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Corbin Benjamin
Corbin's Advice or The Wolf Hunter's Guide. Tells How to Catch 'Em and All about the Science of Wolf Hunting
Bismarck N. D.: The Tribune Co. Printers 1900. Only edition. With illustrations from photographs in text. 76 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed buckram. Mailing panel of envelope tipped to upper cover. Very good toned a few short marginal flaws. Only edition. With illustrations from photographs in text. 76 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 'The wolf is the enemy of civilization and I want to exterminate him'. Scarce polemical guide to wolf hunting by Benjamin Corbin 1835-1912 Civil War soldier trapper hunter stockman and frontier land promoter who called himself the "boss wolf hunter." Born in Virginia he was raised in Ohio and hunted there and in Iowa before emigrating to North Dakota. Corbin boasts of eighty wolf scalps from Iowa where a bounty was paid for every wolf killed and advocates a county and state bounty for the extirmination of wolves. Corbin's Advice includes chapters on his Civil War experiences and transcripts of his struggle to get paid his wolf bounty. With discussion of the North Dakota wolf population and the cost of depredations to ranchers' flocks and herds. In Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature 2009 S. K. Robisch describes one of Corbin's trapping methods as the exemplar of "what has been done to wolves in the United States .demanding that we rethink ourselves our literature and our mythology in earnest" and concludes "Sometimes the job is to aim someone's face at Ben Corbin's advice and hold it there until revulsion gives way to awareness." Inscribed on the front flyleaf "Compliments of Benj. Corbin." This copy with a stamped address panel to J. W. Freeland Corydon Iowa. Freeland 1840-1912 was a county judge and trustee of the town. Corbin's book was printed at the offices of the Bismarck Weekly Tribune in a June 1899 issue of which Corbin advertised town lots for sale in Glencoe Emmons County with a youthful portrait of himself and a sketch of a trapping young wolves both cuts appear in the present volume. Phillips p. 87; not in Heller. OCLC: 44441706 Yale State Hist. Soc. of North Dakota The Tribune Co., Printers unknown
书商的参考编号 : 314514
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Campbell Dr. Charles A.
Traditions of Hartwood. A Narrative which has to do with the Region in the Vicinity of Hartwood Sullivan County New York. With Special Reference to the History of the Hartwood Club
Winter Park Florida: The Orange Press 1930. First and only edition. Illustrated. 155 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Near fine copy. First and only edition. Illustrated. 155 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "With a chapter of 23 pages on hunting and fishing including a chronological list of the fish and game taken by members. The Hartwood settlement is close to home about 20 miles distant. At last report the club was still functioning but without vigor because of aging members Indeed! . According to an informant there were only 215 copies of this book printed but I haven't been able to verify it." Morris Heller. Bruns C18; Heller 1:733 The Orange Press unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316067
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Atkinson George Francklin
Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates; or The Ingredients of Social Life at "Our Station" in India
London: Day & Son 1911. Fifth edition. Vignette title page and 39 plates. Printed by George Pullman. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's orange cloth elaborately decorated in gilt a.e.g. Almost fine. Fifth edition. Vignette title page and 39 plates. Printed by George Pullman. 1 vols. 4to. Abbey Travel 487; Hiler p. 52; Schwerdt I p. 47; Czech Asia p. 14 Day & Son unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316780
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Grant Madison
Hank. His Lies and Yarns by The Major
New York: Privately Printed 1937. No. 2 of 150 copies. 123 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth. Spine somewhat toned author's name neatly identified in ink on title gift inscription on flyleaf. Very good. No. 2 of 150 copies. 123 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tales of sport and adventure in the west and Alaska by Madison Grant 1865-1937 an early member of the Boone & Crockett Club. Biscotti cites a 1931 edition of 114 pp. this edition "reported slightly different format. Uncommon. Biscotti p. 275 this edition not seen by him Privately Printed unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316708
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Clark Alfred
Sport in the Low Country of Ceylon
Colombo: A. M. & J. Ferguson 1901. First edition. Frontispiece "Face of Veddah mauled by a bear" 3 other plates publisher's Advertisements. vi 158 ix 14 pp. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Red cloth spiner printed paper over boards. Faded. First edition. Frontispiece "Face of Veddah mauled by a bear" 3 other plates publisher's Advertisements. vi 158 ix 14 pp. 12mo 7-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Inscribed by the author. Inscribed on ffep "To Ed Booth/ from the/writer/Alfred Clark." "An officer in the Forest Department Clark notes that from the 'tops of the hills the low-country looks like a sea of primeval forest.' He provides his knowledge of hunting elephant leopard bear and wild buffalo in the region then continues with a discussion of sport after sambur cheetal muntjac and other game. While the information is valuable the posed photographic plates reveal amateurish attempts to paint game into the scenes. In addition there is an interesting chapter on the pristine conditions of the island before big game hunters swarmed about" Czech. Czech Asia p. 47 A. M. & J. Ferguson unknown
书商的参考编号 : 314727
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St. John Percy Bolingbroke
A Hunter's Experiences in the Southern States of America; being An Account of the Natural History of the Various Quadrupeds and Birds which are the Objects of Chase in those Countries. By Captain Flack
London: Longmans Green 1866. First edition. 359 pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Open faced cloth slipcase. Neatly recased preserving original spine spine slightly sunned Very Good bookplate of Frederick W. Skiff to front pastedown. First edition. 359 pp. 8vo. Skiff Copy. "The outstanding merit of this rare and fascinating book is the author's meticulous attention to detail based upon his wide range of activity and his particular flare for recording realistically and vividly his pursuit of the fauna of the American South" - Clark. Sabin 24639; The Edward S. Litchfield Collection p. 45; Clark III 314. Howes F-168 Longmans, Green unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316668
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Davy G. Burton
Saga of the Rockies
Manchester N.H.: Lew A. Cummings Co 1944. First edition. 15 leaves of plates from photographs; 39 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black morocco and maroon cloth. Fine copy in original glassine. First edition. 15 leaves of plates from photographs; 39 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hunting trip after bighorn sheep mountain goat and moose in the Canadian Rockies in late August and early September 1944. Davy and his friend Maurice Miller travelled six days on horseback west from Wembley Alberta to hunt in sheep country in the mountains "between the Porcupine River and Sheep Creek". Well written and with good captioned photographic illustrations. Heller 1:75; Biscotti p. 108 "Rare"; Hand D65. OCLC: 35182877 U. Wash. Lew A. Cummings Co unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316663
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Rolando Le Sieur Guzman
The Modern Art of Fencing . Carefully Revised and Augmented with a Technical Glossary etc. by J.S. Forsyth
London: Samuel Leigh 1822. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 22 plates all hand-colored. xxxi i 240 12 catalogue pp. 12mo. Later 19th-century straight-grained dark blue morocco gilt. Joints repaired corners rubbed contents near fine. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 22 plates all hand-colored. xxxi i 240 12 catalogue pp. 12mo. Rolando was fencing master of the Academie des Armes in France. The present work is adapted from a manuscript by Rolando in the possession of one of his former students. "In addition to other authentic and correct sources whence these materials have been drawn the Editor has for some time past been in possession of the MSS of Monsieur Guzman Rolando an eminent swordsman and a regularly initiated academician who taught fencing for upwards of forty years ." Introduction. Thimm p. 244 Samuel Leigh unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316507
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INSCRIBED Sutton Richard L.
The Silver Kings of Aransas Pass and Other Stories
Kansas City Missouri: The Brown-White Company 1937. First edition. Frontispiece. 352 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy in attractive dust jacket spine ever so slightly faded else fine. First edition. Frontispiece. 352 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "For Jim. From his friend R. L. Sutton" on the front free endpaper with an original gelatin photograph of a trophy tarpon loosely inserted. Bruns S338; Callahan p. xix "a major book" The Brown-White Company unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316007
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Holman John P.
Totten's Bud of Warwick
N.p.: privately printed 1950. First and only edition. photographic illustration. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Bifold sheet in red cloth slipcase and chemise. A bit foxed old horizontal crease glossy label reading "Merry Christmas" affixed to last page. First and only edition. photographic illustration. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. UNRECORDED. Rare and apparently unrecorded. Opens with a quotation from Forester's "Sweet Vale of Warwick." Holman describes his first meeting and various adventures with his hunting dog Bud which he received from breeder/trainer John Totten. privately printed unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316669
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Roosevelt Hunting Club Cover title
Albuquerque New Mexico 1929. Illustrated. Unpaginated. Oblong 4to. Pictorial wrappers. Very good plus. Illustrated. Unpaginated. Oblong 4to. Illustrated promotional brochure for the Roosevelt Hunting Club "the largest sport and recreational organization in the world controlling three great hunting and fishing preserves - a million acres in New Mexico Arizona and Old Mexico. The Sport paradise of the continent." The club had plans prepared by El Paso architects Trost & Trost for a clubhouse in Truth or Consequences formerly Hot Springs Sierra County New Mexico but the club seems to have had no existence beyond the captions of the romantic illustrations in this pamphlet. It was a scheme promoted by J. C. Harper sometime pool hall operator of Deming New Mexico who attempted to secure the consent of Governor Dillon of New Mexico through the offer of a position on the board. Harper was linked to a failed Kansas City bank. Apparently unrecorded. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 317092
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Hoyle Edmond
Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist Quadrille Piquet Chess and Back-Gammon . The Twelfth Edition .
London: Printed for Thomas Osborne . Stanley Crowder . and Richard Baldwin 1760. Piracy of the twelfth edition. xii 214 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Leather split along spine and rear jointlacking spine label some loss at head of spine later gift inscription on ffep. Piracy of the twelfth edition. xii 214 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Hoyle Piracy. A piracy of the 12th edition 3rd London edition not signed by Hoyle and Osborne as are genuine copies. The piracy nevertheless retains the notice on the verso of the title that "No copies of this book are genuine but what are signed by Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne". Levy in his Descriptive Bibliography of Edmond Hoyle notes three printings of this forgery but does not distinguish among them. Horr 658; see Levy Games.3 Printed for Thomas Osborne ... Stanley Crowder ... and Richard Baldwin unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316416
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SANDBY George MA. M. A.
Mesmerism and Its Opponents: with a Narrative of Cases
London: Longman Brown Green & Longmans 1844. First Edition. x 278 32 ads. pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth. Very Good. First Edition. x 278 32 ads. pp. 12mo. Longman Brown, Green & Longmans unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316282
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Abbott Henry
Fish Stories
New York: Privately Printed 1919. First edition. With five mounted photos and six line illustrations. 62 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Pictorial birchbark boards. Very good copy spine ends worn with some small losses. First edition. With five mounted photos and six line illustrations. 62 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Inscribed on the flyleaf "Christmas Greeting Henry Abbott". Abbott's little birchbark books tales of hunting and fishing in the Adirondacks were privately printed between 1914 and 1932. "All the series rare and expensive" according to Bruns. Phillips p. 11; Plum 7236; Bruns A17; Heller 1:670 [Privately Printed] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316448
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Life and Battles of Yankee Sullivan from his first Appearance in the Prize Ring until His Retirement : Embracing Full and Accurate Reports of the Fights With Hammer Lane Bob Caunt Tom Secor Tom Hyer.
New York: George Backer 85 Nassau Street 1856. Copyright Trent 1854. Frontispiece. vi 9-94 2pp. 8vo. Printed wrappers back wrapper missing. VG. Signed Albert H. Peck 1858. Copyright Trent 1854. Frontispiece. vi 9-94 2pp. 8vo. Magriel 45 for 96pp text cop. 1854; not in Hartley; not in OCLC George Backer, 85 Nassau Street unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316393
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The Forest Lake Club. Incorporated 12 July 1882. Under the laws of Pennsylvania as the Forest Lake Association. Charter amended 18 July 1908 changing name to The Forest Lake Club . Mast Hope Pike County Pennsylvania
New York: E.A. Ronaldson & Co. 1907. Frontispiece. 54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth upper cover titled in gilt. Near fine soling to a few leaves in back. A few manuscript changes to addresses and list of members. Frontispiece. 54 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This fishing club was formed in 1882 after Joseph Williamson of Lackawaxen bought a 1500-acre tract of land from William Holbert and early members included many New York sportsmen. This 1907 year book lists 55 members including Joseph Van Vleck Jr. who was the landscape engineer for the club. It is unrecorded. By the 1920s the club holdings in the northernmost stretch of the Poconos would grow to more than 4500 acres; a fifty year history was written in 1932. RARE. Not in Bruns or Heller. Not in OCLC E.A. Ronaldson & Co.] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316164
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Forest Lake Association
By-Laws Rules Regulations and Officers of the Forest Lake Association
New York: Henry Bessey Printer 1889. First edition. Two maps one of which is double-page. 24 3 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Very good plus spotting to lower cover hinges tender. First edition. Two maps one of which is double-page. 24 3 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. The scarce foundation document for this Pike County Pennsylvania club whose aims include "the maintenance of a private park for recreation and social enjoyment and furnishing facilities for hunting fishing and athletic sports and encouraging the preservation of forests fish and game". OCLC: 54220650 Yale Henry Bessey, Printer unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316082
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Bacheller Irving
Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1907. First edition. Frontispiece. 60 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green pictorial cloth. Minor edge wear else fine. Signed by the author on a typed label inserted on front pastedown. Bookplate. Brown morocco backed slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition. Frontispiece. 60 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With a Bibliographical Autograph Letter Signed. "A fishing story in Yankeeland" Wetzel. Irving Bacheller 1859-1950 was a newspaperman and pioneer in newspaper syndication whose novel Eben Holden 1900 sold more than a million copies. Signed in his fine hand on a typed slip reading: "Signed for William J. Bower Sept 26th 1939 for insertion in Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing". Nice copy of a classic tale with an autograph letter signed on Century Association letterhead dated 10 May 1934 to William J. Bower discussing the publication history of several early works including his first book The Master of Silence 1892; and Bower's retained carbon. Wetzel p. 99 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315830
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Keene J. Harrington
Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout Bass Salmon Etc.
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co 1891. Second edition. 2 plates with 37 mounted pieces of fly-tying materials. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt pictorial mustard cloth stamped in black and gold bevelled edges. Bookplate of A. F. Gotthold. Extremities a bit rubbed title page with paper repair along gutter. Very good plates and materials fine. Second edition. 2 plates with 37 mounted pieces of fly-tying materials. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author with a manuscript poem. One of the earliest American books with fly tying materials popular enough that it went into a second edition. Inscribed by the author on the first blank "Charles Barker Bradford April 27 1891." With a dedicatory poem in twelve lines in the author's fine hand beginning "If one sad thought this book dispell . the writer is rewarded well . And when the creel hangs laden deep As through the gloaming home you wend . Think only of one who sent you this To aid such halcyon sport to gain . John Harrington Keene" Bruns K 9 never having examined a copy of the first ed. Forest and Stream Publishing Co unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316100
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A Concise but Comprehensive Treatise on the Art of Angling in which is given a particular account of the Principal Fishes which are caught in Rivers Ponds Lakes &c. &c. With the Baits used manner of taking them and the most proper times for fishing
Lewes: Sussex Press; Printed and Published by J. Baxter 1809. First edition. 38 pp. Lacking the frontispiece plate supplied in photocopy facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo. Untrimmed. Disbound remains of blue paper along gutter some soiling and dog-earing of corners. Good. Yale duplicate stamp at foot of last page. Blue morocco backed clamshell box. First edition. 38 pp. Lacking the frontispiece plate supplied in photocopy facsimile. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare Lewes Imprint. A straightforward account of the qualities of 21 kinds of fish including flounder eel perch salmon pike trout and others less well known bleak guinead and brief instructions as to how to catch them; the sixpenny pamphlet ends with a three-page discussion of various worms and how to obtain them. Westwood and Satchell list this work similiar to that of Thomas Best's A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling London 1787 without authorial attribution. The words "but Comprehensive" in the title suggest that this was intended as a sequel to Best a popular work which went into numerous editions. The words "embellished with a frontispiece" have been effaced from the title page suggesting that for a long time this copy has been lacking the plate as also in the copy retained at Yale. The frontispiece is ornamental not didactic. Uncommon title. Westwood & Satchell p. 18 Sussex Press; Printed and Published by J. Baxter unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315829
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Holberton Wakeman
The Art of Angling. How and Where to Catch Fish
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald 1887. First edition. Illustrated with vignettes. 96 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original blind- and gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Fine copy. Bookplate. Half brown morocco clamshell box. First edition. Illustrated with vignettes. 96 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A nice copy of a scarce work dealing with fresh and salt water fishing. With 4 pages of interesting ads at the back. Bruns H209; Wetzel p. 159 Dick & Fitzgerald unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315831
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Foss Wilson P. Jr. Compiler
The Camper's Guide to Quebec "Bush" French
Conti Portneuf Quebec: Triton Fish and Game Club 1957. iv 40 2 index 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green wrappers titled in black. Spine faintly toned else fine. iv 40 2 index 2 blank pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A Dictionary for the Wilderness. Rare practical guide and dictionary of bush French for the members of the prestigious Triton Club with an additional glossary of montagnais Indian phrases and words. UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Triton Fish and Game Club unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316187
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Photograph Album. African Safari Album
N.P. 1920. 66 gelatin silver prints mounted on 22 leaves. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Original tan cloth album. Binding worn upper hinge cracked but holding some toning to prints a few prints loose binder's ticket to front pastedown. 66 gelatin silver prints mounted on 22 leaves. 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Photograph album depicting an African safari showing campsites scenery game and local guides. The few captions mention the following place names: Luangwa Valley Mpasa Shiwa Merula Victoria Falls Capetown. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315653
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Burns JE. J. E.
Adventures in Wildest Africa. The Stirring Narrative of a Big Game Hunting Expedition in Equatorial Africa illustrated with Third Dimension Pictures taken at the time
London: Walker & sons 1949. Sole edition. Map 30 3-D images. 24 pp. 8vo. Original color pictorial wrappers original 'Wonder Spectacles' 3D glasses included. Sole edition. Map 30 3-D images. 24 pp. 8vo. TO BE VIEWED WITH 'WONDER SPECTACLES'. By turn horrifying and hilarious this lurid publication shows the "strangely fascinating world of Central Africa that calls for 3rd Dimension Pictures without which you cannot behold the thrilling wild life of that region in its overpowering spell." These images provide an admirable and novel complement the text. This is the only big game book we've seen to include 3D images. Burns' expedition departed Mombasa for Nairobi then travelled by train across the Rift Valley to Londiani less than forty miles from Lake Victoria. They took 80 porters with them on their march into the Eldama Ravine to mount Sirgoit and Elgeyo forest. Burns relates several close calls with leopards and lions and recounts bagging zebra elephant waterbuck giraffe and rhino. Rare. OCLC locates copies only at BL and NLS. Czech Africa p. 47 Walker & sons unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315651
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Norcross John V.
The Bishop on Vacation
Chicago: Privately printed by the Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelly 1936. First Edition. Frontispiece. 29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth printed paper labels to upper cover and spine. Fine label faintly toned. First Edition. Frontispiece. 29 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An affectionate memoir of Charles Palmerston Anderson 1864-1930 Bishop of Chicago and his adventures on vacation in the northern Wisconsin woods. Not in Bruns or Heller Privately printed [by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelly] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316101
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Fly Tying
Pattern Cards for Fly Tying materials: Veniard Special Dyes & Guide for Dyed Goods and: Veniard Tinsels and: Pearsall's Silks. Superfine Gossamer Naples Marabou
Thornton Heath n.d. mid-20th century. 40 sample dyed hackles mounted on printed title card; 26 samples of tinsels; 30 swatches of silk. 1 vols. Narrow agenda 8vo. Card folders. Fine. In a cloth-backed folding conservation folder. 40 sample dyed hackles mounted on printed title card; 26 samples of tinsels; 30 swatches of silk. 1 vols. Narrow agenda 8vo. Attractive clutch of ephemera from the premier British fly tying material supplier samples of specialty dyes for hackles tinsels and from a noted supplier of colored silks. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315946
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Green Jonathan H.
An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling; Designed Especially as a Warning to the Youthful and Inexperienced Against the Evils of that Odious and Destructive Vice
Boston: Redding & Co 1845. Second edition improved. Engraved pictorial half-title six wood-engraved plates 2 signed by Tudor Horton illustrations and tables to text. 324 pp. 8vo. Publisher's embossed purple cloth spine decorated in gilt pink endpapers. Chipping to spine ends some browning to plates previous owner's name stamped to front free endpaper but an attractive bright copy. Second edition improved. Engraved pictorial half-title six wood-engraved plates 2 signed by Tudor Horton illustrations and tables to text. 324 pp. 8vo. Second edition of this popular work on the evils of gambling and the tricks and deceptions used to defraud the unwary by the riverboat gambler-turned anti-gambling crusader Jonathan Green 1813-1887. With chapters on cheating in poker faro and many other games. Green's role as head of the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling is described in Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York. The first edition of 1843 is rare. This edition is notable for its 6 full-page wood engravings showing among other scenes of vice fox hunters card players a "Louisville Murder" and a New Orleans gambling den. Two of the engravings are signed by Tudor Horton fl. 1846-1854 who also provided the frontispiece and 8 full-page wood engravings for Green's 1844 confessional Gambling Unmasked! or the Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler cf. Hamilton Early American Wood Engravers no. 908. Toole Stott 1064; Jessel 661 for 4th ed.; not in Howes Redding & Co unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315091
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Colie Fred R. Jr.
Tuscarora. A Continuing Story
Margaretville New York: The Catskill Mt. Publishing Corp 1984. First edition. Illustrated. x 11-126 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green rexine titled in gilt map endpapers. Gift inscription at head of title dated 1984. Fine copy. First edition. Illustrated. x 11-126 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Memoir of the Delaware County New York club by a long-time member. Colie whose father was a member in 1941 notes "When the first Club history 1901-1941 was conceived and published no excuses were made for literary merit or even grammar. The same holds true for this work which is a labor of love ." Published to coincide with the club's 80th anniversary. "Remembrances of Tuscarora and the valley from the mid-1930's through 1981." UNCOMMON. Not in Heller. Not in OCLC The Catskill Mt. Publishing Corp unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316086
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Nevill Ralph
Light Come Light Go. Gambling - Gamesters - Wagers - The Turf
London: Macmillan and Co 1909. First Edition. 9 color and 14 black-and-white plates. 448pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt. Very good. First Edition. 9 color and 14 black-and-white plates. 448pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Macmillan and Co unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316039
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Friis IA. I. A.
Sporting Life on the Norwegian Fjelds. Translated from the Norwegian of I. A. Friis; with jottings on sport in Norway by W. G. Lock
Woolwich: Published by the Author at 14 Kidd Street Printed by Wyman & Son 1878. First edition in English Norwegian edition published 1876. With a folding map at the end. viii 375 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth binders ticket of Wyman & Sons to rear pastedown. Very good. Scattered foxing slightly rubbed two preliminary leaves loosened closed tear and foxing to map. First edition in English Norwegian edition published 1876. With a folding map at the end. viii 375 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Part II is Jottings on Sport with a practical chapter on Salmon fishing at p. 362. Westwood & Satchell p. 102 Published by the Author, at 14, Kidd Street [Printed by Wyman & Son] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316064
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Swarbick John
List of Wharfedale Flies
Huddersfield: Published by Ken Smith Publishing 2009. Limited edition one of 50 copies signed by Stuart Bowdin. 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Blue morocco-backed paper-covered boards text and full blue morocco flies in original wooden two-box tray case.; 30 fly patterns mounted on 8 accordion-folded mats 2 flies mounted to pastedowns of text volume 6 folding color plates depicting 30 fishing flies frontispiece in-text illustrations prospectus laid in. Leather strap on clamshell box torn else fine. Limited edition one of 50 copies signed by Stuart Bowdin. 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches. DELUXE EDITION. Blue morocco-backed paper-covered boards text and full blue morocco flies in original wooden two-box tray case. 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches; 30 fly patterns mounted on 8 accordion-folded mats 2 flies mounted to pastedowns of text volume 6 folding color plates depicting 30 fishing flies frontispiece in-text illustrations prospectus laid in. Leather strap on clamshell box torn else fine. Published by Ken Smith Publishing unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316072
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Photograph Album Trout and Salmon Fishing and Hunting in Maine and Canada
Maine and New Brunswick 1920. 88 gelatin silver prints corner mounted on black album leaves most 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 inches many with manuscript captions. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Embossed black cloth album. Very good. 88 gelatin silver prints corner mounted on black album leaves most 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 inches many with manuscript captions. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Attractive album depicting outdoor travels in Maine and New Brunswick including views of camps lakes streams waterfalls and scenes of deer hunting freshly caught trout and salmon canoeing and other outdoor scenes. Locations include Tobique narrows Munsungan Lake Squapan now Scopan Millimagassett Lake the St. John River Fish River Falls etc.; with one image in jest a roaring lion captioned "From my porch". unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316102
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Lion Chasing
Great Neck New York: G. Alan Chidsey 1938. Extract from Vogue 15 January 1938. Illustrated. 18 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth upper cover titled in gilt. Fine small label from verso of title page perished. A.L.s. from Chidsey loosely inserted. Extract from Vogue 15 January 1938. Illustrated. 18 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of G. Alan Chidsey's "Unusual Books" neatly composed of extracts and illustrations from a Vogue article about a luxury safari in Kenya and Tanganyika by a party consisting of Lord Carnarvon Capt. and Mrs. Edward O. Kellett and Mrs. Richard Hoyt some of whose pictures appear here. Chidsey's letter offers this book to Mrs. Hoyt. We have a two other Chidsey productions an account of travel to Lhasa for the Cutting family of New Jersey; and an interview with race horse breeder William Woodward. G. Alan Chidsey unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315942
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Green Jonathan H.
One Hundred Tricks with Cards. Gamblers' Tricks with Cards Exposed and Explained
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald 1880. Later printing. Illustrated. 114 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards spine title lettered in gilt advertisements printed on endpapers. Tips worn small ownership signature to verso of title else a fine copy. Later printing. Illustrated. 114 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear. 8vo. The heavily battered type suggests this is a later printing of Green's exposure of gamblers' deceptions. Toole Stott notes the first printing in wrappers in 1850. Jessel 663; Toole Stott 324 Dick & Fitzgerald unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315092
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Greenwood Levi P.
What and Why is Tabusintac Club Drop title
Boston Massachusetts: Atlantic Printing Company 1920. First edition. Illustrated. 20 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers bound into half tan morocco. First edition. Illustrated. 20 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Evocative prose account of a visit to the Tab or Tabusintac Club in New Brunswick. With a presentation letter from the author's daughter Eleanor G. Hornblower to Dr. Phillips i.e. sportsman author and bibliographer John Charles Phillips. Wetzel p. 148; Bruns p. 495; Bibliotheca Salmo salar 158. Not in OCLC Atlantic Printing Company unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316070
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Colt Samuel Edwards William B.
The Story of Colt's Revolver. The Biography of Col Samuel Colt
Harrisburg Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company 1953. Limited edition number 39 signed by the author. Numerous illustrations. 470 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown padded leather gilt and blind stamped a.e.g. Minor traces of rubbing to spine. Very good. Limited edition number 39 signed by the author. Numerous illustrations. 470 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Stackpole Company unknown
书商的参考编号 : 41987
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Mets
Mets First Home Game Program at the Polo Grounds April 13 1962. WITH: Mets First Year Book 1962
New York 1962. First issue of the Year Book with roster dated April 8 and back cover in b/w. Illustrated. 2 vols. 4to & 8vo. Illustrated wrappers Year Book cover illustrated by Willard Mullin. Light wear and toning near fine. First issue of the Year Book with roster dated April 8 and back cover in b/w. Illustrated. 2 vols. 4to & 8vo. Program and Year Book for the first Mets season. The Mets a National League expansion team created in the wake of the Brooklyn Dodgers' and New Giants' departure for California played the first two seasons at the Polo Grounds before moving to Shea Stadium for the 1964 season. The program scorecard is dated April 13 1962 with the rosters filled in for the Mets' first home game versus the Pirates. The Mets lost 3-4 and would go on to loose a record 120 games in the '62 season. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 315944
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The Salmon Streams of Anticosti Island
Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited Anticosti Division 1941. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's black pictorial wrappers printed in silver and red. Soiling to edges at back. Very good. Eighth edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island tipped to the inside of rear cover photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Anticosti "the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence" was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence of their efforts to attract fishermen. It is well illustrated and includes selections from a fictional fishing diary. He notes "All of these pamphlets are rare." This eighth edition includes the printed Tariff and Schedule for the season beginning 1 June 1941 4 pp. loosely inserted. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 72 for 5th ed. 1936; Bruns p. 26 Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316166
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Pardesi
Wet-Fly Fishing in Kashmir. A Book for the Novice
Lahore: The Civil & Military Gazette Ltd 1942. First edition. Illustrated. 108 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth titled in black. Near fine copy. First edition. Illustrated. 108 4 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Good practical guide with detailed accounts of fishing conditions on the many rivers of Kashmir with mention of a remarkable catch of fish in the Gurez valley during the 1940/41 season. Uncommon. OCLC: 41400093 Princeton The Civil & Military Gazette Ltd unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316160
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Williamson Thomas
Illustrations of Indian Field Sports. Selected and Reproduced from the Coloured Engravings First Published in 1807
Westminster: Archibald Constable 1892. With ten colored plates and explanatory letterpress. x 20 2 blank 5 ads pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial cloth t.e.g. Very good plus. With ten colored plates and explanatory letterpress. x 20 2 blank 5 ads pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Nice selection of images from the celebrated Indian Field SPorts of Capt. Thomas Williamson of the Bengal Army originally published in folio in 1807. Archibald Constable unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316205
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Lakota 1891-1991
Barnard Vermont: The Lakota Club 1991. First edition. Illustrated with photographs typographic decorations from flies tied by Jim Otranto. x 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth spine titled in silver upper board with vignette of leaping trout pictorial endpapers bound by Robert Lewis. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with photographs typographic decorations from flies tied by Jim Otranto. x 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hundred year history of the Lakota CLub a private fishing club on what was once known as Luce's Pond in Barnard Vermont which grew from a 6-acre tract purchased in 1891 to more than 1000 acres at its peak. The club now controls more than 800 acres and Lakota Lake has an area of some 15 acres. The club history was written by Otis L. Guernsey Jr.; Rhoda Teagle contirbuted an essay entitled "Silence Solace and Sustenance for the Angler"; the book also includes miscellaneous recollections and a list of members and officers. Not in Heller The Lakota Club unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316159
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Schmidt Carl E.
A Western Trip
Detroit: Herold Press for private circulation only 1904. Second edition. 12 mounted full-page colored photographs and 18 smaller black and white illustrations in text. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tan leather stamped in gilt t.e.g. Spine rubbed front red silk flyleaf with some losses offsetting to a few pages. Very good minus. Second edition. 12 mounted full-page colored photographs and 18 smaller black and white illustrations in text. 91 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An Outstanding Sporting and Western Title. Lavishly produced record of a sporting trip to Yellowstone takes the form of the diary of Detroit industrialist Carl Schmidt including a section on fishing. Chapter 9 pp. 63-72 is entitled "A Fishing Trip." The color pictures are photochrome prints after photographs by William Henry Jackson who as the official photographer of the Hayden Survey in the 1870s took the first photographs of Yellowstone. The photochrome process was invented in Switzerland and the American rights were purchased by the Detroit Publishing Company around 1895. Jackson served as a director of the newly-created Photochrome Company subsidiary and praised the photochrome process in his memoirs as a "process hardly improved today." The uncommon second edition of this unusual western title with the black and white illustrations printed with the text. Streeter sale lot 4123; Howes S-170; Eberstadt 133:975 "extremely difficult to come by"; Taylor Traveling thru Wonderland pp. 40-41; Heller 2:480. Not in Bruns Litchfield Phillips Wetzel Herold Press,] for private circulation only unknown
书商的参考编号 : 304712
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Photo Album: Fishing in Rhode Island
Rhode Island 1941. 21 gelatin silver glossy snapshot photographs. Sizes mostly about 3-3/4" x 6" a few slightly smaller. Uncaptioned. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. String-tied blue embossed boards with "Photographs" in gilt. Modest soiling a scrape on one image a couple of images have fallen out but not pillaged else near fine. 21 gelatin silver glossy snapshot photographs. Sizes mostly about 3-3/4" x 6" a few slightly smaller. Uncaptioned. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. The album depicts a young man in his mid-teens and an older man perhaps his father fishing from both a river bank and from a boat and them proudly displaying their catch another of them with guns and a dog as well as a few photos of their faithful hound. A nice little album with pleasing mid-century images of fishing. Some of the images are date-stamped August 1941 and all are contemporary to 1941 with one earlier image of the Pawtucket Railroad station dated in 1880 loosely inserted. unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316198
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Elder Frank
The Book of the Hackle
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press 33 Montgomery Street 1979. First edition Number 78 of 85 copies leather bound with real Hackles. Printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd noted on slip laid in. Illustrated and with 29 real hackles tipped onto black paper at end of book. xxii 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's full maroon crushed morocco gilt all edges gilt in slipcase by A. W. Lumsden. First edition Number 78 of 85 copies leather bound with real Hackles. Printed by R.& R. Clark Ltd noted on slip laid in. Illustrated and with 29 real hackles tipped onto black paper at end of book. xxii 140 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Scottish Academic Press [33 Montgomery Street] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316075
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Constitution By-Laws and Rules of the Alba Fishing & Hunting Club. Adopted and Effective March 13 1933
Mobile Alabama: Alba Fishing & Hunting Club 1933. 12 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Orange illustrated wrappers printed in black. Bookplate removed from inside front wrapper else very good. 12 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Unrecorded constitution and rule book of this private club on the Dog River established for "the social and literary advancement of its member the establishment of a park and fishing grounds the stocking protection and use of the same ." and still in existence. Not in OCLC or any sporting references Alba Fishing & Hunting Club unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316184
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Pacific Electric Rod and Gun Club. Constitution and By-Laws. Prize List Rules and Regulations
Los Angeles 1939. 48 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Green printed wrappers. About fine some fading. 48 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Sporting club of the Pacific Electric Railway Company established in 1916 with a membership limited to male Caucasian employees. Listing of officers and committees prize categories in sal and fresh water angling hunting and trap shooting. With a list of past presidents and prize winners from earlier years; and numerous ads for local businesses throughout. The Pacific Electric Railway Company was the largest streetcar and interurban transit company in the country during the 1920s. Scarce. Not in OCLC unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316186
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Crowe Philip K.
A Brief Sketch of Lakota Club
Woodstock Vermont: Designed and printed by the Elm Tree Press 1966. 12 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Blue wrappers upper cover printed in blue and white anniversary dinner menu printed in white on lower inside flap. Small ghost from circular label on cover margin else fine. 12 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Uncommon keepsake for the seventy-fifth anniversary dinner of the Lakota Club on Lakota Lake near Barnard and Bridgewater Vermont. The fishing club was founded in 1891; the slub history is followed by a list of members and the dinner menu for Saturday 6 August 1966. Heller 1:737. Not in OCLC [Designed and printed by the Elm Tree Press] unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316162
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Wetherill John Price
Report to the Pohoqualine Fish Association of the State of Pennsylvania by the President Showing the Proceedings in the Cases of Three Trespassers Upon Property of the Association April the 26th 1898 and the Proceedings against John Price Wetherill President and William T. Elliott a Member of the Association for Using a Landing Net in Catching Trout on the Property of the Association
Printed for the Pohoqualine Fish Association 1900. Edition of 500 copies No. 44. 205 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green buckram ex-library with perforated stamps bookplate with release stamp. Endpapers defective text clean a few words affected by stamps. Good plus. Edition of 500 copies No. 44. 205 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Testimony and proceedings in this trespassing trial concerning the Monroe county fishing club the Pohoqualine Fish Association. Much is elicited in testimony concerning the club lands along McMichael's Creek fishing habits and customs of members and efforts to protect the stream from overfishing. During the testimony the legailty of of the use of a landing net to catch trout was questioned by the defense. The second portion of the book concerns a case brought against the club president and another member for using a landing net while fishing with a light rod and a fly; the conviction was reversed. Pp. 185-200 comprise citations from angling works from Berners and Walton and the Anglers Vade Mecum of 1700 to the 1890 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Uncommon. Not in Bruns. OCLC 54627937 Yale Printed for the Pohoqualine Fish Association unknown
书商的参考编号 : 316194
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The Young Sportsman's Miscellany in Hunting Coursing Shooting Angling Racing Cocking.
London: Compton & Ritchie Middle Street Cloth Fair 1826. First was 1821 and there was also 1824 edition. 2 152 pp. Frontispiece engraving and 22 woodcuts throughout. 12mo 140 x 85 mm. 12mo. Early full maroon morocco spine gilt lettered and with three gilt fish devices running up sine. Offset from frontispiece first and final page toned repaired tear to B1 light shelfwear to binding. Provenance: Bookplate of Dean Sage. First was 1821 and there was also 1824 edition. 2 152 pp. Frontispiece engraving and 22 woodcuts throughout. 12mo 140 x 85 mm. 12mo. Dean Sage's Copy. Westwood & Satchell p 201; Sage p 191 this copy Compton & Ritchie, Middle Street, Cloth Fair unknown
书商的参考编号 : 252534
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Young Andrew
The Angler and Tourist's Guide to the Rivers Lakes and Remarkable Places in the Northern Counties of Scotland
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black 1857. First edition. Folding map. 4 iv 117 pp. 12mo. Half green morocco over marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. Head chipped front cover off. Bookplate of Dean Sage. First edition. Folding map. 4 iv 117 pp. 12mo. Dean Sage's Copy. W&S p 244; Sage p 243 this copy Adam & Charles Black unknown
书商的参考编号 : 252812
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