1545), written by Wood who was "Marshall to the Regiment of Archers." It..... Read More
Price: $4,000
Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ark.
Van Buren, AR: Thayer Bros. Print, n.d., ca 1890s]. First edition. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas, … and to procure the stocking of the streams and..... Read More
Price: $250
An Angler's Paradise and How to Obtain It.
London: The Angler Limited, 1895. First Edition. An expert's treatise on all aspects of fish ponds and fish culture, primarily trout. Read More
Price: $125
Inscribed by Dorothy and John Taylor Arms
Fishing Memories.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First edition. Inscribed by Dorothy and John Taylor Arms. Inscribed on the flyleaf by the author: "inscribed by the author / and by the inspiration / of these happy memories. / Dorothy Noyes Arms" and signed beneath by the famous artist, "John Taylor Arms" Read More
Price: $250
Trout Unlimited's Guide to Pennsylvania Limestone Streams.
[Harrisburg, Pa.]: Stackpole Books, [1992]. First edition, Deluxe Issue , #47 of 203 copies, signed by the author. Read More
Price: $85
Portrait photograph of world champion boxer Henry Armstrong.
New York: July 15, 1937. Superb image of the man known as Henry Armstrong, whose real name was Henry Jackson, who is still the only fighter to ever hold world championships in three divisions (featherweight, lightweight and welterweight) simultaneously. 1937, the year Van Vechten's photo was taken, was the year... Read More
Price: $2,000
Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music
When I Was a Boy: sheet music.
Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Company, 1897. Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music. “How many times I've wandered with a home-made rod and line / To the softly running brook and shady glen...”. An attractive turn-of-the-century angling item. Read More
Price: $150