New York: [Alfred P. Brown], 1910. Private edition for presentation. RARE TARPON BOOK. The book opens "Caution. Among the reefs and keys of Southern Florida I went afishing..." Read More about A Fisherman’s Paradise
Price: $1,500
Montreal, Canada: Atlantic Salmon Federation, 1975. First edition, no. 88 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Read More about The Atlantic Salmon Treasury
Price: $250
Harrisburg, Pa: [1970]. Weiler, Milton C. First edition, one of 600 signed copies, with a special reproduction of a watercolor by Weiler done only for the deluxe edition. Deluxe Issue. Read More about Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing
Price: $900
Harrisburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, [1970]. Weiler, Milton C. First edition, Number 99 of 600 signed copies, with a special reproduction of a watercolor by Weiler done only for the deluxe edition as frontispiece entitled "Salmon Fishing on the Matapedia" Deluxe Issue. Read More about Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing
Price: $750
Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. First edition, one of 250 copies, signed by the author and with a separate portfolio of the 23 color plates of flies. With signed portfolio of 23 colored prints laid into box. Read More about The Art of the Atlantic Salmon Fly
Price: $400
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
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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
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: 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: [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
London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography: Heckscher Copy. More “the result of paste and scissors” (Westwood & Satchell) than a coherent text, but redeemed by the groundbreaking bibliography of angling books prepared by Pickering, who states in the Catalogue that it “is formed upon..... Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...
Price: $750
Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. First edition. The Rare First. Westwood & Satchell note that although only Richard Bowlker's name appears in the first edition, in the second, his son Charles seems to lay claim to the work. At his death in 1779, Charles "was considered the most..... Read More about The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular...
Price: $7,500
Paris: Connaissance de la Peche, octobre 1978-avril 1987. Read More about Connaissance de la Peche. Vol. I Number 1-No. 103
Price: $500
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. No. 46 of 200 copies. Connett published two drypoints by Boyer in 1929, and this colored trout-fishing print in 1936, followed by a salmon fishing print in 1937. The Derrydale catalogue noted: “This is the only colored, modern trout-fishing print available. It was carefully..... Read More about “After a Big One” [Trout-fishing scene of an angler casting into a shaded pool
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London: Printed by and for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1740. First edition. The true first edition of this popular work, arranged alphabetically, which went into numerous regular and pirated editions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Read More about The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea Fishing: with the Natural History of River, Pond & Sea Fish
Price: $400
Manchester, Vermont: The American Museum of Fly Fishing, 1990. First edition, number 3 of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author. A beautiful and authoritative work, here in the deluxe edition. Read More about A Treasury of Reels. The Fishing Reel Collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing
Price: $450
Manchester, Vermont: The American Museum of Fly Fishing, 1990. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. A beautiful and authoritative work, here in the deluxe edition. Read More about A Treasury of Reels. The Fishing Reel Collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing
Price: $450
Manchester, Vermont: The American Museum of Fly Fishing, 1990. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. A beautiful and authoritative work, here in the deluxe edition. Read More about A Treasury of Reels. The Fishing Reel Collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing
Price: $450