Arizona Wildlife Trophies
Scottsdale: Arizona Wildlife Federation, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 190pp. B&W photographs and illustrations. Number 932 of 1000 copies. More
Hunting and Fishing
Lions, Gorillas and Their Neighbors
London: Stanley Paul, 1933. Cloth Hard Cover. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 288p. Carl Akeley was not only the father of modern taxidermy but noted for his contributions to the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum. His specialty was the gorilla and the elephant. In 1909 he... More
Nimrod's Hunting Tour Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings and Doings of Sporting Men Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England
London: M.A. Pittan, Warwick-Square, 1835. First Edition. Octavo. xvi, 598pp., handsomely bound by Riviere in 3/4 brown morocco over light brown cloth, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gil, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, internally fresh and bright. The author contributed to The Sporting Magazine, eventually his stories... More
Wild Beast and Their Ways; Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes, 419, 379pp., illustrated by Harry Dixon, The author, in his preface, discusses the difference between the true sportsman and the merciless hunter. To be a true sportsman, you must first learn the natural history of the "beast" you are... More
Songs of the Fox Chace
Buffalo, New York: Mark Hubbell Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. No pagination. Illustrated. Printed for the Masters of Foxhunting Association of America. 32 unnumbered pages. William H. Barr who had been the Master of Foxhunting at the Lake Short Hunt Club at Derby, New York supervised the search for... More
The Deer Pasture
College Station; (1985): Texas A & M University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author. 122(1)pp. illustrated by Elizabeth Hughes. The deer pasture is a place where family meet to camp, hunt and just to get together. This area is in the heart of white tailed deer country and... More
Tide's Ending
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Watkins-Pitchford, D. J. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 244pp. Chapters on game and game birds, and the finest hunting in Great Britain. Illustrated with 16 (mostly color) plates. Bound in grey cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (closed tears, lightly soiled, handling stains). More
The End of the Game
San Francisco, (1988): Chronicle Books. Quarto. This remarkable book has become very scarce. Revised and updated, this is Peter Beard's account of arriving in 1961 after graduating from Yale on land adjoining the farm of Karen Bixen (Isak Dinesen) where they developed a special relationship and he documented the people... More
Illustrated Africa: North, Tropical, South
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1925. 686 pages, index. Signed by author on laid-in gift label. Profusely illustrated with the Africa known to the world just after the remarkable explorations at the end of the 19th century. This was the heyday of the colonialism so everything is seen through the eyes of... More
Adventuring, a Story of a Trip Around the World with Big Game Hunting in Africa and India
New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock/The Grafton Press, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. 322pp., photo-illustrated. A true story of a trip around the world and the author's big game hunting in Africa and India. Bound in dark blue pictorial cloth lettered in gilt, photograph of author standing on a giraffe mounted to... More
Sporting Fire-arms for Bush and Jungle; or, Hints to Intending Griffs and Colonists on the Purchase, Care, an Use of Fire-arms, with Useful Notes on Sporting Rifles, & C
London: W.H. Allen, 1884. Octavo. viii, 136pp. illustrated by the author with 6 plates of engravings. His long service in India involved both military and hunting adventures. Besides his engraving of an Indian camp and one of quail hunting in India, there are four showing rifles with detailed information. In... More
Short Stalks: Or Hunting Camps North, South, East, and West
London: Edward Stanford, 1892. First Edition. Octavo. 405pp. with numerous illustrations made by the half-tone process. Buxton was a leading conservationist in England like his good friend through correspondence, Theodore Roosevelt. He had planned to visit America and conduct a hunting trip with T.R. but his wife's illness kept him... More
Bowhunting in Arizona Including Records of Game Animals
Tucson: Bowhunting in Arizona, Inc., 1985. Octavo. Second edition. 220pp., A book written for those who would like to hunt using a bow and arrow rather than guns. Bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt, Spine lettring gilt. A near fine copy in very good pioctorial dust jacket. More
Tales of Fresh Water Fishing
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Grey consider the fishes of the South Seas to be the most fiercest in the world. He tells his stories of the tuna, sailfish, the wahoo and swordfish which would make any fisherman envious. Mr. Grey caught a 618 pound... More
Tales of Tahitian Waters
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition. Thick Quarto. First printing with (I-F) code. Grey consider the fishes of the South Seas to be the most fiercest in the world. He tells his stories of the tuna, sailfish, the wahoo and swordfish which would make any fisherman envious. Mr... More
Summer on the Test (Illustrated By Normal Wilkinson)
London, [1924]: P. Allen. Limited Edition. Quatro. 198p. An uncut and unopened copy signed by the author and limited to 300 copies, the present copy is number 13. Clean throughout with all 12 dry-points beautifully done by Norman Wilkinson present with tissue guards and in perfect condition with each image... More
An Artist's Game Bag
New York; (1936): Derrydale Press. First edition. quarto. Limited to 225 copies. The present copy is number 586. no pagination. Profusely illustrated with Hunt's fine drawings of game in color and in black and white. An ex-library copy bound in brown cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a turkey, letter... More
Around the Next Bend. a Fly Angler's Journey
(Boiling Springs, PA, 2013): Headwater Books;. First Edition. Octavo. 199pp., Inscribed by the author "Extravaganza 2014/Montana Matters!/Enjoy..../Jerry Kustich. The author's third book in a trilogy that spans the author's life spent fly fishing and working in the fly fishing business. He is a fly-fishing story teller. A fine copy bound... More
Trout Flies Proven Patterns
Helena, Montana; (1993): Greycliff Publishing. First Edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. 260pp., Trout Flies presents the most carefully tested series of proven fish-takers available to fly fishermen. These are the flies of legend (62 of them) nationally acclaimed patterns, such as the Emergent Sparkle Pupa, and completely new innovations... More
Fishing Adventures in Canada and U.S.A.
London; (1950): Faber and Faber Liited. First Edition. Octavo. First American importation 1951 stamped above publishing date. 157pp., This is a book about the wilds of Canada, camping, and fishing. A fine story of Mr. Luard's account of the long canoe journey over the Height of Land, magic name, with... More
The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 234p. Ex-library copy; illustrations throughout including life-size illustrations of most of the game tracks; The last generation of great African hunters when without restrictions hunters tracked their game with determination. More
Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Adjacent Waters
Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Joe F. Manley, 1938. First Edition. Small Octavo. ix, 79pp. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park has drawn fly fisherman for its trout and bass as well as several other of the sixty species native to the region. This was the first book written exclusively on fishing in... More
REFLECTIONS ON A RIVER
London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd. 1967. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 153 pp. 12 photographs, color photo frontispiece. in dust jacket. More
McElroy Hunts Asia
Tucson; (1989): Sincere Press, Inc. First Edition. Small Quarto. 205pp. illustrated with black and white photographic images. The author was the founder of Safari Club International. This is a collection of stories about people, places and things the author had encountered in various countries. A fine copy bound in brown... More
The Sporting Club
New Yourk; (1968): Simon and Schuster. First Edition. Octavo. First printing of the author's first book inscribed by him. 220pp. The story of a sporting club in Michigan for hunting and fishing enthusiast who meet. A red-necked hauling purveyor of fish bait and his friends, a crew of motorcycle hillbilly... More