sharp e g captain (10 resultados)

Hardback, cloth. No Jacket. First Edition. Fly-Leaves from a Fisherman's Diary by Captain G. E. Sharp. London: Edwin Arnold, 1910. First edition. Octavo/8vo, measures around 5 3/8" by 7 3/4" by 7/8". Pagination: 175 pp with 8-page publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering and pictorial detail to front board and spine. Signs of wear, scuffing, some rubbing at edges and on hinges. Some marking. Some discolouration, more so to spine. Slightly bumped corners. A little slackness to binding, a bit of strain to textblock and a couple of plates partially detached but textblock otherwise reasonably firm. Upper page edges gilt, some scuffing but detail still very visible. Lower and fore-edges deckled, untrimmed, a little browned but quite clean for age. Some marking to endpapers, address stamps to front pastedown and front free endpaper, clipping of newspaper article pasted to rear pastedown, and gift inscription to half-title page. A little foxing and occasional other marking to page surfaces but generally clean, occasional pencil marking and marginalia. See pictures for further information. 175, 8 pp. n.

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Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, teg, fore-edge & base of pages deckled, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 175pp + catalogue to rear, illus, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & fading to spine, light staining to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. (11 preliminary pages), 8 page publisher's list, 175 pages, 4 sepia plates (with tissue guards), very good condition in publisher's cloth binding, gilt decorated and titled on front board and spine, top edge gilt, spine faded, rough trimmed fore-edge of pages spotted, some spotting of the text pages, mostly confined to the preliminary and concluding pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Editon. gilt dec. red cloth, gilt pict cover, gilt spine, t.e.g., pp., xi, 175, illustrated, frontis.duotone engraving, 3 full page duo-tone plates with tissue guards, spine faded, corners bumped, light wear at edges, liht foxing to endpapers, ex private library with bookplate inside front cover Size: 12mo.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. viii, 175pp illustrated.Red cloth.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in red gold embossed cloth. Spine good but a little faded. Boards tight front seems to be missing endpaper no marks. 175 page contents tight and fine with no foxing. There is a embossed name on intro page for Grafton House Marine Parade Worthing.

7.75" x 5", scarlet cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board, frontis sepia toned photographic scene, 175 pages, all pages untrimmed, spine sunned, illustrated with sepia toned photographs. 1910 first edition, book in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. Attractive, contemporaneous steel engraved 'fishing theme' black and white bookplate 'A. Todd' (with printed name of the illustrator 'I. M. Bull') to front free endpaper, showing French doors open to a garden and river-bank with fishing lines, flies and nets as a decorative border to the bookplate. Illustrated with four sepia photogravure tissue-guarded plates: frontispiece showing: 'The First Cast', 'A Favoured Spot' facing page 56; 'The Topmost Shallow' facing page 92; 'On The Way to the River' facing page 156. All four plates present and clean with their original tissue-guards intact. ***Very good in orange-red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and gilt borders to spine and gilt titles, gilt illustration and blind borders to front board. Gilt to front board very bright. Top edge of text-block gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edges of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut, as called for). Spine faded. Rear and front boards bright. Sporadic foxing to fore-edge of text-block and very slightly to prelims, with occasional very light sporadic fox-spot to pages. Most interior pages clean. Spine tight. ***194 mm x134 mm. viii prelim-pages plus 175 pages plus eight page publisher's advertisements to rear. ***Contents: Chap. I. A little about myself, and some other things; II. A Day in February; III. A Day in April, and Some Generalities; IV. Another Day in April, and the Philosophy of Failure; V. Two Days in Contrast; VI. A Day in June; VII. A Day in July, and Some Smoke Wreaths; VIII. Miscellanies; IX. A Day in September, and the Tale of a Scale; X. A Day in October, and Some Thoughts on Flies. ***First impression of the true first edition in its original cloth-covered boards, with an attractive collectable antiquarian ex-libris bookplate by I. M. Bull to the fore. ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian first edition titles on angling, fishing and angling enthusiasts, and collectors of fishing themed antiquarian bookplates. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hard Cover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1910, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, GOOD+/GOOD-, AS-IS, LISTS TO ITSELF ON 2ND PAGE AND ON INSIDE COVER, REVERSE OF JACKET LISTS CUPPLES BOOKS, SHELF WEAR TO DUST JACKET, BOOK IS GREAT - BINDING TIGHT, PAGES CLEAR, TWO PAGES IN THE BEGINNING SEPARATING AT BOTTOM, DJ Bright with Rub, Wear Scuff EdgesExtremities, Small Chips Corners DJ but NOT Affecting Illustration or Titles , Blue & Brown Cloth with Illustration of 2 Boys with Rifles Near Deer Cover light Rub, Wear, Interior Nice tight Clean FOX, Wear , 258 pgs NO ADS in Back, Top DJ Spine small chips Take out Part of Title, Back DJ light Wear , FOX, lists thru City Beyond Clouds , Cover lettered in Brown, .The Youths Organized Their Little Club & Acquaints Lads with life in Open Air & Cause them to become Interested in Nature,They take Large Number of Photographs some of them causing them a good Deal of Trouble & Peril to Obtain. Lots of adventure and excitement.