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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 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. B&W photos of trout waters, and some diagrams of knots, etc. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: 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. Condition: 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. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Condition: 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. …

hardcover. Condition: 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.…

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

hardback. Condition: 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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Previous owner name to ffep. Good DJ with some edge wear, tears and clipped.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 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. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.…

Hardcover. Condition: 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.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). (1929) 1946 reprint. 8vo (148 x 219mm). Pp448. B/w photographs & illustrations. Tan buckram-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt Lonsdale monogram to upper board. Numerous faults, hinges tender, foxed. Reading copy. 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, 1929). (1929) 1946 reprint. 8vo (148mm x 219mm). Pp448. B/w photographs & illustrations. Tan buckram-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, small Lonsdale monogram to upper board. 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. Full tan buckram, spine titled in gilt, gilt Lonsdale Library monogram on upper board. 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. Condition: 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. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 121 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth. 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 tanning.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). (1953) 1967 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding C, dark blue boards, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Corners bumped, browning to edges. Good-copy in stained and slightly frayed dust-wrapper. "None could be better qualified to teach the beginner from the elements of the art until proficiency is reached, and many a knowledgeable and skilful fisherman will find in this book new lines of thought and much wisdom. It may well be regarded as the perfect refresher course for the experienced." Good chapters on all methods of fly and coarse fishing, knots and fly-tying. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1939). 1939 1st edition thus. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp122,6pp ads. Illustrated with 2 colour plates of flies & hackles, & b&w text figures. Dark yellow cloth, spine & upper board titled in black. Ex-libris book-plate, and name to paste-down, staining to the boards but a good copy in torn but tape-repaired, foxed and clipped dust-wrapper. "The major part of this book is drawn from 'Trout fishing from all angles', but there are a number of notable additions in the dressings and elsewhere which add greatly to its value." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1939). (1939) ND (1942) reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp121 + 6 pp advertisements. Illustrated with 2 colour plates of flies & hackles, & b&w text figures. Dark yellow cloth, spine & upper board titled in black. Good working copy only. "The major part of this book is drawn from 'Trout fishing from all angles,' but there are a number of notable additions in the dressings and elsewhere which add greatly to its value." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1935). (1935) later reprint. Small 8vo (125 x 191mm). Pp512. B/w woodcuts by Margot Hamand. Green and blue cloth-backed boards, tipped-on spine label. Cloth rather marked and used. 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, 4 colour illustrations by W.E. Barrington-Browne. Ivory paper-covered boards with silver trout vignette. Ex-Flyfishers' Club Library. Good-plus in torn 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. .…