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Southard Charles Zibeon
The Evolution of Trout and Trout Fishing in America
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. First edition no. 88 of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait map 9 color plates. xxxii 254 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's burgundy morocco gilt t.e.g. Some rubbing along front joint small trace of old bookplate removal on front pastedown. very good. Custom cloth slipcase. Uncommon. First edition no. 88 of 100 de luxe copies signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait map 9 color plates. xxxii 254 pp. 1 vols. 4to. One of 100 Copies. Southard "had the first fish camp built on the Kennebago . kept very complete records of Kennebago Lake Rangeley Maine fishing including sky and weather conditions" Bruns.<br/><br/><br/><br/>An important and beautifully illustrated work. Bruns S-227; Wetzel p. 215 E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 242718
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Halford Frederic M.
The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual. Including The Fisherman's Entomology and the Making and Management of a Fishery
London: George Routledge 1913. First combined edition. With 44 plates mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper and additional illustrations in the text. Extra-illustrated with a map of Lough Arrow a photograph newspaper clippings mounted on interleaved sheets and an inserted hackle. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary pigskin rebacked preserving original spine. Fine. In a cloth folding box. First combined edition. With 44 plates mostly photogravures on mounted India proof paper and additional illustrations in the text. Extra-illustrated with a map of Lough Arrow a photograph newspaper clippings mounted on interleaved sheets and an inserted hackle. 1 vols. 4to. Presentation Copy to John Henderson With Correspondence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY to angling author and master fly tyer John Henderson senior who contributed a chapter "Dry-Fly on Lough Arrow" an outstanding trout fishery in Ireland illustrated with three photogravure plates from his negatives. Several of the inserted newspaper clippings including reviews of the book mention Henderson's flies & his technical innovations.<br/><br/><br/><br/>With nine inserted autograph letters from Halford to Henderson ranging in date from October 1911 to May 1913 and dealing with the book's publication the illustrations fly patterns etc. Seven of the letters are loosely inserted; tipped in at the front are one letter and a note returning the negatives used for the book and thanking Henderson for his "admirable contribution." With a small group of photographs of Lough Arrow and a brief correspondence between H.T. Sheringham and Henderson.<br/><br/><br/><br/>With an interesting provenance from John Simpson whose Honey Dun Press published John Henderson junior's Hackle Book in 1982. George Routledge unknown books
Bookseller reference : 220813
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Polo
Polo photographs: seven original early photographs of polo in Argentina
Argentina 1883. Two large photos show mounted groups of players mallets raised; the third shows an attendant holding the bridle of a pony. Of four smaller photos one shows a man in gaucho outfit standing with ponies one shows another man holding a pony and two show several ponies together in one case feeding from a hay rack. 1 vols. Three photos approximately 6-1/2 x 9 inches; four approximately 3 x 4 inches. Mounted on two sheets of pasteboard; a few cracks without loss in the lower margin of one large photo a small chip and diagonal crack at the corner of one small photo else near fine. In two frames. Two large photos show mounted groups of players mallets raised; the third shows an attendant holding the bridle of a pony. Of four smaller photos one shows a man in gaucho outfit standing with ponies one shows another man holding a pony and two show several ponies together in one case feeding from a hay rack. 1 vols. Three photos approximately 6-1/2 x 9 inches; four approximately 3 x 4 inches. Rare Argentine Polo Photographs Ca. 1883. A very early and possibly unique set of polo photographs dating from the game's earliest days in Argentina a country subsequently famous for its superb record in International competitions. Invented in Persia the game was revived in India in 1863 and was brought to England by British officers in 1869. A number of Englishmen many of them younger sons of British nobility emigrated to Argentina in the latter decades of the century and around 1883 they introduced polo first played around Buenos Aires which quickly spread and became a national sport. Some of the faces in the photos offered here have a distinctly English appearance and it is not too fanciful to assume that these may indeed be some of the founders of the Argentine game. It is also possible that these are the first photographs taken of polo in Argentina.<br/><br/><br/><br/>AN HISTORIC SET OF PHOTOGRAPHS. Dale Polo at Home and Abroad p. 182 et seq unknown books
Bookseller reference : 25043
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Boccius Gottlieb
A Treatise on the Management of Fresh-Water Fish with a view to making them a source of profit to landed proprietors
London: John Van Voorst 1841. First edition. Title page vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green silk grain cloth with printed label on upper cover. Inscribed on the half-title "With the author's best regards to Josiah Parkes Esqr." Shaken spine perished and crudely repaired with cellotape. First edition. Title page vignette. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the Author Litchfield Copy. Includes 23 German recipes for cooking fresh-water fish. Book plate of Edward Sands Litchfield and letter laid in to him from a friend on the occasion of him being given the book 1966. Autograph verse on free front endpaper:<br/><br/><br/><br/>"If your dear fishes belies<br/><br/>Suffer cramps and creeps and colitees<br/><br/>Just take this tome of ancient lore<br/><br/>To ease your mind of baneful chore" 1961. Westwood & Satchell p. 333 John Van Voorst unknown books
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Churchill Edward George Spencer
Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida. Introduction by Randy Wayne White
Far Hills NJ: Meadow Run Press 1998. Deluxe edition one of 50 copies numbered signed by White on colophon. Illustrated with a new frontispiece by John Rice and reproductions of the original 16 stereoscope cards. 1 vols. 8vo. Decorated paste-paper over boards gilt with a reproduction of the frontispiece black morocco spine gilt with title fore-edges uncut; in publisher's custom cloth-covered box with black morocco spine label enclosing the book a separate booklet containing the stereoscopic plates aligned for viewing and a compartment containing two stereoscopic viewers. As new. Deluxe edition one of 50 copies numbered signed by White on colophon. Illustrated with a new frontispiece by John Rice and reproductions of the original 16 stereoscope cards. 1 vols. 8vo. Tarpon Classic One of 50 Deluxe Copies. A beautiful deluxe reprinting of Churchill's book first published in 1906 and one of the great classics of tarpon fishing. Randy Wayne White who wrote the Introduction is a former tarpon fishing guide; his "Doc Ford" series of mystery novels set in Florida have a wide readership. An important book importantly presented. <br/>The author was Winston Churchill's cousin; and their vital dates are the same 1876-1964<br/>OUT OF PRINT. Dimock The Book of the Tarpon bibliography p. vi Meadow Run Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 25621
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Lege & Bergeron photographers
Two cartes-de-visite of Francis Copcutt in mountaineering gear re-enacting his ascent of Mont Blanc
Paris: Legé & Bergeron 1868. Albumen prints on card with photographers' imprint on rear one captioned on rear in pencil. Image: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. Near fine. Albumen prints on card with photographers' imprint on rear one captioned on rear in pencil. Image: 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. Copcutt published an account of his adventures on Mont Blanc in PUTNAMS Oct. 1868: "Up and Down Mount Blanc."<br/><br/>Striking images of Copcutt with ice ax gloves hat sun goggles and rope. In one image he poses heroically gazing at imaginary peaks. In the other he reclines on a white sheet simulating snow in an attempt to convey his struggle towards the summit. Legé & Bergeron unknown books
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Derrydale Press Hunt Lynn Bogue
An Artist's Game Bag
New York: The Derrydale Press 1936. First edition No. 1144 of 1225 copies. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 44 black and white plates by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown leather-grained cloth slight wear to extremities. Hunt Lynn Bogue. First edition No. 1144 of 1225 copies. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 44 black and white plates by the author. 1 vols. 4to. Wonderful portraits of various game birds by the master.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Inscribed on half-title by author "To Russ Aitken one sportsman to another" and signed by famous sportsman Aitken "Russell Barnett Aitken Major Air Corps Oct. 1945." Siegel 98; Frazier H-20-a The Derrydale Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 56219
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North Country
Newcastle FISHER'S GARLAND for the years 1820-1845
Newcastle: Emerson Charnley and William Garret 1844. Title vignette woodcuts by Bewick Issac Nicholson et al. 8vo. Bound in later three-quarter olive morocco t.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf spine faded to brown else near fine. Bookplate of Charles Hebbert. Title vignette woodcuts by Bewick Issac Nicholson et al. 8vo. A near complete run of the original series of the Newcastle Fisher's Garland lacking only "The Angler's Adieu for the Season" 1842 and the final number "The Morning Airly" 1846. Only about 200 to 300 copies were printed of each number. Most of these short lyrics on the subject of angling were first published as broadsides by Charnley who reprinted them in octavo form for the years 1821-1831 supplying Boaz' Angler's Progress for the year 1820. The series was taken up again 1842 with poems ante-dated to fill the missing years. Joseph Crawhall republished the Garlands further extending the series to 1864.<br/><br/><br/><br/>With: MITCHELL William Andrew. On the Pleasure and Utility of Angling. Newcastle: Printed for the Waltonian Club 1824. 32 pp. Westwood & Satchell p. 52; Hugo 4581; Heckscher 1382; Coigney p. 400. Westwood & Satchell pp. 35 and157-160; Heckscher 1466 Emerson Charnley and William Garret unknown books
Bookseller reference : 243631
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Danet Guillaume
L'Art des Armes ou La manière la plus certaine se servir utilement de l'Epeé .
Paris: Chez Herissant 1766. First edition. Engraved portrait and allegorical frontispieces 33 engraved folding plates; ii xxxviii 247 3 pp. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf spine gilt in six compartments red morocco label and gilt stamped "Tome I" some rubbing to spine else near fine. First edition. Engraved portrait and allegorical frontispieces 33 engraved folding plates; ii xxxviii 247 3 pp. 8vo. One of the most important 18th-century fencing manuals and a key work in the development of modern fencing. L'ART DES ARMES was a direct attack on the orthodoxy of the Académie d'armes de Paris. "Son ouvrage doit d'être classé parmi ceux qui ont rendu le plus de services à la cause de notre art et de son enseignement" Vigeant.<br/><br/>A second volume containing an additional 12 plates and a response to critics allied with the Académie was published in 1767. Thimm p. 74-5; Pardoel 757.01; Vigeant p.48-9 Chez Herissant unknown books
Bookseller reference : 242797
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Garrison Everett and Hoagy B. Carmichael
A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod
Far Hills NJ: Meadow Run Press 1999. Deluxe edition no. 34 of 36 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated with drawings tables and photographs. 1 vols. 4to. Original full pale green Japanese silk printed label on upper cover endpapers of Indonesian handmade bamboo paper together with bamboo paper folder containing colophon information two photographs and a letter from Garrison. As new contained in publisher's matching folding box. Deluxe edition no. 34 of 36 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated with drawings tables and photographs. 1 vols. 4to. The Deluxe Edition One of 36 Copies. The Deluxe Edition of this classic book originally published in 1977 and subsequently revised and updated. Edmund Everett Garrison 1893-1975 was one of the great fly-rod makers probably the greatest. His rods are collector's items and $15000 is not an unusual price to pay for one. Garrison trained as an engineer worked full time for most of his adult life in a structural engineering firm and only produced his meticulously hand-crafted rods evenings and weekends; his output was thus comparatively small but each rod that left his hand was a masterpiece. He brought to an old art a unique technological competence which made for outstanding performance but it remained an art. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Nearly twenty thousand copies of this book have been sold in previous trade editions; this is one of only 36 Deluxe copies the edition quickly sold out and contains two glossy photographs one of Garrison and family members in which he holds one of his rods the other of Carmichael working on a rod of his own and an ALS of Garrison.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A SPLENDID AND HIGHLY DESIRABLE VOLUME. Meadow Run Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 28739
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Dodgers Mullin Willard
Original pen and ink of flying Bums . entitled "The Boid is on the Wing.--- All 41 of the Dodgers put their X to the 12953 contracts . and the Flock's first contingent arrives in the south February 18 .
New York 1953. Fine large original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing by Mullins. 1 vols. 17-1/ x 15 inches aprox. Rolled and laid into a tube addressed to Mr. Frank Graham Jr Publicity Director of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Fine large original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing by Mullins. 1 vols. 17-1/ x 15 inches aprox. SIGNED By MULLIN. <br/><br/> Willard Mullin September 14 1902 - December 20 1978 was an American sports cartoonist. He is most famous for his creation of these "Brooklyn Bum" the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. He received the Reuben Award for 1954 for his work as well as the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for each year from 1957 through 1962 and again in 1964 and 1965. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 239530
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Sporting Art Smith Harold
AN INTERESTING ARCHIVE OF ART AND CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN AMERICAN ARTIST HAROLD SMITH AND DANIEL ROCHFORD MANAGING EDITOR OF THE SPORTSMAN AND LATER ESSO EXECUTIVE 1937-1969
Boston and New York 1937. With numerous examples of Smith's art including two watercolor studies for his November 1932 football cover of The Sportsman magazine. 1 vols. A few minor wrinkles folds and an occasional tear else in uniformly fine condition. From the estate of Daniel Rochford. With numerous examples of Smith's art including two watercolor studies for his November 1932 football cover of The Sportsman magazine. 1 vols. Archive of a Sportsman Magazine Artist. An extremely interesting archive chronicling the personal friendship and professional relationship of two colorful individuals. During Daniel Rochford's five-year tenure as Managing Editor of The Sportsman Harold Smith did a number of small black and white drawings for the magazine and at least one cover of a stylized formation of football players two watercolor studies of which form part of this collection. Rochford left the magazine in 1935 to enter the public relations field subsequently joining Standard Oil of New Jersey and until Smith's death in 1969 gave the artist a number of Esso commissions for brochures and film strips as well as other work.<br/><br/>The archive includes approximately 35 ALS from Smith some 65 pages and two post cards about 30 carbons of letters from Rochford mostly dating from the 1940s on Esso matters plus some other correspondence. In addition included in Smith's art works are are nine pencil sketches for 1930s political cartoons two pencil advertisement roughs for Mt. Tremblant ski area and four watercolor skiing sketches nine sheets of pencil sketches possibly for a book or article eight amusing ink on tissue sketches for Esso publications one black and white and four watercolor caricatures of the artist and others and a particularly delightful 18 x 24 sheet of 19 watercolor scenes illustrating a 1946 visit Smith paid to the Rochfords to do their portraits.<br/><br/><br/><br/>In his last years Rochford regretted that distance and circumstance prevented the possibility of he and Smith collaborating on a book. It is a regret the viewer of this archive will share.<br/><br/><br/><br/>A SPLENDID COLLECTION. unknown books
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Smith Harry Worcester
A Sporting Family of the Old South. With which is included Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman by Frederick Gustavus Skinner
Albany New York: Published by J.B. Lyon Company 1936. First edition. Illustrated. xvii 2 477 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth gilt lettering. Fine copy in the very unusual pictorial cream dust jacket spine panel of jacket faded. First edition. Illustrated. xvii 2 477 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In Dust Jacket. Gift inscription "To my friend George Barnes with Warmest Regards from Sinclair Reynolds . "<br/><br/><br/><br/>First part is about John Stuart Skinner. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 335 Published by J.B. Lyon Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 61997
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Walton Izaac
The Complete Angler .
London: John C. Nimmo 14 King William Street Strand W.C. 1885. First Nimmo edition Number 67 of only 120 copies for the English market. Extra-Illustrated with 50 steel plates 6 original etchings 2 portraits 74 engravings on wood 10 handcolored engravings of flies. Printed by the Ballantyne Press. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Contemporary navy blue morocco spines emblematically stamped in gilt raised bands marbled endpapers a.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf. Booklabel of William M. Martin Petersburg Virginia. Handsome copy tiny trace of scuff on spine. First Nimmo edition Number 67 of only 120 copies for the English market. Extra-Illustrated with 50 steel plates 6 original etchings 2 portraits 74 engravings on wood 10 handcolored engravings of flies. Printed by the Ballantyne Press. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. The publisher's note on the verso of the half title begins: "This extra-illustrated edition of 'The Compleat Angler' is specially designed for collectors of this famous work . the illustrations consist of Fifty Steel Plates.Six Original Etchings and Two Portraits as well as Seventy-four Engravings on wood by various eminent artists. " The publisher ends almost casually "To this is added Ten Steel Plates coloured representing 120 Flies natural and artificial.". Coigney 127 ; Horne 123 John C. Nimmo 14, King William Street Strand, W.C. unknown books
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Reeve J. Stanley
Rhubarb" The Diary of a Gentleman's Hunter
Philadelphia: Press of J. B. Lippincott 1908. Second edition. Illustrated with 7 plates of silhouettes by the author. 58 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Burgundy cloth. A few traces of foxing else fine. Second edition. Illustrated with 7 plates of silhouettes by the author. 58 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Early and uncommon work by the celebrated master of fox hounds and sporting author J. Stanley Reeve 1878-1960; this second edition is not recorded.<br/><br/>J. Stanley Reeve and Katharine Lowell Roosevelt were married April 17 1909; her book Covert-Side Courtship was published later that year with silhouettes by J. Stanley Reeve. Cf. Siegel p. 220; Higginson British and American Sporting Authors p. 427 for 1901 ed.; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 302 Press of J. B. Lippincott unknown books
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The Sportsman's Portfolio of American Field Sports
Boston: M.M. Ballou 1855. First edition. Vignette title-page 20 full-page wood-cut illustrations one other in text. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. A very good copy lacking the printed wrappers supplied in facsimile. Some minor soiling to title page and last page Cloth folding case. First edition. Vignette title-page 20 full-page wood-cut illustrations one other in text. 1 vols. Small oblong 4to. One of the rarest of early American illustrated sporting books.<br/>As of the Van Winkle Sale only two copies were known with the wrappers; and Ernest Gee in his Introduction to the Derrydale facsimile of 1929 stated that he was able to trace only three copies adding: "It may be described as the most profusely illustrated early sporting book published in America as it contains twenty superb woodcuts delineating the various Field Sports practised at that time." The plates accompanied by a leaf of letterpress with often humorous comments by the anonymous author include: Trout FishingWoodcock Shooting Grouse Shooting Moose Hunting Duck Shooting Salmon Fishing Grouse Shooting Bass Fishing Bison Hunting etc. <br/>NUC locates 6 copies few presumably with wrappers. Phillips p. 355; Henderson pp. 228-229; Goodspeed p. 350; Van Winkle Sale 710; Wetzel p. 217; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 148 M.M. Ballou unknown books
Bookseller reference : 263656
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Roque P.
L'Equipage du Francport Cover title: Les Grands Equipages de France
Paris: A. Legoupy. Ateliers de Reproductions Fortier et Marotte 1905. First edition. 34 chromolithographic plates including pictorial title after watercolors by Roque printed contents leaf printed recto only. 1 vols. Oblong folio 19 X 13 inches. Original burgundy cloth and boards upper cover title with titles and the hunt button of a running boar. Some slight edgewear to corners almost fine. First edition. 34 chromolithographic plates including pictorial title after watercolors by Roque printed contents leaf printed recto only. 1 vols. Oblong folio 19 X 13 inches. Rare Belle Epoque Sporting work with a nostalgic letter from the artist. Charming belle epoque sporting work on the hunt of the Château du Francport one of the oldest and most prestigious in France. The album of watercolors by Roque includes hunting scenes and portraits of the master - the marquis de l'Aigle - and principal members as well as guests and followers in their carriages and early motorcars and the hunt costume of grey and amaranth; the final plate is a view of the Château and a recumbent hound with a large Aigle monogram. The hunt was disbanded with the onset of war in the Oise valley in August 1914; the Château du Francport is situated in the forest of Compiègne a few hundred meters from the site of the Armistice.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Loosely inserted is a 3 pp. autograph letter from the artist signed "P. Roque" dated 4 November 1946. Writing from Montifray Beaumont la Ronce Indre et Loire to an unnamed friend of long standing Roque apologizes for writing in Fench "plus à mon aise dans ma langue paternelle et puis peu importe langue puisque vous les parlez à peu pres toutes" discussing Haïphong in Indochina "ce pays que nous avons connu si tranquille" and recalling earlier days and discussing his circumstances in the aftermath of the Second World War which he spent in the family château in Indre et Loire. Roque was the nephew of Victor and Xavier Roque brothers who built a shipping and manufacturing fortune in French Indochina. Thiébaud 790-791 "tiré à petit nombre; rare". OCLC: 54265360 Yale A. Legoupy. [Ateliers de Reproductions Fortier et Marotte unknown books
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Bissell Alfred E. in collaboration with Charles Lee Reese Jr.
Further Notes on the Pursuit of Salar
Wilmington Delaware: Privately Printed 1972. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and boards. The endpapers are a map of the Vosso River Western Norway. Some fading along top edge of covers. First edition one of 50 copies. Illustrated. 46 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to His Brother. Privately printed and second in the series of books on Salmon fishing done by Sportsman Alfred Bissell in a very limited edition<br/><br/>This copy is inscribed on the half-title "For my brother John who may discover from these pages why we pursue the Atlantic salmon year after year and why it is rated one of the greatest game fish in the world. Affectionately Chas. L. Reese Jr." Much salmon fishing in Norway at "Oddsbu" a fishing lodge on the picturesque Voss near Bolstadøyri whose principal revenue comes from cutting hay and renting river rights to sportsmen and where the party fished on five beats and caught fish weighing up to 29 pounds: included are interesting Norway photos. There was also an abortive Salmon trip to Siberia. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 5 (Privately Printed) unknown books
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Herbert Henry William
The Quorndon Hounds; or A Virginian at Melton Mowbray
Philadelphia: Getz Buck & Co 1852. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 2 ff. blanks Pp. 1-173 174 blank 4 ads4 ff. blanks. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Original evergreen cloth lettered on spine boards ruled in blind. Extremities rubbed some spotting to covers some foxing and dampstaining despite these blemishes a more than acceptable copy of a rare book. Gift inscription from David Wagstaff to W.E. Freeman Oct.13 1920 at Tuxedo Park en route to the Forester Pageant in Warwick N.Y. Bookplate of John M. Schiff and another Half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated by the author. 2 ff. blanks Pp. 1-173 174 blank 4 ads4 ff. blanks. 1 vols. Sm 8vo. Wagstaff-Schiff Copy of the Rare First. Nice copy of the rare first edition of Herbert's classic work in original cloth with excellent twentieth-century provenance. Van Winkle pp. 44-47; BAL 8132; Wright II-1173; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 181 Getz, Buck & Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 261251
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Rawls Edward H Palmer Bradley W.
Moisie River
Boston: Privately Printed by Geo. H. Ellis Co 1938. First edition one of only 30 copies this copy numbered in ink "Seven. Illustrated with 28 photographs on 14 plates and 5 hand-colored plates after old prints and a photograph; with folding map tipped in on rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark blue grained leatherette title gilt on upper cover. A fine fresh copy. First edition one of only 30 copies this copy numbered in ink "Seven". Illustrated with 28 photographs on 14 plates and 5 hand-colored plates after old prints and a photograph; with folding map tipped in on rear pastedown. 1 vols. 8vo. E.H. Rawls Copy. In his Foreword the author states: "These sketches were written for the members of the Moisie Salmon Club. The sole purpose was to give information to them of the waters and conditions of the Moisie River and its branches above the places customarily fished by them.". The Moisie is one of a network of navigable rivers running about 110 miles northward from the St. Lawrence in eastern Quebec; old and well worn portage paths testify to the antiquity of the route along which for hundreds of years Indians have hunted and fished. For salmon and sea trout it is one of the richest areas known. It is not surprising that the Moisie Salmon Club was founded to reap the benefits of this bounty; what is surprising is that so much care attention and expense has been lavished on a book limited to only 30 copies. The text consists primarily of the author's descriptions of areas north of the more usual fishing sites based on his explorations as a sportsman with guides. In addition to five colored plates which tend to establish the romantic mood of the region there are 28 superb reproductions of sepia photographs printed on special photographic-type paper to convey both the look and the actual feel of the originals. The book's 78 pages conclude with an Index and inside the back cover is mounted a folding map of the area described.<br/><br/>The book is rare not in Wetzel or Heller not seen by Bruns and the only copy we know of to appear at auction - a worn copy - brought $1870 at the Netz sale in New York in 1986.<br/><br/>This copy bears the ownership signature of E.H. Rawls on the front flyleaf: pages 12 to 19 comprise Edward H. Rawls' own account of his 1929 trip to the East Branch Chute and Cran Serré of the Moisie River where he was the first to take salmon on a light rod above the falls in defiance of "the old story retold until believed by everyone that salmon would rise ot the fly above the rapids". Palmer notes that Rawls' exploits prompted the club to build the Webster trail and develop the upper river.<br/><br/>A choice association copy. Not in Wetzel or Heller; Bruns: "Not seen"; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 151 Privately Printed by Geo. H. Ellis Co unknown books
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North Roger
A Treatise on Fish and Fish-Ponds by the Hon. Roger North Illustrated with Eighteen Beautifully Colored Specimens by Ebenezer sic Albin
London: J. Goodwin 239 Upper Thames Street 1830. Plates on paper watermarked and dated Whatman 1824. With 18 hand-coloured copper plate engravings after Eleazar Elizabeth and Fortin Albin. pp. 4 92. 1 vols. 4to 12-5/8 x 8-3/4 indhes. Modern brown cloth. Occasional light foxing to a handful of text leaves. Plates clean and brght with generous margins. Plates on paper watermarked and dated Whatman 1824. With 18 hand-coloured copper plate engravings after Eleazar Elizabeth and Fortin Albin. pp. 4 92. 1 vols. 4to 12-5/8 x 8-3/4 indhes. With 18 Superb Hand-Colored Plates of Fish. According to the BM Catalogue these large beautiful hand-colored plates were first engraved between 1735 & 1740 but only first issued as 'remainders' in 1794 to accompany Eleazar Albin's 'History of Esculent Fish' along with the 'Treatise' by Roger North 1653-1734 first published as 'A Discourse' in 1713. This edition places North's essay before the descriptions of the fish. The BM copy has watermarks dated 1832; the present copy is dated 1830 on the title page and the plate leaves are dated 1824 in the watermarks. Nissen ZBI 2989; BM Catalogue of Natural History 1448; this edition not in Westwood & Satchell cf. p. 3 for 1794 edition of Albin J. Goodwin, 239 Upper Thames Street unknown books
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Trotting
Collection of Riders' and Drivers' Licenses from the National Trotting Association
Hartford Conn 1898. 15 loose leaves 12-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. each comprised of 3 licenses with affixed photographic portrait approx. 3-1/4 x 3 in. serial number stamped in red 2141-43 2150-79 2182-84 2188-90 2647-52 printed and handwritten on recto and verso. Some light toning and edgewear to sheets wear and fading to a few photographs but generally very good. One sheet matted the rest loose. 15 loose leaves 12-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. each comprised of 3 licenses with affixed photographic portrait approx. 3-1/4 x 3 in. serial number stamped in red 2141-43 2150-79 2182-84 2188-90 2647-52 printed and handwritten on recto and verso. Collection of retained copies of trotting licenses issued by the National Trotting Association in 1898 each license adorned with an original vintage portrait photograph of the rider. The trotters all men aged about 30-60 three of them African-American are from New York Massachusetts Maine Ohio Pennsylvania Vermont New Hampshire Montana and Texas. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260901
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Nutting Judge
The History of One Day out of Seventeen Thousand
Oswego New York: R.J. Oliphant Printer and Stationer 1889. Illustrations by Caroline S. King. 53 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Pictorial blue grey boards. Fine. Illustrations by Caroline S. King. 53 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. "A charming description of a young boy on his first hunts" Phillips. Phillips p. 287; Heller 2: 723 R.J. Oliphant, Printer and Stationer unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267560
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Harkness William Hale
Temples and Topees
New York: Privately Printed at The Derrydale Press 1936. First Edition No. 97 of 200 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 16 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown leatherette ine slight spine bumping very light edge wear. Original glassine wrapper has edge chips and tears with loss at back else fine. First Edition No. 97 of 200 copies. Illustrated with photographs. 16 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Privately printed for the author and not for sale. The author was a financier and philanthropist; his father co-founded the Wrigley and Harkness Company and was a major investor in the Standard Oil Company. William Hale Harkness graduated from Yale in 1922 and received a Harvard law degree in 1925. A member of numerous clubs and organizations he was at one time vice president of the American Geographical Society and the Boys Club of New York. He also authored Ho Hum the Fisherman published by The Derrydale Press in 1939. Siegel 105; Frazier H-2-A Privately Printed (at The Derrydale Press) unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267621
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Angelo Henry William Charles
Instructions for the Sword Exercise; Selected from Her Majesty's Rules and Regulations and Approved of by Authority for the Yeomanry Cavalry
London: W. Clowes and Sons 1840. Second edition. Frontispiece & 14 plates all hand-colored. vii i 19 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Period three quarter polished speckled calf and marbled boards a.e.g. by Wallis. Fine. Inscribed to "Peter Bowditch Major 5th Cav. Marfa Texas Christmas 1920 from D.M.G. & R.P.G. Second edition. Frontispiece & 14 plates all hand-colored. vii i 19 1 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The second edition of this cavalry sword manual by Henry William Angelo the grandson of Domenico Angelo founder of London's School of Arms. The first edition was published in 1835 with 10 plates. Thimm p. 11 W. Clowes and Sons unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267825
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Schaldach William J.
Drypoint: "American Game Birds. Woodcock
New York: Derrydale Press 1931. One of 250 copies. 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches image size. Unframed. Signed in pencil by the artist on the mount. Fine. Laid into a half mgreen morocco slipcase and chemise. One of 250 copies. 6-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches image size. Ordeman 1987 p. 60 Derrydale Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260733
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Surtees Robert Smith
Works: Handley Cross 2 volumes Mr. Romfort's Hounds 2 volumes "Plain or Ringlets" 2 volumes Ask Mama 2 volumes Hawbuck Grange 1 volume Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour 2 Volumes
London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. Ltd. Bouvere Street 1899. Hand colored engravings and additional illustrations by John Leech Browne Alken and others. Printed at the Whitefriars Press. 11 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco spines gilt t.e.g. by Riviere & Sons. About fine one hinge started. Bookplate of Ellerton Pratt Whitney and Ellen Sargent Whitney. Hand colored engravings and additional illustrations by John Leech Browne Alken and others. Printed at the Whitefriars Press. 11 vols. 8vo. An fine set of Surtees' imperishable sporting novels and Ninrod's Mytton with the original illustrations attractively bound. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 358-64 Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ltd., Bouvere Street unknown books
Bookseller reference : 261378
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Spiller Burton L.
Complete set of the Spiller Derrydale titles: Grouse Feathers; Thoroughbred; Firelight; More Grouse Feathers
New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. First editions each limited to 950 numbered copies. Each illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 4 vols. 8vo. Original decorated cloth third title in blue others in burgundy with vignettes mounted on upper covers. Very good to near fine copies some light tape ghosts to endsheets minor traces of rubbing. Custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Hunt Lynn Bogue. First editions each limited to 950 numbered copies. Each illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 4 vols. 8vo. Choice set of the four Burton Spiller Derrydale titles. Notes Frazier: "All four of these Spiller Derrydales are truly fine examples of Eugene Connett's genius in producing magnificient sporting books.". Siegel 92 106 116 136; Frazier S-15-a S-16-a S-17-a S-18-a The Derrydale Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 261419
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Santini Piero
Riding Reflections. With a foreword by Lida L. Fleitman
New York: The Derrydale Press 1932. Illustrated with 22 photographs and 8 drawings by Vincent Fane Handley. xiii 3 118 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark green pictorial cloth gilt fine copy. FINE IN RED PICTORIAL PRINTED DUST JACKET. Illustrated with 22 photographs and 8 drawings by Vincent Fane Handley. xiii 3 118 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. IN DUST JACKET. Contains the first authentic written description of the forward seat as developed by Lieutenant Caprilli of the Italian Army. " The application of the Italian forward seat to hunting steeplechasing horse show and bridle path riding is discussed most interestingly" Publisher's Statement. Siegel 64; Frazier S-1-a; Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 318 The Derrydale Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267554
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Chamberlin Lt. Col. Harry D.
Riding and Schooling Horses
New York: The Derrydale Press 1934. First Edition No. 573 of 950 copies. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. xiv ii 200 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt black spine spine dulled as usual else fine in ALMOST FINE DUSTJACKET. Brown Paul. First Edition No. 573 of 950 copies. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. xiv ii 200 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A splendid manual right at the top of its somewhat overcrowded field. As in the author's "Training Hunters Jumpers and Hacks" the unsigned drawings are by Paul Brown. Siegel 82; Frazier C-2-a The Derrydale Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267524
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Brown Paul
Ups and Downs
New York: Scribner's 1936. First Edition one of 750 copies signed by Brown. "Private Distribution. Illustrated by the Author. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Original red pictorial cloth. Very Good copy. Brown Paul. First Edition one of 750 copies signed by Brown. "Private Distribution." Illustrated by the Author. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Signed with a Drawing by the Master. A splendid collection of Brown's captioned pencil drawings of horses racing and polo<br/><br/>With pencil drawing of a horse's head and an inscription "To Charles F. Dawson/ Very sincerely/ Paul Brown/'36."<br/><br/>A striking collection of racing jumping and sporting drawings four of the plates feature mounted polo players. Biscotti p. 66 Scribner's unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267578
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Herbert William Henry
Frank Forester's Fugitive Sporting Sketches. Edited by Will Wildwood
Westfield Wisconsin 1879. First edition. 147 1 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. In original printed wrappers wrappers chipped with some loss. In blue cloth slipcase and chemise by James MacDonald. Bookplate of John M. Schiff. First edition. 147 1 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Van Winkle pp. 73-74; BAL 8176 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 255051
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McElroy CJ. C. J.
African Safari of an Amateur Hunter
New York Washington Hollywood: Vantage Press 1961. First edition. Frontispiece photograph and 4 other photographs on two pages. 77 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown printed wrappers. About fine. Bookplate. First edition. Frontispiece photograph and 4 other photographs on two pages. 77 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Czech p. 189 noting issues in cloth and in wrappers Vantage Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267352
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Stark Loren D.
Jim's Tiger Tail
Houston Tx 1968. Charcoal Illustrations by E. Stark; sketch map of Kothri North Hunting block. 40 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial wrappers. Some light staining to upper cover else fine. Bookplate. Charcoal Illustrations by E. Stark; sketch map of Kothri North Hunting block. 40 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Uncommon privately printed account of a hunting trip in Uttar Pradesh. Not in Czech see p. 199 for Big Game Hunting on Three Continents 1971 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267363
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Fencing Angelo Domenico
The School of Fencing With a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art .
London: Printed for S. Hooper 1765. Second edition first edition with English text. 47 engraved plates by Ruyland and Hall after J. Gruyn. English and French title-pages dual-language text in two columns. Oblong folio. Later 18th-century half speckled calf and marbled boards spine in 6 compartments with raised bands gilt in 4 compartments contrasting morocco labels in the rest. Rebacked and recornered preserving spine one label renewed endsheets renewed French title page worn and soiled with repair to verso some soiling and light foxing throughout lower portion of blank margin on last leaf repaired. Contemporary owner's inscription on first blank "W.S. Smith from his friend Henry Felthouse" bookplate of Jean Oliver. Second edition first edition with English text. 47 engraved plates by Ruyland and Hall after J. Gruyn. English and French title-pages dual-language text in two columns. Oblong folio. First Edition with English Text of the Greatest English Fencing Manual. The second edition and the first edition with English text of the "chief work in the English literature of fencing" Castle p. 212. Angelo's venerable School of Arms in London brought the French method of fencing to a wealthy and fashionable clientele. The school was run by successive Angelo generations until its closing in the early 20th century. The first edition of 1763 was printed in French only; this 1765 edition contains the same plates as the first edition with text in French and English. An edition entirely in English with reduced plates was published in 1787. Cohen-de Ricci p. 83; Vigeant p. 29; Castle Bibliography p. xlix; Thimm p. 10; Gelli p. 21 for first Printed for S. Hooper unknown books
Bookseller reference : 265805
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Roosevelt Theodore
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1885. First edition. The Medora edition no. 411 of 500 copies printed June 1885. Illustrated with Japan proof impressions of four etchings by R. Swain Gifford and seven drawings by J. C. Beard; and 20 full-page illustrations by A. B. Frost Fannie E. Gifford Henry Sandham. xvi 318 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Original brown cloth gilt uncut edges. A clean solid copy with faintest traces of wear at extremities. Some toning to front endsheets and half title. Very good plus. First edition. The Medora edition no. 411 of 500 copies printed June 1885. Illustrated with Japan proof impressions of four etchings by R. Swain Gifford and seven drawings by J. C. Beard; and 20 full-page illustrations by A. B. Frost Fannie E. Gifford Henry Sandham. xvi 318 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Phillips p. 319; Heller 1:309 G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
Bookseller reference : 265205
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Fawcett Thomas K.
Bonanza in Mozambique. The diary of a 1961 big game hunt out of Beria Mozambique by Members of the Fawcett family
N.p. 1961. First edition. Illustrated with drawings and photos. 59 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Spiral bound tan wrappers color photo on upper cover with glassine outer wrapper. Fine. Bookplate. First edition. Illustrated with drawings and photos. 59 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Czech p. 94 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267356
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Green Roland
Watercolor of six ducks taking off from a marsh with 7 ducks above. Entitled "Teal" on label
N.p. 1940. unsigned. 1 vols. 18 x 11-3/4 inches. Matted framed and glazed. Fine. unsigned. 1 vols. 18 x 11-3/4 inches. Born in 1894 Green a fine British artist and naturalist contributed to a number or ornithological books in the 1930s and 40s; his book "Wing-Tips the identification of birds in flight" appeared in 1947. Provenance: Kennedy & Co 26862 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 250913
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Evans Will F.
Hunting Grizzlys Black Bear and Lions "Big-Time" on the Old Ranches
Mesilla Park New Mexico: Printed by The McMath Co. Inc. El Paso Texas 1950. First edition. Illustrations by Linda Faulk. 109 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Very good some toning to edges of wrappers small tape repair at foot a few coffee rings on upper cover. Bookplate. First edition. Illustrations by Linda Faulk. 109 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by the author on flyleaf. Adams Rampaging Herd 778; Not in Biscotti or Heller Printed by The McMath Co., Inc., El Paso, Texas unknown books
Bookseller reference : 267354
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Grey Zane
Tales of Fresh-Water Fishing
New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1928. First edition with publisher's code "F-C" on the copyright page. With 100 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. xii 277 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt pictorial endsheets. Very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Spine slightly dull minor foxing to text pages near plate leaves. Bookplate. Inscribed by the author on the back of the frontispiece. First edition with publisher's code "F-C" on the copyright page. With 100 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. xii 277 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO ERNEST PFLUEGER. Attractive copy of Grey's American angling work boldly inscribed in purple ink to fellow sportsman Ernest A. Pflueger owner of the celebrated American fishing reel and tackle company: "Altadena Calif. Apr 20 1929 To E. A. Pflueger Great Sportman and Manufacturer Zane Grey". Bruns G 177 "scarce" Harper & Brothers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260258
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Oppian
Oppian's Halieuticks of the Nature of Fishes and Fishing of the Ancients In V Books. Translated from the Greek With an Account of Oppian's Life and Writings and a Catalogue of his Fishes
Oxford: Printed at The Theater 1722. First edition in English. Engraved title vignette. 8 232 7 list of subscribers. 1 vols. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco and marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. Lynn bookplate and two others. Extremities lightly rubbed else a fine clean copy custom morocco-tipped slipcase. First edition in English. Engraved title vignette. 8 232 7 list of subscribers. 1 vols. "The labor of translating this Greco-Roman author was divided between Mr. Diaper Pt. 1 Books I and II and John Jones Pt. 2 Books III to V. The latter contributor also wrote an account of Oppian"s life and writings and compiled a catalogue of his Fishes. The contests between rival factions in the sea are amusingly drawn in the lines relating to the Lobster the Lamprey and the Preke octopus. The remarkable color-changes of the last named were well know to the ancients Book II. " - Wood. Lowndes 1726; Brunet IV: 196; Heckscher 1483; Westwood & Satchel 164; Dean's Bibliography of Fishes Dean III:295 states that "of all the ancient writers on fish and fishing Oppian is easily the most important"; Wood p. 500 Printed at The Theater unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260270
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Angling Allen Clifford P.
Log of the Eleventh Annual Cruise of the Second Presbyterian Fishing Club of Philadelphia July 2nd to 13th 1881 inclusive on the Schooner "Samuel Applegit
Philadelphia: Allen Lane & Scott Printers 1881. First edition. Folding pictorial map numerous illustrations in text. 67 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound lacking wrappers with map affixed to gutter of title page. Dampstaining at edges occasional marginal chips. Good. First edition. Folding pictorial map numerous illustrations in text. 67 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hijinks and fishing in the Delaware Bay.<br/><br/>The humorous folding map bears the legend Map of the Bottom of Delaware River and Bay. Compiled from Explorations by the 2nd Presbyterian Fishing Club on their 11th Annual Cruise 1881.<br/><br/>Uncommon. Bruns A82 Allen, Lane & Scott, Printers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 266697
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Adams Douglas 1853 1920
A Difficult Bunker
London: Henry Graves 1894. Hand-coloured print. Image 24-1/2 x 15-1/2 Framed size 33-1/2 x 35 inches. Framed and glazed. Fine. Hand-coloured print. Image 24-1/2 x 15-1/2 Framed size 33-1/2 x 35 inches. Henry Graves unknown books
Bookseller reference : 266755
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Grey Zane
The Bonefish Brigade
1922. First separate edition reprinted from Izaak Walton League Monthly. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author holding his hat his rod and his bonefish illustrated by Bessie Bethal Crank. vi 18 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Printed grey wrappers printed in green and red "Christmas Greetings" upper left and a candle lower right. Fine copy with ink note across front cover "With the best of good wishes for the best of good fishes Mr & Mrs. Will. H. Dilg". Custom blue half morocco dropbox. First separate edition reprinted from Izaak Walton League Monthly. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the author holding his hat his rod and his bonefish illustrated by Bessie Bethal Crank. vi 18 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. RARE ZANE GREY PAMPHLET. Privately printed Christmas greeting from Zane Grey recounting how he and his brother came to fish at Long Key and many of the characters he encountered.<br/><br/>The book was issued in a very small edition reprinting an article first published in the Izaak Walton League Monthly. William Dilg was a friend and correspondent of Zane Grey who founded the Izaak Walton League in 1922 as a conservation and angling group. Within the space of four years and with the support of Zane Grey Emerson Hough Stewart Edward White and other writers Dilg had built it into an influential nationwide organization with more than 200000 members and some 2500 local chapters. In 1926 DIlg was ousted as president of the league amid some controversy. The Forest and Stream issue for June 1926 reports on the controversy and bears the headline "ZANE GREY Declares for WILL H. DILG" and includes an open letter from Grey stating that he had resigned from the League and giving his reasons for a call to resist the commercial interests that displaced Dilg who served as League president and as editor of the monthly Magazine.<br/><br/>A four-page Typed Letter signed Bill" from Dilg to Zane Grey dated 2 August 1926 restates Dilg's complaint about the actions of the "Junta" and proposes a plan for action by Grey in support of Dilg and the interests of the league's members. The organization Dilg founded still exists and pursues conservation initiatives.<br/><br/>The Bonefish Brigade is RARE and the present copy is inscribed by the editor who founded the Izaak Walton League and commissioned the piece with a notable letter pleading for Grey's support. Not in Bruns or Sheets; Myers E. and J.: A Bibliographical Check List And Price Guide For The Writings Of R.C. Grey Romer Grey and Zane Grey p. 24; Heller 2:841 unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260490
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Griswold F. Gray
The Tarpon
New York: Privately Printed by the Gilliss Press 1922. First edition. 35 pp. Printed on deckle edge mould-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Old fold down center. Wrappers detached some marginal chipping and small losses to covers and the bottom corner of first blank leaf. Bookplate. Good copy. First edition. 35 pp. Printed on deckle edge mould-made paper. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. Bruns reported a copy in wrappers; we have seen one copy of this work bound in limp red morocco as noted by Callahan. Inscribed on the title page "R.W. Henderson from F. Gray Griswold".<br/><br/>Robert W. Henderson was the Librarian of the Racquet and Tennis Club from 1914 to 1973 chief of the Reading Room at the New York Public Library and author of Early American Sport 1937 and Ball Bat and Bishop the Origin of Ball Games 1947.<br/><br/>RARE. Bruns G194 "probably the rarest" of Griswold's works; Callahan A Partial Tarpon Bibliography p. x; Heller 2:191 Privately Printed [by the Gilliss Press] unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260269
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Grey Zane
Tales of Southern Rivers
New York: Harper & Brothers 1924. First edition with "H-Y" date code on verso of title page. Photographic illustrations. ix i 249 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Original olive pictorial cloth with inset photo on upper cover. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf with a quick sketch of a swordfish. Very good plus copy spine ends slightly bumped in original pictorial dust jacket some wear at folds small marginal losses very good plus. In green cloth folding box. First edition with "H-Y" date code on verso of title page. Photographic illustrations. ix i 249 3 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 8-1/2 x 6 inches. SIGNED COPY IN DUST JACKET. Hunting fishing and exploring in the southern states and Mexico. Grey's second of nine major fishing books. Bruns G178; Callahan A Partial Tarpon Bibliography p. x; Heller 2:842 Harper & Brothers unknown books
Bookseller reference : 260491
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Wellington V. Carron pseudonym of David Hugh WILLIAMS
The Adventures of a Sporting Angler. By V. Carron Wellington F.Z.S. F.S.A.Scot
Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd 1952. First edition. Half-tone plates after photographs. Pp. i-xii 1-248. 8vo. Original green cloth. Spine faded and boards slightly soiled very good in good dust jacket soiled and torn with some losses to extremities. Inscribed by the author on the title page. First edition. Half-tone plates after photographs. Pp. i-xii 1-248. 8vo. Inscribed by the Author. Narrative of fishing adventures in the Highlands of Scotland Wales and Cornwall. "Such an enthralling collection of varied angling experiences may well be styled a book of high adventure" from the dust jacket flap.<br/>Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To my esteemed and respected blood & Clan relation. / Murdo Ross / with the sincerest good wishes / of the author/ V. Carron Wellington/ An ancient Ross of Invercarron. / Oct. 57"<br/><br/>Vincent Carron Wellington was an alias and pseudonym of Welsh-born angler author and serial bigamist David Hugh WILLIAMS 1889-1962.<br/><br/>Uncommon. Provenance: Murdo Ross Oliver & Boyd unknown books
Bookseller reference : 265602
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Surfing Reid Sam
Typed letter signed "Sam" to Tom and Dagmar Zahn
Santa Cruz 1973. 1 pp. On "Olympic Club" San Francisco stationery. Fine. 1 pp. On "Olympic Club" San Francisco stationery. Reid with Tom Blake was the first to surf Malibu in 1926. Here he writes to Tom Zahn also a surfing pioneer and one of Blake's early disciples. Zahn was born and raised in Santa Monica where he lived most of his life and where he was known as a legendary surfer paddle-board champion and longtime captain of the Baywatch lifeguard unit. <br/>Reid makes mention of the Carmel Hotel changes in Santa Monica his "grim grim winter" which included his house being broken into a lot of rain and a run of murders committed by "one man 25 and an LSD addict whom it turned out lived just a block from my quiet little place on Beach Hill by the sea" this would have been Herbert Mullin. In closing he notes that he was "frightened at the new high rises on Adelaide Drive at what used to be Inspiration Point" in Santa Monica-- "such bad taste to ruin what had been a beauty spot! unknown books
Bookseller reference : 245899
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Grant George F.
The Master Fly Weaver. Editor's Archive of Correspondence and Galleys
Portland Oregon: Published by Champoeg Press 1980. 1 vols. 4to. Condition generally fine. 1 vols. 4to. The Archive of the Book. In mid-1978 George Grant and Champoeg Press editors Bob Wethem and Dick Abel entered into negotiations which culminated in the 1980 publication of a limited edition of Mr. Grant's book The Master Fly Weaver. <br/>The archive of correspondence and material exchanged between the parties before during and after publication comprises:<br/>- The Master Fly Weaver. Foreword by Dave Whitlock. First edition number 1213 of 1950 copies. Original blue cloth.<br/>- Typed Manuscript of The Master Fly Weaver - 1 of 2 photo copies one for each editor the original remained with the author. <br/>- Galley Sheets of The Master Fly Weaver with ink corrections in Mr. Grant's hand as well as Bob Wethem's. <br/>- 35 original single-spaced typescript letters from George Grant to Bob Wethem signed in ink by George Grant; most of these are 2-3 pages in length. <br/>- 23 photo copies of letters from George Grant to Dick Abel signed by him.<br/>- 158 letters regarding the book's publication from other participants in the project including many from the editors to George Grant but also a good many from other notable persons in the world of fly fishing and books including a signed 3-page holograph letter from the book's illustrator Harvey Eckert for instance; Paul Schullery Joseph Bates Jr. Hank Bruns Charlie Brooks Thomas Capstick Dave Whitlock etc. Some letters are originals some photocopies. <br/>- Also original color and black and white photos of George Grant some negatives too a small envelope of tying materials sent by Mr. Grant to Bob Wethem magazine articles by and about George Grant greeting cards from George Grant publisher's agreement etc. Plus many other pieces of ephemera. <br/>Book letters photos and manuscript in fine condition. Galley sheets in very good condition with some edge wear and crinkling. Housed in three archival boxes.<br/><br/>A remarkable assemblage of material showcasing the life and achievements of Montana conservationist and fly tier George F. Grant. Published by Champoeg Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 234120
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Connett Eugene V. 3rd Hopkinson Cecil
Collecting Golf Books 1743-1938. At head of title: Aspects of Book Collecting
London: Constable 1938. First edition. 56 pp. interleaved. 1 vols. 12mo. Original orange cloth. Fine copy with the bookplate of Eugene V. Connett 3rd. First edition. 56 pp. interleaved. 1 vols. 12mo. One of a series "Aspects of Book-Collecting" this work contains chapters on early references to golf bilbiographies none of any consequence had yet appeared poetry and various categories of golfing books: Rules Instruction Histories Annuals Fiction etc. plus a section on Americana. The book was also issued in paper covers.<br/><br/>Here with choice provenance from the library of the founder of the Derrydale Press Eugene V. Connett 3rd. Donovan and Murdoch 21420 Constable unknown books
Bookseller reference : 259603
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