[N.p., Ottawa?]: Privately Printed, 1934. Number 93 of 100 numbered copies. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Bessborough to W. Abbey on the front free-endpaper, "Though these fish may seem to you but minnows, the story of our trip may none the less amuse you," and dated March 1943. Additionally, Beesborough has..... Read More about A Week on the Jupiter River, Anticosti Island

Franklin, PA: The Evening News Printing Co, December, 1914. First edition, “for private distribution among friends only”. Signed by the author on the preface. Summer and Fall at Camp E-Z. Fishing and boating and camp life on French Creek, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. RARE. Contents: A day with the boys at..... Read More about Up the Creek. Being a Selection of Articles by …

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Brown, Paul. Deluxe issue, one of 50 copies, signed by Brown on the half-title and with a double page pen-and-ink drawing, signed and dated by Brown. Deluxe Issue, with Spectacular Double-Page Drawing. Excellent history of the Grand National, here in the uncommon deluxe issue..... Read More about Aintree. Grand Nationals — Past and Present

[United States]: Privately Printed, 1937. First edition [printed in an edition of 250 copies (see Biscotti, p. 83)]. Inscribed to "James C. White from Author" Anecdotal history of partridge hunting in New Hampshire by a long-time sportsman: “I hope I shall have many more years to wander slowly through the..... Read More about Partridge Rambles in which the author sets forth his reasons why he prefers to hunt that noble...

[n.p., New York?]: Privately Printed, [1924]. William E. Corey was a director of the Mechanics & Metals National Bank in New York. His boon companions on the trip were John Hill Prentice (“Badger”), Frederic N. Watriss, and Frederick C. Havemeyer (“Meyer”). The trip by private car "Constitution" left en route..... Read More about The Trail of the Buccaneers. By the Chief

New York: Outing Company, 1915. First edition. A fine chronicle of Wall Street and angling, by the financier and author of The Book of the Tarpon, and Florida Enchantments. States Bruns: “The man who cornered the gold market tells about it, and of his fishing experiences. A Classic”. Read More about Wall Street and the Wilds

London: Printed for Knight & Lacey, Paternoster-Row and Pierce Egan, 113, Strand, 1827. Lane, Theodore. First edition. Subjects illustrated by color plates include: horse racing, rat catching, dogs versus lion fight, the theatre, taverns, bull-baiting, dogs, duck hunting and rowing. Read More about Pierce Egan's Anecdotes (original and Selected) of The Turf, The Chase, The Ring, and The Stage;...

[Buffalo: n.d., ca. 1914]. Description of St. Vincent’s Island and sales prospectus. Dr. R.V. Pierce was the owner in 1909 when Dr. William T. Hornaday wrote the article reprinted here. The offer of sale on page 20 is signed in type Dr. V.M. Pierce. OCLC records four copies under several..... Read More about A Mon-o-graph on St. Vincent's Game Preserve

Jacksonville, Florida: February 19, 1876. The First Florida Retiree. “Spinner, a strong nationalist, was an important adviser to Chase on matters such as the circulation of greenbacks (which bore Spinner's distinctive, hard-to-duplicate signature) and the creation of a national banking system. … Needing large numbers of reliable employees not subject..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed (“F.E. Spinner”) to Angling author George Dawson, dated...

New York: privately printed [at the Beaverkill Press], [1983]. First Edition, one of 300 deluxe copies, this marked "Binder's Copy" Signed by the author. Read More about Catskill Rivers. Birthplace of American Fly Fishing

London: Longmans, Green, 1890. First edition, no. 22 of 250 copies of the large-paper edition. Deluxe copy from the Badminton Library series, edited by one of the foremost writers on golf history, with contributions by Lord Wellwood, Sir Walter Simpson, A.J. Balfour, Andrew Lang, H.S.C. Everard, etc. Read More about Golf. [Series title: The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

London: Published by The Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Limited, 63, Carter Lane E.C, 1895. First edition. A Classic Work, in Original Cloth. Read More about The Salmon Fly. How to Dress It and How to Use It

Montana Territory: 1877. Record Yellowstone Trout, 1877. From the first reports of the Yellowstone region, such as Gen. Wm. E. Strong’s A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August and September, 1875, the word began to spread: “There is probably no river in the world the equal of..... Read More about Salmo Fontanalis / Caught in Clark's Fork of Yellowstone River M.T. / September 7th 1877 / Total...

Leeds: Goodall and Suddick, Cookbridge Street, 1885. First edition, limited to 250 copies. Numbered No. 24 on the half-title. Pritt notes, "since I first fished the Yorkshire waters, now more than twenty years ago, I have made a point of recording every matter of moment ... and in this book..... Read More about Yorkshire Trout Flies

[Detroit: [Herold Press] for private circulation only, [1904]. First edition. This lavishly produced record of a sporting trip to Yellowstone takes the form of the diary of Detroit industrialist a "tannery magnate" Carl Schmidt, and includes a section on fishing. Chapter 9, pp. 63-72, is entitled "A Fishing Trip." The..... Read More about A Western Trip

[Philadelphia]: Passenger Department, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company [Press of Allen, Lane & Scott], 1883. First edition, large paper copy. Large Paper Copy. Guidebook for outdoor sports (chiefly angling, marshland gunning, and duck shooting) on the Delaware and Maryland Peninsula. Wetzel, Bruns, and Hand describe a duodecimo pamphlet produced..... Read More about A Paradise for Gunners and Anglers

London: Alfred Miller, 137, Oxford Street, 1831. First edition. Surtees' First Book. Surtees' first book, and the only one to bear his name; it was written when the novelist-to-be was, somewhat off-handedly, practicing law in London. It deals in a straightforward way with the laws of horse-dealing and soundness, a...... Read More about The Horseman’s Manual. Being a Treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on the...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. The Autograph edition, Copy #1 of 504 sets with the frontispiece and an inserted quote signed by the author. Printed on Old Stratford paper. COPY NUMBER ONE. Volume 2 frontispierce signed by N.C. Wyeth of a fisherman catching a fish. Read More about The Works of Henry Van Dyke

London: Printed by J.G., for Rich. Marriot, 1661. Third edition. A superior copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions - there were five in his lifetime - remained anonymous. This third is a virtual reprint of the second edition, with an interesting alteration, however, to..... Read More about The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation ... The third edition much enlarged

London: W. Satchell, 1883. First edition, large paper issue, one of 100 copies. LARGE PAPER ISSUE, HECKSCHER COPY. “Of the 100 copies in quarto, 47 are presentation or bespoke copies” (from the prospectus). The essential, classic angling reference work, in its rarest state, with outstanding provenance, from the collection of..... Read More about Bibliotheca Piscatoria, a Catalogue of Books on Angling, the Fisheries and Fish-Culture, with...

Newark DE: Privately Printed, 1950. First edition, no. 177 of 200 copies, this one of about 80 copies hand bound by the author. A splendid copy, one of some 80 bound by the author. This copy comes from the Henry Bradley Martin Collection. Read More about American Fishing Books, A Bibliography from the Earliest Times up to 1948, together with A...