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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. B&W photos of trout waters, and some diagrams of knots, etc. Ilustrador. There are tidemarks (dampstains) along the top edge of the dust jacket, where it was once damp. The book itself shows some modest bubbling of the cloth to top right of the front board, but no internal marks from dampness, save for some slight rippling to top outside corners of the B&W plates. Reduced from $14.

hardcover. Condición: Used; good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Used; good. Moderate shelf wear and fading. Lonsdale Library. Originally published in London in 1929 by Seeley Service. Lippincott title-page replaced Seeley Service t.p. Interior of book is clean. Some foxing. Book was donated to Friends of Omaha Public Library.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cream hardcover with green lettering to front and spine. Green illustration of fish on lower right corner. Light green endpapers. Color frontis and three other color plates, plus many other black and white illustrations. Binding tight. Lovely inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Small area near foot of spine where green lettering has worn off. Minor soiling to cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. 228 pages, indexed. Frontis and five more b/w plates; plus five b/w illustrations. Mild foxing to pages. Bumps to corners and spine ends. Minor rubs and tiny chips. Binding tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Cream (off-white) hardcover with silver embossed illustration of fish on front cover. Silver and red lettering on front with red lettering on spine. 62 clean pages. Light blue endpapers. Minor bumps to corners and very minor wear with slight soiling to light-colored cover. Still a nice looking book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Margot Hamand. Blue boards, bree spine. Undated, circa 1935. Previous owner's personal bookplate. Crease flyleaf. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. First printing. Jacket in mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Condición: Good. n. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. hardback, blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, insacription and press-clipping on front endpaper o/w a good copy, no dust wrapper, b&w plates, 228pp.

Condición: Good. No edition remarks. 140 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. 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.

Condición: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 511 pages. White dust jacket over green cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Minor foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and light sunning to spine. Clipped jacket with heavy edge wear, sunning and foxing. Splitting to joints and major sunning to spine. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and heavy foxing to interior.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good book, Very Good DJ. Many in text line illus. Ilustrador. REPRINT. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ. FINE inside. Reprint of Derrydale book. DJ spine lightly sunned. 8vo, 207pp.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1957). 1957 1st edition (1973 re-issue). 8vo (139 x 223mm). Pp284 + 2 pp ads. B/w photographs & illustrations. Plain grey boards, spine titled in gilt. This remainder issue lacks the colour plate or errata slip that were in the original. A different dust-wrapper (with a plain green background) was produced for this issue. Various minor faults. Smells slightly musty else good in dust-wrapper. "The life of fishes and those creatures upon which they are dependent and the natural conditions governing their world." Chapters include: Some fishes and their distribution; The salmon; The brown or resident trout; The seatrout; The grayling; The steelhead and the rainbow trout; The carps; Perch and pike; Anatomical; Fins & locomotion; Distinction of species, &c; Aquatic vision; The other special senses; Coloration & disguise; Reproduction in some fishes; May-flies, sedge-flies and stone-flies; Other four-winged insects; Some two-winged flies; Higher crustaceans & crustaceans of the plankton; Freshwater snails; Some notes on migration; Aquatic vegetation; Predators; Water - lakes and rivers, food chain; Regulation of stock. .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Lonsdale Library, Vol. XXXIV. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light wear, rubbing, and discoloration to cover, two tiny divots to top edges, spine thinly cracked at pp. 48-50, price penciled to a few of the free endpapers, stamped ink stains across outside text block, previous owner's info to first free endpaper, but otherwise a charming copy with beautiful illustrations and good binding.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Acceptable Jacket. Considered a "life-story of a chalkstream brown trout" and is a must-read for fishing enthusiasts. The jacket is worn and chipped. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Boards have some wear, soiling. Cracking to hinge. Content has light toning. No DJ.

hardback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, mild foxing to the closed top edge, the binding tight and the contents clean and unmarked. The price clipped pictorial dust jacket is sunned to the spine. Illustrated, 284pp.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) 1946 reprint. 8vo (148mm x 219mm). Pp448. B/w photographs & illustrations. Tan buckram-backed cloth, gilt titles to spine. Rather foxed and used. Good only, lacks dust-wrapper. With a chapter on "Trout Scales" by G. Herbert Nall, M.A., F.R.M.S., and one on "The Legal Aspect of Fishing" by Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law." "The best all-round book on brown trout fishing that has appeared in this generation." (Times Literary Supplement). Chapters include: Milestones in angling literature (2 chapters); Life history of the trout (2 chapters); Tackle (2 chapters); Casting a fly; Entomology (2 chapters); Trout flies; Trout flies, the Ephemeridae; Trout flies, the Sedge Flies, etc; Anglers' knots and splices; Wax, gut, hooks; Practice (4 chapters); Rise-forms; Fly dressing materials; some ways to dress flies; Fishing in lochs and lakes (2 chapters); Dapping, dibbing, shade-fishing or bushing; Spinning for trout; Worm and creeper fishing; Brown trout scales; The grayling; The legal aspect of fishing; Trout streams and fishery management. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1942). (1935) 1942 reprint. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Pp512. B/w woodcuts by Margot Hamand. Blue cloth, green titles to white printed spine-label on green cloth spine. Ex-library, stained and well-used working copy, lacks dust-wrapper. A pot-pourri of angling information: glossaries of angling terms, an anthology of short angling pieces, the fisherman's inn, cooking and boat (and coracle) handling, a who's who of anglers, fly-dressers and angling writers, and lots, lots more. "Page after page is as alluring as a well-tied fly, yet there is no lack of very useful information and hints on tackle and boats, flies and baits; scale reading; measuring, packing and cooking fish; fisherman's birds, flowers, weeds and inns. A valuable book of reference." (The Scotsman). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1954). 1954 1st edition. Square 8vo (175 x 217mm). Pp62. B/w illustrations by W.E. Barrington-Browne. Ivory paper-covered boards with silver trout vignette. Signs of previous ownership, slightly stained & used - good only - without dust-wrapper. This is an engaging account of the life-story of an Atlantic salmon, written before the discovery of the salmon's Greenland feeding grounds. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) later reprint. 8vo (148mm x 219mm). Pp448. B/w photographs & illustrations. Light tan cloth, spine titled in gilt. Various minor faults. Cloth stained and used but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. With a chapter on "Trout Scales" by G. Herbert Nall, M.A., F.R.M.S., and one on "The Legal Aspect of Fishing" by Alban Bacon, Barrister-at-Law." "The best all-round book on brown trout fishing that has appeared in this generation." (Times Literary Supplement). Chapters include: Milestones in angling literature (2 chapters); Life history of the trout (2 chapters); Tackle (2 chapters); Casting a fly; Entomology (2 chapters); Trout flies; Trout flies, the Ephemeridae; Trout flies, the Sedge Flies, etc; Anglers' knots and splices; Wax, gut, hooks; Practice (4 chapters); Rise-forms; Fly dressing materials; some ways to dress flies; Fishing in lochs and lakes (2 chapters); Dapping, dibbing, shade-fishing or bushing; Spinning for trout; Worm and creeper fishing; Brown trout scales; The grayling; The legal aspect of fishing; Trout streams and fishery management. .

hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Finish on the boards is somewhat mottled. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex County library, with some labels removed. Cream cloth with titles somewhat effaced. Boards a little shelf soiled. 77pp.

hardback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. hardback, octavo, a tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a chipped and rubbed pictorial dust jacket which has darkened to the spine and has some strengthening to the verso. 512pp.

hardback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. hardback, octavo, some light spotting to closed page edges else a tightly bound copy in a soiled and chipped dust wrapper, the text remains unmarked, b&w plates, 160pp.

Original Cloth. Condición: See Description. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. The Modern Sports Series, no date. 121 pages, 2 colour plates and 56 other illustrations, short catalogue of Seeley Service publications at end. Hb, in original cloth, no dw, cloth slightly browned at upper edges, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. A clean and sound book in a dust wrapper which has significant loss, chipping, tears and folds. 78pp. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK.