SKUES G.E.M.MareMagnum
3 790 résultats
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece (of flies) and 2 coloured plates, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original brown cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. First published in 1921. Hampton, p.255.
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece (of flies) and 2 coloured plates, small neat contemporary signature and obituary cutting mounted on front free endpaper; original brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Skues' angling classic was first published in 1921. Hampton, p.255.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked medium brown cloth boards and a little bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very minor creasing to lower rear edge and very slight traces of storage. 271pp. Originally published in 1921, this study goes into the intricacies, delicacies and details of fly-fishing for the trout. Illustrated with colour plates of appropriate flies.
Oversize 282p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
40 pages. Features: Exercise in Space - interesting article with photos explains how the company seeks to minimize the space of the shipping boxes it uses to transport its vehicles by ship; Vintage Ride - a wonderful 2856-mile trip that was made in a Vauxhaull 30/98 at Luton over 40 years ago; Garden Guests; Dressed in White - photos of a trip to St. Moritz by Douglas Dickins in his Vauxhall; Major Roads Ahead - some of the many road building projects presently under construction; "Motor" road-tests the Victor Super - detailed review article; Alan Brinton's View; Fishiology - An Gilmour's fishing trip in her Dormobile caravan; Art in Iron - photos of signs; 65 m.p.h. in a speed-limit area - not 'dangerous'; Readers letters; Many pages of great ads; Nice colour photo ad on back cover for the VX4/90. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 260 pages.
Oversize 255p., illus. Collection of essays, paintings, & drawings which also features "A Fisherman's Seasons" by Geoffrey Norman. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and the text, and 4 coloured plates of flies as endpapers, neat contemporary inscription on half-title verso; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, green top, yapped edges, joints very lightly rubbed, half-inch split in upper joint at headband else a very good, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end.
London, offices of the Fishing Gazette, 1909. In/12 oblong, reliure éditeur demi-percaline verte, dos lisse à titre à froid, frontispice (portrait de l'auteur), 80 shémas in-texte, 137 pages. 3è édition. texte en anglais. Reliure légèrement poussiéreuse mais feuillets en excellent état. Texte en anglais.
44 pages. Features: Exploring the Oceans - article exploring the scope of oceanography up to the present - includes maps and photos, including photo of a Coelacanth caught on December 20, 1952; Strange Harbour; The "Cutty Sark" - Last of a Glorious Era; Revolt on the Clyde - Resistance to British Railways' plan to add four pleasure steamers to their Firth of Clyde passenger services - the Maids of Ashton, Argyll, Skelmorlie and Cumbrae; Line Squall; Boom in Morocco - sardines have become big business here since the war - article with interesting photos; Loss of the "Hannington Court" in 1941 - article with photo; A Naval Centenary; Excellent photo of the P. & O. passenger liner "Arcadia" under construction; and more. One-page ad for John Brown and Company presents the M.V. Ruahine, built for the New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd. at Clydebank; Numerous additional excellent illustrated ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
First edition, folio, [12], 270pp., limited to 375 numbered copies, title page printed in red and black with vignette at its centre, 20 photoengraved plates after the artwork of D. Y. Cameron, tissue guards, orig. green buckram decorated in blind and gilt, uncut, t.e.g. light rubbed otherwise a very nice copy.
No added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly tanned pages edges and some end papers, foxing to page edges, clear gilt lettering to end-rubbed spine and tiny bump to upper rear corner. 241pp. A series of essays on the art, philosophy and practice of angling which had originally been published in The Observer and other newspapers. Untrimmed lower page edges.
New York, 1950, 4to tutta tela , pp. XII-532 con numerosissime illustrazioni n.t.
in-4, pp. XII, 532, leg. t. tela edit. Con moltiss. ill. e tavv. Perfetto esempl. [020-C]
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (wanting original paper guard), title in red and black, 5 coloured plates (all original paper guards present) and 13 engravings in the text, frontispiece and title mildly spotted; original green cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Ashworth James on front paste-down and separately printed errata slip mounted facing Preface. Henry Ashworth James, of Herstmonceux Place Sussex, was father of aviation pioneer Wing Commander Sir Archibald James MC; this copy was formerly in the latter's library.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams and plans in the text, title and fore-edges lightly spotted; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, upper board lettered in gilt, original photographic wrappers preserved (minor loss on front wrapper), a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Nicely bound copy of an extremely scarce work.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams and plans in the text, title and fore-edges lightly spotted; original photographic wrappers, front wrapper with minor loss (not affecting lettering or image) at bottom outer corner, backstrip a little frayed but entirely sound, a very good, clean copy of an extremely scarce work.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, small signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and silver, beige endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1898, in-16, tela edit., pp. VIII, (2), 195. Con 9 tavv. in b.n. f.t., di cui 7 da foto originali.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 142 pages. Discolored, age-toned paper.
103p. + Full page drawings. Numerous margin drawings. Some pages scribbled in pencil. 8vo. Disbound. GAMES BOX 4
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and very numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial boards, oatmeal cloth back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy
Oversize. 143 p., illus. w/ photographs by the author. Hardcover Very good condition good Inscribed by the author "To our friends the Goodwins . . . 1973".
Oversize. 143 p., illus. w/ photographs by the author. Hardcover Very good condition
