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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First edition. 8vo. xix, (1), 365 pp. Plates, color frontispiece, two maps. Results of an expedition to the deserts of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Phillips, p. 183: "Pinacate Mountains of Northern Sonora. Sheep and antelope." Heller 166: "The first important work on sheep..... More

New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. Small 8vo. 318 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, portrait of the author. Waterfowl hunting at Currituck and other spots on the coast, fox, quail, and 'coon hunting, a little fishing, etc. Inscribed on the front endpaper in the..... More

Lutherville, MD: Chesacroft Kennels, nd [1924]. First edition, apparently the first book devoted solely to the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. 12mo. 31 pp. Illus. from photos; 3-pages of show records from Chesacroft dogs, 1922-1923. Not in Jones "Bibliography of the Dog" (listing only two titles on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, the..... 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

South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, (c1975). Revised edition (first published 1966). 4to. 434 pp. [text printed double-column]. Illustrated from photographs, plates, diagrams, tables. Exhaustive work on the arms company. Very good. Purple cloth, silver spine title, illustrated dust jacket. (7323). 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

Huntington, WV: Standard Publications, 1946. First edition. Tall 8vo. (12), 406 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title in 1950. Heller 185: "Rifle technology and its practical applications, including accounts of hunting mountain sheep and goat, elk, antelope, grizzly, and mule deer."..... 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

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. 1st ed. 2nd issue. 12mo. 249pp. [1p. Errata, 3pp. ads]. Frontis., & 3 plates. Contemporary full leather with stamped black leather title label. Small pieces torn from endpapers, else very good. Howes calls this the "First American sporting book." HOWES K108. More

New York: Exposition Press, (c1969). First edition. 8vo. 376 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color. Biscotti, p. 241: "With accounts of sheep, goat, bear, and caribou hunting in North America." Fine. Gilt-stamped red cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (7336). More

New York: Knopf, 1947. First edition, 1/210 copies signed by the author, this one with the extra color plate laid in, a volume in the Borzoi Books for Sportsmen series. 8vo. xii, 271, iii pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, five in color, map. Biscotti, pp. 112-114: "Classic work on the..... 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