Rare books, first editions, prints and original art related to sports and leisure. Specializing in angling/fishing, fencing, golf, polo, hunting/shooting and the Derrydale Press.
Price: $900
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). Read More Item Details for A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:] The Big Game of Baltistan and Ladakh Add to Wish List
Item #317156
![Item #237400 Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/237400.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764093316)
Price: $300
Poughkeepsie: [Privately Printed], 1893. First edition. The first half of the book contains a memoir or collection of letters on deer hunting, fishing, and outdoor life in the Adirondacks, Michigan, and Canada in the 1850s and 1860s. Read More Item Details for Letters from the Woods. [Editorial Correspondence.] Random Rhymes, from 20 to 70. Annual Addresses, Written for Press Carriers. Spine title: Forest, Lake and Random Rhymes] Add to Wish List
Item #237400
Price: $350
Privately printed, 1952. First edition. Uncommon memoir of this early sportsmen's club in the heart of the Adirondacks. Great photographs. Speare is also author of VERSES IN FRENCH CANADIAN PATOIS (1957), which includes poems relating to the Adirondacks. Read More Item Details for Hollywood Club Memoirs Add to Wish List
Item #243212
Price: $450
np: [1986]. First edition. Essex County, New York. Mrs Wilson states that her husband Evan M. Wilson and her brother Hugh Fosburgh put this information together. Rare, never seen. Read More Item Details for One Hundred Years in the Adirondack Wilderness. The North Woods Club 1886-1986 Add to Wish List
Item #228934
Price: $100
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1901. First American edition. Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. Read More Item Details for Sport in Europe Add to Wish List
Item #55906
Price: $150
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1905. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Salt of My Life Add to Wish List
Item #319130
Price: $200
Highland Park, Illinois: Edward Smith Manufacturing Co, 1935. An Assortment of 6 different games. Read More Item Details for After-Dinner Assortment Party Games Add to Wish List
Item #258102
Price: $3,000
Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. “A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings..... Read More Item Details for Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923 Add to Wish List
Item #313772
Price: $15,000
London: John B. Day, 1875. First edition. The very rare 1875 imprint; almost all copies bear an 1876 imprint. With numerous specimens of flies and fly-making materials in 22 sunken mounts. Presentation copy belonging to the artist. Inscribed on the title page: "James Poole Esq. / with the Editors kind..... Read More Item Details for A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published, the Original Spelling and Language Being Retained, with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies, and Samples of the Materials for Making Each Fly Add to Wish List
Item #235653
Price: $5,000
London: John B. Day, 1875. First edition. The very rare 1875 imprint; almost all copies bear an 1876 imprint. With numerous specimens of flies and fly-making materials in 22 sunken mounts. Read More Item Details for A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well Known on the Derbyshire Streams as a First-Class Fly-Fisher a Century Ago. Printed from an Old Ms. Never Before Published, the Original Spelling and Language Being Retained, with Editorial Notes and Patterns of Flies, and Samples of the Materials for Making Each Fly Add to Wish List
Item #323930
Price: $5,500
London: John B. Day, 1876. First edition, second Issue (later state or the “Unauthorized Issue” without the 2 chromolithograph plates). Issued by Day probably without Aldam's approval (he referred to them as "spurious" copies). Thus with no color plates, and with half-moon white serrated paper seals attaching the flies, which..... Read More Item Details for A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man … with editorial notes … by W.H. Aldam Add to Wish List
Item #230804
Price: $5,500
London: John B. Day, 1876 [but later]. First edition, second issue. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. This is the later state of the book, likely..... Read More Item Details for A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with editorial notes…by W.H. Aldam Add to Wish List
Item #220762
Price: $13,500
London: John B. Day, 1876. First edition, second issue. The manuscript upon which Aldam based his text appeared at auction in 1999; the author's name was revealed to be Robert Whitehead, but nothing further of the author is known. Both issues of this scarce work bear the date 1876 on..... Read More Item Details for A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with editorial notes…by W.H. Aldam Add to Wish List
Item #260236
Price: $150
New York: E.P. Dutton & company (imprint on front cover), [ca. 1907?]. A charming juvenile collaboration from Cecil Aldin and John Hassall. Aldin's contributions are of particular interest to youthful sportsmen, beginning with "The Nursery Harriers", which depicts in a series a drawings a whimsical foxhunt filled with Aldin's inimitable..... Read More Item Details for The Happy Annual Add to Wish List
Item #51970
Price: $250
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More Item Details for Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by "Sabretache." [Foreword by Gwen Aldin] Add to Wish List
Item #259265
Price: $300
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More Item Details for Salmon-fishing in Canada by a Resident Add to Wish List
Item #352522
Price: $500
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Log of the North Shore Club. Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior Add to Wish List
Item #326978
Price: $250
London: Williams and Norgate, 1927. No. 158 of 250 copies on hand made paper, signed by Sir Theodore on the limitation page. Read More Item Details for Henry Alken. With an Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook Add to Wish List
Item #11447
Price: $7,000
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. First edition. The work tells the amusing tale of the new wealthy Londoner on a trip to the countryside and the constant gaffs he makes due to his lack of understanding of the country way of life, and the danger he poses to himself and all..... Read More Item Details for A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk Add to Wish List
Item #317516
Price: $6,000
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Alken, Henry. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. “This book differs from the folio edition … Alken himself seems ot have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account of their..... Read More Item Details for The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions Add to Wish List
Item #304214
Price: $50
ACC Art Books, 2023. First edition. "Simply oozes the Ferrari mystique from every page" - Prancing Horse Magazine. Read More Item Details for Ferrari: From Inside and Outside Add to Wish List
Item #375339
Price: $500
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. 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 for..... Read More Item Details for Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890 Add to Wish List
Item #242738
Price: $450
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. 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 for..... Read More Item Details for Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890 Add to Wish List
Item #249352
Price: $10,000
[N.p: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. 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 Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton..... Read More Item Details for The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles Cotton at Beresford Hall, in Staffordshire Add to Wish List
Item #230508
Price: $250
London: Seeley, Service & Co, [ca. 1950]. The Lonsdale Library Volume XXIX. Read More Item Details for Wildfowling Add to Wish List
Item #372847