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.
Philadelphia: 1925. Team Photograph for the Second Colored World Series. An extraordinarily rare image of the second Colored... Read More about Colored World Series. Kansas City vs. Hilldale. Philadelphia Pa. Oct. 8th 1925 at Phila Nat...
Price: $27,500
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. One of 50 Copies. “A very interesting journal with..... Read More about Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923
Price: $3,000
Poona: ca. 1900-1905. The first leaf caption titled in ink "Ruth's first brush, given by J.A. Lord Esq. M.F.H./Snapshots by Capt. Jennings" and a second contemporary hand has written in pencil "Bombay Hunt ... 1905." The seventeen card leaves of this early album have been ,The images generally fine, the..... Read More about album of a Bombay hunt made by a young girl
Price: $2,000
London: John B. Day, 1875. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST. 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. /..... Read More about A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well...
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. Read More about A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," By an Old Man Well...
Price: $5,000
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 about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man … with...
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 about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with...
Price: $5,500
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 about A Quaint Treatise on “Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” By An Old Man…with...
Price: $13,500
New York: E.P. Dutton & company (imprint on front cover), [ca. 1907?]. Scarce Aldin Juvenile. 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..... Read More about The Happy Annual
Price: $150
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. First Edition. A lighthearted look at sport and camping in the Canadian wilds. Read More about Salmon-fishing in Canada by a Resident
Price: $300
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The Log of the North Shore Club. Paddle and Portage on the Hundred Trout Rivers of Lake Superior
Price: $500
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 about A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk
Price: $7,000
New York: Press of Rogers & Sherwood 21 and 23 Barclay Street, [1890]. UNRECORDED. 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..... Read More about Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890....
Price: $450
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front. Read More about The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling
Price: $600
Chicago: Rand McNally, [1960]. Second impression of first American edition (from the English sheets). "Perhaps the most common of Anderson's works, this book includes hunts for the panther of the title as well as tiger near Chordi, leopard in the Hyderabad region, bison in the Gedesal forests, and other exciting..... Read More about The Black Panther of Sivanipalli
Price: $150
London: printed for R. Holmes, [1859]. Read More about The Angler's Guide, with every Necessary Information for Angling …
Price: $175
New York: The Anglers' Club of New York, 1956. First edition, one of 750 copies. Read More about The Anglers' Club Story: Our First Fifty Years 1906-1956
Price: $200
New York: Privately Printed by The Anglers’ Club of New York, 1962. First, limited edition, one of 500 copies. A collection of angling prose and verse by David McCord, Francis W. Hatch, Edward Weeks, Leslie P. Thompson, and Edmund Ware Smith. ("The cod / Is odd. / The Cape Codder..... Read More about Well Dressed Lines, Stripped from the Reels of Five New Englanders
Price: $150
Manchester: Abel Haywood and Son, 1883, 1882 & 1894. Second Edition of the First Series and Firsts of the rest. Papers given at the monthly meeting of the Club. A very attractive set and very scarce in the triple decker format. Read More about Angler’s Evenings. Papers by Members of the Manchester Angler’s Association. 1st - 3rd Series
Price: $300
Beaverton, Oregon: The Touchstone Press, 1974. No. 335 of 1200 copies, signed by the author. Fly Fishing Around the World. The author's adventures fly fishing around the world, nicely illustrated. Read More about You Should Have Been Here Yesterday. With a preface by Roderick Haig-Brown
Price: $225
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Coming to a Fly”
Price: $300
No. 26 of 100 copies. Read More about Angling print:”Rising to a Fly”
Price: $300
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, No. 774 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production, in better condition than usually encountered. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $500
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, #486 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $400
Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel, 1971. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
Price: $200
New York: Metroploitan Job Print 224-232 West 26th St, [1895]. Read More about Modern Pedigrees
Price: $400