Boston / New York: Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled..... more

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited..... more

Copperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1838. Original Cloth. First Edition. 12mo (177 x 107mm): 100pp. Original plain brown muslin over boards (variant not noted by Blanck), original printed paper label to front cover. Cloth, particularly spine tips, gently rubbed; light scattered foxing throughout, still a very attractive example. BAL 3886..... more

Spur, Texas / Austin: The Texas Spur [from 1938] / Texas State Historical Association, 1939 / 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Only printing of this western Americana, "now quite difficult to come by." (Adams) Crown 8vo (176 x 125mm): [16],274pp, with portrait frontispiece from photograph on coated turquoise stock, three further..... more

St. Paul: [Published by the state] for gratuitous circulation, by Girart Hewitt, 1869. Wrappers. Third Edition (originally published in 1867) of this guidebook intended to attract settlers to the state. "Notice. This pamphlet, published in January of each year, (this being its third year) is designed to keep up with..... more

[none given]: [none given], 1905. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this comprehensive insider's account of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition, which explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that became Yellowstone National Park. Presentation copy, inscribed in an elegant hand by the author: “Mrs. Charles A. Stott / Compliments of /..... more

Worcester, Mass. Printed [at the Merrymount Press] for the Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1904. Quarter-Cloth. Compilation of authentic recipes for drinks of the Colonial and early Federal eras. Crown 8vo (184 x 105mm): viii,38pp. Original forest green cloth-backed paper-covered boards, beige label ornamented and printed..... more

Dallas, TX: Stellmacher & Clark [Printers], 1928. Half-Morocco. Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wrappers lettered in black and..... more

Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1918. First Edition. Card Covers. First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in pale blue and brown. An exemplary example (barely..... more

Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First Printing of this "landmark, for Smith was the first American writer to make fishing the subject of even a short treatise." (Goodspeed) Small 8vo: vii,[1],399[p. 365 misnumbered 265],[1]pp, with title-page vignette, divisional title-page vignette, and numerous woodcuts throughout. Probably the Brinley..... more

Boston / Cleveland, Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington [from 1852], 1853. Early Printing. Decorative Cloth. A striking set of this early printing ("Two Hundred and Sixty-Third Thousand"), in original bindings, published one year after the first edition. Complete in two crown octavo volumes: 4,x,13-312;..... more

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Printing of this anthology of early nature writing by six prominent Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Crown 8vo (194 x 122mm): xii,378,[4]pp, with frontispiece and six further plates from..... more

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co, M.DCCC.LIV [1854, but 1853]. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of the first American book illustrated with an original photograph, a landmark in the history of photography and a cornerstone of photo-illustrated books. Demy 8vo (214 x 146mm): viii,469,[1]pp, with original "crysalotype" mounted as frontispiece..... more