[Miami]: The Florida East Coast Hotel Company, [1903]. First edition. “How would a tarpon weighing 185 pounds suit you?… the plain unvarnished truth is more startling than anything you’d care to risk telling.” Exceedingly scarce tarpon fishing pamphlet, issued by the Royal Palm Hotel for the 1904 season, from January..... Read More about The Judge’s Tarpon. A Comedy of the Royal Palm

[New York]: Ca. 1940s. A tennis player, in playing garb and racket under his arm, pauses for a deep swig from his flask. "William Steig is the doyen of New Yorker artists, having contributed to the magazine since 1930. He is the author of more than forty books, including many..... Read More about Original drawing for a New Yorker magazine cartoon

[N.p., Minneapolis? n.d., 1907]. Privately printed account of a Texas hunt, in late December 1906 and early January 1907, out of Houston, organized by oilman John S. Bonner, dedicatee of the book; J.D. Fry, B. & O. railroad; J.C. Weaver, Dallas engineer & “machinery man”; J.F. McDonough, Murray Manufacturing, Dallas;..... Read More about Sketch of the Events of a Hunt in Southwestern Texas

London: London Stereoscopic & Photo Company, Limited 106 and 108 Regent Street, [n.d., 1888]. First edition. Caribou, wild sheep, and bear hunting, trapping, ice-fishing, and outdoor life in the Rocky Mountains in Kootway, British Columbia, by J. Turner-Turner, author of Three Years Hunting and Trapping (1888), whose wife accompanied him..... Read More about Life in the Backwoods. From Original Photographs

London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand, 1808. First Bagster edition, Mercier and Co. Octavo edition. Read More about The Compleat Angler …

New York: James Cummins Bookseller, 1989. Copy "H" of 26 copies, with leaf from the 1653 first edition of The Compleat Angler tipped in. Signed by Rodolphe Coigney. Read More about A Bibliography of Izaak Walton

London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. The First Walton. First edition of a landmark of English literature. The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne (although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien); p. 245 (with a...... Read More about The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, being a discourse of Fish and Fishing,...

Philadelphia: Russell & Creamer, 1882. First edition. “The ‘Wilde’ Æsthetes of 1882”. One of the rarest of this series of privately printed volumes produced by this Philadelphia sporting club, and an unusual demonstration of the popularity of Oscar Wilde during his American tour of 1882. The verso of the title..... Read More about Log of the Twelfth Annual Cruise of the Second Presbyterian Fishing Club of Philadelphia, July...

Battle [England]: Printed by Ticehurst and Co, 1889. First edition. Thomas Alnutt Brassey, 2nd Earl (1863-1919) was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Brassey was an honorary Lieutenant in the London Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers from 1888 to 1892. He acted as Assistant Private Secretary to Earl..... Read More about Diary of a Hunting Trip, 1888