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1922246406New York: Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends by H.S. Nichols 17 E. 33rd St 1922. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dark green cloth covers with gilt borders upper board with gilt vignette of schooner lower board with vignette of swordfish t.e.g. Very slightly rubbing to spine ends otherwise a fine copy. First edition no. 26 of 50 copies signed by the Author with an eight-line inscription. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. i-ii blank iii-xvi xvii-xviii half-title 1-115 116 blank 1 printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 50 Copies. Rare and privately printed account of fishing for swordfish off Montauk Point and the adjacent waters of Block Island. McAleenan was also the author of several sporting memoirs issued in very limited numbers. He has a flair for writing and writes lovingly of this three-week adventure harpooning swordfish battling sharks sighting whales etc.: ".glad days cheery companions and the joy of living.for those who have heard the wind in strange places." Foreword.<br/><br/><br/><br/>This copy is signed by the author and is additionally inscribed by him with a paragraph beginning "Dear George to you friend of my heart I send this diary of a cruise on as sweet a schooner as ever sailed ." and signed "Joe". Bruns M-91 omitting title and full description; Litchfield p. 79 Privately Printed for the Author and His Friends [by H.S. Nichols, 17 E. 33rd St] unknown books
1830314070Philadelphia: Judah Dobson 1830. First edition first issue without the Morris portrait and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Two lithographic views lithographic portraits of Robert Wharton and Jonas Cattell. viii 127 1 8; ii 56 1 errata pp. 8vo 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards all edges gilt pp. 44/45 have been professionally repaired and strengthened with Japanese tissue scattered foxing throughout. First edition first issue without the Morris portrait and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Two lithographic views lithographic portraits of Robert Wharton and Jonas Cattell. viii 127 1 8; ii 56 1 errata pp. 8vo 8 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches. WITH MANUSCRIPT. With manuscript receipt for member assessment of $150 for the new club headquarters mounted to old endleaf. Leaf with mounted receipt and Manuscript receipt reads: "Rec'd May 22nd 1844 of Geo. R. Justice Esq/One Hundred and fifty dollars in full for/assessment of March Meeting for purchase/of Territory by Schuylkill Fishing Co/$150 Wm V. Anderson".<br/><br/>In 1732 27 Quakers founded "the Colony in Schuylkill fishing club" acquiring land and fishing rights along the west bank of the river about a mile north of present-day Fairmount which was part of William Penn's treaty with the Lenni-Lenape Indians. Over the years the clubhouse known as "the Castle" has moved several times in response to damming pollution and the arrival of the railroad in 1887. Since 1944 it has been on the adjoining edge of Nicholas Biddle's Andalusia estate.<br/>In 1843 the Schuylkill Fishing Company purchased a plot of land known as "Millmont" where they held their June 1843 meeting despite the Castle's unreadiness. At the March 1844 meeting the Committee in charge of arrangements pertaining to the new property made a report which was then adopted by the members that all members would be assessed $150 due on the first day of May with a ten day grace period or in three installments of $50 for the next three years due each first of May. See A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill 1732-1888 pp. 154-158. 1844 was also the year that the club officially incorporated under the name "Schuylkill Fishing Company" with William V. Anderson as one of the Trustees.<br/>George R. Justice 1803-1964 was a "citizen" member of the club from 1843 until 1863 holding various offices over the twenty years of his membership. William V. Anderson 1797-1869 was the Seventh Governor of the club serving from 1849-1854 having joined the club in 1824 and holding other offices before assuming the Governorship. He is listed in this volume as "Coroner." "Schuylkill is the most ancient fishing club that exists and its founders are said to have passed a treaty with the chiefs of the Leni-Lenape or Delaware Indians who granted them the privilege to hunt the woods and fish the waters of the Schuylkill" Westwood & Satchell. Additionally this edition is quite rare: "Almost priceless today never offered except in later editions.the entire Schuylkill story is highly important in American angling history" Bruns. American Imprints 2578 2579; Bruns M74; Howes M-636; Phillips 265; Sabin 49133; Westwood & Satchell p. 190 Judah Dobson unknown books
1920224039Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original green textured cloth titled stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges. Bookplate of O.M. Reed "Omar" with his ownership signature dated August 1934 and annotations. Reed's draft of an essay and correspondence with A.E. Hobbs loosely inserted. Old cellotape mark along front pastedown where letter was tipped in. Fine. With 6 photographic plates. 41 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and the page format.<br/>Reed and his correspondent A.E. Hobbs discuss the book's author and identify most of the places alluded to in Chapman's narrative which includes a portrait of the author holding a 20-pound fish taken from the Thames.<br/>An uncommon work produced in just a few copies with an illuminating correspondence concerning this curious and interesting book. Not in Hampton's Angling Bibliography 1881-1949. Not in BL or OCLC privately printed unknown books
1715WRCAM39842London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. Very good. A rare petition to Parliament relating to a current bill concerning the mesh size of fishing nets used along the coast of Great Britain. The fishing lobby here argues that the clause limiting mesh size to four inches except for use with "Herrings Pilchards Sprats and Sardenas" will prevent the catching of various larger fish and lobster and thereby ruin much of the national fishing industry. They claim that the fishmongers who support the regulation would prefer "to bring in Foreign Fish caught in Foreign Bottoms" and profit from the higher prices. A leaflet published the same year entitled AN ANSWER TO THE CASE OF THE COASTING FISHERMEN indicates the present document was written by the lobsterman lobby. An early example of commercial lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records copies at only two institutions Oxford and the University of London. HANSON 2118. unknown books
1715WRCAM39757London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. Very good. A rare British leaflet from the Fishmonger- Smackman Controversy of 1715. That year a bill was in motion before Parliament that would regulate various aspects of the fishing industry including fish size net use and mesh size and the importation of lobster. The latter issue ignited a significant controversy between and among British fish merchants and lobstermen with the most vocal merchants supporting a clause that would remove a ban on the sale of lobsters caught by foreigners. In the present document the pro-free-trade-lobster fishmonger lobby responds to a recent leaflet by fellow fish merchants allied with the smackmen. An early example of commercial lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records five copies at the University of London Oxford California State Library Harvard and Yale. HANSON 2122. unknown books
306791New York The Macmillan Company 1903. First edition so stated. Thick 8vo. 20 b/w illustrations by Martin Justice Mielatz. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman t.e.g. others uncut the spine with gilt stamped horse head fish and sporting dog devicessmall crack else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 410 pages. Also includes chapters on salmon catfish grouper snapper. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press Norwood Massachusetts. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903. hardcover books
1932256563Philadelphia: Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill; Published by the Citizens of the State in Schuylkill 1932. Illustrated. With tipped in photos of Citizen McFadden the Castle State in Schuylkill Closing Day 201st Year 1932 in Vol. 1 and of the Clock House Openning Day May 1933 in Vol. 2. 446; 517 1 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in Publisher's three quarters red morocco gilt-stamped emblematic fish tooling on spine t.e.g. with paper wrappers bound in by Alfred Smith & Co. Fine. Illustrated. With tipped in photos of Citizen McFadden the Castle State in Schuylkill Closing Day 201st Year 1932 in Vol. 1 and of the Clock House Openning Day May 1933 in Vol. 2. 446; 517 1 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Bruns S74; Howes M636 Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill; Published by the Citizens of the State in Schuylkill unknown books
1889255166Philadelphia: Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill 1889. First edition. Illustrated. 446 pp. Press of Bando Printing & Publishing Company. 2 vols. 4to. Bound in three quarters brown morocco gilt-stamped tooling on spine t.e.g. wrappers bound in By Whitman Bennett some soiling internally else Very fine. Bookplate of William Van Winkle. First edition. Illustrated. 446 pp. Press of Bando Printing & Publishing Company. 2 vols. 4to. Van Winkle Copy. Bruns S74; Howes M636 Published by the Members of the State in Schuylkill unknown books
199426286Millis MA: The Complete Sportsmen 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant folio size volume. Illustrations photographed by Robert Rohonczy. Materials and flys photographed by the Authors. Foreword by Eric Leiser. 286 pp. Illustrated in brilliant color. Quarter teal leather over patterned boards. Spine lettering lightly faded else this is a wonderful near fine example in thick cloth-covered navy slipcase. SIGNED by both authors at the colophon page. One of only 250 copies. The Complete Sportsmen hardcover books
1920224036Reading: privately printed 1920. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green textured cloth title stamped in gilt on upper board speckled edges binder's ticket of Knill & Sons Reading. Fine. With 6 photographic plates and two inserted photographs. 2 38 pp. Typewritten text on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. Fisherman's Memoir: Pike and Thames Trout. Nostalgic privately produced memoir of angling in the Thames Valley a century ago. Chapman was a Reading tobacconist and a keen fisher and he recounts his experiences fishing on private lakes ponds and local rivers including the Kennet and Thames as well as misadventures in boats dense fogs notable catches of Pike and Thames trout and an incident of river pollution.<br/>The other copy we have seen varies slightly in the pagination and does not include the two photographs of sea fishing off the Cornwall coast.<br/>Curious interesting and uncommon. privately printed unknown books
1906314428Philadelphia: Printed for the State in Schuylkill 1906. 44 pp. Made at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf in Philadelphia. 1 vols. 12mo. Original suede covers yapp edges printed paper label on front cover. Rubbed spine defective inner hinge cracked. Good plus. 44 pp. Made at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf in Philadelphia. 1 vols. 12mo. "The Fishing Company . prior to the Revolution was 'The Fishing Colony in Schuylkill.' Apparently it was a little satire as far as the name is concerned insofar as being a separate colony and later a state." Bruns p. 406.<br/><br/>RARE record of the oldest fishing club in America. OCLC records a single copy of this edition College of Charleston Greville Haslam Collection. Bruns p. 405 noting an 1860 edition. OCLC: 853168350 Printed for the State in Schuylkill unknown books
1925245004Wareham Mass 1925. Advertising Poster printed in red and green on heavy card illustrated with jumping Trout fly rod creel etc. 14 x 11 inches. Some minor edgewear. Fine. Advertising Poster printed in red and green on heavy card illustrated with jumping Trout fly rod creel etc. 14 x 11 inches. Fly-Fishing on the Cape. An 8-page promotional booklet for the same trout ponds ca. 1923 featured in the first part of the American angling library of Jeffrey Norton but little else is recorded. An attractive fly-fishing poster. unknown books
1929007971Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press 1929. First Thus. Leather. Very Good. First edition thus published in a slender edition of eleven hundred copies for sale in England of which this is number 733. Tissue guard present. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bookplate to inside front board; otherwise a bright clean copy in full leather. Spine darkened with age. Comes in accompanying slipcase. <br/><br/> Nonesuch Press hardcover books
19252018Cream paper-covered boards with Secessionist design in black by Peche. Light wear still an attractive copy of an early and important monograph on a leading member of the Wiener Werkstätte. With 44 pages portrait and 110 plates of furniture shop designs textiles silver ceramics and costume design. Gerlach & Wiedling books
1889240613London: Fores 1889. First edition. With 18 sepia lithographs by Wycliffe Taylor verse text printed below. 20 ff. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Evergreen boards upper board pictorial. Rebacked with red cloth spine. Some edge wear. Gift inscription dated 25 December 1889. Bookplate of W. Keith Rollo. Very good plus. Taylor Wycliffe. First edition. With 18 sepia lithographs by Wycliffe Taylor verse text printed below. 20 ff. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Illustrated poem on fishing a Scottish loch a tale of one that got away. <br/>The title page is undated; Coleby reports ca. 1890; the present copy bears a December 1889 inscription.<br/>With the bookplate of W. Keith Rollo author of Fly Fishing in Northern Streams 1924 and The Art of Fly Fishing 1931. Coleby Regional Angling Literature p. 32 Fores unknown books
175325666London: Printed by Thomas Baskett 1753. pp. 277-280. 1 vols. Folio. Removed. Some marginal tears reinforcement along spine else a very good copy. pp. 277-280. 1 vols. Folio. An Act for reducing the Number of Directors of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other Parts of America; and for encouraging the Fishery; and for regulating the Election of the Governors and directors of the said Company. Printed by Thomas Baskett unknown books
606822Ashaway Rhode Island 1936. 15" x 17"; brochure folded to form 16 pages; nice fresh condition very good. Rare promotional advertising booklet featuring photographs of Zane Grey and 18 other famous fishermen including: Howard C. Miller S. Kip Farrington Mr. & Mrs. Francis H. Low Maine Tuna Club H.J. Court Auckland New Zealand J.R. Brinkley Del Rio Texas Would look great framed!! Provenance: Zane Grey's estate copy with his blindstamp on the upper cover. No Binding. Very Good. Ashaway, Rhode Island, 1936. unknown books
197728136San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Trade paperbound volume. 95 pp. Illustrated with drawings by Chatham who is known for his artwork as well as his skills as a fisherman. A handsome very good copy. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by Chatham and dated in 1986. San Francisco Examiner paperback books
1927837901927. FISHING MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. FISHERMEN OF THE ATLANTIC 1929. Boston: Fishing Masters' Association 1927. 138 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gilt. Good front and rear boards dampstained at fore-edge. Gilt lettering and cloth clean. In original brown paper dust jacket with inkstamp from Fishing Masters' Association with several closed tears. Light foxing to endpapers but interior is unaffected by dampstaining. Contains many illustrated advertisements pertaining to the commercial fishing industry. "Containing the only complete list of Fishing Vessels of Boston Gloucester Provincetown New Bedford Nantucket Portland ME; the New England Coast Newport R.I.; New London Conn.; New York Philadelphia Pensacola Florida and Galveston Texas." B/w photo reproductions including scenes of the Boston Fish Pier various fishing boats. About good. unknown books
228300<p>ca. 1924. 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Illustrated with 15 b/w halftones from photographs; map. Original stapled pictorial wrappers printed in blue black and brown. 8 pages including covers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. New Zealand Publicity Folder No. 5. With Zane Grey's estate blindstamp on the cover.</p> W.A.G. Skinner paperback books
1928349911928. FISHING. BAIT-CASTING. By William C. Vogt. New York: Longmans Green and Co. 1928. First edition inscribed presentation copy. 8vo. half maroon morocco maroon cloth-covered boards spine in gilt t.e.g.; xi 102pp. with b&w photographic ills. Minimal faint foxing else a lovely fine copy. unknown books
1919WN6809Boston: Fishing Masters' Assoc. 1919. Red buckram with gilt lettering on upper board. Overall wear but binding is strong and good. Boards are a little bowed. Text block has some soiling. The annual manual for 1919 of the Fishing Masters' Association for the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. Many photographs texts ads and statistical data including a complete list of the fishing vessels. First Edition. Buckram. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fishing. Fishing Masters' Assoc. Hardcover books
193939141939. Folded menu 12 x 16.5 cm. 4 pages plus wrapper. Manuscript menu for a dinner in honor of the winners of the fishing derby of a private club. Includes the names of the previous and new champions as well as the menu along with two pieces of fishing doggerel. The wrapper includes a drawing of a fisherman's bag with a chromolithograph image of a rainbow trout pasted-down. Tiny bit of soiling to the wrappers otherwise fine. unknown books
000334London J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1924. Rebound in brown half-morocco over green boards top edge gilt. One of the Haddon Hall series with head and tail pieces by Arthur Rackham. London J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1924. hardcover books
197227003Ottawa: Privately Printed 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated hardbound volume in hard slipcase with matching gilt illustration. 211 pp. Illustrated in both color and black and white. This is copy number 3 of 850 hand-numbered copies. This copy with a personal INSCRIPTION by the author. A handsome near fine copy in lightly scuffed slipcase. Salmon Fishing. Privately Printed hardcover books
