In Dust Jacket
Trout.
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Burke, Edgar. First trade edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about Trout
Price: $750
April marks the beginning of the trout season in the northeastern United States. This short list of books includes nice copies of standard works such as Jennings’ A Book of Trout Flies (1935), Mary Orvis Marbury’s Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), and Southard’s Trout Fly-Fishing in America (1914). Also well represented are modern authors, Dana Lamb, Thomas McGuane, Paul Schullery, Ernie Schwiebert, and others. Happy reading!
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Burke, Edgar. First trade edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about Trout
Price: $750
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1938. Burke, Edgar. No. 29 of 149 copies; signed “Yours Sincerely, Ray Bergman’. Read More about Trout
Price: $2,500
[Minnesota: 1909]. Group of photos depicting a winter hunting trip to Trout Lake Minnesota. Printed card to inner cover lists the following members present for this trip: B. W. How, R. M. Wolvin, J. M. Truby, M. J. O'Rourke, and H. W. Brown [his name is gilt-stamped to upper cover..... Read More about Trout Lake, Minn. Dec. 10-19, 1909 [cover title, stamped in gilt
Price: $750
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1977]. First trade edition. Inscribed to Jim & Catherine Deren. A “real book, full of memories and hopes, stories and trout talk, with something of that hallowed mist that hovers around the Willowemoc and the Beaverkill” (from the foreword). Inscribed on the half title “Best wishes to..... Read More about Catskill Flytier. My Life, Times, and Techniques. Introduction by Sparse Grey Hackle
Price: $350
Denver: Chian, Hardy & Co, 1884. First edition. Litchfield Copy. The author of this work was a Denver judge who signed the work using the pseudonym "Bourgeois" at its end. Read More about With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters
Price: $375
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. New and Revised Edition. Inscribed "Come & see what my trust will have to tell on you Edward R. Hewitt." Read More about Telling on the Trout
Price: $250
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Unusual in jacket. Read More about Telling on the Trout
Price: $200
[Upper Dam, Maine: May 23-30, 1920]. Edition of 20 copies. Poem describing a fishing trip to Maine sponsored by the Oxford Paper Co. for a number of New York notables, among them George Semken and William Edwin Rudge. Siegel copy is signed Nathaniel R. Hopkins at the portait frontispiece; Yale..... Read More about “The Hoppiad” By A. Farfromhomer
Price: $3,750
New York: Privately printed for The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1926. First edition. No. 263 of 350 copies. Although it pre-dates the use of the Derrydale imprint, this book is considered the first book of the Press. Read More about American Trout Streams: A Discussion of the Problems Confronting Anglers in the Preservation,...
Price: $400
New York: O. Judd Co., David Judd, Pres't, 751 Broadway, 1887; 1884. First edition of Keene, later edition of the Roosevelt. With Fly Tying Materials. A finely bound copy of a choice American book, from the library of Dr. Samuel W. Lambert (1859-1942), a noted New York physician, bibliophile and..... Read More about Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. [Bound after:] The Game Fish of the Northern States and the...
Price: $750
[Boston?]: 1914-1919. An excellent and fully captioned photograph album of summer trout fishing and camping in the Rangeley district, at Loon Lake, Maine, and other places of interest. The photographer is unnamed but evidently from Boston or the north shore, with some connections further south on Long Island. The album..... Read More about Maine Photo Album: Trout Fishing at Loon Lake, ca. 1915
Price: $2,250
Far Hills, NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1996. Swan, John. De Luxe Edition, copy no. 9 of 67 copies for sale, signed by author and artist. One of 67 Copies. A superb book, a collection of observations, reflections and experiences by one of the great angling writers of this or any..... Read More about Live Water
Price: $1,250
[Boston: Lawrence Durborow, Inc, n.d., ca. 1920s]. First edition. Founded in 1890 with a lease of 120,000 acres, Parmachenee Club is one of the oldest and most exclusive of the Maine fishing clubs. The Parmachenee Belle fly was invented by Henry P. Wells, a member since the 1890s. Rare... Read More about The Story of the Parmachenee Club. Parmachenee Lake, Maine
Price: $1,250
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. First edition, no. 166 of 199 copies signed by the author. Harold G. Pickering was a past president of the Anglers' Club of New York, and editor of The Anglers' Club Bulletin; this was his second book. Despite the wear to the spine, a...... Read More about Dog-Days on Trout Waters
Price: $1,250
Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A: Privately printed and issued by Louis Rhead, 217 Ocean Avenue, 1921. First edition. Rare. Rhead's rare, privately printed, and ephemeral work, offering a synthesis of Halford and the anglophile American dry fly authors (Gill and La Branche), specifically addressed to an American audience. His American Trout Stream..... Read More about How to Fish the Dry Fly Floating on the Surface ... A description of the American and English Dry...
Price: $650
[Easthampton, Mass: Cheloniidae Press, 1986]. First edition, Number 22 of 35 copies, signed by the artist. One of 35 Copies. Beautiful series of etchings of trout and flies, with an essay by Stephen Bodio and an afterword by the artist. A fine production. Read More about Trout. Brook, Brown & Rainbow
Price: $1,750
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First edition, no. 20 of 100 Large Paper copies. Borden Copy, Finely Bound. A classic of American sport, comprising chapters by Dean Sage on Atlantic Salmon, C.H. Townsend & H.M. Smith on the Pacific Salmons, and William C. Harris on the Trouts of America..... Read More about Salmon and Trout. The American Sportsman's Library. Edited by Caspar Whitney
Price: $1,750
New York: Sportsman's Edge Press, 1975. First edition, no. 389 of 589. Reproduced from the author's elegant calligraphic manuscript. With distinguished provenance. Read More about Trout Flies. Foreword by Arnold Gingrich
Price: $650
[New York: Nick Lyons Books] [American Museum of Fly Fishing, Manchester, VT, 1987]. One of 105 copies (100 for sale), numbered on frontispiece and colophon, and signed by the author. One of 100 copies. The finely produced deluxe edition of this substantial and interesting history. An essential book. Read More about American Fly Fishing. A History
Price: $1,500
London: André Deutsch, [1978]. First edition, no. 406 of 750 copies signed by the author, with a mounted fly tied by Schwiebert inset in mount. The deluxe issue of this standard, indispensable work. Read More about Trout
Price: $750
Philadelphia: 1898. First edition. The Language of Trout Flies. Read More about A Dictionary of Trout and Bass Flies
Price: $500
New York: Dutton, 1914. First edition, no. 71 of 100 Deluxe copies, signed by the author. Inscribed Presentation Copy, with Photograph. An early and authoritative work, finely illustrated. An essential part of an American angling library, here in the deluxe issue, and with an uncommon presentation inscription from the author..... Read More about Trout Fly-fishing in America
Price: $3,750
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1914. First edition. Southard "had the first fish camp built on the Kennebago ... kept very complete records of Kennebago Lake (Rangeley, Maine) fishing, including sky and weather conditions" (Bruns). Chapter XVI, pp. 217-224, deals with “Trout Fly-Fishing in the Rangeley Region” An important pre-war..... Read More about Trout Fly-Fishing in America
Price: $1,000
Washington: 1876. First edition. In the Yellowstone: "Such fishing I have never had before" One of the earliest descriptions of Yellowstone, being the account of a hunting expedition to the north-western territories undertaken by the author and six officers (plus a contingent of enlisted men) including US Secretary of War..... Read More about A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August and September, 1875. From the Journal of...
Price: $22,500