‎Sports‎

‎Seymour Ralph Fletcher‎

‎The Log of the Four Dudes. By One of Them‎

‎N.p. Chicago: Privately printed 1921. First edition. Title printed within thick and thin rule border; vignette device at end. 4 92 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Paper covered boards with printed paper label on upper cover. Skilfully rebacked with original spine label laid down. Some light wear to extremities. Very good plus. First edition. Title printed within thick and thin rule border; vignette device at end. 4 92 2 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12-3/8 x 9-1/2 inches. With Rod & Gun in Wyoming. Rare privately-printed account of a month-long fishing and hunting expedition through Wyoming in the early fall of 1920. The text relates the experiences of two couples Ralph and Myra and Philip and Caroline on a hunting and fishing expedition particularly in pursuit of elk and sheep. Their guides are identified as Ned Frost "the sine qua non of the whole excursion" and Carl Hammett. In the foreword the unnamed author offers useful advice for making such a trip successful and comfortable recommending clothing footwear and camping material: "There are many sleeping outfits that are fairly satisfactory but of those who have come under my observation the best combination is an air mattress with bellows to blow it up and on top of it an eider down 'Arctic Sleeping Bag' with a Hudson Bay blanket inside to wrap closely around you. With this outfit you can 'sleep warm' and comfortably no matter what the temperature may be - and 'sleeping warm' is one of the secrets of a successful hunting trip." The text consists of daily entries from their September 20 departure by train from Chicago to their return a month later with outstanding descriptions of the scenery and natural wonders of Wyoming the results of their hunting and fishing adventures and how each of the four city-dwellers performed in the wild. A few of the entries are written by the women who participated.   In the September 30 entry Ralph describes the scenery at their lunch stop: "Behind us were the Big Horns - 175 miles away but looking infinitely nearer in that wonderfully clear air: in front of us were the Tetons and to their right some 65 miles distant Ned pointed out to us a peak a landmark in the Yellowstone-Thorofare country at the foot of which Burnham missed his elk so many times five years ago. A vast country of mountain and valley; of forest and barren wastes; of gentle slopes and of box canyons whose rocky sides descended sheer for hundreds of feet until they ended at the bottom in a jumble of rocks and browken bowlders sic."   OCLC suggests that this work was printed by the noted Chicago author printer and publisher Ralph Fletcher Seymour and likely written by him as well. Not in Malone's WYOMINGIANA nor in the Eberstadt Decker Soliday or Graff catalogues. OCLC lists only two copies at the Univ. of Wyoming and Northern Illinois University and we are unable to find any other copies appearing in the market. Not in Phillips Heller or Biscotti; nor in Malone's Wyomingiana nor in the Eberstadt Decker Soliday or Graff catalogues. OCLC 11229887 2 copies: Northern Illinois U. U. Wyoming Privately printed unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312715

‎Herbert Henry William‎

‎My Shooting Box by Frank Forester author of The Warwick Woodlands . etc.‎

‎Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1846. First edition first issue. Engraved frontispiece pictorial title and 2 full page plates including the oft-missing "Tom Draw" plate. Pp. i-viii 9-179 180 blank. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf spine renewed. Some edgewear scattered foxing. Bookplate of Jeffrey Norton and another. Cloth slipcase. First edition first issue. Engraved frontispiece pictorial title and 2 full page plates including the oft-missing "Tom Draw" plate. Pp. i-viii 9-179 180 blank. 1 vols. 12mo. Unrecorded First Issue. The second of Herbert's classic tales of "Frank Forester" and his friends With retained carbon typed letter December 4 1952 from Lindley Eberstadt to David Randall at Scribner's concerning the present copy noting the absence of pagination on the dedication p. iii and the absence of advertisements from p. 180 with Eberstadt's notes of his conversation "Mr. Randall states that he has seen no other copy in this state and can only conclude that it is a first issue preceding the regular first edition. Lindley Eberstadt" and "I discussed and showed this to Mr. Whitman Bennett also and he concurred in Mr. Randall's conclusions. L.E.". Van Winkle p. 14; BAL 8091 Carey and Hart unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 261270

‎Bullock Richard‎

‎Typescript diary and photograph album of a 1915 hunting expedition to British Columbia‎

‎N.p. Massachusetts 1915. With 128 silver print photographs including 2 maps and 66 pp. typescript. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Cloth covered boards post mounted album leaves. Generally fine. Cloth folding box. With 128 silver print photographs including 2 maps and 66 pp. typescript. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Hunting in the Sheslay River British Columbia 1915. Superb record of an expedition by Harvard graduates of the class of 1915 Richard Bullock of Fitchburg Mass. and Robert Winthrop Kean of the prominent New Jersey family in the Carriar district of British Columbia. The party went in via Wrangell Alaska in late August 1915 and experienced a few delays reaching the former Klondike gold rush village of Telegraph Creek. Bullock and Kean crossed the Sheslay River beyond Telegraph Creek with two Tahltan Indian guides Billy Fann and Ludecker a cook and a packer and reached the Juni river in late August. When Bullock bagged a large ram on 1 September high up on a mountain ridge "after taking several photographs . then set about removing the head and scalp which proved a short job for Billy" who packed the head down to camp. Bullock's account was published in Outing Magazine March through May 1918 as "Hunting Days in the Cassiar." Kean's account of the trip was published as chapter 15 Hunting Big Game in his memoirs Fourscore Years: My First Twenty-Four 1974. An extract accompanies this album. A well documented and engaging account of remote mountain sport. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314481

‎Ridgeway Club Haynes William de Forest‎

‎Charter By-Laws Rules and Regulations of the Ridgeway Club. Incorporated under the Laws of South Carolina‎

‎N.p. New York 1905. 27 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Tan cloth upper cover titled in gilt. Ownership signature of "W. de F. Haynes corrected to Feby 1 1918" on upper cover. With holograph corrections and typewritten insertions. Some soiling. Very good. 27 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Incorporation records by-laws with revisions and annotated lists of membership for this private hunting and fishing club in Ridgeway South Carolina organized by John Magee of Corning N.Y. William de F. Haynes of New York City and Clinton G. Gilmore of Lenox Mass. in 1904 for the purpose of preserving game and shooting on the club properties. The club operated from November to April each year. Club rules set daily limits on quail 20 per day or 30 per day for member and guest. The membership was initially limited to fifteen and a correction notes that the limit was raised to seventeen. Two typed addenda list fourteen and nine members the latter list dated 30 January 1918. Other corrections and insertions record amendments to the by-laws. A New York merchant William de F. Haynes 1862-1932 was a member of the South Side Sportsman's Club and was elected to the Cascapedia Club in 1910 and served as the Secretary of the Cascapedia Club from 1913 until his death. UNRECORDED. Not in Phillips Heller. Not in OCLC. For Haynes see Carmichael The Grand Cascapedia River 1:95-6 et passim unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312827

‎Herbert Henry William "Frank Forester"‎

‎Autograph Manuscript Signed of Herbert's Tribute to Thomas Ward known as "Tom Draw‎

‎The Cedars Newark NJ 1854. 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Preserved in a cloth folding case with chemise. Minor soiling to preliminary leaf otherwise fine. Accompanied by a leaflet of the printed letter the leaflet is inscribed - "Compliments of T. Harry Ward Grandson" a typewritten transcript and the original envelope. 7 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 'my true friend honest fat Tom of Warwick'. Immortalized by Herbert in his sporting novels as "Tom Draw" Thomas Ward was Herbert's many-sided rotund friend. The manuscript originally appeared in a Middletown newspaper and was reprinted as a small four-page leaflet here supplied. In his touching tribute to his boon companion and fellow sportsman Herbert writes: "I observed in your columns. a notice of the death of 'Mr. Thomas Ward of Warwick for many years a hotel keeper in that village' . and as a very old friend and admirer of that very remarkable person whose reputation and innocent eccentricities have become known far beyond the limits of your fair country . it had occuried to me that you might desire a few lines from my pen . Tom was at that time in his forty-third year; and though his weight was even then above 250 pounds and his circumference some two or three inches greater than his height . he was one of the most powerful and one of the most enduring and fleetest-footed men I have ever met with . He was my friend faithful and just to me and I for one of many am glad and proud that I possessed the right to call him so . my true friend honest fat Tom of Warwick." There is a letter addressed to the Editor of the Middletown New York Whig Press February 1 1854 2 pp. with original envelope which must have accompanied the manuscript to which Herbert has added the following superscript - "Dear Sir/ I sent this by error to G.R. Graham the publisher of another periodical who has just returned it . Yrs HWH." The letter to John W. Hasbrouck Esq. begins: "I was from home when your note with regard to my poor old friend's death arrived and on the moment of my return have hastened to meet your wishes I hope in sufficient season. I have written it as I suppose you would prefer. as Frank Forrester" The letter goes on to discuss the delicate matter of Herbert's fee. "With regard to the 'filthy Lucre' I fear American authors are not much better off than country newspaper publishers.I have been obliged to set down a positive rule that I work for no one actually gratis." Herbert then leaves the amount of his actual compensation to whatever Hasbrouck thinks the article worth. No manuscript of any of Herbert's sporting novels has survived and this tribute to the central character in these novels is all that has remained. The "Obituary of Tom Draw" was collected in the revised and enlarged fifth edition of Frank Firester's Sporting Scenes and Characters Philadelphia c. 1881. The present item has a rather notable provenance. It first appears as item number 335 in the Harry Worcester Smith Sale held by Ritter-Hopson Galleries of New York on December 10 1931 where it was apparently pruchased by William Mitchell Van Winkle. It reappears at his sale held on December 5 1940 at Parke-Bernet Galleries also of New York. Van Winkle is the Herbert's bibliographer. Sometime after that it was sold by Scribner's. With the bookplate of John M. Schiff. A warm and personal reminiscence by a loving friend. Van Winkle p. 63 referring to the first printed version. Provenance: Harry Worcester Smith his sale 1931 lot 277; William Mitchell Van Winkle sale 1940 lot 341; Scribner's; John M. Schiff sale 1990 unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313788

‎Bradley William Arnold‎

‎Fly-Fishing Reminiscences With Illustrations of My Early Years 1908-1916 at the Beaverkill Trout Club‎

‎Pleasantville New York: Privately Printed 1929. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original brown printed wrappers sewn. Fine short split at bottom of spine fold. Green half morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. First edition. 42 original mounted photographs each captioned by hand in ink. Text printed in brown. 20 pp. 1 vols. Folio. 'It's Better Just a Little Farther on'. Bradley was Secretary-Treasurer of the Beaverkill Trout Club from 1910-1929; the club had 43 members at the time of his writing. A brief but detailed section of reminiscences is followed by early photographs of sport along the Beaverkill before World War I including author Geo. M. L. La Branche in mid-cast. Each photograph is titled in a fine hand which Bruns speculates is that of "Lady B." pictured on p. 19. There are also photographs of trout fishing in Maine and other points in New York State and of the author and his friend Charlie Campbell president of the club 1910-1923 fishing for Atlantic salmon in Newfoundland. Campbell was the friend who first brought Bradley to the Voorhees homestead in 1908 and with Bradley formed the Beaverkill Trout Club. Campbell's motto was "It's better just a little farther on". These recollections were evidently composed in 1927 for a speech to fellow members to judge from the text and expanded for publication here. "A very rare work numbering about 25 copies" Heller. The Litchfield copy sold at auction in November 2001 brought $14400. RARE AND BEAUTIFUL AND EVOCATIVE OF SPORT ON A LEGENDARY AMERICAN RIVER. Litchfield 85; Bruns B202; Heller 1:730; H.A. Darbee sale 1987 23A Privately Printed unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314035

‎Babcock Louis L.‎

‎The Tarpon‎

‎Buffalo: Printed by Matthews Northrup for Private Distribution 1920. First edition. 62 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Plain green wrappers pictorial onlay of leaping tarpon on front wrapper. Minor rubbing. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf "To an old tent-mate/ of mine with my/ regards & best wishes/ L.L.B/ May 6/20." Half green morocco clamshell box. First edition. 62 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy of the Rare First. Review of the tarpon in literature pointers on angling for tarpon and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 53-57. Privately printed and re-issued in several editions through 1951. Bruns B5; Callahan iii Printed [by Matthews Northrup] for Private Distribution unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313923

‎Weinthal Leo ed‎

‎The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route from 1887 to 1922‎

‎London: The Pioneer Publishing Co. Ltd 1926. 5 vols. 4to. Bound in publisher's three-quarters green morocco cloth sides t.e.g. Fine. ; various paginations the map case with all twelve maps in the case profusely illustrated throughout. A fine set. 5 vols. 4to. A vast work on this equally vast project never completed driven in large part by the urging of Cecil Rhodes. The first overland North-South traverse of the African continent was that of Ewart Grogan and Arthur Sharp whose account was published in 1900. That only a little short of a quarter-century passed before the attempted construction of a railway on the route is indicative of the potent geopolitical forces at play in Africa during this time as is the failed completion newly acquired German possessions lay across the proposed path. The third volume has several articles by Frederick Selous on hunting. Czech Africa pp. 296-7. See Merrington "A Staggered Orientalism: The Cape-to-Cairo Imaginary" in Poetics Today 22.2 Summer 2001 The Pioneer Publishing Co., Ltd unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313813

‎Babcock Louis L.‎

‎The Tarpon‎

‎Buffalo NY: Printed for Private Distribution 1921. Second edition. With 2 plates from line drawings. 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth upper board titled in gilt. Minor soiling lettering slightly faint roughly opened after title page binding still sound. Overall near fine. Second edition. With 2 plates from line drawings. 107 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Review of the tarpon in literature pointers on angling for tarpon and "A Partial Bibliography of the Tarpon" at pp. 91-95. Privately printed and re-issued in five editions through 1951. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "For H. Wendell Endicott/ with the regards and/ good wishes of/ Louis L. Bacock./ Valentine's Day 1925./ 'O east is East and west is / west and never the twain/ shall meet.' " Endicott was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys 1925; the friendship was enduring for in the fifth edition Babcock refers to a recent letter from him. An outstanding asociation. Bruns B5; Callahan iii Printed for Private Distribution unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313920

‎Haight George Ives or KIES William‎

‎Salmon Fishing on the Restigouche. July 1938‎

‎N.p.: Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman 1938. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White printed wrappers stapled. Very good. Some minor wear. Green quarter morocco slipcase. First edition one of a very few copies known. Illustrations from photographs. vi 25 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. Salmon fishing during four days in the first part of July 1938 by a party of six who styled themselves the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fishermen comprising: Evan A. Evans Louis M. Hanks Roy F. Tomlinson Theodore G. Montague William S. Kies and George I. Haight to whom authorship is attributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The last page of text records their catch by weights. Rare. Wetzel p. 171 tentatively ascribed to William Kies. "A rare work."; Bruns K-45 not seen; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 105. OCLC 2 copies Princeton Wisconsin Historical Society Privately printed for the members of the Royal Guild of Wisconsin Fisherman] unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312786

‎China Groom Francis A.; Douglas JONES‎

‎The Sportsman's Diary for Shooting Trips in Northern China‎

‎Shanghai: Printed at The "North China Herald" Office 1873. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. Contemporary full brown roan upper cover titled in gilt. Spine neatly rebacked notes on front endsheets. Quarter black morocco slipcase and cloth chemises. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed from the author to Douglas Jones on first blank. Title-page printed preface and text with holograph manuscript by Jones on the Index and Game Register. Pp. vii 116 Diary & Game Register accomplished in ink 4 pages unused; 1-50. 1 vols. 4to 10-1/8 x 8 inches; 257 x 203 mm. "The immense tracts of country available for purposes of sport and well stocked with game the entire absence of game laws and the friendly disposition of the natives combine to render Keang-soo and the adjoining provinces a very Paradise for sportsmen ." Groom from the Preface. Early work on hunting in China with a partly printed dairy and "Register of Game Bagged" here accomplished with an extensive and detailed manuscript of expeditions from 1878 to 1892 recounting trips on the Merlin and other boats after deer waterfowl and other game listing participants names of dogs and game bags. The manuscript is followed by the printed text with notes on boats guns and kit "The Medicine Chest" cookery and chapters on various types of game pheasant snipe wild pig and a printed Vocabulary with Chinese/English translations and phonetic transcriptions. Among the hunting companions of Jones in the 1885 season was Bell-Irving author of Diary of the Ewo Party 1890. Both Jones and Bell-Irving are quoted frequently in Wade's With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley 2nd ed. 1910. Some interesting ephemera has been preserved including printed Chinese broadside shooting permits for Jones for the years 1884 and 1885 a shooting permit for Hong Kong and the New Territories 1894; fivee sketch maps of Kiang Su Le Yang and Kashing; four small photographs of Hong Kong mounted on the verso of a Victorian photographic portrait of Douglas Jones; a manuscript translations of Chinese verse by one of Jones' companions and four autograph letters on sporting topics or introductions and requests to assist Jones in his up country trips; and a stray sheet of printed letterhead of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Shanghai where Jones was Secretary. A UNIQUE AND SUBSTANTIAL RECORD OF SPORT IN CHINA. Czech Asia p. 93. Not in OCLC Printed at The "North China Herald" Office unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312749

‎Emmet William Temple‎

‎Good Hunting! A Record of certain occurrences in British Columbia during the Summer of 1888. By W.T.E.‎

‎New York: privately printed 1901. First edition perhaps 100 copies printed. 75 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches. Drab boards new spine preserving original printed spine label. First edition perhaps 100 copies printed. 75 pp. 1 vols. 12mo 7-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches. RARE. "Hunting big game in the Similkameen country." Philips. Philips p.113; Heller 1:97. Streeter VII 417;OCLC: 21359443 Yale Central Conn. State; U.B.C. Toronto [privately printed] unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312713

‎Foxhunting Meynell Hugo; John HAWKES‎

‎The Meynellian Science or Foxhunting Upon System‎

‎New York: Ernest Gee 1926. Large Paper One of 28 unnumbered copies. Engraved portrait by Gordon Ross titlepage engraving. vi 24 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Green paper boards white cloth spine paper label on front cover. Ross Gordon. Large Paper One of 28 unnumbered copies. Engraved portrait by Gordon Ross titlepage engraving. vi 24 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 9.25 x 6.25 inches. INSCRIBED LARGE PAPER. The original edition of this book was so rare that Mr. Gee the great sporting bookseller reprinted it for his friends. Frazier writes: "the book and its design paper binding and style are so obviously Derrydale in spirit and influence that one only to put it side by side with Connett's AMERICAN TROUT STREAMS by Henry Ingraham produced the following year to see how this book and the books of the Press came together. The question would be whether Ernest Gee had more influence on Connett in 1926 or whether Connett had more influence on Gee in this important year when together they formed the group that formed the press." Siegel clearly felt this was not a Derrydale because in the early days of the Press Connett used J.N. Johnston for the printing of the Press books and no connection can be established with August Becker who printed this work. In Ernest Gee's catalogue No. 10 printed around 1928 he lists this title in two areas. In one instance he states "A small privately printed edition." and in the other mention he declares "Edition limited to 330 copies" with no mention of a Deluxe state. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "Mrs. Jackson A. Dykman/ With the best wishes from/ Ernest R. Gee/ New York. Dec 1926." Siegel p. 182; Frazier M-6-D; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 176-8 Ernest Gee unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 249499

‎Texas Walker Platt B.‎

‎Sketch of the Events of a Hunt in Southwestern Texas‎

‎N.p. Minneapolis 1907. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. Unpaginated 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Stitched self wrappers title page verso with repair at spine new blank lower wrapper. Morocco backed slipcase and chemise. Illustrated with 12 plates from photographs. Unpaginated 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Privately printed account of a Texas hunt in late December 1906 and early January 1907 out of Houston organized by oilman John S. Bonner dedicatee of the book; J.D. Fry B. & O. railroad; J.C. Weaver Dallas engineer & "machinery man"; J.F. McDonough Murray Manufacturing Dallas; R.H. Nevitt trusted lieutenant of McDonough. The guest Platt B. Walker was a Minneapolis lumberman and businessman. The party travelled by rail from Houston to Victoria and thence by wagon and pony towards the coast to the lands of the "Rathbone Sporting Club". This was the fourth annual outing of the club formed by Capt. Harry Rathbone Bonner Weaver Fry and friends including Henry Crawford and Billy Lanier who were already at the tent camp. They hunted deer prairie chicken duck and geese with incidental forays after squirrel and fishing for crab for the pot. The seventh member of the club Joe Johnson southwestern representative of Westinghouse joined the party for a time. They met with rancher T.P. Traynor and one of the duck shoots occurred at his pond; the goose hunt took place at Green Lake. Lanier was official toddy maker and all told stories of alligators stampedes and other matters.Weaver was official photographer and one of the plates captures the author Walker among the camp tents with Spanish moss hanging in heavy clusters from the trees. The narrative is clearly written and engaging. RARE. OCLC: 48707632 Yale. Not in Heller unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313787

‎Holman John P.‎

‎Sheep and Bear Trails. A Hunter's Wanderings in Alaska and British Columbia . Introduction by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett. Approved by the Boone and Crockett Club‎

‎New York: Frank Walters Grand Central Palace 1933. First edition no. 3 of 75 copies printed on Fine Paper bound uncut and autographed by the author; with a fulsome inscription from the author on the half title. With 43 illustrations illustrated endpapers. xvi 211 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Original red cloth upper cover with gilt vignette. Bookplate of Francis R. Hagner. Fine copy in original card slipcase. First edition no. 3 of 75 copies printed on Fine Paper bound uncut and autographed by the author; with a fulsome inscription from the author on the half title. With 43 illustrations illustrated endpapers. xvi 211 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Heller 1:160; Biscotti p. 209 Frank Walters, Grand Central Palace unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313010

‎Edwards Lionel Barrow Albert Stewart‎

‎Shires and Provinces by "Sabretache". With More Shires and Provinces‎

‎London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited 1928. First editions. 32 color illustrations by Lionel Edwards 16 in each titles. 2 vols. 4to. Green cloth t.e.g. others untrimmed. Some occasional light rubbing else about fine. First editions. 32 color illustrations by Lionel Edwards 16 in each titles. 2 vols. 4to. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 35 Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 47338

‎Turner Turner J.‎

‎Life in the Backwoods. From Original Photographs‎

‎London: London Stereoscopic & Photo Company Limited 106 and 108 Regent Street 1888. First edition. With 40 photogravure illustrations with printed captions opposite. 84 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original half brown morocco and decorated white paper covered boards upper cover titled in gilt and gilt stamped animals a.e.g. Some soiling of endsheets title a little spotted else fine. First edition. With 40 photogravure illustrations with printed captions opposite. 84 pp. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Caribou wild sheep and bear hunting trapping ice-fishing and outdoor life in the Rocky Mountains in Kootway British Columbia by J. Turner-Turner author of Three Years Hunting and Trapping 1888 whose wife accompanied him on his travels and who figures in several of the photographs. He later wrote The Giant Fish of Florida 1902. Uncommon. Phillips p. 381. OCLC: 767797842 9092733 London Stereoscopic & Photo Company, Limited 106 and 108 Regent Street unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314447

‎Hopkins Nathaniel R.‎

‎The Hoppiad" By A. Farfromhomer‎

‎Upper Dam Maine 1920. Edition of 20 copies. With two portraits photogravure frontispiece ornamental headpiece hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth backed pictorial boards with trout fly inlaid in upper cover. Laid into a half brown calf and marbled boards drop box. Edition of 20 copies. With two portraits photogravure frontispiece ornamental headpiece hand-colored. 1 vols. Folio. Poem describing a fishing trip to Maine sponsored by the Oxford Paper Co. for a number of New York notables among them George Semken and William Edwin Rudge. Siegel copy is signed Nathaniel R. Hopkins at the portait frontispiece; Yale copy is attributed to George H. Semken and is signed G.H.S. Not in Phillips Wetzel Bruns Heller. OCLC: 54271883 Yale 213733568 U.C. Santa Barbara. Provennce: Col. Henry Siegel unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314030

‎IvoryKunz George Frederick‎

‎Archive of Correspondence concerning Elephant Hunting and Trophy Ivory hunted in Africa addressed to George Frederick Kunz of New York and used in his book Ivory and the Elephant in Art in Archaeology and in Science 1916‎

‎V.p. 1915. 10 duplicated typewritten requests for information accomplished in ink usually signed; 5 autograph letters signed; 3 typed letters signed; and 4 retained carbons of letters from Kunz: totaling 26 pp. 1 vols. 4to and smaller. Old folds minor wear condition generally fine. Blue morocco backed folding box. 10 duplicated typewritten requests for information accomplished in ink usually signed; 5 autograph letters signed; 3 typed letters signed; and 4 retained carbons of letters from Kunz: totaling 26 pp. 1 vols. 4to and smaller. A superb collection of primary documents used by George Frederick Kunz in preparation of chapter XI of his monumental work Ivory and the Elephant in Art in Archaeology and in Science 1916. This archive comprises 15 individual responses to a request for information about hunting elephant in Africa distributed by Kunz with related correspondence and covers hunts from 1899 through 1913. Highlights of the data are summarized at pp. 415-418 in the published book. - James Barnes author of Through Central Africa from Coast to Coast 1915 a dense two-page typed letter signed describing several hunts in Uganda and British E. Africa in 1913-14. - William Fitz Hugh Whitehouse recordign 12 kills on expeditions to Lake Rudolph in 1899-1900 and 1902-3 with a four-page A.L.S. dated 17 September 1915 from Southampton Long Island concerning hunting for the Emperor Menelik Arthur H. Neumann "My diaries & game books are in my home in N.Y. & I should be more than pleased to give you any information possible ." Whitehouse was author of "To Lake Rudolph and Beyond" published in Grinnell's Hunting and Conservation 1925. - Gerrit Forbes 48 elephants 1907-1913 in British E. Africa Uganda Congo & Sudan with long addendum on regional variations in ivory on verso of circular. - W. Sewall records hunts in N.W. Rhodesia German E. Africa Uganda Somaliland Abyssinia etc. from 1905 onwards "The Elephant's head in the Harvard Club N.Y. was shot by me the tusks of which are unusually graceful although not over 80 lbs. ." - W.S. Rainsford author of The Land of the Lion 1909 describing three elephant kils during travels in east Africa 1905 1908-9 1911-12 with a short A.L.S. - E.J. Honor of Pittsburgh Pa. giving brief details of one kill from a hunt north and west of Mt. Kenya 1905-6. - E.M. Wheeler on behalf of Alexander Wheeler. "Mr. Wheeler has gone with his regiment to the Dardanelles with the form completed by Rowland Ward Ltd. describing a trophy taken at Mohoroni British East Africa 1903. - James L. Clark taxidermist and sculptor and later author of Trails of the Hunted 1928 reported one kill in British East Africa 1909-1910. This would have been with the McCutcheon/Roosevelt expedition. Several correspondents reported not having hunted elephant such as H. Lloyd Folsom of the H. & D. Folsom Arms Co. who wrote that the illness of a travelling companion obliged his party to give up the idea. 10 September 1915; Benjamin Chew reported similarly "I have never had the luck to get a shot at Elephant". P. C. Madeira of Philadelphia author of Hunting in British East Africa 1909 saw only fresh tracks; Benjamin Miles of Cleveland O. reported that Mr. Painter has not hunted Elephants. With a later TLS to Kunz from T. Alexander Barns author of Across the Great Craterland to the Congo 1923 etc. 17 November 1924 attempting to interest Kunz in a shipment of Congolese ivory carvings. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 313793

‎Smith Thomas‎

‎The Life of a Fox Written by Himself‎

‎London: Whittaker & Co 1843. First edition. Lithographic frontispiece and four plates by the author. ii ix iii 150 2 pp. 8vo. Brown morocco gilt t.e.g. rest uncut by Zaehnsdorf with their gilt-stamped medallic mark after Jost Amman on rear turn-in original illustrated wrappers silked and bound-in at rear. Front joint repaired else fine. Bookplate of J. Hamilton Leigh. First edition. Lithographic frontispiece and four plates by the author. ii ix iii 150 2 pp. 8vo. First edition of this "famous book which was issued in the form of an autobiography of this sporting animal. The author was master of the Pytchley when he wrote the book . The tales told by the foxes themselves of their experiences and the reasons to which they attribute the saving of their brush contain valuable lessons to fox hunters" Schwerdt. Schwerdt II p. 164 Whittaker & Co unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314442

‎Maclean Norman‎

‎A River Runs through It‎

‎West Hatfield Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press 1989. One of 6 copies. Title page printed in red and black. With 13 original wood engravings by Barry Moser. Harold MacGrath was the Pressman. Type is monotype Van Dijck paper Mohawk Letterpress. 4 161 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full golden-tan leather gilt lettered spine marbled endpapers enclosed in matching golden-tan leather folding box with linen over boards by Barbara Blumenthal. Moser Barry. One of 6 copies. Title page printed in red and black. With 13 original wood engravings by Barry Moser. Harold MacGrath was the Pressman. Type is monotype Van Dijck paper Mohawk Letterpress. 4 161 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 6 Special Copies. One of 6 copies only of the special Deluxe edition the ordinary Pennyroyal edition was limited to 200 numbered copies in half binding signed on the colophon by the author Norman Maclean and by illustrator Barry Moser. This deluxe edition has an additional suite of the 13 original wood block engravings each signed and numbered by Moser with a signed and numbered additional print of the woodblock initial "I" that starts the book: "In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."  A River Runs Through It represents a sacred text for those who fly fish that falls only slightly behind the Bible itself.  Maclean's pages are filled with quotable lines that are endlessly repeated: "If our father had had his say nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him." The deluxe edition also has an original dry-fly hand tied by George Croonenberghs the local fly fishing expert who grew up with the Maclean brothers in Missoula Montana and who taught Norman Maclean how to tie flies.  Croonenberghs and his flies are mentioned several times pages 93-96.  The original dry-fly is Croonenberghs' Badger Hair Yellow Quill. A perfect copy as new. See: Fireside Angler A River Runs through It a Bibliography Pennyroyal Press unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312699

‎Marshall Julian Editor‎

‎Tennis Cuts and Quips in Prose and Verse with rules and wrinkles‎

‎London: Field & Tuer Ye Leadenhalle Presse & C. Simpkins Marshall & Co; Hamilton Adams & Co 1884. First edition. With Illustrations. 293 6 adspp. Printed by Field & Tuer. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Original red cloth stamped in black. Good copy. First edition. With Illustrations. 293 6 adspp. Printed by Field & Tuer. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Whitman p. 217. Provenance: Distaff inheritance of the Library of William J. Clothier II 1915-2002 American tennis star international spy Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse, & C. Simpkins, Marshall & Co; Hamilton, Adams & Co unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314471

‎Pringle J. J.‎

‎Twenty Years' Snipe-Shooting. Extracts from the Daily Journal of the Game-Books of the Snipery‎

‎New York: Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press 1899. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth spine titled in gilt t.e.g. A few minor traces. First edition with correction on p. ix of "stalking" to "walking" in pencil and again in pencil on photo opposite p. 18. Illustrated with 23 Kodak photographs of snipe-shooting at the snipery. 1 vols. 8vo. An outstanding record of outdoor life and sport in southern Louisiana being Pringle's account of his shooting near the Teche and Attakapas country. "I shot almost altogether on the Camperdown and Cypre-Mort grounds; both very extensive inland marshes with low prairies and sloughs adjacent." Pringle was the son of the distinguished South Carolina politician John Julius Pringle and here he recounts in elaborate detail and with marvelous photographs his hunting experiences over twenty years from 1867 in the bayous of Louisiana. It is also an account of the ecological consequences of the conversion of marshlands to agricultural purposes: with draining of the swamps and the extension of the New Orleans and Opelousas Railway now the Southern Pacific to Franklin the snipe came no more. Pringle also calls attention to the destruction of northern nesting grounds and the effect upon snipe populations. "The most valuable record of game we have. Completely accurate with tallies of game killed each day and natural history notes" -- Phillips. "Pringle's careful record stands unique on our shores . Twenty Years Snipe Shooting offers an unique insight into an era of southern history and near forgotten lifestyle." -- Mathewson. "A very rare book; only a small number were privately printed" Gee. RARE. Phillips pp. 301-2; Howes P620 "aa"; Riling 1477 only a small number printed; Litchfield 66; Heller 2:741 Privately Printed for the Author The Knickerbocker Press unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 312700

‎Markham Gervase‎

‎The Young Sportman's sic Instructor in Angling Fowling Hawking Hunting Ordering Singing Birds Hawks Poultry Coneys Hares and Dogs and how to Cure them. By G.M.‎

‎London: sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain Price 6 d. 1706. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece of an angler with fish on the line. iv 140 pp. 1 vols. 48mo. Later 18th-century red straight-grain morocco flat spine lettered in gilt gilt rules marbled endpapers gilt edges. Extremities a little worn a very good copy. First edition. Woodcut frontispiece of an angler with fish on the line. iv 140 pp. 1 vols. 48mo. An Outstanding Angling Miniature. A superb copy of this rare miniature angling work. "Exceedingly rare but not unique as stated in the sale catalogue of the Huth Library" Schwerdt. Although the work is undated ESTC and bibliographies usually date it to 1705 but on page 31 is a reference to "a Curious book lately printed The Angler's Sure Guide" published in 1706. First edition thus a compendium consisting of extracts from the section on angling in The Pleasures of Princes from Hungers Prevention on "low-belling" and other methods of bird-catching Country Contentments on hunting coursing dogs and Markhams Method poultry etc. The publisher was George Conyers one of the most prominent chapbook publishers of the period. This first edition is rare with no copy in the British Library. ESTC locates one copy only in the UK at the Bodleian and four in North America: Harvard Houghton Library; Princeton; Yale University Center for British Art; and Beinecke. The second edition of 1712 is almost equally rare. A manuscript note on the front free endpaper verso gives the ownership as E. A. Hunter 13 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds Suffolk noting its gift to him by Coleman in 1874. The receipt Edmund Arthur Hunter 1866-1937 was eight years old at the time; his father was a wine merchant. The note claims that "This book originally belonged to Lord Byron's grandson by whom it was given to Rushbrook who gave it to Coleman." If this story is true the most likely candidate for first owner in this chain of provenance is Ralph Gordon King Noel Milbanke 2nd Earl of Lovelace 1839-1906. ESTC N14392. Westwood & Satchell p.146-7; Schwerdt II 13; Poynter 1.1. Huth sale 4 Jul. 1916 lot 4717 Schwerdt sale 2 Mar. 1946 lot 1739 Thompson sale 14 Oct. 1968 lot 115; Schiff sale 11 Dec. 1990 lot 216; Simpson sale 15 Feb. 2005 lot 404. For Lambert cf. N.Y.A.M.Bulletin 18:4 April 1942 pp. 293-296 sold at the Gold Ring in Little Britain, Price 6 d. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314397

‎Dashwood Richard Lewes‎

‎Chiploquorgan; or Life by the Camp Fire in Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland‎

‎Dublin: Robert T. White 1871. First edition. Frontispiece. viii 293 pp. Publisher's brick-colored cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. 293 pp.; half-title frontispiece with tissue guard. Minor wear Very Good at least binders ticket to front pastedown "Galwey & Co. Bookbinders 22 Eustace Street Dublin. First edition. Frontispiece. viii 293 pp. "Contains many accounts of fishing and in the Nepisiquit Restigouche and other rivers". Sage p76 Wetzel p128. As an Officer of the 15th Foot Regiment Dashwood left Cork for St. John N.B. where he was stationed from 1862 until 1868. He was an enthusiastic sportsman who spent hisleaves hunting; in 1868 he made an expedition to Newfoundland toshoot caribou. The present title combines information on gamehunting equipment and on methods of hunting with passing commentson the country and a well-told account of his hunting experiences.The main title is the Millicite word for the stick on which thekettle is suspended over the camp fire. "Somehow even Bermuda is included in this interesting if rambling book with much about fishes even those of Bermuda.Rare" Bruns. Bruns D14; Sage p. 76; Westwood & Satchell p. 76; Wetzel p. 128; O'Dea. 776; Story p210; Rhodenizer p. 65; Riling 904 Robert T. White unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : 314420