Search Results: Hunting, Fishing from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Privately Printed by The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1915. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 7"), xvi & 410 pages, with frontis & 92 illustrations from photographs on 16 plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, with a photographic illustration applied to the front cover. Laid-in is a signed form letter on the author's letterhead with "My Esteemed Boy Scout" as salutation.
Spine gilt dull, binding lightly soiled, brief wear at corners, text toned in the margins, otherwise a very good or better copy.
An uncommon book in which the author presents in two sections the diaries of his hunting trips in Africa. The first excursion, in 1911, was to the Guaso Nyero region of British East Africa, the second, in 1913, to northwestern Rhodesia. An appendix following the text provides a "resume of game killed" which includes elephants, baboons, lions, etc. The laid-in letter, addressed to "My Esteemed Boy Scout," advocates "learning the principles of hard work, economy and Scotch… Read More

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1964. First edition, limited to 1500 copies, with "All royalties for the benefit of the Quebec-Labrador Mission Foundation." Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), [8], 111, & [1] pages, illustrated. Publisher's yellow/ tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with pictorial device of a fishing net in gilt on the upper cover, in slipcase with an applied, printed title label on the front panel.
Small spot near the top of the spine, previous owner's bookplate at the verso of the first blank page causing staining from mounting glue evident on the recto, otherwise Very Good in like slipcase, lightly soiled, with a couple of dings at the edges.
This copy from the collection of Mary & Bert Tilt with their "Hunting - Fishing" bookplate. The author was a wealthy investment banker, avid angler and gifted writer.

Boston, London and New York: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1897. First edition. 8vo, vi, [2], & 330 pp, illustrations in text & full page. Publisher's maroon checked cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover. Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, brief fraying at spine extremities, corners bruised (one rubbed through), hinges started, text block cracked in a couple of places (still secure), gift inscription at ffep, text moderately toned, Good or so. Author John Sergeant Wise, son of Virginia Governor Henry Wise, served with the VMI Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market during the Civil War.As noted in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Diomed "was a pioneering effort in what soon became a popular literary genre. Written as if in the voice of Wise's favorite hunting dog, it was extremely popular and featured many anecdotes of Wise's life, particularly his love of hunting birds and small game."

Bulawayo, [Zimbabwe]: Books of Zimbabwe, 1982. Facsimile edition of the 1898 original. 8vo, xix & 455 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered brown paper over boards, in pictorial dust jacket
Slight edge wear, modest foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in dust jacket, rubbed along the edges, with a couple of creases, about very good.
Volume 6 in the African Hunting Reprint Series "An account of three years' ivory hunting under Mount Kenya and among the Ndorobo people of the Lorogi mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph"

Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Motor Company, 1955. Pictorial stapled paper wraps..
Dearborn, Michigan: Ford Motor Company, volume 47, number 1, January, 1955. First edition. Sextodecimo (7" x 5"), 64 pages plus covers, profusely illustrated in color from art work & photographs. Original glossy, stapled paper wraps.
Moderate edge wear & rubbing, lightly soiled, some creasing, mailing address on the rear cover, otherwise Good or better.
Contents include: Rod and Reel in Florida; Look What's Cookin' on the Keys; Favorite Recipes of Famous Taverns; Waterfront Unlimited; Shanty Boat Cruise; Retirement Scouting.

[Bonneau, Berkeley County, South Carolina]: St. John's Hunting Club, 1935. Printed paper wraps.
[Bonneau, Berkeley County, South Carolina]: St. John's Hunting Club, 1950. Octavo (9" x 6"), 21 pages. Publisher's printed, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Soft vertical crease throughout, brief annotation in red pencil at the upper margin of the front cover, lightly soiled, staples rusted, otherwise very good.
Author Kirk presents a fascinating history of the club which was actually a social organization with no connection to hunting. Pooshee Plantation, where many club meetings were held, succumbed to the creation of Lake Moultrie in 1939.

New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1941. First edition. 4to (10.5" x 7.75"), unpaginated [40 pages]. Publisher's rust cloth lettered & decorated in black in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight sunning in the margins, edges lightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with edge wear (including small losses & tears), rubbed & lightly foxed, still Good or better."When Rory O'Mory finished with the English gentleman, the foxes of Wipwamwopping were never again bothered by a real fox hunt For everything was settled over a cup of very good English tea."

New York: EP Dutton, 1959 First edition. 8vo, 245 pp, with illustrations from photographs. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in dark blue on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.Margins & spine lightly sunned, previous owner's bookplate at 2nd blank, otherwise very good in like dust jacket, moderately soiled, tanned mostly at the spine, with slight edge wear.Based on personal accounts and logbooks of Captain Lester A Mosher. "Lester Mosher, one of the last of the old-time whaling captains, was a lad of fifteen when he sailed as a green hand aboard the whaleship Canton This is a gripping, detailed account of that two-year voyage, as he learned his trade of hunting the biggest game in the world" ~from the dust jacket

Taunton, [England]: Barnicott and Pearce, The Wessex Press, 1920. First edition. 12mo, x & 50 pages plus 12 full page illustrations from photographs. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps. Covers browned & soiled, moderate edge wear including a corner crease & small losses, otherwise Good. "The present little work is meant to be helpful to visitors - particularly the footers - sho seek to be informed concerning this noble royal pastime. Unlike those more fortunate, who ride to hounds, they have fewer opportunities to understand the proceedings during the many phases of a stag-hunt, hence this humble attempt to help them..." 
Excerpted from the author's Foreword.

[Warrenton, Virginia]: Piedmont Press, (1993). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Evans & Gott at the title page. 4to (11.25" x 9"), v, 107 & [1] pages, with folding map laid in & illustrations from photographs & art work throughout. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket featuring art by Catherine Stettinlus Zimmerman.
Covers slightly splayed, minor foxing at upper cover, pastedowns, & early leaves, otherwise very good in rubbed & wrinkled dust jacket, foxed mostly on the verso, with a bit of edge wear & brief archival tissue reinforcement (verso only), still good or better.
"Shaped by this country's rough and tumble early frontier history and forged by the raw will of a few people who lead it out of Indian times, The Plains has weathered the storms of the Civil War and reconstruction, the Great Depression, fire and the crash of its economy, emerging from every turn as a hometown to declare with pride ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Amity, Oregon: Sand Lake Press, (1989.) First edition, first printing, this copy signed & dated in black marker on the title page by Worth Mathewson. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), [5] & 186 pages Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in silver on the spine & upper cover
Lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, minor occasional foxing, otherwise Very Good.
Collects articles apparently originally published in Outing Magazine including contributions by Thomas G Farrell, Percy M Cushing, HS Canfield, Lyn Bogue Hunt, Frank E Kellogg, & others Two other volumes were published later
"Wildfowling Tales is a collection of some of the best accounts of our literary heritage Of course hunters of those past eras shot vastly too many ducks and geese A few were starting to understand this even as they wrote But aside from such overkill, these fellows were just like the duck hunters I know today We have always exulted in wild weather, incoming waterfowl, and strong-swimming dogs " ~Excerpted from the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1913. Limited edition, one of 1250 sets, this hand numbered 61. Twenty-six volumes, I through XXVI (of 28), octavos (8.75" x 6.25"), variously paginated, each volume illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. Publisher's three-quarter crushed dark blue morocco & marbled paper over boards by Haddon & Company (signed), the spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in all compartments. Top edges gilt, the others uncut.
Occasional very minor rubbing mostly affecting raised bands, one volume with slight wear at the top of the spine, a bit of toning to marbled paper, hinge started in volume one (still secure), otherwise near fine.
Issued serially, the first 23 volumes were published in 1906, volumes 24 & 25 in 1910, & volume 26 in 1913. Volumes 27 & 28 (not offered here) were not published until 1920 (per Pacific Book Auctions).… Read More