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Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press [33 Montgomery Street], 1979. First edition, Number 77 of 85 copies leather bound with real Hackles. Printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd noted on slip laid in. Read More about The Book of the Hackle
Price: $1,250
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1953]. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on the front free endpaper: "To Ronnie Duncan from T.S.E. 23.iii.54" Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a poet and playwright who was also published by Faber and Faber. This is an early inscription. Read More about The Confidential Clerk
Price: $2,400
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1824-46. The First, Second, and Third Series are all first editions. Read More about Original Letters, Illustrative of English History Including Numerous Royal Letters: From...
Price: $1,250
New York: Smith and Haas, 1935. First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. One of 310 Copies, Signed. Read More about Pylon
Price: $2,750
London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765. Second edition, first edition with English text. First Edition with English Text of the Greatest English Fencing Manual. The second edition, and the first edition with English text, of the “chief work in the English literature of fencing” (Castle, p. 212). Angelo’s venerable School..... Read More about The School of Fencing, With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions...
Price: $7,500
February-March, 1887. The Florida Frontier, 1887. Assembled by a party of men on an extended tour and hunting expedition in the area, the album documents numerous locations in southwest Florida in the period immediately following the extension of the Florida Southern Railroad into the Peace River region in 1886. All..... Read More about Album of 63 photographs of Outdoor Scenes in the Myakka Frontier, Peace River, and Fort Myers...
Price: $10,000
Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Fore-Edge Views of Scotland. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle..... Read More about The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Price: $7,500
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
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London: Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; David Bryce, 44, Paternoster ROw, 1863; n.d. [1864]. First editions. Crime! And Squalor! And Melodrama! Forrester's Revelations of a Private Detective was originally issued in yellow-backed pictorial boards (Sadleir illustrates the front cover); an early and popular work, the title was re-issued in..... Read More about The Revelations of a Private Detective. [Bound with :] The Streets of London founded upon Dion...
Price: $1,000
[Boston: Printed by Dard Hunter, Jr, 1939]. Proof copies of the first separate edition. Printer’s Proof Copies. Laid in is a photocopy of the handbill titled “The Colonial Society of Massachusetts” detailing the poem’s history: “This poem was written and delivered by Fobert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November..... Read More about A Considerable Speck
Price: $6,000
Paris: Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé, Capelle & Renand, 1809. First edition. With a splendid ‘Carte Gastronomique de la France’. The Avertissement states that the Cours gastronomique is published under the heading of Second Edition, although it appears here for the first time in its entirety; earlier chapters had been published..... Read More about Cours Gastronomique, ou les diners de Manant-Ville, ouvrage anecdotique, philosophique, et...
Price: $1,000
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1889. First edition. Rare large-format work on sport in late 19th-century America, including Frederic Remington's first two published prints in color, a rare A.B. Frost image of deer-hunting and images from Fred. S. Cozzens and other top illustrators of the day. The plates (with titles taken from..... Read More about Sport or Fishing and Shooting
Price: $17,500
London: Thomas C. Jack; T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1883; 1887. Read More about The History of Freemasonry. Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc.… Derived...
Price: $600
[N.p: Commonwealth Press-New England Offset Co. Inc, 1958]. Ripley, A. Lassell. First edition, no. 29 of 150 copies, signed by the authors, additionally inscribed to Clifford H. Byrnes. Signed by the Authors. The history of this private fishing club in Uxbridge, Mass., with membership lists and fine illustrations by Ripley..... Read More about The Laurel Brook Club 1902-1957
Price: $1,500
London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1670. First edition. "As a poet Greville has always been admired for the difficulty of his writing, but his reputation was never higher than in the twentieth century, especially in the United States, where his standing as a poet of the plain style..... Read More about The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke: being Poems of Monarchy and Religion. Never Before...
Price: $1,250
[Chicago: printed by Magill Westheimer Co.] Published by Santa Catalina Island Company, 1919. First separate edition, excerpted from Tales of Fishes, 1919. SCARCE. Scarce promotional pamphlet on the appeal of Santa Catalina as a deep sea fishing destination, excerpted from Grey’s Tales of Fishes, published in the same year by..... Read More about Great Game Fishing at Catalina
Price: $3,000
London: Chapman, Hall & Co, 1892. First edition, large paper copy. Read More about Shooting and Salmon Fishing. Hints and Recollections
Price: $500
London: Macmillan, 1888. First edition, limited to 684 copies. Read More about Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively and Commonplace
Price: $2,250
Chicago: Hazelton, 1921. First edition. Printed by Eastman Bros. 542 South Dearborn Street. With fine provenance, from the library of American sporting author and collector Harry Worcester Smith. Read More about Wildfowling Tales. From the Great Ducking Resorts of the Continent ... Compiled and Published by...
Price: $1,250
New York: Printed for Subscribers only by Croscup and Sterling Company, [1902]. Düsseldorf edition, number 15 of 250 copies printed on Holland Paper, signed by the publishers. This was one of the last works by Charles Leland. He died in 1903. Read More about The Prose and Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland
Price: $2,250
1976. Original Drawings. A beautiful album of the original drawings for Angling for Atlantic Salmon by Shirley E. Woods (Angler’s & Shooter’s Press, 1976). Read More about Original Pencil Drawings for ‘Angling for for Atlantic Salmon’ by Shirley E. Woods 1976
Price: $5,000
Los Angeles: Bright Dot Publications, [1980]. First edition. From Hepburn to her Agent: Tracy's Daughter's Cat Photos. A touching copy, rich with Tracy-Hepburn associations, featuring the photographs of Spencer Tracy's daughter Susie (b. 1934), to illustrate the life of a favorite deaf cat. This copy is inscribed by Hepburn to..... Read More about Pritt, the True Story of a Deaf Cat and Her Family
Price: $1,500
New York: 1979-1985. Charming and revealing collection of personal and business letters from Hepburn to her literary agent Freya Manston, with whom she had a long and amicable professional relationship. In 1990 Manston notably negotiated the terms of Hepburn’s 1990 autobiography with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Most of the correspondence..... Read More about Archive of 58 Typed and Autograph Letters Signed ("Kate Hep," "K. Hep," and...
Price: $5,000
New York: Privately Printed for The Jockey Club, 1922-1980. First editions. COMPLETE SET. A cornerstone of any racing library, including the now very difficult to find Vosburgh volume, and the final volume in the series by William H. Rudy. Read More about Racing in America 1665-1979
Price: $2,750
Venedig [i.e., Vienna: printed for the author by Paul Kaltschmidt], 1926. One of 100 copies, this being no. 79. With 4-Page Typescript Story, 'Der verirrte böse Hund'. Rare novella, issued in an edition of just one hundred copies by the Viennese-born author, dramatist, and artist Friedrich (Fritz) von Herzmanovsky-Orlando (1877-1954)..... Read More about Der Kommandant von Kalymnos. Ein Mysterium aus dem Rokoko der Levante. Autograph Letter, signed...
Price: $5,000