New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition (a limited edition was also published). 8vo. viii, (4), 166 pp. Bruns H-180. Heller, Vol. II, 243: "Scarcest [of the various editions issued]." Very good. Original gilt-stamped cloth (rubbed, some wear at extremities). (8727). More
San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific, 1897. First edition. 12mo. 48 pp. Illustrated from photographs, folding map at rear ("Map of a Section of Monterey County Showing Location of Hotel Del Monte, a Portion of the Bay of Monterey, Adjacent Trout Streams, and Nearby Locations Where Deer, Quail, Duck and Other..... More
(New York): Dutton, (c1978). First ed., 1/1000 copies, this one numbered "P.B. #1," signed by the author. 8vo. viii, 166 pp. Line drawings. Upland game, waterfowl, and fishing stories by a master. Fine. Gilt-stamped decorated brown leatherette, slipcase. More
New York: Frederick Stokes, [1921]. First American edition, from British sheets with a new title page. Very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth (spine darkened). (8700). More
Boulder, CO: Pruett Pub. Co., (c1991). First paperback edition. 8vo. xiii, (1), 143, (1, index) pp. Illustrated from photographs, map. Signed by the author on the half title. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good. Original color illustrated glossy wrappers. (8728). More
Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., (c1992). First edition. 8vo. xiii, 150 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Signed by the author on the half-title. Very good. Tan cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (8791). More
Bellingham, WA: Forest-Park Publishers, 1996. First edition., 1/100 copies signed by the author. 8vo. 112pp. Color plates. Red gilt-stamped imitation leather. Fine. More
New York: Homosassa Company (Jos. B. Stilwell & Co., Print), nd [1887 or 1888]. First edition. Small 4to. 48 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, plates. Detailed promotional for Homosassa, emphasizing agriculture and sporting opportunities, especially fishing (and including mention of salt water fly fishing); a good number of testimonials are..... More
New York: Huntington Press, 1930. First edition, 1/990 (this #331). 8vo. viii, 41 pp. Plates, initial letters printed in green, vignette on title page printed in green. Inscribed by the President on the rear endpaper to angling book author Richard C. Hunt, with Hoover's typed note signed thanking Hunt for..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: U. of Michigan Press, 1940. First edition, Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, U. of Michigan, No. 48. Tall 8vo. 51 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, tables, graphs, two maps. Ownership signature of Walter P. Nickell at the head of the front wrapper. Very good. Original printed blue-green..... More
Portland, OR: Frank Amato, (c1986). First edition, 1/500 copies signed by the author and with a hand-tied fly affixed above. 4to. 48, (2) pp. Profusely illustrated, color plates, line drawings. Fine. Gilt-stamped decorated brown cloth. (#6750). More
(New York): Privately Printed [for] The Angler's Club of New York, 1950. First edition, 1/500 copies (this #11). 8vo. 87 pp. Title page printed in green and black, decorated initial letters by John C. Atherton printed in green, two color plates. One of the author's own copies, with the angling..... More
(Madison, WI): U. of Wisconsin Press, a North Coast Book, (c1993). First edition. 4to. ix, 74 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, line drawings, some in color. Trout habitat improvement techniques. Very good. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. (8769). More
Columbia, SC: Press of R.L., Bryan Co. for the St. John's Hunting Club, 1932. Second edition (first published Charleston, 1842), 1/300 copies. 8vo. xv, 221 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author, folding map (prepared for this edition). Includes the text of Irving's original work, interspersed with commentary and historical notes..... More
(Wayne, NJ): Stoeger Publishing Co., (c1997). First edition. Small 4to. (8), 248 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old advertising. With sections on guns and related objects; decoys, duck calls, and duck stamps; fishing decoys and tackle; and advertising material and sporting books. Fine. Color illustrated wrappers. (#7884). More
London: Derek Verschoyle, (1952). First edition. 8vo. xiii, 128 pp. Illustrated from photograph, plates, some in color, and line drawings and tables. Old tape shadows on endpapers and dust jacket flaps, else very good. Green cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket. (8783). More
Potsdam, NY: Elliot Fay and Sons, Printers, 1915. First edition. 8vo. 124 pp. Illustrations from photographs and line drawings, plates. Not in Bruns or Phillips. Heller 698: "Chapters on deer hunting, trout fishing, and building a camp on the St. Regis River, trout fishing on the Grasse River, deer and..... More
[Camden, NJ?]: Privately printed, 1928. First combined edition (Tarpomania was first published in 1908, Buck Fever in 1911). 8vo. (10), 59 pp. [printed rectos only]. Illustrated from photographs, eight plates, four to each title. Text printed within thin green rule; elaborate colored initial letters. Johnson was the co-founder of Victor..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (c1977). First edition. 8vo. (10), 132 pp. Collection of short hunting and fishing stories, trout fishing, elk hunting, bass fishing in Lake Erie, and nature gone wild in a science fiction tale set in the Dakotas, among others. Inscribed by the author to a family member..... More
Portland, OR: Western Fisherman's Press, 1994. First edition. 4to. 144 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, color plates. Fine. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (#6745). More
(Lewiston, ID): Confluence Press, a James R. Hepworth Book, 1987. First edition. 8vo. 118 pp. Poems with themes related to Montana trout fishing and other western outdoor pursuits. Fine. Tan cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (8792). More
Charleston, WV: Charleston printing Co., for the author, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. xiv, (2), 158 pp. Kelly, "an authority on wildlife and the outdoors of his own state," delivers his memoirs of hunting and fishing and "kindred pursuits into each of the fifty states, all of the Canadian provinces, and..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. 8vo. ix, 140 pp. Line drawings. Very good, with dust jacket defects noted. Navy cloth, illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, rubbed, chipped and with a little other edgewear). (#6728). More
New York: Vantage Press, (c1972). First edition. 8vo. (14), 11-134 pp. Plates. Excellent self-published book on fishing for the Eastern Brook Trout. Small owner's label on front endpaper, else very good. Green cloth, silver spine title, illustrated dust jacket. (#6731). More
Sandpoint, ID: Keokee Co., (c1994). First edition, 1/225 copies signed by the author on the half-title. Additionally bound into this copy is a double-page pen-and-ink drawing by T.W. Hunter, picturing a fly fisherman on a trout stream. 8vo. 142, (3) pp. Illustrated. Hunting and fishing in the Bitterroot Mountains of..... More
