Chicago and NY: Rand, McNally & Co., 1890. First edition. Thick 8vo. 473, (23, ads) pp. Illustrated from old art and wood engravings, plates, vignettes. Phillips, p. 222. Casada 513: “Includes a lengthy piece on ‘Wild Turkey Shooting,’ covering pages 343-373, by George W. Baines. He mention seven types of..... More

Fowler, IN: Benton Review Shop, (c1925). First edition. 8vo. x, 314 pp. Illustrated from photographs, an old map, and ephemera, plates. Original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth. Very good. More

New York: Gould, Banks & Co., 1842. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one: vi, 241; vi, 231 pp. Engraved plates; half-title to each volume. The first appearance of Herbert's pseudonym "Frank Forester." BAL 8068 (“Unsold sheets, folded, untrimmed, measuring 7 7/8 x 4 ¾ inches, remained unbound for..... More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (c1926). First British edition (from the American sheets). 4to. viii, (2), 228 pp. Plates, vignettes, illustrated endpapers. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth. Bookplate, previous owner’s pencil notes on front endpaper, else very good. More

Millbrook, NY: The author, (1945, but later?). Reprint or later issue of the original (without any color printing). 12mo. (3), 13 pp. Biscotti Foxhunting, p. 160 (for the first edition). Apparently not recorded on OCLC, which does locate four copies of the original. Original printed cream wrappers, stapled. Very good..... More

Hot Springs, VA: The Homestead, nd [1940s?]. First edition. 24mo (14 cm). 16 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs, one panorama. Caption title: “Golf at the Homestead.” Original photo-illustrated wrappers. (Accompanied by four other, similar, pamphlets (“Tennis at the Homestead,” “Riding and Driving at the Homestead,” “Living at the Homestead,” and..... More

Hakone, Ito, and Kawasaki, Japan: The clubs, nd [1950s?]. Golf scorecards, each a bi-folium, 4 7/8 x 3 inches, the inner pages with the scorecard, local rules in both Japanese and English on the verso of the integral leaf. The first has been completed (90, 100, and 108 for three..... More

Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA: Essex County Club, 1995. First edition. 4to. xxi, (2), 374 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece bird’s-eye view, portraits, old ephemera, maps, 1895 and more recent course layouts on endpapers. The club constructed the first lasting course in Massachusetts in 1893. Gilt-stamped decorated red cloth, illustrated dust..... More

Versailles, MO: Versailles Lions Club, 1948. Printed broadside, 18 x 12 inches, the title in large display type (to 1 ¾ inches). Included in the activities were to be a fox hunters parade and a horn blowing contest; “see loads of famous foxhounds and fox hunters from everywhere.” Old fold..... More

NY: W. A. Townsend, 1864. Later edition (first published London 1860, New York, 1863). 12mo. 282, (3, ads) pp. Frontispiece and plates from wood engravings. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (spine shows a little wear). Very good. More

Williamsburg, VA: College of William and Mary Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 7, November, 1938. First edition, complete issue of the Bulletin. 8vo. (2), 131 pp. Plate illustrating Chapin’s bookplate. Brief descriptions of 1816 items. Original printed gray wrappers. Very good. More

NY: Derrydale Press, 1931. 8vo. 16 pp. Four plates illustrating 13 prints from the 19 offered lots, many including multiple prints in a series (i.e, “American Shooting Scenes”); unused order form laid in. Original decorated light green wrappers, stapled. Very good. More

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First Derrydale edition (trade editions were published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in London and by Scribner’s in New York), 1/125 copies (this #28) on hand-made paper, signed by the illustrator and with his initialed pencil remarque on the lower margin of the frontispiece. 4to..... More