Marshal stearns (10 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. xi, 203 pages. Hardcover bound in black and blue cloth. Light to moderate wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. A. B. Butler, Jr. (illustrator).

Second printing: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in cloth with gilt spine titles and upper board decoration; 464pp., untrimmed, top edges dyed green, with 16pp. of monochrome plates. Moderate wear; slightly shaken; spine extremities softened; text block edges toned and top edge dusted; previous owner's name in ink to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper toned with some rubbing and edgewear; chipping to the flap-turns and spine panel with some loss of text; some light marks and stains; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. 152 pages. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf, "To Bill Williams, Sept. 1936 / Marshal Stearns". Hardcover bound in black and tan cloth. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. Several of the sections pertain to guides that the author knew in Maine. Donald Gardner (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. No Place: Privately Printed for my friends, 1932, Inscribed by the Author, 202p. First Edition, with one b&w illustration. Dogs, Upland Gunning, Trout and Salmon Fishing. Brown cloth with gilt cover title, top edge gilt, INSCRIBED by the Author on front free endpaper. A Very Good copy with light edge wear. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown leather-backed tan boards with gilt titles; 8vo; 158pp; illustrated with 7 full-page drawings by author's daughter, Dorothy Stearns, TEG. Author's second book dealing with his sporting interests which include fishing for trout and hunting grouse, especially at his beloved Marshepaug Club in Connecticut. Book in VG condition with spine titles faded as usual, small chip upper front free endsheet along with faint fold to same o/w internally clean. All of Stearn's books are hard-to-find. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown leather-backed tan boards with gilt tile & decoration; 8vo; 152pp, TEG, illustrated with drawings by Donald Gardner. The final (of three) Stearns' titles dealing with his sporting life. Tales of grouse shooting, bird dogs, fly fishing for trout plus salmon fishing with Richard Carley Hunt. With a large and interesting section entitled " Maine Guides I Have Known". This volume is the hardest-to-find of the three as the OCLC locates but 5 copies. Spine titles lightly faded as usual, some wear to spine ends, 1 page corner turned o/w a solid VG copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth with gilt cover titles; 8vo; 202pp; illustrated with drawing, TEG; privately printed for his friends at the Arlington Press. Stearns' reminiscences of sport afield. Gunning for grouse and woodcock in New England, shooting quail in Florida, bird dogs and numerous incidents of fly fishing for trout and salmon. The first of eventually three books penned about his sporting interests. This copy in VG condition and bears a signed presentation on the front free endpaper to Philadelphia railroad magnate Charles T. Ellis. Uncommon in the variant brown cloth binding. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 152 page hardcover in beige cloth with faux leather spine strip. Title and author's name in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. A book primarily (about 2/3 of the book) about six guides of the Dead River region of Maine, with illustrations of each and other illustrations by Donald Gardner. Light wear, else very good without owner's names. Ships promptly in a box. We specialize in books about the Maine woods.…

First edition. First edition. With a black and white illustration on page 5. 202 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author (recipent's name partially blacked-out). Wetzel p. 217; Bruns S268 "very scarce"; Heller 1:627; Biscotti p. 418 Brown cloth and boards, t.e.g. Fine With a black and white illustration on page 5. 202 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed.…