Fysh hudson (66 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1968. First Edition. 222 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Good. 1968. First Edition. 222 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.…

Zustand: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1968). 1968 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 217mm). Ppx,222. B/w photographs. Grey cloth, gilt titles to spine. Ex-library copy, usual faults. Rather browned and rubbed, reading copy only, lacks dust-wrapper. "Best known as one of the founders of Qantas and managing director of that airline for many years. Sir Hudson Fysh is also an ardent trout fisherman, and Round the Bend in the Stream is his fishing reminiscences. His favourite rivers are those of the Snowy Mountains area in New South Wales, but he has also fished for trout and salmon in New Zealand and Scotland, and for mahseer in India; he has put a fly over famous rivers in England, far rivers in New Guinea and Austria, and waters in North America and Japan. His book is a recapturing of happy days in lovely places in the company of birds, animals, wildflowers, fish, and fishermen." Chapters include: Tasmanian days; Our land of dreams - the Snowy Mountains; The lure of Taupo; Fishing lakes of Tarawera and Okataina; Quinnat salmon in New Zealand; Fishing the River Test; Fishing the River Tay; A day on Loch Leven; Fishing the River Inn in Austria; The fighting mahseer; Operation fly fish - the introduction of trout into New Guinea; March fishing from the creel, Thredbo River, New South Wales; We go up in the mountain; Lake fishing in the Monaro; Letters of an Australian trout fisherman to his son; Letters of an Australian trout fisherman to his grandson; The creel census; Wind; Sampling odd places. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 159 pages. Illustrated, price cut, library stamp cancelled, slightly wear and tears on dust jacket.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Minor rubbing to edges, corners, hinges, and crown and foot of spine. Binding clean and tight. Red price-clipped DJ wrapped in protective mylar; DJ crisp and clean. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1968. 244 pages. Black and white plates throughout. Pages clean; signed by Chris Sterling on FFE. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Corners of dust jacket and boards lightly bumped as well as head and tail of spine. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Dark blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding clean and tight. Black DJ wrapped in protective mylar; DJ crisp and clean. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1966. 296 pages. Black and white plates throughout. Pages clean; signed by Chris Sterling on FFE. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

First edition octavo Hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG);all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Foredge soil. Title page foxed. Occasional foxing to text pages, otherwise clean. Very nice black dust jacket shows edge wear and light soil, a few creased closed tears. Looks good when placed in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; B/w Phot & Ill; 8VO.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Reprint. DW: Some small tears and edgewear top edge only. Bookseller's label inside cnr front cover. B&W photos throughout. 24 x 16.5 cm. 296 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st. Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. The jacket is bit edge worn and shelf rubbed. The front flap is price clipped. Light marks. Internally clean and tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First edition, super octavo, mottled blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus, VG (small ding to spine head, light staining to boards, light tanning to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to fep, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, some tanning to title page) in d/w, VG (price clipped, fading to spine, some browning inside).…

First edition, octavo, pale green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 222pp, illustrated, VG+ (v slight rubbing to lower board edges & v slight bruising to spine extrems) in VG d/w (rubbing & chipping to front edge & spine extrems).

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine In A Very Good ++ Jacket With Small Nicks To The Ends. Pp 159, Index, Illustrations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reprint. A near fine reprint copy in blue cloth binding. The dust jacket is bright, price clipped, minor wear to the corners.

Hardback. 1970, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very light tanning of the edges. The d/w is unclipped and fine and now in a protective cover. Scans available if required.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 236pp/illus. Shows how Wilmot Hudson Fysh steered Qantas & QEA after World War II including his adventures in New Guinea, choosing Constellations, the jets, the global air routes. Light wear to dj. Text clean.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Excellent autobiography of the pioneer aviator and founder of Qantas. pp.xii.296. Illus. DW in archival sleeve.

Lge. 8vo; pp. xii, 244; frontispiece, 24 pages of plates (43 illusts., 6 full-page), appendices, index; original cloth in slightly worn dustwrapper, a very good copy. . First edition.

x+222pp. 8vo. Original cloth boards in dustwrapper, b&w photo illustrated, a very good to near fine copy. First edition. The fishing reminiscences of one of the founders of QANTAS Airways.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation very good hard stamped cloth cover blue cloth/gold letters/faded.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 244pp, b&w plates. Dust wrapper is a little worn and chipped on edges. Board edges worn, page edges browned; a good copy. Sequel to Qantas Rising. Tells of Qantas' activities during WWII and includes account of the flying boat service to London and Qantas' involvement in the war in the Pacific.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. xii, 296pp, index, 9 appendices, 42 bw ills + frontis. Or black cloth in jacket. Short tears to bottom of jacket spine, price clipped, some rubbing at folds, minor surface silverfishing at bottom edge of boards. Gift note on blank prelim, prev owner name on copyright page, small bookseller label on front pastedown. The autobiography of Sir Hudson Fysh, which perforce is also the biography of Qantas, one of the world's great airlines. Size: 8vo. …

HARDCOVER. 1965. First edition. A very good ex-library copy only marked by some library numbers to the base of the spine and a very faint stamp to the fore edge. The boards have light edge rubbing and age tanning to the edges of the text block. The contents are fine and unmarked. The d/w is unclipped and also very good with light edge rubbing. the same library numbers to the heel of the spine and old tape marks to the flys.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. x, 222pp, index, appendix, bw ills. Gray cloth in pictorial jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds, several short tears with associated creasing and a little faded at spine and along top rear. Scarce volume on trout fishing (and other fly fishing) by the founder of Qantas. Mainly concerned with the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales , the book also deals with New Zealand, Scotland, India,New Guinea and more. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. NVG. Book has minor wear thus very good plus. Dj has small chips, edgewear, light soiling. Signed by Fysh on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Book.