Hardcover. Zustand: VG book, VG DJ. Many in text line illus. (illustrator). REPRINT. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ. FINE inside. Reprint of Derrydale book. DJ spine lightly sunned. 8vo, 207pp.
Verlag: Seeley Service, London, 1946
Anbieter: AardBooks, Fitzwilliam, NH, USA
Zustand: VG-/Good+ DJ (see notes). reprint. 12mo. UK printing, original in the US was Derrydale. This is much less. fancy! P O initials, spine cocked, not great DJ.
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1946
Anbieter: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
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First British edition (originally published in the United States at the Derrydale Press). 8vo. 207 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, stream maps. Small owner's label on front pastedown, else very good. Green cloth, decorated dust jacket (spine darkened). (#6741).
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co. London. 1946, 1946
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe Signiert
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). (1936) 1946 1st UK edition. 8vo (142 x 208mm). Pp207. B/w frontispiece by Ralph L. Boyer, drawings by Sturgis. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on printed dark green spine label. Small split to top of faded spine, dent to lower board else very good. Lacks dust-wrapper. American ideas on fly-tying and casting, novel in the 1940s. Originally published by the Derrydale Press in 1936 in an edition limited to 950 copies. In this British edition Eric Taverner, credited on the title-page, contributed a one page preface along with signed notes throughout the text, many of them explaining the difference between American and British angling practices. .
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd, London
Anbieter: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No DJ. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bumped corners. No ownership inscription. 207pp. . Frontispiece from a drypoint by Ralph Boyer, plates and text illustrations from photographs and drawings by W.B. Sturgis. 207 pages clean and tight. "PREFACE. WILLIAM BAYARD STURGIS enjoys in the United States a deservedly wide reputation as an angler, as a teacher of fly-dressing and as a writer with original ideas about angling. What he has to say on these fascinating subjects is certain, therefore, to be of absorbing interest to all fishermen over here. The title of this book possesses divers meanings. Of these none is truer and more fully earned than that which interprets the word lines, as those of approach towards the difficult problems in angling. These problems are attacked with notable independence of outlook, which proceeds not from a barren determination to be independent, but out of long experience at the waterside. About angling there is always some new thing to be learnt. Masters of the craft are rare; whereas the rest of us are still bound apprentice. Thus I have no doubt there will be discovered in these pages much wisdom, even by those the ink of whose indentures has long been dry. ERIC TAVERNER. Hoxwood, DEVON." Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co. London. 1946, 1946
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe Signiert
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). (1936) 1946 1st UK edition. 8vo (142 x 208mm). Pp207. B/w frontispiece by Ralph L. Boyer, drawings by Sturgis. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on printed dark green spine label. Various minor faults. Slight use but good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. American ideas on fly-tying and casting, novel in Britain in the 1940s. Originally published by the Derrydale Press in 1936 in an edition limited to 950 copies. In this British edition Eric Taverner, credited on the title-page, contributed a one page preface along with signed notes throughout the text, many of them explaining the difference between American and British angling practices. .
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co Limited, London, 1946
Anbieter: Provan Books, Glasgow, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. No publication date (1946), 207 pages, black and white plates, diagrams in text, book in near fine/fine condition (bottom of spine bumped) with very good dust-wrapper (price clipped, dust marked, spine browned, top edge creased).
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co., 1946
Anbieter: Lion Books PBFA, Kidderminster, WORCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 207 pages.
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co. London. 1946, 1946
Anbieter: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). (1936) 1946 1st UK edition. 8vo (142 x 208mm). Pp207. B/w frontispiece by Ralph L. Boyer, drawings by Sturgis. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on printed dark green spine label. Slight use else good-plus, paint stains to used dust-wrapper. Former owner's correpondance and ephemera relating to fishing and flies in North Wales laid in. American ideas on fly-tying and casting, novel in the 1940s. Originally published by the Derrydale Press in 1936 in an edition limited to 950 copies. In this British edition Eric Taverner, credited on the title-page, contributed a one page preface along with signed notes throughout the text, many of them explaining the difference between American and British angling practices. .
Verlag: 1946 1st UK edition. Seeley, Ser, 1946
Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st HB Seeley 1946; very good in very good unclipped dust jacket; inside clean with no stamps or inscripotions.
Verlag: Seeley Service, London, 1946
Anbieter: River Reads, Torrington, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition.
Verlag: London: Seeley Service & Co. Ltd. 207 p., 1946
Anbieter: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo illus. 1st British Ed. [1936].-With Gary H. Howells blind library stamp. [Cat. 48-474 & 63-606.] Good -VG no DJ.
Verlag: Seeley, Service & Co, Ltd., 1946
Anbieter: Deeside Books, Ballater, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in original cloth boards, gilt titles, previous owner's name label on front endpaper, some foxing to the edge block, some bumping to the spine, shelfwear, otherwise in Very Good condition. Dustwrapper has some light shelfwear, otherwise in Very Good condition, in a clear protective archival wrapper. First edition, pp206, b&w illustrations. First published in America in 1936, this 1946 British edition includes a one-page preface by Eric Taverner along with footnotes by Taverner throughout the text, generally either to explain the difference between American and British angling practice or to add tips and advice of his own. "William Bayard Sturgis enjoys in the United States a deservedly wide reputation as an angler, as a teacher of fly-dressing and as a writer with original ideas about angling. What he has to say on these fascinating subjects is certain, therefore, to be of absorbing interest to all fishermen over here." (From the preface by Eric Taverner). Contents include:- Fundamental principles of casting; Special casting; Longer casts with less effort; Tapered casts & their testing; What rod should I buy?; Fly-tying; More fly-tying; Popular patterns of hair-wing flies & some nymphs; Hook tests; Silkworm gut; Leaves from an angler's notebook.