New York: Privately Printed, 1953. First edition. A Morgan's Recollections of a Noted Sporting Club. Long Point, Ontario, is a twenty-two mile land formation jutting into Lake Erie; it is one of the greatest duck marshes in the world and home to this exclusive sporting club. The Long Point Company..... Read More about Further Recollections of Long Point

[New York]: Printed by Albert B. King, 81 William St, 1894. UNRECORDED. The Carteret Gun Club was a shooting club established in 1883 in Bergen Point at the southern tip of Bayonne, New Jersey. Until the industrialization of the Bayonne waterfront during the first world war, Bayonne was “a beautiful..... Read More about The Carteret Gun Cub. Bergen Point, N.J. 1894

[N.p., Pennsylvania: 1868-1871]. Accounts of mid-nineteenth century outdoor sport and holiday travel in central Pennsylvania, by a an earnest and occasionally lyrical chronicler. The first, The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party, is a record of a trout fishing party in the summer of 1868, to a “certain secluded..... Read More about Manuscript title: The Journal of the Ten Mile Cabin Party] [and:] [Wyoming] [and:] [Our Summer...

[N.p., Cambridge]: Privately Printed, 1926. First edition, one of one hundred copies. INSCRIBED TO BIGELOW. Phillips says “This contains the comparative abundance of the game for each year. The only similar record, in a different region, is Pringle's Twenty Years, Snipe Shooting.” Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf: "For..... Read More about Wenham Lake Shooting Record and the “Farm Bag” 1897 to 1925

[Boston]: Privately Printed [by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, December 1936, 1937 & 1939]. First editions, each one of 150 copies. Each volume is inscribed to Lois Shaw from Marjorie Wiggin Prescott (whose father A.H. Wiggin built Chase into the largest bank in the United States). Read More about Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. [With:] Tales of a Sportsman's Wife. Shooting. [With:] Tales of a...

[[N.p: 1894]. Pictorial record of the Nonantum Club, an American fishing club organized from New Haven circa 1892, with lands leased on Lac des Commissaires next to the lake village of Lac Bouchette (west of Saguenay). The club is mentioned in reports of Canadian angling in Field and Stream at..... Read More about At Nonantum Club Lac Bouchette, P.Q. May 17 - June 5 1894 Come ! Hurry Up !

[Philadelphia: ca. 1966]. First edition, printed in a limited number of copies for private distribution. Largely devoted to Salmon fishing - the Miramachi, Restigouche, Upsilquitch, Patapedia, etc., with a chapter on trout in Pennsylvania, Canada, and Alaska. Heller writes “Books of this type normally are not so bountiful with fishing..... Read More about Pleasant Places

Thomasville, Ga: 1902. A nice letter from Albany sportsman and author Dean Sage, mentioning two legendary shooting clubs and graciously untangling an invitation improperly extended "When we were at Long Point I asked you to come down with me to the Okeetee Club early in Feby for some quail shooting..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“D. Sage”), to William M Barnum, 13 January 1902

Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1926. First edition. Recollections of hunting deer, waterfowl, wildcat, and turkey in Orangeburg county, South Carolina, on the Asheppo and Edisto rivers. Read More about The Happy Hunting Ground. Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina

[New York? n.d., after 1863]. A nicely executed manuscript copy of the first book on angling written and printed in English-speaking America, Seccombe’s sermon (Boston, 1743) is a rare book. This manuscript appears to have been produced in the second half of the nineteenth century. The text was not reprinted..... Read More about Business and Diversion Inoffensive of God, and Necessary for the Comfort and Support of Human...

Methuen, Mass: Chas. E. Trow & Co., Printers, 1883. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, “N W W— from the author” with ink signature of “AE Norton, Boston, Mass.,” below. Joseph Warren Smith published portions of these memoirs, which include “Fishing Biddeford Poole, Maine,” and accounts of..... Read More about Winter Talk on Summer Pastimes. A Landsman’s Log

Minneapolis: Hall, Black & Co., Printers, 1893. First edition, one of perhaps 35 copies printed. Early Account of a Shooting Trip in the Dakotas: RARE. SCARCE, the author noting that “This book contains little, it is presumed, which outsiders would particularly care to read, and hence none of the very..... Read More about Wam-dus-ky. A Descriptive Record of a Hunting Trip to North Dakota