London: Published by the Author, March 1842. First edition. Heckscher Copy. Heckscher copy of the rare first edition... Read More about W. Blacker’s Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours...
Price: $5,750
[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
[[N.p: 1894]. Pictorial record of the Nonantum Club, an American fishing club organized from New Haven circa 1892, with lands leased on Lac des Commissaires next to the lake village of Lac Bouchette (west of Saguenay). The club is mentioned in reports of Canadian angling in Field and Stream at..... Read More about At Nonantum Club Lac Bouchette, P.Q. May 17 - June 5 1894 Come ! Hurry Up !
Price: $1,500
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. Fine Copy. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. This copy with the..... Read More about The Fly and the Fish
Price: $900
![Item #246510 Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title]. Fred Auger](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/246510.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651295)
[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
[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..... 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
[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..... 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, [n.d. ca. 1937]. One of approximately 40 copies. 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
[N.p., Ottawa?]: Privately Printed, 1934. Number 93 of 100 numbered copies. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Bessborough to W. Abbey on the front free-endpaper, "Though these fish may seem to you but minnows, the story of our trip may none the less amuse you," and dated March 1943. Additionally, Beesborough has..... Read More about A Week on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island
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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
New York: The Lyons Press, 1999. Limited First Edition, one of 100 copies specially bound and slipcased, signed by author and publisher. Angling Reminiscences by Bill Barich, One of 100 Copies. A new collection of essays by the author of Laughing in the Hills, and Traveling Light, dealing with fly-fishing..... Read More about Crazy for Rivers
Price: $150