[Baltimore: Reese Press], 1937. Limited to 300 copies of which this is number 183. Rare Salmon Fishing Account. A deliciously witty account of the angling adventures of four Baltimoreans who, inspired by a 1634 Canadian visit of George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, spent a month salmon fishing on the island of..... Read More about Tight Lines and a Happy Landing. Anticosti — July 1937
Price: $300
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991. First edition, one of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author and photographer. Superbly illustrated volume profiling 23 fly tyers from around the world, with examples of their work, inclduing Megan Boyd, Jimmy Younger, Ken Sawada, Poul Jorgensen, Ted Niemeyer, Ron Alcott, Albert Cohen, Steve..... Read More about The Atlantic Salmon Fly. The Tyers and Their Art
Price: $200
Springfield, Missouri: H.S. Jewell, [c. 1911]. "The Mollyjoggers" was the name of a hunting and fishing club in Southwest Missouri along the James River, after a species of minnow found in the river and streams of the area. The author was asked by the proprietor Mr. H.S. Jewell of The..... Read More about The Mollyjoggers. Tales of the Camp-Fire. A Brief History of the origin and experiences of an old...
Price: $400
Honey Dun Press, 1977. No. XI of 50 copies, signed by the editor. The finely produced Honey Dun facsimile of the first angling bibliography ever published, in the deluxe issue. Scarce. Read More about A Catalogue of Books on Angling 1811 [With a foreword by Jack Heddon
Price: $1,500
London: Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespear's-Head, in Pater-noster-Row, [after 1764]. Third [?] edition. Nice Copy of an Early Sporting Classic. A very nice copy of this basic and scarce work, which went into numerous editions, some bibliographically confusing. This is most probably the third edition, following the first edition..... Read More about The Complete Sportsman, or Country Gentleman's Recreation
Price: $300 save 35% $195
Jacksonville, Florida: February 19, 1876. The First Florida Retiree. “Spinner, a strong nationalist, was an important adviser to Chase on matters such as the circulation of greenbacks (which bore Spinner's distinctive, hard-to-duplicate signature) and the creation of a national banking system. … Needing large numbers of reliable employees not subject..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed (“F.E. Spinner”) to Angling author George Dawson, dated...
Price: $1,000
London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Publisher’s Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin County, New York. Read More about Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America
Price: $1,250 save 25% $937
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York. Privately Printed, 1998. First edition, number 19 of 75 deluxe copies, signed by the editor, artist, and designer, printed on Hahnemühler Biblio mould-made paper. Produced by W. Thomas Taylor. Read More about A Company of Anglers. Selection from the Anglers' Club Bulletin 1972-1997
Price: $1,600
New York: The Angler's Club of New York. Privately Printed, 1998. Corbin, Peter. First edition, number 6 of 75 deluxe copies, signed by the editor, artist, and designer, printed on Hahnemühle Biblio mould-made paper. Produced by W. Thomas Taylor. Read More about A Company of Anglers. Selection from the Anglers' Club Bulletin 1972-1997
Price: $1,600
New York: The Angler's Club of New York. Privately Printed, 1998. First edition, Number 28 of 75 deluxe copies, signed by the editor, artist, and designer, printed on Hahnemühler Biblio mould-made paper. Produced by W. Thomas Taylor. Read More about A Company of Anglers. Selection from the Angler's Club Bulletin 1972-1997
Price: $1,750
London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office, 346, Strand, 1887. Read More about Angling Reminiscences
Price: $85
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1821. New Edition, with Preface and Notes [by Sir Walter Scott]; one of 250 copies. Read More about Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland, to which is added The Contemplative...
Price: $250
Katonah, New York: Martha's Glen Publishing, 1977. Seaman, Robert. Deluxe edition, no. 41 of 128 copies, signed on the half title by the author and with a signed remarque by the artist Robert Seaman. A classic work, with careful and explicit illustrations: a unique celebration of a sporting implement that..... Read More about A Master's Guide To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod
Price: $2,000
London: A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row, 1726. First edition. First edition of this manual, one of the earliest of its kind. It has been attributed to one George Smith, and contains the first appearance of the charming "Angler's Song" (cf. Gingrich, Fishing in Print, p. 97), as well..... Read More about The Gentleman Angler. Containing Short, Plain and Easy Instructions whereby the most ignorant...
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New York: H.D. McIntyre & Co., 201 William Street, 1869. First edition. Fishing in Minnesota, 1869. A series of letters on the glories of Minnesota fishing from this former Civil War officer to Gen. Francis E. Spinner (1802-1890), who served as Treasurer of the United States under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson..... Read More about Lake Pepin Fish-Chowder, in Letters to General Spinner
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New York: Lyons and Burford, 1997. No 53 of 55 special large paper copies, signed by author, artist, binder, and publisher, specially bound, with a page of original typescript manuscript and a hand-colored line drawing. DeLuxe Edition, One of 55 Copies. Read More about Fishing Bamboo
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New York: Chas. Scribner's sons, 1915. First edition. INSCRIBED. Signed and inscribed by the author to Mr. W. P. Conway. The first American book on the dry fly. A cornerstone book. Read More about Practical Dry-Fly Fishing
Price: $150
Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First edition, no. 562 of 795 copies signed by the author. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Read More about Angling in America. Its Early History and Literature
Price: $350
New York: Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, 1965. Limited to 1500 copies, of which this is Copy No. 652. A festschrift for Gordon on the 50th anniversary of his death, with contributions by Haig-Brown, Schwiebert, Gingrich, Fox, Lamb, Wulff, Brooks, and many others. Beautifully produced book. Read More about The Gordon Garland - A Round of Devotions by His Followers
Price: $175
New York: Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, 1965. First edition, no 714 of 1500 copies. A festschrift for Gordon on the 50th anniversary of his death, with contributions by Haig-Brown, Schwiebert, Gingrich, Fox, Lamb, Wulff, Brooks, and many others. Beautifully produced book. With gift inscription to the owner of the Anglers Roost..... Read More about The Gordon Garland - A Round of Devotions by His Followers
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New York: Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, 1965. Limited to 1500 copies, of which this is Copy No. 362. A festschrift for Gordon on the 50th anniversary of his death, with contributions by Haig-Brown, Schwiebert, Gingrich, Fox, Lamb, Wulff, Brooks, and many others. Beautifully produced book. Read More about The Gordon Garland - A Round of Devotions by His Followers
Price: $150
San Francisco: [Reprinted for Francis P. and Marjory B. Farquhar by The Grabhorn Press], 1939. First Grabhorn edition. Grant ran a fishing and hunting camp in Maine. His story, first published in 1904, was reprinted here for Marjory and Francis Farquhar. Read More about The Tame Trout. A Tale of the Maine Woods narrated by Ed Grant of Beaver Pond, Maine
Price: $150
[Toronto: Privately Printed by J.H. Craig], n.d. First Separate Edition. "To those of you who are familiar with Gordon Grand's delightful sporting stories, The Banshee Shadow Flies needs no introduction." [Publisher's preface]. Read More about The Banshee Shadow Flies
Price: $250
Millbrook: Privately Printed at the Millbrook Press, 1939,-45,-48. Limited to 75 or 100 copies for presentation to the author’s friends. Read More about A Collection of his 4 Christmas Books: 1) A Horse for Christmas Morning; WITHOUT Faith, Perfect...
Price: $800
Buffalo and New York: The Mathews-Northrup Works, 1902. Bruns refers to this attractive book as "A work of great and enduring importance." Gregg’s co-author Gardner was with Samuel H. Jones when he caught the first tarpon ever taken with rod and reel. Read More about Where, When and How to Catch Fish on the East Coast of Florida
Price: $375