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1993g9185aRamsbury Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd. VG : in very good condition with rubbed and creased dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Black/gilt hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 190mm 10" x 7". 160pp. . The Crowood Press Ltd hardcover
1993003875Wiltshire UK: The Crowood Press 1993. The story of the major Carp waters stocked by Donald Leney the man who introduced King Carp into Britain. 160 pages containing stories of Carp fishing details of the most famous Carp waters and techniques used by Carp fishermen. Many photographs in colour and B/w plus drawings. Book and dustwrapper are very bright and clean lightest of wear to corners of wrapper and a few light indentation marks on wrapper. A very nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 25 x 19.5 Cms. Hardcover. The Crowood Press Hardcover
192018752Shanghai, Commercial Press, 1920. VI, 165 p., XIX, 16 full-page maps. 8vo, original wrappers (stained and bumped).
1887169126London, Bradbury / Agnew, 1887. 1st ed. With frontispiece and numerous images (illustrated by Harry Furniss), X, 94 p. 8°, original cloth-binding.
Please note: First page not present. Pencil jottings to page 3 else unmarked with above-average wear. Full page engraving of The Late General Sir W. Knollys, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. Two engraving under the heading "The Cholera in Egypt - Its Source and Cause. Wonderful two-page engraving entitled "The Dispute Between France and China - Examining and Packing Chinese Manufactured Rifles at the Arsenal, Shanghai. Garden party at Chelsea Hospital - text and illustrations. Classified ads. Supplement: a portion of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn. Two-page engraving entitled "Our Fishing Industries - Line Fishing for Cod". Half-page illustration of "Volcanoes of the World". Some pages loose but present. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Magazine
Front cover sketches of Tamatave, Madagascar, Surgeon-General W.G. Hunter - Government Medical Advisor in Egypt, and Mr. John Marshall, New President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Topics: Mr. Waddington appointed French Ambassador to England. Cholera in Egypt. Echoes of the week. Opening of the Homes for Little Boys at Swanley by the Prince and Princess of Wales - 7 sketches on one page. The Prince of Wales at Work - 10 sketches on one page. Presentation of Regimental Colours. City Echoes. The Playhouses. Music. Evening Fete at the Fisheries Exhibition - several sketches on one page. Sketches in Cairo - 3 sketches on one page. Round about Paris. Uproar about plan for a second Suez Canal - Sketches of personalities involved on page 88. Education. Benevolence and Self-Help. 7 sketches of Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Chinese manufacture of great guns. General Home News. Classified ads. Supplement includes Chapters VII and VIII of The Canon's Ward, by James Payn. The Wimbledon meeting. Our fishing industries - with splendid 2-page engraving entitled 'Shrimping at the Mouth of the Thames'. Obituary. Chess. Wills and Bequests. Classifieds ads. 9 sketches of various fishing boats from the International Fisheries Exhibition. Engraving of Captain Matthew Webb - the celebrated swimmer who drowned last Tuesday in his attempt to swim the whirlpool rapids below Niagara Falls. *Excellent* 2-page engraving entitled "War Preparations in China - Welding a Coil for a Great Gun at the Arsenal, Shanghai". The Church. Sonnets. The Inland Parcels Post. Perforations along spine indicate this copy from a disbound volume. Average wear. Magazine
Features/Photos: Field Marshall Lord Harding of Petherton; Her Majesty's tour of Australia; Mr. Thorneycroft wins; Beth Shean in Israel - Archeaological section number 2128; The Camiuras' of Brazil - Fishing and Social Habits; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: The British attack on rebels in the Sultanate of Brunei; Discoveries which make Kition the most ancient city of Cyprus; John A. McCone; Problems of preservation and city planning in modern Venice; Commercial fishing techniques; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Magazine
2017018949Privately Printed WDH Press LLC 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oblong hardcover bound in dark forest green leather with large pictorial paste-down on front cover lettered in gold on spine and front cover. 130 pages. Inscribed and signed by author on front end-paper dated 12/18/17. Illustrated with over 100 full color photographs. Ribbon maker bound-in. First edition. The author was a managing partner art Price Waterhouse and the book is inscribed to a colleague from the same firm who himself was the author a children's book on Navy aircraft carrier operations. The present volume chronicles Hutches' decades long passion for big game hunting his family and his friends. Other than author's inscription an as new copy clean square fresh and unmarked. A very scarce book undoubtedly part of a quite limited print run. Fine. . Privately Printed WDH Press, LLC Hardcover
4 pages. Cover photo of Jack Owens plus photo of Jack Owens on the beach of Oahu Island helping the locals pull in their Hukilau nets. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this charming vintage item. Sheet music
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations; black full bonded leather gilt, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers, silk marker, a near fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 950 COPIES. Includes appendices of rod and reel models and manufacturing dates.
2009a0797abShropshire: The Medlar Press. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. 2009. Revised Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm 9" x 6". xvi 343pp. . The Medlar Press hardcover
1881g9556London: Hamilton Adams and Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. 1881. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 130mm 7" x 5". 159pp. . Hamilton, Adams, and Co hardcover
1986028090NY: Nick Lyons Books Winchester Press 1986 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. A nice first edition SIGNED BY AUTHOR "Sincerely Charles E. Brooks" on flyleaf. Couple of small closed tears to DJ. All over a very nice collectible copy. Nick Lyons Books, Winchester Press hardcover
An unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots on front edpaper and side page ends. Tears to edge worn dust jacket. 216 ages. Appears to be a second printing.
20185686London: Event Merchandising Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 2018. First Edition. Grey hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 240mm 9" x 9". 188pp. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Event Merchandising Ltd hardcover
in-12° (129 x 193 mm), 24 pp., 19 colour plates of flies, illustrations. Integral pictorial plastic cover. Bel exemplaire - Plastic cover slightly soiled but a very good copy. [NV-34]
1926169049London, Heath Cranton Limited, 1926. 1st ed. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations, 221 p. 8°, original cloth-binding.
1926189525London, Heath Cranton Limited, 1926. 1st ed. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations, 221 p. 8°, original cloth-binding.
1926169142London, Heath Cranton Limited, 1926. 1st ed. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations, 221 p. 8°, original cloth-binding.
With fifteen plates plus other illustrations in the text. 142 pages. Soiling and marks on front and back covers. Previous owners name on front free endpaper.
pp. xiii, 240 + Plus Frontis and full page drawings by Churchill Ettinger. All edges gold. Marbled end papers. Front paste down and first fly leaf damaged at top edge. 8vo. Original handsome full blue leather binding, gold lettered spine and front board with decoration of a fisherman in gold. Hardbound. Limited edition of two thousand and five hundred copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin at the Derrydale Press. There is also a 1939 edition of twelve hundred and fifty copies. A very nice example. GAMES BOX 1.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a little bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 240pp.. A comprehensive and factual view - based on the authors' experience - of the pleasures and techniques in the sport of coarse fishing.
8vo., First Edition, contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original brown tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip.
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 242 pages; many photos.
