A Private Affair
New York: Privately Printed at The Derrydale Press for Colonel Wood King, [1941]. First separate edition. A splendid... Read More about A Private Affair
Price: $4,000
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RARE — One of 100 Copies
Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat.
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More about Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat
Price: $500
An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels … also, instructions for attaining...
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791. Second edition. “The total want of a treatise in the English language such as the present … is the principal inducement the author has, in offering to the public what he originally intended only for his own use and amusement.” (Preface)..... Read More about An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels...
Price: $500
A Beautiful Copy
A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:]...
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. A Beautiful Copy. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). A superior copy in choice condition. Read More about A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of...
Price: $1,750
The Sportsman's Book for India.
London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1904. First edition, with errata. Read More about The Sportsman's Book for India
Price: $225
Sport in Europe.
London: Sands and Co, 1901. First edition. Articles on the varieties of shooting and angling in every European country, including Russia and the Turkish Empire. Read More about Sport in Europe
Price: $550
Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890
Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89 to Apl 3/90...
V.p: 1889-90. Record of a Hunting Trip to Alaska, 1889-1890. Album of drawings and photographs by an accomplished amateur artist, Thomas Gilbert Bowick, during a hunting trip in Oregon and Alaska with his brother John Robie Bowick in 1889 and 1890. The brothers, apparently of English extraction, were part owners... Read More about Random Sketches on a Hunting Trip through Mexico, the Western States, and Alaska T.G. B. May 4/89...
Price: $22,500
ONLY COPY
Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed Privately as...
Brockton, Mass: Harold C. Keith, April, 1931. First edition. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four, organized by H. Wendell Endicott, comprised Endicott, George Perry, Latham Reed, and Harold C. Keith, whose diary for 14 August to 7... Read More about Being the Diary of a Hunting Trip in the Interior of Alaska in the Summer of 1930. Printed...
Price: $10,000
Deluxe Issue
Confederate Arms.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More about Confederate Arms
Price: $750
Forty Fine Ladies.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929. Aldin, Cecil. First Edition, Number 85 of 250 books signed by the author and the illustrator. Selection of foxhunting verse (collected from Punch), with Aldin’s deft illustrations. Read More about Forty Fine Ladies
Price: $500
INSCRIBED BY ALDIN
Berkshire Vale. Poems by ….
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ALDIN. Inscribed obn ffep "To Mrs. George Philips from Cecil Aldin." Read More about Berkshire Vale. Poems by …
Price: $350
Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with a Memoir and Descriptive Notes by...
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1936. Aldin, Cecil. First American edition from English sheets. Read More about Hunting Scenes. Forty Sketches of Hunting Scenes and Countries, selected and arranged by... with ...
Price: $250
Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”.
London: J.M. Dent, 1906. First edition. Read More about Recollections of a Bison & Tiger Hunter. By “Felix”
Price: $175
The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne.
London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley) The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain... Read More about The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descriptions in English and French ... Chasse et...
Price: $30,000
A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages" and Exhibiting the Manners, Costumes, Character and Field...
[London]: Privately Printed by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" 1930. Number 36 of the first 250 for Great Britain of an edition of 400, signed by Mr Schwerdt. Read More about A Panorama of the Progress of Life fashionably Displayed Illustrating 'shakespeare's Ages"...
Price: $275
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“Extremely Rare"
Some Do, and Some Do Not; It Is All a Notion [… by] Ben Tally Ho.
London: S. and J. Fuller, [1821]. First edition. “Extremely Rare" “These plates depict the sundry incidents connected with the sport of hunting and are executed in Alken’s most brilliant style. Comprising: Getting into a difficulty Getting over a difficulty Getting a Dive Getting into a Bog Getting a Fall Getting..... Read More about Some Do, and Some Do Not; It Is All a Notion [… by] Ben Tally Ho
Price: $3,000
Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life.
London: Henry Colburn, Publishers, 1846. First edition. The author served in Canada in the suppression of the French Canadian uprising of 1837-8. In this work, Levinge describes his military service, impressions of the wildlife and sporting of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, "A Race Through the United States" south to... Read More about Echoes from the Backwoods; or Sketches of Transatlantic Life
Price: $1,400
UNRECORDED
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
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: $500
UNRECORDED
Trap Shooting Rules of the American Shooting Association (Limited). Revised January 7th, 1890. Organized Feb. 11, 1889. New York, January 1890.
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
The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports.
Boston: M.M. Ballou, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Street, 1855. First edition. One of the rarest of early American illustrated sporting books, exceedingly rare in the original wrappers. As of the Van Winkle Sale only two copies were known with the wrappers; and Ernest Gee, in his Introduction to the Derrydale..... Read More about The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports
Price: $2,750
The Black Panther of Sivanipalli.
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
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 79 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
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 341 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
Tales of a Big Game Guide.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. First edition, no. 16 of 950 copies. An attractive late Derrydale production. Read More about Tales of a Big Game Guide
Price: $375
The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects and fancy pursuits; containing every thing...
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-28. Alken, Henry. First Edition, with rare Number for June 1828 and the leaf of Errata in Volume II. One of the great appeals of this journal is the breadth of subjects covered. The primary emphasis is on hunting, shooting, and the turf, but... Read More about The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; a Magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects...
Price: $15,000