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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1927. No. 281 of 300 copies. ‘The Good Soldier,’ Signed, one of 300 copies. The special edition of this modern classic, for which Ford supplied a new Dedication, one of only 300 hundred copies signed by the author on the flyleaf. Read More about The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion
Price: $3,000
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 Volume V : Hollyrood Palace..... 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
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Middlebury, Vermont: Bread Loaf School of English, [n.d., ca. 1929]. First Separate edition, second printing. Exceedingly Scarce ‘Birches’. The first separate edition of Frost’s celebrated poem, “Birches,” here in the second printing, distinguishable from the first by the paper stock and the smaller italic type. Read More about Birches [Bread Loaf Folder, No. 3
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
[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century..... Read More about Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter...
Price: $12,500
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1999. Deluxe edition, no. 34 of 36 numbered and signed copies. The Deluxe Edition, One of 36 Copies. The Deluxe Edition of this classic book, originally published in 1977 and subsequently revised and updated. Edmund Everett Garrison (1893-1975) was one of the great fly-rod..... Read More about A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod
Price: $1,000
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
Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1946. First edition, number 256 of 475 copies “in-quarto coquille sur pur fil rives filigrané 'L'ABALETE.'" Read More about Miracle de la Rose
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
London: J. and P. Knapton ... and W. Standby .. 1750. Second edition. Beautiful Copy. Second edition of this compilation of the games of one of the strongest players of the 17th century, complete with the terminal leaf of errata. Uncommon. Read More about Chess Made Easy: or, The Games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian; with Additional Games and...
Price: $3,750
[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
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition, first issue. Contains 14 short stories, including "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Read More about Winner Take Nothing
Price: $1,000
Twickenham: Honey Dun Press, 1980 [1982]. No. 45 of 120 limited edition copies, signed by the editor. Read More about John Henderson's Hackle Book. An Account of Twenty Years Breeding Old English Game Fowls for...
Price: $3,000
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