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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0047990236
- ISBN 13 9780047990236
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages204
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Frank Sawyer: Man of the Riverside
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Seller Inventory # 9999-9990455463
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Frank Sawyer: Man of the Riverside
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Allen & Unwin, Great Britain, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
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Seller: Rainy Day Books, Courtenay, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Woodford, George (illustrator). Very clean tight copy with slightest wear. Seller Inventory # 045730
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FRANK SAWYER: MAN OF THE RIVERSIDE. By Frank Sawyer and Sidney Vines. Illustrations by George Woodford.
Published by
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1984, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984 ). 1984 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp204. B/w illustrations by George Woodford. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped and used. Good-plus in used and frayed dust-wrapper. "Frank Sawyer was a man of Wiltshire - fisherman, river-keeper, inventor, naturalist, writer, broadcaster and countryman. He seldom strayed far in his 73 years from the villages of the valley of the upper Avon where he was born and died. But his fame spread across the world. He will be remembered for the way in which, with his tiny nymphs, he advanced the delicate art of fly fishing; but he was much more than a fisherman. He was a true countryman, full of wisdom and country lore, and loved the river Avon and the wild creatures who lived by and in it." Chapters include: Part One - Boyhood: Early days at the Mill Cottage; Snaring big pike with father; Tickling trout; Fly fishing and the pike that bit; An idyll at Latton; The untearable suit; Disaster with a wasps' nest; sunstroke, moorhens, and jackboots; 'Alfy's in the water, Alfy's gone'; The great eel; The end of boyhood. Part Two - Manhood: Sawyer in his teens; The Twenties and Thirties; Sir Grimwood Mears; Fishing for television; Keeper of the stream; How to tie the Sawyer nymphs - Pheasant Tail Nymph, Grey Goose, Grayling or Killer Bug; fishing the Sawyer way; Relationships - Charles Ritz, Alex Behrendt, Oliver Kite, Howard Marshall, Wally Read; The river keeper - how the Avon was revived; The buried treasure; The humane trap; The Sawyer that I knew. . Seller Inventory # 51495
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FRANK SAWYER: MAN OF THE RIVERSIDE. By Frank Sawyer and Sidney Vines.
Published by
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1984, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984 ). 1984 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp204. B/w illustrations by George Woodford. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "Frank Sawyer was a man of Wiltshire - fisherman, river-keeper, inventor, naturalist, writer, broadcaster and countryman. He seldom strayed far in his 73 years from the villages of the valley of the upper Avon where he was born and died. But his fame spread across the world. He will be remembered for the way in which, with his tiny nymphs, he advanced the delicate art of fly fishing; but he was much more than a fisherman. He was a true countryman, full of wisdom and country lore, and loved the river Avon and the wild creatures who lived by and in it." Chapters include: Part One - Boyhood: Early days at the Mill Cottage; Snaring big pike with father; Tickling trout; Fly fishing and the pike that bit; An idyll at Latton; The untearable suit; Disaster with a wasps' nest; sunstroke, moorhens, and jackboots; 'Alfy's in the water, Alfy's gone'; The great eel; The end of boyhood. Part Two - Manhood: Sawyer in his teens; The Twenties and Thirties; Sir Grimwood Mears; Fishing for television; Keeper of the stream; How to tie the Sawyer nymphs - Pheasant Tail Nymph, Grey Goose, Grayling or Killer Bug; fishing the Sawyer way; Relationships - Charles Ritz, Alex Behrendt, Oliver Kite, Howard Marshall, Wally Read; The river keeper - how the Avon was revived; The buried treasure; The humane trap; The Sawyer that I knew. . Seller Inventory # 2634
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Frank Sawyer: Man of the Riverside
Published by
Allen & Unwin, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
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Seller: steve porter books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed and dedicated TWICE(!) by the author, on the first and second blanks. 1st edition 1984. Clean and tight in a wrapper. A little very light foxing to the page edges. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002657
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Frank Sawyer: Man of the Riverside
Seller: steve porter books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very clean and tight copy in an unclipped dust wrapper, signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001200
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Frank Sawyer: Man of the Riverside illustrated by George Woodford
Published by
George Allen & Unwin, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The Spoken Word, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by George Allen and Unwin in 1984, here is the first hardback printing of Frank Sawyer and Sidney Vines' FRANK SAWYER: Man of the Riverside. Blue cloth binding, gilt lettering, 204 pages, illustrations, the book is in very good condition with some very minor bumping to the board edges and some very light browning throughout. The dust jacket is very good with some very minor rubbing to the top of the spine. Seller Inventory # 9791
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Frank Sawyer: Man Of The Riverside
Published by
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1984
ISBN 10: 0047990236
ISBN 13: 9780047990236
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First Edition
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. George Woodford (illustrator). 1st. First edition hardback, 1984, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges with a couple of small chips. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. Seller Inventory # 131616
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