We are delighted to present our new sporting catalogue, with rare accounts of American and Asian sporting adventure, manuscript material from Frank Forester (H. W. Herbert) and notable works of angling literature, as well as golf, polo, and canoeing. Perhaps something will spark your interest.
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. A Beautiful Copy. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). A superior copy in choice condition. Read More about A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of...
Price: $1,750
![Item #313005 Ferozepore Tent Club. Log Book. Season 1929 [bound with:] Season 1930 [Cover title]....](/pictures/thumb/313005.jpg?v=1669653297)
Ferozepore: Muir Printing Works, 1929-30. First editions, all published. Pigsticking in the Punjab, 1929-30. Printed record of the organized pig hunting seasons of the Ferozepore Tent Club. Ferozepore is located on the Sutlej Rivier in Punjab. The compiler of the 1929 Log Book, Major K.M. Agnew, notes that this was..... Read More about Ferozepore Tent Club. Log Book. Season 1929 [bound with:] Season 1930 [Cover title
Price: $2,500
Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7..... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...
Price: $10,000
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. A RARE EXAMPLE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, with title on upper cover and advertisment for 6 works published by McLean on lower cover. Five copies listed in ABPC since 1977, 2 in wrappers. The work tells the amusing tale of the new wealthy Londoner on..... Read More about A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
Price: $8,500
London: Thomas McLean, 1822. First edition. Alken's hilarious, multi-image plates depict a stunning variety of catastrophes, elaborating a favorite theme of his: the pitfalls of fun and games, especially any involving a horse or a gun. Read More about Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume 1 (all published
Price: $2,500
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. Rare and presumably earliest edition of these standard rules for trap shooting. Preceding the two recorded editions, published at Boston in 1893 and 1898, the latter described in Riling 1449. OCLC records only a single location..... Read More about Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890....
Price: $500
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. One of 25 Copies, Inscribed to His Wife. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and..... Read More about The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of...
Price: $10,000
New York: Scribners, 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Read More about Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay...
Price: $1,500
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-28. Alken, Henry. First Edition, with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting, shooting, and the turf, but..... Read More about The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects...
Price: $15,000
London: Rudolph Ackermann 191, Regents Street, 1837. Alken, Henry. Second Edition, Reprinted (With Considerable Additions) From The New Sporting Magazine. Read More about Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton...with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving,...
Price: $1,150
[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
[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
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
New York: [The Derrydale Press], 1928. Fine 1928 Original Duck Decoy Watercolor by Joel Barber. A fine, large rendering, very much reduced in the Derrydale Press and Windward House editions of Barber's classic book. It shows "a Stevens Widgeon … In this decoy the painting is original and still shows the..... Read More about Male Widgeon Decoy: watercolor of a Stevens Factory decoy
Price: $12,500
London: Rowland Ward Ltd, 1962. One of a small number of copies specially bound. Bound in Lion Skin. Read More about Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game. XIth Edition (Africa
Price: $2,500
London: Published by the Author, March 1842. First edition. Heckscher Copy. Heckscher copy of the rare first edition with 38 pages. Later editions of this widely reprinted work were expanded to 48 and subsequently 130 pp. Read More about W. Blacker’s Art of Angling and Complete System of Fly Making, and Dying of Colours … Shewing...
Price: $5,750
![Item #264007 Golf. Poetical Putts. [Mock-up of Unpublished Book]. [With:] [Archive of Golf Poetry...](/pictures/thumb/264007.jpg?v=1669652066)
[Boston: n.d., ca. 1905]. First American Golf Poet Prepares Material for Publication. Frank J. Bonnelle (1850-1921), a longtime editor at the Boston Herald, contributed a large number of occasional poems to that newspaper and was the first contributor of poems to "The Golfer," a periodical published in Boston at the..... Read More about Golf. Poetical Putts. [Mock-up of Unpublished Book]. [With:] [Archive of Golf Poetry and related...
Price: $2,750
New York: Mail and Express Job Print, 1904. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite the title “Compliments of the author J.R. Bradley” Big Game hunting by the author and his friend T.T. Reese in the Stickeen (sic) River Country. The trials of traveling consume the first 28 pp., after which are..... Read More about Hunting Big Game in Northwest British Columbia
Price: $3,250
[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...
Price: $15,000
New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., and for sale by John J. Brown & Co, 1845. First edition. The Rare First. Sage Sale: "Said to be the first book on angling written by an American and printed in America". The book describes the more important American fish and how to..... Read More about The American Anglers Guide. Being a compilation from the works of popular English authors, from...
Price: $2,250
[N.p., Massachusetts: 1915]. Hunting in the Sheslay River, British Columbia, 1915. Superb record of an expedition by Harvard graduates of the class of 1915 Richard Bullock (of Fitchburg, Mass.) and Robert Winthrop Kean (of the prominent New Jersey family), in the Carriar district of British Columbia. The party went in..... Read More about Typescript diary and photograph album of a 1915 hunting expedition to British Columbia
Price: $7,500
[Boston: n.d., ca. 1908?]. First and only edition. Brief humorous account, finely printed of this hunting and fishing club (with by-laws and roster of members), first organized in 1908 at Bova's restaurant in Boston after an outing to Damariscotta, Maine. The three members were Travers D. Carman (whose card is..... Read More about The We Three Club
Price: $750
Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office, 1873. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. “The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game, the entire absence of game laws, and the friendly disposition of the..... Read More about The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China
Price: $10,000