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: $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: $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: $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: $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: $1,500
New York: Scribners, 1903. Limited edition of 160 copies on hand-made paper. Read More Item Details for Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle. From the Book of St. Albans … With an Introductory Essay on the Contemplative Man's favorite recreation by William Loring Andrews Add to Wish List
Item #254791
Price: $175
London: printed for R. Holmes, [1859]. Read More Item Details for The Angler's Guide, with every Necessary Information for Angling … Add to Wish List
Item #231163
Price: $1,500
London: R. Tyas, 50, Cheapside; J. Menzies, Edinburgh, [n.d., 1840]. Third edition. A diminutive, popular treatise, first published in 1838. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. An outstanding copy, with provenance from angling bibliographer Thomas Westwood (1814-88), and Dean Sage, collector and author of The Ristigouche..... Read More Item Details for The Angler's Hand-Book Add to Wish List
Item #365063
Price: $1,500
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, 2006. Prosek, James. First edition, no. 19 of 100 numbered deluxe copies. The excellent and colorful history of the famed Anglers’ Club of New York, published on the occasion of its centennial. Read More Item Details for A Century with the Anglers’ Club. With Introduction, Essays and Artwork by Club Members Add to Wish List
Item #319788
Price: $150
Fishkill, New York: Willowcreek Press, 1992. First trade edition. Read More Item Details for The Dettes. A Catskill Legend Add to Wish List
Item #228876
Price: $800
London: G. Routledge, 1846. “New Edition”. A diminutive, popular treatise, first published in 1838; this is the 4th edition, according to Westwood & Satchell. The delightful hand-colored plates display a total of 24 flies. Read More Item Details for The Angler's Hand-Book containing Concise Instructions for Every Department of the Art Add to Wish List
Item #252887
Price: $200
Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel, 1971. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. Read More Item Details for Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William Hardy Eshbaugh and the role he played in its early development Add to Wish List
Item #228883
Price: $250
Van Buren, AR: Thayer Bros. Print, n.d., ca 1890s]. First edition. The object of this Association shall be to create and foster a public sentiment in favor of the protection of the Fish and Game in the State of Arkansas, … and to procure the stocking of the streams and..... Read More Item Details for Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren, Ark Add to Wish List
Item #314089
Price: $150
Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Company, 1897. “How many times I've wandered with a home-made rod and line / To the softly running brook and shady glen...”. An attractive turn-of-the-century angling item. Read More Item Details for When I Was a Boy: sheet music Add to Wish List
Item #32838
Price: $750
[Asbury Park, New Jersey]: 1924. Nicely produced club book, illustrated with portraits of members, photographs of fishing, line drawings, and a good group of articles. “New Record Tuna Catch” by Claude E. Holgate mentions Zane Grey. Van Campen Heilner (author of Salt Water Fishing, 1937) was president of the club..... Read More Item Details for Asbury Park Fishing Club 1924 Add to Wish List
Item #314193
Price: $800
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, limited issue of 222 copies, with two colored plates of flies loosely inserted. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. Read More Item Details for The Fly and the Fish Add to Wish List
Item #43256
Price: $650
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, limited issue of 222 copies, with two inserted color plates of flies. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. Read More Item Details for The Fly and the Fish Add to Wish List
Item #244480
Price: $900
New York: The Anglers’ Club of New York, Macmillan Company, 1951. First edition, one of 222 copies, with two sets of the extra suite of plates. One of the most sought-after modern books on flies and fly-fishing, in its rarest and most desirable state. This copy with the handsome bookplate..... Read More Item Details for The Fly and the Fish Add to Wish List
Item #319825
![Item #246510 Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title]. Fred Auger](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/246510.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764093187)
Price: $1,750
[N.p., Vancouver? August 1961]. Privately printed account of a fishing trip by Donald Bates of Portland, B.C. lumber Baron H.R. MacMillan, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Leigh Stevenson, and “one Indian” (the author, Fred Auger, publisher of the Vancouver Province newspaper) for steelhead, grayling, and salmon on the Kvichak River in western..... Read More Item Details for Alaskan Holiday in the Land of the Willa-Waw [Cover title] Add to Wish List
Item #246510
Price: $250
London: Country Life Limited, [1930]. Wilkinson, Norman. First edition. Read More Item Details for An Angler's Anthology. Collected by .. Add to Wish List
Item #255016
Price: $1,000
[N.p: Privately printed], 1936. Fourth edition, no. 92 of 250 copies initialled by the author. Review of the tarpon in literature, pointers on angling for tarpon, and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon", at pp. 147-150. Privately printed, and re-issued in several editions through 1951. All are scarce. Inscribed by..... Read More Item Details for The Tarpon Add to Wish List
Item #313804