INSCRIBED TO HIS WIFE
Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 4 of 950 copies, inscribed by the... Read More about Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room
Price: $3,000
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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
‘a little paradise of comfort’
Jekyl Island Club. Brunswick, Georgia, 1916.
[New York]: [Photogravure and Color Co.] Compliments of Charles Lanier, 1916. Second edition (first published in 1911). ‘a little paradise of comfort’. Private sporting club founded in 1886, with a membership limited to one hundred, including Pierpont Morgan, Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Wm. Rockefeller, Erastus Corning, and Marshall Field; with grounds..... Read More about Jekyl Island Club. Brunswick, Georgia, 1916
Price: $3,500
Act of Incorporation and Constitution and By-laws of the West Jersey Game Protective Society Incorporated April 3d, 1873. Organized May...
[Philadelphia: 1883]. Compendium of Game Laws and tables of close seasons for the mid-Atlantic states, with rules of various trap shooting clubs: Rhode Island, New York, Long Island, Hurlingham (England). and Ranelagh. With gun and ammunitiona makers’ ads at end. The Constitution and By-laws of the West Jersey Game Protective Society..... Read More about Act of Incorporation and Constitution and By-laws of the West Jersey Game Protective Society...
Price: $125
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
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Pigsticking in the Punjab, 1929-30
Ferozepore Tent Club. Log Book. Season 1929 [bound with:] Season 1930 [Cover title].
Ferozepore: Muir Printing Works, 1929-30. First editions, all published. Pigsticking in the Punjab, 1929-30. Printed record of the organized pig hunting seasons of the Ferozepore Tent Club. Ferozepore is located on the Sutlej Rivier in Punjab. The compiler of the 1929 Log Book, Major K.M. Agnew, notes that this was the..... Read More about Ferozepore Tent Club. Log Book. Season 1929 [bound with:] Season 1930 [Cover title
Price: $2,500
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
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...
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
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[Thoughts while Fox Hunting].
[London: Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1833]. Plates: 1. Going a Pace 2. Putting a Good Head to It 3. A Regular Purl 4. Feeling a Brook 5. Pounded 6. Rather Stale. Read More about Thoughts while Fox Hunting
Price: $2,000
First Wheel.
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1983]. Limited edition, no. 695 of 1,000 copies, signed by the author. Read More about First Wheel
Price: $150
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Second Wheel. [A White Hunter's Diary 1947-67 Or "From Hero to Cad in a Few Decades"].
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1985]. Limited edition, no. 695 of 1,000 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Autobiogtraphy of this famous white hunter's life from 1947 to 1967. The second part. Read More about Second Wheel. [A White Hunter's Diary 1947-67 Or "From Hero to Cad in a Few Decades"
Price: $150
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...
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
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