Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation. Vol. VI; April 1885- September 1885

Boston, The Wheelman Company, 1885. First edition. Three-quarter leather. Thick quarto (6.5" x 9.75"), three quarter brown leather and brown pebbled cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. 767, (i) pp. Profusely illustrated with drawings and reproductions of illustrations and engravings. A little wear at the corners and some scuffing on the joints. Fron paste-down endpaper has a bookbinder's tag from J. Westwood Book-Binder Springfield, Mass. Very good, solid, clean copy. A miscellany of interesting articles including: Adirondack Forests;Winning & Keeping the America's Cup; Chicago Bicycle Club's 1200 Mile Tour; Across America on a Bicycle; Capt. Bourke's "With General Crook in the Sierra Madre"; Antelope on the Highlands of New Mexico; Harvard-Yale Boating Races; A Plea for Bar Harbor; Fishing, Bikinng, Rowing; Yachting; Tennis; Canoeing; Camping; Summer Days Along (Lake) Champlain; Women on Cycling. Much more. Very good .

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Book number: 19451

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Periodicals & Newspapers

Where to Hunt American Game

Lowell, United States Cartridge Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5.25" x 8"), green gilt-stamped cloth with bear and pinecone motif. Top edge gilt. 288pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates of game birds and mammals. Very good with some rubbing at the extremities. A section on hunting in 48 states, Indian Territory and the District of Columbia, each illustrated with examples of the indigenous animals. Very nice illustrations. Very good .

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Book number: 14054

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Hunting; American Game; Game Birds; Big Game Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Adams, Rev. Joseph

Fifty Years Angling in England, Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland, Holland; Switzerland and Canada

London, Hutchinsn & Co, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5.25" x 8.5"), green cloth with white ink title. 328, (8)pp. with index and publisher's ads. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A quarter size stain on the back cover and a small spot on the front. Ink is starting to rub from the title. Most of the wonderful photographs were taken by the author. Good + .

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Book number: 14590

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Fishing; Fly Fishing; Angling; British Isles Fly Fishing & Angling

Aitkin, Russell Barnett

Great Game Animals

(New York), The Macmillan Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quarto; pp; (5), 6-191, (i), index; IIllustrated with more than 100 photographs in full color & more than 120 monochrome photographs; mustard buckram lettered in red in a pictorial unclipped dust jacket, pictorial endpapers. Small red dot on the top edge. Russell Barnett Aitken, was an artist, expert marksman, big-game hunter and adventure writer whose substantial philanthropy reflected his passions for art and sport The late, talented Mr. Aitken was also an accomplished photographer as this book illustrates. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14592

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Anderson, Gary

Atlantic Salmon, Fact & Fantasy

(Montreal, Salar Publishing, 1990. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 175, (i), index; beautifully illustrated with color, sepia, and black and white photographs,paintings & line drawings by Ed Sutton; White cloth, illustrated endpapers, spine lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket; previous owner's sporting bookplate. In this book you will learn what the salmon sees when you present your fly and why he prefers certain flies at certain times in the season. By understanding the personality and physiology of the salmon you will be able to appeal to his various moods and motivations for taking the fly. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 16101

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Fishing; Fly Fishing; Salmon; Fly Fishing Technique; Fly Fishing & Angling

Bell, Bob

Hunting the Long-Tailed Bird

Rockville Center, Freshet Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7.25" x 10.25"), orange faux leather with copper colored titles and pheasant device on cover. 212pp. with bibliography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Not only abut pheasants themselves, but how to hunt what to use, dogs and most important WHY to hunt. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14374

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Hunting; Bird Hunting; Pheasant Hunting; Gamebirds Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Boy Scouts Of America

Give Him Cub Scout Gifts... Christmas 1955

Springfield, Hampden Council B. S. A. 1955. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 12; illustrated; original pictorial red paper wrappers. Catalogue of many toys and Cub Scout accessories. Very good .

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Book number: 17959

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Ephemera Technical & Trade Catalogues

Brykczynski, Terry and David Reuther, Editors

The Armchair Angler

New York, Galahad Books, 1994. First Galahad Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo; pp; x, (ii), 404; illustrated by Bill Elliot; gilt lettered gray cloth and orange paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket. Anthology; McGuane; Schwiebert; Hemingway; Wylie; Chatham; Bergman; Lyons & everyone you might expect. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 16036

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Trout; Fly Fishing; Angling; Fly Fishing & Angling

Camuto, Christopher

A Fly Fishernman's Blue Ridge

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiv, (iv), 238; three maps and decorations; cream cloth and terra-cotta boards, lettered in black in a dust jacket; Remainder mark. Camuto, a frequent contributer to Fly Fishing magazines, writes beautifully of these lovely forest clad streams. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14949

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting, Fly Fishing, Angling; Rivers, Trout Streams. Fly Fishing & Angling

Church, Bob

Le Choix de la Mouche; Traduction Adaptation Bertrand Kron, Robert Taillandier, Gunther Klein. Preface by Bernard Audouys

(Vernouillet France), KTK, 1987. First French edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (5), 6-238, (i), index; Color plates; green patterned cloth, gilt, in a dust jacket. Published first in Great Britain as "Bob Church Guide To Trout Flies". Index is in English but the trying instructions are in French. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13932

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting, Fly Fishing, Angling; Rivers, Trout Streams. Fly Fishing & Angling

Clark, Roland

Gunner's Dawn

New York, The Derrydale Press, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto, red gilt-decorated cloth. One of an edition of 950. Very good. Some leaves unopened. Extermities lightly worn. Gilding a little dulled. Former owner's name in pencil. Illustrated in color and black and white by the author, and with an original pencil-signed etching as the frontispiece. Very good.

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Book number: 5015

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sportiing, Derrydale, Hunting, Wildfowling, Duck Hunting, Limited Edition, Signed. Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Coykendall, Ralf

Duck Decoys and How to Rig Them

Piscataway, Winchester Press, 1983. Revised Edition. Hardcover. (Piscataway: 1983). Revised by Ralf Coykendall, Jr. Octavo green faux leather, gilt, with decoy device lower right in dust jacket. 135pp. Illustrated by Bob Cary. Endpapers are a decoy chart. Jacket lightly soiled. Many charming drawings, many diagrams and drawings of how to rig decoys, blinds and equipment. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14373

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Blinds; Decoyssporting; Duck Hunting; Waterfowl Hunting; Decoys Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon; with an Introduction by Bayard Taylor

A Hunter's Life Among Lions, Elephants and Other Wild Animals of South Africa. ; Two Volumes in One. Complete

New York, Derby And Jackson, 1857. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; I; xiv, 17-326; II; viii, 9-303; Illustrated with a frontispiece and six black and white inserted plates; red cloth decorated in blind, spine decorated in gilt, blue leather spine label lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers; This copy has been professionally re-backed; Spine label a bit worn else, very good. Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter," was the 4th baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown. At eighteen, he joined the East India Co.'s service as a cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry. A hunting enthusiast, his first books with greeted with incredulity, until David Livingstone, of Stanley fame, vouched for the accuracy of his big game narratives in public. Good + .

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Book number: 15631

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Big Game Hunting; Africa; Big Game; Elephants; Hunting / Shooting / Trapping

(Dickey Manufacturing Co.)

Dickey Tents, Camping Gear

Toledo, Dickey Manufacturing Co, 1930. Paperback. 24mo, folding brochure. Measures 18" x 24" unfolded. Illustrated with black and white photos. Very good .

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Book number: 15969

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Camping; Sporting; Tenting; Tents Ephemera

Fallon, Niall, ed

The Irish Game Angler's Anthology

Dublin, Country House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. (Dublin: 1991). Octavo (6.75" x 10"), navy cloth, gilt, in dust jacket. 222pp. Illustrated with charming drawings. Jacket a little rumpled around the edges. "This is a collection of delightful and humorous Irish game angling stories which tell as much about the Irish character as they do about fishing. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 14885

Catalogue: Sporting

Keywords: Sporting; Fishing; Irish Angling; Fishing in Ireland; Salmon Fishing Fly Fishing & Angling