New York: E.P. Dutton, 1901. First American edition. Sherwin Copy. Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. Read More about Sport in Europe
Price: $100
London: John B. Day, 1875. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST. The very rare 1875 imprint; almost all copies bear an 1876 imprint. With numerous specimens of flies and fly-making materials in 22 sunken mounts. Presentation copy belonging to the artist. Inscribed on the title page: "James Poole Esq. /..... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well...
Price: $15,000
London: John B. Day, 1875. First edition. The very rare 1875 imprint; almost all copies bear an 1876 imprint. With numerous specimens of flies and fly-making materials in 22 sunken mounts. Read More about A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well...
Price: $5,000
London: John B. Day, 1876. First edition, second Issue (later state or the “Unauthorized Issue” without the 2 chromolithograph plates). Issued by Day probably without Aldam's approval (he referred to them as "spurious" copies). Thus with no color plates, and with half-moon white serrated paper seals attaching the flies, which..... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man … with...
Price: $5,500
London: John B. Day, 1876 [but later]. First edition, second issue. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. This is the later state of the book, likely..... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with...
Price: $5,500
London: John B. Day, 1876. First edition, second issue. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. Both issues of this scarce work bear the date 1876 on..... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with...
Price: $13,500
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
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More about The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling
Price: $600
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...
Price: $10,000 save 20% $8,000
London: printed for R. Holmes, [1859]. Read More about The Angler's Guide, with every Necessary Information for Angling …
Price: $175
New York: The Anglers' Club of New York, 1956. First edition, one of 750 copies. Read More about The Anglers' Club Story: Our First Fifty Years 1906-1956
Price: $200
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, 2006. Prosek, James. First edition, no. 19 of 100 numbered deluxe copies. The excellent and colorful history of the famed Anglers’ Club of New York, published on the occasion of its centennial. Read More about A Century with the Anglers’ Club. With Introduction, Essays and Artwork by Club Members
Price: $1,500
New York: Privately Printed by The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1962. First, limited edition, one of 500 copies. A collection of angling prose and verse by David McCord, Francis W. Hatch, Edward Weeks, Leslie P. Thompson, and Edmund Ware Smith. ("The cod / Is odd. / The Cape Codder..... Read More about Well Dressed Lines, Stripped from the Reels of Five New Englanders
Price: $150
Manchester: Abel Haywood and Son, 1883, 1882 & 1894. Second Edition of the First Series and Firsts of the rest. Papers given at the monthly meeting of the Club. A very attractive set and very scarce in the triple decker format. Read More about Angler’s Evenings. Papers by Members of the Manchester Angler’s Association. 1st - 3rd Series
Price: $300
Beaverton, Oregon: The Touchstone Press, 1974. No. 335 of 1200 copies, signed by the author. Fly Fishing Around the World. The author's adventures fly fishing around the world, nicely illustrated. Read More about You Should Have Been Here Yesterday. With a preface by Roderick Haig-Brown
Price: $225
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Coming to a Fly”
Price: $300
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Rising to a Fly”
Price: $300
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
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
[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
[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
[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
[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
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
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