London: Blacker of 54, Dean St. Soho, 1855. Third edition, "Rewritten & revised by the author", later issue... Read More about Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c...with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies
Price: $2,500
[Asbury Park, New Jersey]: 1924. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. “New Record Tuna Catch” by Claude E. Holgate mentions Zane Grey. Van Campen Heilner (author of Salt Water Fishing, 1937) was president of the club..... Read More about Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924
Price: $750
New York: The Anglers’ 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. Read More about The Fly and the Fish
Price: $800
New York: The Anglers’ 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..... Read More about The Fly and the Fish
Price: $1,250
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[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: $1,750
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More about An Angler's Anthology. Collected by
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More about An Angler's Anthology. Collected by
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1931]. First edition. Read More about An Angler’s Anthology. Collected by …
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..... Read More about My Health Is Better In November. Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South
Price: $150
[Buffalo, NY]: Printed for Private Distribution, 1921. Second edition. Inscribed. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 91-95. Privately printed, and re-issued in five editions through 1951. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, "For H. Wendell Endicott/ with the..... Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $1,750
[Buffalo]: Printed [by Matthews Northrup] for Private Distribution, [1920]. First edition. Presentation Copy of the Rare First. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and “A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon” at pp. 53-57. Privately printed, and re-issued in several editions through 1951. Read More about The Tarpon
Price: $3,000
N.p: [Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 14 of 250 copies, initialed by the author “L.L.B.”. Presentation Copy. 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..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture
Price: $1,000
[Buffalo, N.Y: Privately printed for the author], 1930. Third edition. No. 191 of 250 copies, initialed 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..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish Together with Some Hints on Its Capture by Rod and Reel
Price: $1,000
[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..... Read More about The Tarpon. A Description of the Fish with some hints of its Capture
Price: $400
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907. First edition. With a Bibliographical Autograph Letter, Signed. “A fishing story in Yankeeland” (Wetzel). Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) was a newspaperman and pioneer in newspaper syndication, whose novel Eben Holden (1900) sold more than a million copies. Signed in his fine hand on a...... Read More about Eben Holden’s Last Day A-Fishing
Price: $275
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.”. Read More about The London Angler’s Book, or Waltonian Chronicle, Containing Much Original Information to...
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). Read More about Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
Price: $60
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). Read More about Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
Price: $225
London: John W. Parker and Son, West End, 1854. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice). Read More about Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle
Price: $175
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, ca. 1943. One of approximately 40 copies. Rare. Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text, all in the original full leather folding box. A superior copy of a rare work. Read More about A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an Introduction by W. Keith Rollo
Price: $8,000
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1834. Third 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: $1,200
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: $2,250
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
London: Longamns, Green and Co, [1938]. First Edition. The publisher’s stock of the first edition (1938) was destroyed during the bombing of London. Read More about Flying Salmon. A Practical Book of Instruction dealing with all methods of Spinning for Salmon
Price: $250
Bronson, MI: Published Privately by the Bronson Reel Company, May 1, 1936. First edition. “Scarce” — Bruns. 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..... Read More about Men, Fish and Tackle: The Story of J.A. Coxe as told to Ralph Bandini
Price: $600
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. One of 500 copies (this copy unnumbered and out of series). Scarce Bandini title in Variant Binding. Read More about Tight Lines
Price: $2,250