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1929ref. 26393New York: Derrydale Press Printed for Ernest R. Gee 1929. Limited to 400 copies. Title-page vignette 20 full page illusrations. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth backed printed boards; covers warped and waterstained. Limited to 400 copies. Title-page vignette 20 full page illusrations. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. The Derrydale reprint of the first edition of 1855. "The 1855 was printed on inferior paper and is a rare item in any condition." Siegel. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper: "To John B. Van Urk / With the best wishes of / Ernest R. Gee / New York 1940". A wonderful association copy from the publisher and eminent rare sporting book dealer to the author of The Story of American Foxhunting and other sporting works. Phillips p. 355; Henderson pp. 228-229; Goodspeed p. 350; Van Winkle Sale 710 - All for first edition; Siegel 29; Frazier S-20-a [Derrydale Press] Printed for Ernest R. Gee unknown books
1938ref. 89537New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. Limited Edition. Octavo. 24cm. #198 of 950 copies. Publisher's jute half binding over maroon cloth covered boards with a leather and gilt title label and decoration in gilt to front board. Glassine dustjacket. 198pp. Bright strong and tight very light wear; internally clean and fresh illustrated throughout. A very good clean copy. An entertaining memoir illustrated with numerous photographs recounting anecdotal memoirs of Russell Annabel for a long time held up as the pre-eminent field and game guide in Alaska territories. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1934ref. 89536London: Hutchinson & Co 1934. First Thus. Large Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's vellum spine over green buckram boards tiled in gilt to spine.103pp. A little mild soiling to the pale vellum spine some spotting and sunning to the green cloth and a little bumping to the corners strong tight and bright; internally clean and fresh illustrated endpapers bookplate and gift inscription to flyleaf top edge gilt others untrimmed illustrated throughout the book was at some point the property of a young woman named Antoinette who has underlined a couple of relevant passages to do with ladies hunting lightly in red pencil. A very good strong copy. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
1938ref. 89535New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. Limited Edition. Octavo. 24.5cm. #248 of 950 copies. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Glassine dustjacket. 170pp. Sharp and bright a little dulled to the spine some light scuffing and bumping to extremities handsome; internally clean and fresh fore-edge untrimmed illustrated throughout by Paul Brown. A very good clean copy. A rollicking and occasionally regrettably of their time series of anecdotal tales of US riding and foxhunting. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1929ref. 89534New York: The Derrydale Press 1929. Limited Edition. Three volumes. Octavo. 24.5cm. Publisher's bright red cloth with black and gilt titles to spine and a gilt horse and rider motif to front boards. Publisher's glassine jackets. Limited to 750 sets of this "Hitchcock Edition" this is set #303. 181pp; 209pp.; 163pp. Sharp clean and tight a little very light wear to edges and extremities perhaps a little dustyness and soiling to the upper areas of the volumes very smart; internally clean and fresh top edges gilt others untrimmed signed by David Gray to the title page of Volume I illustrated throughout. A very good smart set. A rather nicely produced edition of Gray's riding and horsemanship stories. Produced to the usual high standards of the highly collectable Derrydale Press. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1852ref. 89485Philadelphia: Getz Buck & Co 1852. First American Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's original dark blue ripple grain cloth titled in gilt to spine with blind ruling to boards this edition can also be seen in red cloth. 173pp.; 4pp. ads. Bumping to extremities with some light scuffing to the lower corners and some softening and fraying at the head and tail strong tight and pretty; internally clean and fresh a triangle of dampstaining to the prelims that fades out before the title page four woodcuts by the author including frontis. some pale cosmetic foxing in places something this book is prone to and the first gathering is perhaps a little proud. A very good copy with some mild cosmetic wear of a scarce and highly collectable title. A tale of English sporting life of the early 19th century recounting the adventures of a visiting American sampling the madcap pleasures of foxhunting with The Quorn one of the oldest and most respected "Hunts" essentially a hunting club for the local gentry with each region having their own variations territories and indeed techniques. The Quorn was one of the first Hunts to introduce a system of hunting techniques under Hugo Meynell from the 1750's until his death around 1800 by which time the techniques skills and training styles he had introduced had spread and been developed upon by all the subsequent rural Hunts that appeared like the Tiverton or Beaufort. This form of hunting was quite obviously a pursuit of the gentry something that Surtees later "Jorrocks" character highlighted satirically; recounting the adventures and misadventures of a bluff wealthy cockney grocer pursuing the pastimes of the seated and landed nobility. A scarce book. Getz, Buck & Co unknown books
1835ref. 89496London: Rudolph Ackermann 1835. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's original pebble grain deep brown cloth titled and embellished in gilt to front board. iv; 2; 110pp. Tight clean and strong a little bumping and scuffing to extremities light sunning to spine very handsome; internally clean and fresh brown endpapers with armorial bookplate to front pastedown tipped into the prelims actually affixed to the rear of the frontis by a stub is an addressed postal paper probably the front of an envelope bearing Mytton's signature an 1820 Shrewsbury postal frank and the address of Mrs. Lethbridge the married name of Mytton's sister; the 12 hand colored plates by Alken are spectacularly bright and striking tissue guards are present. An outstandingly clean and attractive copy if it is possible for a book that has made its way from 1835 to be described as "near fine" then this fits the bill. The book in the hand is quite a slight volume but is housed in one of the most luxurious book boxes we have encountered; a deep red levant morocco case by Sangorski with a push button clasp a rather decadent cushioned velvet lining and a drop front for ease of opening. The book itself has a tailor made red cloth and board chemise. Also present in the case are old catalog entries for the book one of which is on a Bernard Quaritch letterhead and a three page typed analysis of the title in all its editions and permutations by Ernest R. Gee one of the most legendary New York dealers in sporting and hunting books. Quaritch's pencil notes to the front flyleaf state: "Very rare in original condition. Extremely fine and perfect copy" which for them is the equivalent of throwing a parade. The bookplate is that of noted collector of fine books E. Hubert Litchfield whose legendary library was auctioned off in 1951 like so many post-war libraries from country seats of extinguished gentry. John "Mad Jack" Mytton himself was probably the epitome of the early 19th century fearless noble rake. Frequently in his own lifetime compared to that other luminous doomed libertine Lord John Rochester; Mytton was an alcoholic he took 2000 bottles of port with him to college a gambler by the standards of the time a womaniser and as Rifleman Harris would say; "A courtier to my Lord Bacchus and an unremitting debtor." Regardless of his belief that moral highground was just something to gallop one's hounds over during his lifetime Mytton was very much loved by his friends associates and servants. A mad eccentric whose life can best be described as a series of enthusiastically botched suicide attempts he was also generous to a fault utterly without fear completely at home in his own lunacy kind thoughtful creative and very much a product of his time. When he wasn't dressing as a highwayman to terrify rural clergy or hunting wildfowl in winter at night on ice.naked he was riding a bear into dinner parties accidentally setting himself on fire to cure hiccups and dressing up as a tramp to test the charity of his own estate staff he ended up fist fighting his own under butler when they failed to be forthcoming. He was dead by 38 riddled with alcoholism and compounded injury and just like with Rochester his light went down entangled with the dark. Accounts vary but something like 3500 people including his tenants and servants attended his funeral including a beautiful young woman named Susan whom Mytton had met on Westminster Bridge in 1831 and promptly offered a salary of 500 pounds a year to be his companion; she stayed with him until his death. A rare book lavishly preserved commemorating a type of man that for better or worse no longer exists. Rudolph Ackermann unknown books
1849ref. 89503Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Octavo. 18.5cm. Bound in dark blue half calf over marbled boards by Whitman Bennett unsigned but laid in is an als from Bennett discussing the process and apologising for being absent because his son also a binder had just enlisted; which places the binding job somewhere in the early to mid-1940's titled and decorated in gilt to spine. 198pp. A little light wear to the edges and a couple of small scrapes to the fore-edge tight bright and handsome; internally clean marbled endpapers edges speckled brown a little scattered pale foxing in parts mainly towards the front of the book. A very good and extremely handsome copy. Originally issued in wraps copies of which are legendarily scarce something Bennett alludes to in his letter and rather scurrilously reprinted without permission by Peterson of Phildalphia nice copies in any binding are thin on the ground. Carey and Hart unknown books
1939ref. 89528New York: The Derrydale Press 1939. Limited Edition. #853 of 950 copies. Bound in green faux snakeskin titled in gilt to spine and front board. Lacking the publisher's box. 297pp. Strong and handsome very light wear gilt on front board perhaps a trifle dulled; internally clean and fresh largely unopened illustrated throughout. A very good handsome copy indeed unfortunately lacking the box. An evocative and widely appreciated account of all varieties of game hunting in the American South West and Mexico. Considered one of the more unusual and desirable Derrydale Press sporting books with its rather idiosyncratic binding choice. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1859ref. 89525London: The Field" Office; Ward and Lock 1859. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's embossed pebble grain cloth in deep blue titled and decorated in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 114pp.; 1. Strong and handsome some bumping and scuffing to corners some darkening to the spine panel scuffing to hinges gilt bright; internally clean and fresh orange coated endpapers with some oxidation bookplate to front pastedown all edges gilt rear inner hinge cosmetically starting illustrated throughout with 6 color engravings by Leech old binder's label to rear pastedown from Burn. A very good handsome copy housed in a tailor made cloth slipcase. The Field" Office; Ward and Lock unknown books
1931ref. 89538New York: The Huntington Press 1931. First Edition. Large Octavo. 27cm. #240 of 401 copies. Publisher's green buckram spine over red buckram boards with red leather and gilt title label to spine. v; 241pp. Lacking slipcase. Strong and solid light wear and scuffing to extremities with perhaps some darkening of the cloth in places; internally clean and fresh top edge gilt others untrimmed signed by Higginson at the end of the introduction. A very good bright copy lacking its slipcase. Memoir of a Master of Fox Hounds reminiscing about hunting escapades in Europe and America. The Huntington Press unknown books
1878ref. 89729New York: Orange Judd Company 1878. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's original bottle green embossed cloth ruled and decorated in black with titles and decorations in gilt to spine and front board. 220pp.; 3 index to rear. Light bumping to corners and some siftening at the spine ends otherwise extremely bright and pretty; internally clean and fresh plain endpapers illustrated throughout. An almost weirdly lovely copy clean bright and extremely handsome. An expansive and authoritative treatise on all aspects of game hunting penned by a hunter and professional taxidermist with detailed descriptions of the various traps and trappings methods required and how to prepare pelts for market once they have been obtained. Orange Judd Company unknown books
1890ref. 89717Chicago and New York: Rand Mcnally & Company 1890. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's deep brown cloth over bevelled boards titled and decorated rather lavishly in gilt to spine and front board. 473pp.; 23 illustrated ads to rear. Strong clean and solid with light scuffing and wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh illustrated throughout the illustrated frontispiece has a visible dampstain along the fore-edge not interfering with the image but other leaves are unaffected. A very good handsome copy of a weighty and slightly ungainly book produced to a high standard. In addition to other content this volume contains an essay on Wild Turkey hunting from one of the acknowledged authorities on that game bird; George W. Baines. Rand, Mcnally & Company unknown books
1873ref. 89741New York: Harper & Brothers 1873. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's embossed green cloth over bevelled boards titled in gilt to spine and front board. xii; 239pp. Light bumping and scuffing to corners and spine ends a little soiling of the cloth in places solid and handsome; internally clean and fresh despite somewhat inconsistent paper stock frontis. with tissue guard illustrated throughout. A very good neat copy. A brisk and informed account of fishing the wilds of Canada and the Northern US with some interesting period detail on species of sport fish that appear here for the first time. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1937ref. 89715New York: The Derrydale Press 1937. First Limited Edition. Quarto. 26cm. Number 561 of 950 copies. Publisher's marron decorated cloth titled and embellished in gilt with a painted only illustratipon to the front board. Publisher's glassine dustjacket. 196pp.; 1. Very light wear and scuffing to corners mild bumping to spine ends strong and bright; internally clean and fresh fore and lower edges untrimmed illustrated throughout. A very good handsome copy. A series of sporting reminiscences and memoirs put forth in the form of essays about salmon fishing bear hunting the joy of a good dog and the pleasure of a good shot. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1880ref. 89718New York: Harper & brothers 1880. First American Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's dark blue-green cloth title and embellished in gilt red black and brown to spine and boards. 469pp.; 10pp ads to rear. Strong and robust light wear and bumping to spine ends and corners perhaps a touch of darkening to the spine; dusty top-edge; internall clean and fresh brown coated endpapers with a shoddy bit of label removal affecting the front pastedown illustrated throughout. A very good handsome copy of an authoritative text on American game hunting with sections on Buffalo Bear Wolves Moose and all points in between. Harper & brothers unknown books
1938ref. 89716New York: The Derrydale Press 1938. First Limited Edition. Octavo. 18cm. Number 787 of 950 copies only. Publisher's red half cloth binding over salmon pink paper covered boards titled in gilt to spine and with a red leather and gilt title label to the front board. 144pp. Strong neat and bright; internally clean and fresh top edge gilt others untrimmed illustrated throughout with delicate line drawings. A very good pretty copy indeed lacking it's publisher issued cardboard case. The Derrydale Press unknown books
1874ref. 89761New York: J.B. Ford & Company 1874. First American Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's bevelled green cloth boards titled an decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 343pp.; 22 ads to rear. Light bumping and scuffing to corners and spine ends strong and tight; internally clean and fresh coated grey endpapers frontis. with tissue guard closed tear to gutter of title page clean throughout although printed on cheap paper stock with some light uniform toning. A very good neat little copy. Bogardus' highly regarded treatise on sport shooting following on from his more traditional "sporting tours" style of work later reprinted by Orange Judd. J.B. Ford & Company unknown books
1835ref. 89764London: Charles Tilt 1835. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 17.5cm. Bound in a late 19th century brown half morocco binding with marbled paper boards and gilt titles to spine. 192pp. Joints strong tight and solid some rubbing and scuffing to corners and spine edges a little mild sunning to the spine; internally clean and fresh marbled endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed some foxing to the flyleaves that doesn't intrude into the body of the book illustrated throughout. A very good handsome copy. Chatto was one of those 19th century British men of many hats who also wrote under a number of other pseudonyms John Careless Stephen Oliver on a range of subjects. He penned Rowlandson style illustrated works depicting the comic side of sportsmen and their communities several notable works on wood engraving and this rather pleasant little work on Angling. As an additional book trade centred detail Chatto's third son Andrew became a pivotal element of the mighty Chatto & Windus publishing house. Charles Tilt unknown books
1869ref. 89775New York: Harper and Brothers 1869. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Bound in publisher's vivd purple cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 484pp; 4 ads to rear. Strong and solid spine panel faded to grey as often occurs with Victorian purple light scuffing to spine ends and some light wear to extremities; internally clen and fresh coated brown endpapers hinges strong bookplate to front pastedown old pencil ownership to flyleaf and the same pencil ownership rather intrusively added across the title page frontis. with tissue guard illustrated throughout. A very good copy with some cosmetic issue more down to production decisions than ill-treatment. A comprehensive guide to techniques tricks and tips for fishing in American waters with rod types fly-tying and a wealth of other detail. The bookplate is that of noted collector and fishing aficionado Henry Alden Sherwin 19th century paint magnate and a collector beloved of bibliophiles for his habit of consigning books to auction in order to have them redistributed among collectors rather than be held in one institutional collection. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1838ref. 89766London: Whittaker & Co 1838. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Rather strikingly bound in the publisher's original pale pink lavishly embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine. 230pp.; 1; 16pp. ads to rear. Strong and tight some darkening to spine bumping to corners and spine ends and with some probably to be expected soiling of the pale pink cloth nevertheless robust and handsome; internally clean and fresh coated yellow endpapers and some very light spotting to the versos of the folding plates. A very good clean and unsophisticated copy indeed. Smith was the well known and rather irascible mid-19th century Master of The Hunt at the Quorn and later the Burton among a slew of other achievemenbts that seem to have been typical of British landed gentry of the period; he was a Tory MP one of the most outstanding amateur cricketers of his age and an enthusiastic designer of the first workable steam yachts in collaboration with the famed Scottish engineer Robert Napier. He owned an unusual number of hounds even for the period and was reputed to hunt them four days a week sometimes running two full packs in a day which must have required an astonishing level of infrastructure and cost. A scarce title in its field no pun intended. Whittaker & Co unknown books
1845ref. 89797Edinburgh: William Tait 1845. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's deep green pebble-grain embossed cloth titled and embellished in gilt to spine. xxv; 1; 431pp. extremely handsome light scuffing to the cloth at corners and small closed tears to the head of the spine bright and tight; internally clean coated yellow endpapers two armorial bookplates to front pastedown some light foxing to the plates. A very good bright copy indeed of a scarce title in the field. The bookplates to the front pastedown are those of Daniel Cooper and noted collector Reuben Jay Flick a bank president from Wilkes Barre PA whose library at its height must have been quite the collection. The Sportsman's Library was a highly regarded assortment of sporting knowledge and technique when published and is still considered authoritative on various points notably the breeding of dogs for hunting. William Tait unknown books
1859ref. 89794New York: Harper & brothers 1859. First American Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's pebble grain bottle green cloth titled and ruled in gilt to the spine. 269pp.; 6 ads to rear. Strong and robust a touch of fraying to the head of the spine and some mild darkening of the cloth in places; internally clean and fresh with some light foxing to prelims and endleaves engraved frontis. illustrated throughout very occasional spotting. A very good handsome copy. A folksy humorous series of sketches of the people of Surry County North Carolina by Hardin Taliaferro a Baptist preacher with a good eye for down home oddity and an ear for dialect. Written under the pseudonym "Skitt"; a boyhood nickname from his years growing up in Surry a home that he returned to after embarking on his ecclesiastical career in Tennessee. Harper & brothers unknown books
1936ref. 89804New York: Derrydale Press 1936. First Limited Edition. Quarto. 26cm. No. 711 of 950 copies. Publisher's blue faux leather titled and decorated in gilt and white to spine and front board. Publisher's acetate dustjacket. 199pp.;1. A little light rubbing to spine ends and corners some wrinkling and shrinkage of the clear dustjacket; internally clean and fresh fore and lower edge untrimmed illustrated throughout by Lynn Bogue Hunt. A very good clean copy indeed. Derrydale Press unknown books
1846ref. 89811Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1846. First American Edition From the Ninth London Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red embossed cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. xvi; 1; 18-459pp.;16 ads to rear. Some rubbing and scuffing to corners and some cracking and fraying at the spine ends solid and durable; internally clean and fresh although the paper seems to have succumbed to a light uniform toning; old ownership scruffily removed from pastedown illustrated throughout. A very good strong copy. A rather beautifully written and highly regarded mix of anecdote technical advice and sage old military chap's experiences of ll forms of hunting and shooting; proper maintenance of guns civilized habits of interaction with the people whose land you might be rampaging across heavily armed and in search of sport methods of hunting waterfowl at sea apparently the conventional wisdom suggests a sailing vessel with a mounted gun; which leads me to believe I have fortunately never been hungry enough to pursue dinner with a navy training of dogs and a lot of very specific information on individual game; a Snipe it seems cannot be hunted in the same manner as a Partridge and a Canvas Back Duck is a different beast indeed. Lea & Blanchard unknown books
