Easthampton, Mass: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Robinson, Alan James. From the edition of 107, this is A.[rtist P.[roof] I (with state proofs) signed by Alan James Robinson. One of 5 only for sale. ONE OF 5 COPIES. Read More about Atlantic Salmon. Salmo Salar … Essays by Stephen Bodio and Ted Williams

Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the..... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...

London: William Pickering, 1835; 1836. First edition. The Birth of Angling Bibliography. 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 Sir Henry..... Read More about Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings by An Old Angler and Bibliopolist. To which is added A...

Franklin, PA: The Evening News Printing Co, December, 1914. First edition, “for private distribution among friends only”. Signed by the author on the preface. Summer and Fall at Camp E-Z. Fishing and boating and camp life on French Creek, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. RARE. Contents: A day with the boys at..... Read More about Up the Creek. Being a Selection of Articles by …

Ludlow: Printed by H. Procter, 1814. Eighth edition. This copy conforms to the Heckscher collation (X, 170 pp.), which does not call for a frontispiece; we have seen copies with an engraved frontispiece. Read More about The Art of Angling; or, Compleat Fly-Fisher … to which are added, Directions for Making...

Worcester: Printed by M. Olivers, [ca. 1747]. First edition. The Rare First, Taverner's Copy. 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..... Read More about The Art of Angling Improved, in all its parts, Especially Fly-Fishing: Containing A particular...

New York: Derrydale Press, 1931. Edition of 250. Finely executed portrait of pioneering American angler Thaddeus Norris, author of The American Angler’s Book, first published in 1864 and reprinted throughout the nineteenth century. Ralph L. Boyer (1979-1942) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and under..... Read More about Thaddeus Norris, Esqr. 1811-1877 Angler

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1978. First Edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper, “To Elsie & Harry [Darbee], Your own copy with all the thanks for setting me on the way. Robert H. Boyle / June 20, 1980”. With the Darbee's fly-tying bookplate. Read More about The Second Fly-Tyer's Almanac

Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York: The Nassau Press, [cza. 1908]. Early edition. Advertisments at back for a few remaining copies of the first edition. Read More about The Angler's Guide. A Handbook of the Haunts and Habits of the Popular Game Fishes, Inland and...

[Pleasantville, New York: Privately Printed, 1929]. First edition. ‘It’s Better Just a Little Farther on’. Bradley was Secretary-Treasurer of the Beaverkill Trout Club from 1910-1929; the club had 43 members at the time of his writing. A brief but detailed section of reminiscences is followed by early photographs of sport..... Read More about Fly-Fishing Reminiscences (With Illustrations) of My Early Years (1908-1916) at the Beaverkill...

New York: D. Appleton, 1860. Pioneer of American Sporting Journalism. The biography of Porter, who in 1831 founded the American sporting periodical "Spirit of the Times," and served as its editor from 1835 to 1850. He also edited the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine from 1840-1844, and the annual..... Read More about Life of William T. Porter