‎Sports‎

‎Constitution and By-Laws of "The Phillip Garbutt Rod and Gun Club" Caption title‎

‎Rochester New York 1931. Duplicated typescript. 5 pages with ephemera 2 membership cards receipt for 1931 dues. 4to. Old folds some browning to edges generally fine. Duplicated typescript. 5 pages with ephemera 2 membership cards receipt for 1931 dues. 4to. New York Angling Club. A copy of the foundation document from the Phillip Garbutt Rod and Gun Club established on the farm owned by the estate of John Z Garbutt 1870-1927 in Wheatland New York southwest of Rochester. Membership is limited to 50 and the by-laws state that only artificial fly-rod lures are to be used and also establish daily catch limits. The Club is still in existence. The accompanying ephemera includes a membership card and guest card for 1931 signed Emil M. Miller president as well as a receipt for payment of dues signed J. L. Leonard. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314284

‎Taliaferro Hardin E.‎

‎Fisher's River North Carolina Scenes and Characters. By "Skitt‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1859. 12 engraved plates. 269 6 pp. 8vo. Contemporary brown diced cloth with supralibros in blind recased preserving cloth of upper and lower covers.Recased preserving cloth of upper and lower covers showing supralibros of "HB" stamped in blind old repair to title page without the frontispiece interior foxed and spotted non-authorial inscription to front free endpaper. 12 engraved plates. 269 6 pp. 8vo. Guion Griffis Johnson's Copy. "One of the most joyous expressions of antebellum Southern humor" Walser. An interesting association copy with ownership inscription of pioneering female historian Guion Griffis Johnson 1900-1989 and her husband sociologist Guy Benton Johnson 1901-1991 both experts on Black culture in the rural south and early advocates for racial equality. Harper & Brothers unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314245

‎Charter and By-Laws of the Parkside Angling Association Henryville Pa‎

‎N.p. New York 1924. 16 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Printed self wrappers. Very good plus small snag at center in gutter. 16 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Charter by-laws and list of members of this private sporting club on Brodhead creek a tributary of the Delaware river in Monroe county Pennsylvania established in 1897 by trout fisherman from New York and Philadelphia. Membership is limited to 22 with two honorary members listed on the membership register for 1924-1925. One of the most important clubs in the Poconos which has counted Edward R. Hewitt and Richard C. Hunt among its members. UNRECORDED in institutional holdings or in angling bibliographies. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314287

‎Micheal Clark; Scott Lucett; Donald T. Kirkendall; National Academy of Sports Medicine Staff‎

‎NASM Essentials of Sports Performance Training‎

‎Jones & Bartlett Learning LLC 2013. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : G0781768039I3N00 ISBN : 0781768039 9780781768030

‎Bergman Ray‎

‎With Fly Plug and Bait‎

‎New York: William Morrow 1947. First edition no. 173 of 240 copies signed by the author. With six color plates of flies by Dr. Edgar Burke and drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. vi ii 640 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original 3/4 green morocco t.e.g. Fine copy. With the accompanying portfolio containing copies of the six Burke plates. Custom cloth slipcase. First edition no. 173 of 240 copies signed by the author. With six color plates of flies by Dr. Edgar Burke and drawings by Ivin Sickels 2nd. vi ii 640 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine copy With the Suite of Burke Plates. A beautiful copy of Bergman's classic with the additional suite of plates by Edgar Burke. Bruns B135 William Morrow unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 245860

‎Field Percy Coleman‎

‎The Syndicate‎

‎Kansas City Mo: Smith Grieves Co. 1916. First edition. Illustrated with 4 plates from photographs. 156 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth. Very good. First edition. Illustrated with 4 plates from photographs. 156 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Account of a summer camping and fishing trip by a group of eight friends in the "wonderful Leech Lake country" in northern Minnesota. Scarce. Phillips p. 120; Wetzel p. 136; Bruns F48 "not seen"; not in Heller. OCLC: 30494345 Smith Grieves Co.] unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314080

‎Carspecken Phil F.‎

‎Fishin' Poems and Others Cover title‎

‎Burlington Iowa: Published by the Burlington Rotary Club 1921. First edition. With two illustrations from photographs by Washburn. 28 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown wrappers. Fine copy with presentation inscription from another Rotarian on dedication page. First edition. With two illustrations from photographs by Washburn. 28 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Not in Bruns. Five of the twenty-four poems concern fishing; the illustrations of a Mississippi slough "pronounced in the middle west 'sloo' not 'slou'" include a lengthy caption discussing local fishing. This edition unknown to both Bruns and Heller. Not in Bruns cf. Bruns C64 for 1922 ed. 104 pp. described as "scarce" Published by the Burlington Rotary Club unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314083

‎Arkansas‎

‎Constitution and By-Laws of the Twin City Fish and Game Protective Association of Fort Smith and Van Buren Ark‎

‎Van Buren AR: Thayer Bros. Print 1890. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Printed wrappers. Pale staining to upper corner of each page one or two spots else very good. First edition. 4 pp. 1 vols. 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 inches. 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 woods of our State with fish and game." We were unable to discover any further information on this particular club. "The Sportsman's Creed" eight rules for sportsmen to aid in the preservation of fish and game including "Never be a fish-hog" printed on the rear wrapper with this sound advice: "Cheer Up Sportsmen The less Fish and Game you have the more there will be to get." UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC Thayer Bros. Print unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 314089

‎Sports Illustrated Editors‎

‎Sports Illustrated Sports Almanac 1995‎

‎Little Brown & Company 1994. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Little Brown & Company paperback‎

Bookseller reference : G0316808601I3N00 ISBN : 0316808601 9780316808606

‎Bunbury Henry W.‎

‎Annals of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts of Accidental Experiments and Experimental Accidents Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado Esq‎

‎Dublin: printed for William Jones 1792. First Dublin edition. Engraved hand-colored frontispiece and 16 hand-colored full-page engravings. xvii 3 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later sprinkled calf bound by Wallis for C.E. Lauriat of Boston spine gilt in panels red morocco spine label lettered in gilt inner dentelles gilt t.e.g. marbled endpapers. Minor wear to joints and a bid of marginal fading neat repair to upper bound corner of frontispiece internally clean. First Dublin edition. Engraved hand-colored frontispiece and 16 hand-colored full-page engravings. xvii 3 95 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. ESTC N2559 printed for William Jones unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313828

‎Woodcock Bethune George A.‎

‎The Uncertainties of Travel. A Plain Statement by a Certain Traveller‎

‎Boston: Privately printed 1880. First edition. 43 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Near fine copy spine faded some light wear. Bookplates. First edition. 43 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The humorous vicissitudes of a Long Island shooting trip from the pages of the Boston Advertiser. Phillips p. 383; Heller 2:596. Provenance: F.P. Willaimson bookplate; Charles Wood III lot 189 Swann 23 Oct 1986 Privately printed unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313471

‎Peile Lieut. Solomon Charles Frederick‎

‎Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill. With Latest Revised Laws as Played by the the Best Clubs . Edited by Richard D. Sears‎

‎London: William Blackwood 1885. Second edition. 90 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Originla pink pictorial boards a little faded. Second edition. 90 6 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. William Blackwood unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313486

‎Inclan Luis Gonzaga‎

‎Recuerdos del Chamberin ó Breve relacion de los hechos mas públicos y memorables de este noble Caballo . With: Reglas con que un colecial pueda colear y lazar And: Recuerdos de el Chamberin . Tercera Edicion‎

‎Mexico: Imprenta de Inclan 1867. 4 lithographs 63 pp.; folding plate small tear 64 pp.; Engravings in text 58 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Later half calf marbled boards. Original wrappers bound in. Third edition of "Chamberin" inscribed by the author. 4 lithographs 63 pp.; folding plate small tear 64 pp.; Engravings in text 58 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Collection of verses by Luis Gonzaga Inclán 1816-1875 Mexican author and printer/publisher celebrating the life and deeds of the noble horse El Chamberin. The horse lived some 27 years; the epitaph is dated 15 October 1857. The second title is the author's guide to bullfighting and roping techniques. Both these works are scarce. Bound with an UNRECORDED revised "third edition" of the verses in praise of El Chamberin with a presentation inscription on the verso of the title page. Recuerdos: OCLC 14710896 Berkeley; Univ. Nac. Autonoma de Mexico; Reglas: OCLC 25014462 Northwestern; U. Texas Austin Imprenta de Inclan unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 226692

‎Alken Henry‎

‎The National Sports of Great Britain with Descriptions in English and French . Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne‎

‎London: Published by Thomas McLean 1824. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco the covers elaborately panelled in gilt the spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in the second compartment the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools gilt turn ins cream-glazed endpapers red morocco inner hinges gilt edges scuffed endpapers and blanks with silver-fish damage. Alken Henry. First edition. Parallel titles and text in English and French text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins. 1 vols. Folio 18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. A fine copy of "Alken's most important work. It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" Tooley The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding fox stag and otter hunting beagling racing falconry various types of dogs and horses shooting grouse partridge pheasant snipe wild-fowl bittern pigeon fishing for pike and salmon fishing from a punt prize-fighting cock-fighting badger bear and bull-baiting and perhaps most extraordinary of all: "owling." It is interesting to note that although both the artist and the author felt that it was necessary to record badger bear and bull baiting they did not hold back from condemning all three 'sports' as barbaric.   This copy is a later issue/impression. The additional pictorial title is dated 1821 rather than 1820 as in the first issue a letterpress title in French has been added only the English title is present in the first and second issues and the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 Podeschi records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are numbered. The watermarks suggest a date of 1824 or later. The plates very carefully hand-colored are all aquatints by I. Clark and retain all of the liveliness that is such a feature of this work. The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced paintings drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s . To many sporting art is 'Alken' and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary" Charles Lane British Racing Prints  pp. 75-76. Tooley 41; Schwerdt I p. 19; Podeschi 111; Litchfield 14; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 10-11 Published by Thomas McLean unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 246169

‎Egan Pierce‎

‎Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom Jerry and Logic in their Pursuits Through Life in and Out of London‎

‎London: Printed by C. Baynes.for G. Virtue 26 Ivy Lane 1830. First Edition. Illustrated by the Pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank in 36 hand coloured Scenes From Real Life & Enriched with Several Designs on Wood by the Same Artist. xvi 368pp. 8vo. Bound in full blue contemporary calf gilt spine a.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated by the Pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank in 36 hand coloured Scenes From Real Life & Enriched with Several Designs on Wood by the Same Artist. xvi 368pp. 8vo. Printed by C. Baynes...for G. Virtue 26 Ivy Lane unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313818

‎Oehler Andrew‎

‎The Life Adventures and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler: Containing an Account of His Travels through France Italy the East and West Indies and Part of the United States His Imprisonment in France Germany and Spain and The Latitude Soil Climate Productions Manners and Customs of the Different Countries‎

‎Trenton: Published by D. Fenton 1811. First edition. 226 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Late nineteenth century half morocco. Title page toned Life in title overwritten in ink; occasional soiling and foxing. Very good. First edition. 226 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Remarkable picaresque history with many travels through the South between 1800 and 1808. Born in Germany in 1781 Oehler claimed he arrived in Baltimore in 1800 as a bound tailor; escaped to become a dancing master in Alexandria and then a fencing master in Port Tobacco Maryland; then went to Santo Domingo where he says he served with Toussaint; Egypt; China; Charleston South Carolina in 1802; then Columbia Augusta and Nashville. In 1805 and 1806 he experimented with ballooning in Nashville and Natchez an ad in a Natchez newspaper for 1806 corroborates this part of the sometimes incredible tale. In New Orleans he claims to have learned "Legerdemain" by which he paid his debts but which got him thrown in jail in Mexico. He gives a long account of his sojourn in and out of jail in Mexico. Returning to the U.S. he made two trading expeditions to the west of the Mississippi one to Natchitoches in 1807. He returned overland to Georgia in 1808 and later settled in New Jersey. Felcone records two issues printed in 1811 the other issue published by the Author. Felcone 1188; Howes O25; Shaw & Shoemaker 51124; Kaplan 4310; Sabin 56732; Clark II:110; Toole Stott 869 "First known autobiography of a performer of magic in America" Published by D. Fenton unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313460

‎Thomas Joseph B MFH. M. F.‎

‎How to Ride to Hounds. With Data on Hunting Uniforms and Notes on Stable Management. Being Extracts from the forth-coming Book "Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages" by .‎

‎New York: Privately Printed for Donald Perkins M.F.H. 1927. First edition. 27 pp. printed on Suede Laid book paper. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in blue pebbled cloth with original green printed wrappers bound in. Quarter red morocco slipcase with gilt stamped Derrydale logo on spine and on upper cover and chemise. First edition. 27 pp. printed on Suede Laid book paper. 1 vols. 12mo. With a tipped in Typed Letter signed to Newcomb Churchill from Thomas asking him to review his work and a loosely inserted secretarial letter to Churchill on Thomas' letterhead signed by N.S. Bell thanking him for reading it. Frazier T-4-a; Siegel 15 note. Not in Biscotti. Provenance: Frazier Collection Privately Printed for Donald Perkins, M.F.H. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 260691

‎Elliott William‎

‎Carolina Sports by Land and Water. Including Incidents of Devil-Fishing &c‎

‎Charleston South Carolina: Burges & James 1846. First edition. 172 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Later mottled calf. Bookplate of Edward Sands Litchfield. Fine. First edition. 172 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Litchfield Copy. William Elliott 1788-3 Feb. 1863 was a third-generation South Carolina planter writer and sportsman. He served in the state senate for nearly two decades and was respected as one of the most gifted planters of the old South producing large crops of rice and sea island cotton. He wrote frequently on agricultural and outdoor topics in newspapers and in the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine. The sporting sketches were collected and published as Carolina Sports by Land and Water Including Incidents of Devil Fishing Etc. 1846. "The charm of these tales lies in the animation and gusto with which Elliott communicates his experiences. . Theodore Roosevelt who became fascinated with harpooning the devilfish in later years paid tribute to Elliott's book: 'Killing devil-fish with the harpoon and lance had always appealed to me as a fascinating sport since as a boy I had read Elliott's account of it in his Field Sports of South Carolina'"ANB. A landmark of American sporting literature and an uncommon antebellum Charleston imprint here in a fine binding. Sabin 22286; Phillips p. 111; Howes E112; Gee Sportsman's Library p. 136; Henderson p. 108; Five Centuries of Sport Maclay Sale lot 208; Podeschi 176; Litchfield p. 41; Bruns E20; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 129; Heller 1:480 Burges & James unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 311478

‎Brown C. Barrington‎

‎Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana‎

‎London: Edward Stanford 1876. First edition. Color frontispiece of Kaieteur Falls and 9 colored plates folding map. 400 pp. Half title present bound without ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Half blue morocco marbled sides t.e.g. by Morrell for Putnam. Near fine copy. First edition. Color frontispiece of Kaieteur Falls and 9 colored plates folding map. 400 pp. Half title present bound without ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Extensive narrative of explorations in British Guiana by Brown one of the surveyors appointed by the crown. Brown was the first European traveller to give an account of Kaieteur Falls. Edward Stanford unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313668

‎Luard Lowes Dalbiac‎

‎The Horse: Its Action and Anatomy‎

‎New York: The Derrydale Press 1936. One of 150 copies. This copy is numbered 82. Printed by R. MacLehose and Company Limited. Illustrated by the author including 12 anatomical plates in color. xiii v 122 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth red imprinted spine label a fine copy in near fine printed dust jacket. Signed on ffep Mrs Oberdorph. One of 150 copies. This copy is numbered 82. Printed by R. MacLehose and Company Limited. Illustrated by the author including 12 anatomical plates in color. xiii v 122 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A nice copy of one of the scarcest Derrydales. Notes Frazier: "Probably the finest horse anatomy book since Stubbs and both are fine artists. This is a very rare book indeed in the Derrydale edition." In an exceptionally fresh dust jacket. Siegel 99; Frazier L-8-a The Derrydale Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 227050

‎Foxhunting Thomas Joseph B.‎

‎Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages . with an Introduction by the Earl of Lonsdale‎

‎New York: The Derrydale Press 1928. First edition copy 18 of 50 copies of the deluxe edition on van Gelder paper from a total edition of 750. Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. xviii 272 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches 31.5 X 24 cm. Full scarlet morocco gilt decorations of a stylized hound running through foliage title on upper cover top edge gilt. Red morocco-backed clamshell case. Ross Gordon. First edition copy 18 of 50 copies of the deluxe edition on van Gelder paper from a total edition of 750. Hand colored frontispiece portrait of the author by Gordon Ross in addition to numerous other illustrations in color and black and white. xviii 272 pp. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches 31.5 X 24 cm. An outstanding work "the first of the big beautiful Derrydale Deluxes. It was a model for many of the ones that followed" Frazier Original price was $100. Siegel 15; Frazier T-2-D; Biscotti p. 432; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 370-71 The Derrydale Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 313002

‎Watson John N.‎

‎Angling with the Fly. Flies & Anglers of Derbyshire and Staffordshire‎

‎Yeadon W. Yorks: Ken Smith 2008. Copy ii of 10 for presentation from an edition of 65 copies signed by all contributors in volume I and in volume II by the author and Tim Thorpe. With 42 mounted flies 36 specimen flies tied by Tim Thorpe 6 tied by the author displayed within seven sunken mounts and a separate suite of three prints by Ashley Bryant signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout. xxii 326 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Blue Wassa goatskin morocco gilt Ann Muir marbled endsheets. Blue cloth folding box morocco spine label. Copy ii of 10 for presentation from an edition of 65 copies signed by all contributors in volume I and in volume II by the author and Tim Thorpe. With 42 mounted flies 36 specimen flies tied by Tim Thorpe 6 tied by the author displayed within seven sunken mounts and a separate suite of three prints by Ashley Bryant signed by the artist. Illustrated throughout. xxii 326 pp. 2 vols. 4to. One of Ten Copies. A superbly illustrated history of regional angling traditions here in a special presentation issue of 10 copies with the separate volume of mounted flies and an additional folder housing a suite of plates signed by the artist. Ken Smith unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 308008

‎Derrydale Press Connett Eugene V. Editor‎

‎Upland Game Bird Shooting in America‎

‎New York: The Derrydale Press 1930. Deluxe Edition Number 74 of 75 copies with signed etching by Schaldach. 64 plates 5 in color by Lynn Bogue Hunt Edgar Burke William Schaldach A.B. Frost Bert Cobb et al. xxiv iii 249 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt with decorative running border on both covers featuring birds and dogs and enclosing title on upper cover panelled spine gilt with game bird vignettes and title t.e.g. by Stikeman N.Y. Some faint traces of rubbing to front joint. Fine. Brown half morocco clamshell box. Deluxe Edition Number 74 of 75 copies with signed etching by Schaldach. 64 plates 5 in color by Lynn Bogue Hunt Edgar Burke William Schaldach A.B. Frost Bert Cobb et al. xxiv iii 249 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Siegel notes "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work" and Frazier states "Certainly one of the handsomest of the great big beautiful Derrydales that Connett produced . one of the most ambitious projects that he attempted". One of the most highly sought-after of Derrydale titles and magnificent in this deluxe edition. Siegel 45; Frazier C-11-D; Biscotti p. 92 The Derrydale Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 259369

‎Derrydale Press Goulburn Edward et al‎

‎Hell for Leather! The Epwell Hunt - The Melton Hunt - Howell Wood‎

‎New York: Derrydale Press 1928. First edition thus; No. 271 of 350 copies. 3 hand-colored plates from old paintings. 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White parchment spine over gold paper boards unopened. Spine slightly toned and top of front board faded. First edition thus; No. 271 of 350 copies. 3 hand-colored plates from old paintings. 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "A lovely little book and a lovely little Derrydale" Frazier. Printed by the Harbor Press. One of the A.I.G.A. 50 books of the year. Three foxhunting poems: 1. Epwell Hunt; or Black Collars in the Rear By Edward Goulburn Esq. 2. The Melton Hunt; A Day with Lord Southampton's Hounds 1830. 3. Howell Wood; or The Raby Hunt in Yorkshire by Martin Hawke Esq. Ransom 37; Siegel 14; Frazier H-7-a; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 159 Derrydale Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 242752

‎Herbert Henry William "Frank Forester"‎

‎Collection of 24 Autograph Letters signed "Henry Wm. Herbert" to various correspondents pertaining for the most part to his literary and sporting work. Written in New York at 74 Mercer Street Carlton House Summer St and at The Cedars in Newark New Jersey‎

‎New York and New Jersey 1857. Portrait illustration mounted. 59 pp. 1 vols. 4to and smaller. Letters tipped to quarto sheets and bound together in three-quarters green morocco for Charles Scribner's Sons by Jas. MacDonald & Co. Spine faded to brown. Bookplate. Some old splits or repairs to letters generally about fine. Portrait illustration mounted. 59 pp. 1 vols. 4to and smaller. 'I am in some considerable want of money'. Henry William Herbert 1807-1858 grandson of the Earl of Carnaervon arrived in New York in 1831. He had been educated at Eton and Cambridge where his tastes for fast living outdoor sport and writing had disqualified him from following in the clerical footsteps of his father the rector of Spofford and later dean of Manchester. Herbert travelled in the eastern U.S. and Canada until his money ran out and returned to New York where he taught classics at a prep school for Columbia and became a prolific contributor to American periodicals. He wrote historical novels and was the American translator of Eugène Sue and several novels by Dumas. He also drew upon his memories of hunting in Orange county New York to write his most famous book The Warwick Woodlands first published as sketches for the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine under the pseudonym "Frank Forester" and collected in book form in 1845. With his writings for The Spirit of the Times and for the Register "he took on the role of the father of American sporting and hunting literature" ODNB. The early 1840s were a period of comparative prosperity for Herbert. he was married in 1839 and a son was born in 1841. Herbert's family bought him a property on the Passaic river in New Jersey where he built a rural retreat The Cedars. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1844 and their son was sent off to England to be raised there. Herbert was quick to take offense and fought several duels or armed confrontations. He was also chronically short of ready cash as publishers delayed payments and magazines failed. This collection of letters touches upon literary social and financial matters spanning most of Herbert's career with fine turns of phrase and mention of mutual friends current works potential assignments and the prospect of scandal. Comprising: 1. To John Trumbull 20 April 1833 2 pp. with integral address leaf requesting the recipient's assistance in securing a favorable notice from Mr. King for the third issue of The American Monthly Magazine. 2. Autograph letter signed "Allen" from Herbert's uncle Joshua fifth Viscount Allen 4 pp. 100 Mount Street London dated 13 July 1835 regarding a Greek professorship at Columbia College for his nephew. Nothing came of this. 3. Saturday 25th March 1837 1p. inviting the unnamed recipient to meet his cousin Mr. Riddell from Canada and asking whether he was attending the Booksellers Feast on 30 March. 4. To George Roberts editor of The Boston Notion 3 pp. 24 April 1841 substantial letter proposing a complete novel for the journal and mentioning novels "Ringwood the Rover" published 1843 and "The Maid's Revenge" published as Marmaduke Wyvil 1843 and responses of Philadelphia and New York publishers to his queries. Roberts published several pieces by Herbert including portions of the novel published as Chevaliers of France in 1853. Quoted in Van Winkle at p. 8. 5. To Rufus Dwinel 23 August 1841 1 p. substantial letter proposing to pay a debt of thirty-five dollars with a draft on George R. Graham of Philadelphia "proprietor and editor of the Ladies & Gentleman's magazine for $150 due me for literary matters at 6 days sight. . I am in some considerable want of money at the moment in consequence of Sarah's very dangerous illness . By the way I should not wish it offered at the Eastern Branch for reasons which I will explain when we meet." 6. To George Graham 24 January 1842 1-1/2 pp. "musch surprised that the draft for 150 dollars to the order of Messrs Benson & Hodges has not been paid according to your promise . The whole article was I presume in your hands ." Herbert was a regular contributor to Graham's through the 1850s. 7. To an editor 18 March 1842 1 p. accepting "the offer of $100 down and 50 at the delivery of the last chapter" needing an answer before 10 April "for individual considerations" and pledging to deliver "in time for weekly publication a tale in 30 chapters averaging 8 pages each of my MS." Ringwood the Rover was published in the Saturday Evening Post from 19 March through 23 April 1842 and in book form the following year. 8. To editor John L. O' Sullivan summer 1845 2 pp. "as it is stated in the papers that you and the Democratic are at length enfranchised from the to me 'baleful dominion' of the Langley's and that you are about to publish henceforth on your own hook I beg to tender my services to you either occasionally or for a series of papers." Herbert mentions construction of "a little cottage" The Cedars and alludes to an article entitled Horae Otiosae or Loose Leaves of Literary Leisure published in Godey's for May 1845 not noted in Van Winkle. He also reports that "The Wandering Jew which has kept me enchained for the last year and more is drawing to it conclusion." 9. To Edward Carey or Abraham Hart My Dear Sir 22 May 1845 2 pp. offering to sell a copy of Disraeli's Sibyl just received from Colburn by steamer and at the Philadelphia Post Office with postage due of $17.45. Herbert is asking for his commission "for I am disappointed in not obtaining a remittance by the steamer and am considerable poor! . I have no Jew this Steamer and am ready to go at Thiers if necessary hard all." Carey and Hart published the pirated edition of Sibyl in 1845; the firm also published Thiers' Life of Napoleon. See BAL 8088. 10. To A. Hart 20 December 1848 1 p. "I am almost ashamed to trouble you again about the 'Deerstalkers' . as Bentley requires as a sine qua non of publication thirty days delay after the receipt of the MS in England it will be necessary for you to delay twice that time here in order fro give me the advantage of an English sale. I had hoped to have had some proofs from you ere now. . My new book is going well." The Deerstalkers was published in London on 23 March 1849 and in Philadelphia by Carey & Hart on 18 April. 11. To Henry B. Hirst c/o G. R. Graham 4 April 1850 2 pp. concerning plans to hunt snipe and a change in the date of travel due to a north east storm. Herbert asks Hirst to "communicate my altered views to Graham and to tell McKenzie at the Columbia that he may expect me and my dogs on Saturday evening if it neither rain nor snow." Herbert's article "Spring Snipe Shooting of 1850" was published in Graham's for May. The Columbia House hotel was the scene of the "unpleasant encounter" with Judge Barton later in 1850 where a bar-room disagreement was fanned into something more by the "officiousness" of Hirst see Hunt pp. 88-9. 12. To George Graham n.d. ca. June 1854 4 pp. concerning nonpayment of a draft for $200 following delivery of "the Ms of The Falls of the Wyalusing complete in XIV chapters . I am very sure it is the best Temperance story you have published yet." See letter 15. In advertisements in the Water-Cure Journal December 1854 and American Farmers' Magazine early 1855 as well as the Spirit of the Age 14 February 1855 The Falls of the Wyalusing was advertised as forthcoming in the Saturday Evening Post for 1855; but Van Winkle p. 189 and BAL note at 4:138 report the work untraced in magazine or book appearances. 13. To an unnamed editor undated 1 p. writing from The Cedars "I have nothing original which I can send you not already published of more importance than the translations of two epitaphs on the Greeks and Spartans who fell at Thermopylae . Here did we fight with Persian millions three Peloponnesians twice two thousand we." Signature faded. Possibly circa 1851 at the time of The Captains of the Old World. 14. To George Graham 27 January 1853 6 pp. 12mo "I wrote to you on Saturday last in regard to the return all together on that day of all my drafts on you since Decr. 18th. I had no intimation whatever that our engagement was at end or that a termination of it was desired by you." Herbert details articles and woodblocks sent to Graham on specific dates verses on Wellington a review of Bancroft. "It is a great hardship for me to be thrown out at this time of year when I had just refused all offers from two other magazines being exclusively your contributor; and a great hardship to refund to Mr. Stringer the amount of the drafts returned. ." He asks for the return of a woodblock of a duck printed in the February number as he needs "a cut for my little book soon forthcoming." 15. To George Graham 25 May 1854 3 pp. "I send you today by Express the completion of the Falls of Wyalusing which I hope will meet your approbation . I had no option but to delay it for Charles Scribner who has in press my Captains of the Roman Republic would have got the work finished by some other hand and I should have lost my interest in it had I not finished it on or before the seventh of this month. Immediately after which I set steadily to work on this story." He offers an electrotype of his drawing of the battle of Actium and an article on Mark Antony the Mad Triumvir. . The Cedars is looking very pretty and green after all these rains and I should be glad to see you here. I think you are making the Evening Mail quite the best paper but I wish you were not so down on England." 16. To Colonel J. R. S. Denton 5 September 1855 2 pp. asking "if you can get the enclosed note discounted for me . I must have the cash on Friday evening by six o'clock at the latest and without a chance of disappointment. . In conclusion let me beg you if you have heard any reports downtown to my disadvantage I do not mean the least in money matters but to a row which occurred on Saturday night to suspend your opinion until you hear the whole when I pledge you my honor you will learn that I was right in every point." 17. To Mr Clark 21 January 1856 4 pp. in some distress concerning Clark's guarantee of Mr. Britton's note and Herbert's obligations to his publishers Stringer & Townsend; "I hear on all sides of your enjoying four-in-hand sleigh rides and I have literally been without coal in this freezing weather. . Actions only not words can be of use now - if I am not relieved on or beforeSaturday the house in which you have often received hospitality will be closed; as my servants have all given me notice to quit if not paid up on that day . This is a nice end of ten years toil and struggle to be thus mashed through no fault of my own." 18. To G.S. Williams of Geneva New York 26 February 1857 1 p. responding to a request for an autograph noting that this is the third letter from Geneva seeking an autograph received "within four and twenty hours." 19. To John B. Hersh 20 March 1857 5 pp. concerning a project to hatch grouse eggs and tame the birds. "I have succeeded with the eggs of the woodcock brought from over a greater distance. The question is of time." Herbert suggests enclosing a ten acre parcel of land devoted to the project; and discusses quail partridge and introducing non-native birds. Docketed at head "'Hersh' is a pseudonym of John H. Beardsley formerly of Cleveland Ohio." 20. To Messrs. Harper & Bros. Cliff Street n.d. spring 1835 2-1/2 pp. "I have got several chapters finished for you though not all written out" and discussing the length of the introductory chapter and preliminary pages; continuing "Have you thought anything about publishing in England or not or have you any objection to my taking some steps about it. It occurs to me that that I could get it done by Colburn . I have a friend her now who is going immediately to England and will take measures if you say yes. . I heard from Simms today he writes in great spirits about the Yemasee which he says is in great demand in the South." Harpers published The Brothers in July 1835 Colburn began publishing Herbert only in 1840. 21. My Dear Colonel Denton n.d. ca. 1855 1 p. concerning an address for Mr. Andrews Eastport Maine and debts to be discharged "at all events I will be prepared for the next on the day it becomes due " as I shall have a book ready for delivery before that time." 22. My dear Stringer n.d. after 1853 3 pp. "Infamous and disgraceful are not strong enough words for the wretched botches which have been made of what I am confident to say are the three best drawings on wood . No one of the drawings in the Game in its seasons came near these for beauty or finish and the cuts are not equal to the sixpenny things on the cover of yellow paper novels. . Mr orr knows this as well as I do." American Game in Its Seasons was published by Scribners in 1853. 23. To William F. P. Wilson Columbian Hotel Philadelphia undated 1 p. with conjugate address leaf "I take the opportunity of G. Halsted visiting your city to send you a line; I was truly sorry to learn the sad news you wrote me . When are you coming to stay with me. I have two spre beds now comfortably furnished." George B. Halsted was later the president of the Newark Herbert Association which in 1876 erected the monument in Mount Pleasant cemetery bearing the motto "Infelicissimus". 24. To Rufus Dwinel Broadway 14 September 1841 1 p. "I was equally amazed & disgusted at your note. It is the damnedest piece of rascality I ever heard the price being the payment due to me for literary articles furnished at his own request. I send you enclosed seventy dollars every farthing I have in the house & will arrange the payment of the of the balance as speedily as possible. . I beg you to get it kept quiet if possible for it will set the whole of this damned town talking again." 25. To Abraham Hart undated spring 1851 1 p. "I enclose Mr. 's note of last evening & leave the completion of the Sea-King. Will you oblige me by getting the draft for $40 cashed & enclosing it to me at the Columbia House ." Hart published The Sea-King in June 1851. See BAL 8126. A superb and important assembly of letters from the founder of American outdoor writing attesting to his friendships and literary endeavors and documenting his perpetually straitened circumstances. Provenance: John M. Schiff Sotheby's 11 December 1990 lot 178. See: Hunt Frank Forester. A Tragedy in Exile 1933; Van Winkle Henry William Herbert Frank Forester: A Bibliography of His Writings 1832-1858 1936; White Henry William Herbert & the American Publishing Scene 1943; BAL vol. 4 pp. 107-38 unknown‎

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