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.
London: George Routledge, 1913. First combined edition. Presentation Copy to John Henderson, With Correspondence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY to... Read More
Price: $7,500
Wrexham: Reprinted by R. Marsh, 1788. The Fourth edition. "Not only is this the most renowned work on the subject of archery in English, or for that matter in any language, but its publication marked the beginning of the decline of the prejudice in favour of Latin as the literary...
Price: $600
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Wardle, Arthur. First American Edition, one of 500 copies. Fine and very scarce Derrydale import, for which Connett tipped in a new title-page and added the Derrydale imprint.
Price: $450
New York: The Angler’s Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, limited issue of 222 copies, with two colored plates of flies loosely inserted. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state.
Price: $800
New York: The Angler's Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, one of 222 copies, with two sets of the extra suite of plates. INSCRIBED. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state Inscribed "To Walt Thomas with my...
Price: $1,250
London: Day & Son, n.d. Third edition.
Price: $500
London: Day & Son, n.d. [1859]. First edition.
Price: $900
N.p: n.d. [1913]. First edition, one of just a few copies prepared. RARE PRIVATELY ISSUED MEMOIR of hunting and fishing in Maine and New Brunswick, apparently one of only a few copies printed for friends. The work is divided into three chapters - Fishing at Camp Caribou 1909; Hunting at...
Price: $3,750
1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon...
Price: $1,500
Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd Company, 1916. First edition. Account of big game hunting in the St. Elias Range, Yukon Territory."- Arctic Bibliography.
Price: $150
[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.....
Price: $1,750
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition.
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition.
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1931]. First edition.
Price: $150
[Austria: 1864-1877]. Manuscript Chronicle of Hunting in the Tirol. Manuscript chronicle of hunting in the Jagdbezirk (district) of Gerlos in the Zillertal south west of Kitzebühl in the Austrian Tirol, including discussion of the boundaries and characteristics of the area, historical remarks and a review of the large and small.....
Price: $1,750
New York: Harrison Smith and Rober Haas, [1933]. Printed in France "Achevé d'imprimer le 17 Janvier 1933 par Columna et Mourlot Frères à Paris." "Published simultaneously in Paris by the Domino Press (whose logo is on the back cover) , in England by Faber and Faber, and in the U.S....
Price: $150
Columbia, N.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1947. First edition. "The scene of all stories in My Health Is Better In November is the South; most of the incidents recorded took place in South Carolina. They constitute a delightful expression of one of the major aspects of life in the...
Price: $150
New York: Greenberg Publishers. A Gun Room Book, [1951]. First Trade Edition.
Price: $200
New York: Greenberg, [1951]. Schaldach, William J. First Edition. Number 1 of 299, signed "Best wishes Havilah Babcock" on ffep. COPY NUMBER ONE. Laid in is a Christmas card addressed to Ray (Rilings) from the sales manager John Bodett at Greenberg sending him copy Number One as he has the...
Price: $750
[N.p: Privately printed], 1951. Fifth edition, no. 99 of 250 copies signed by the author, additionally inscribed by the author on the first plate. Inscribed. 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...
Price: $400
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, one of 950 copies, this copy unnumbered, "FOR REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY"
Price: $300
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"
Price: $250
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 950 of 950 copies (Frank Lowe's copy, he always took the last number). Well-told recollections of grouse, woodcock, geese, ducks, and other quarry.
Price: $300
London: Printed by G. Parsonage [for] John Baddeley, 1834. First Edition. Inscribed by the AUthor, in Original Boards, Uncut. Inscribed on front flyleaf: “Presented to [name obliterated] with the Author’s best regards. Nov. 29, 1846.”.
Price: $500
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First Edition. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice).
Price: $60
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