Blackwood, Robert Leslie (5 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1946). (1926) 1946 3rd edition. Small 8vo paperback (123 x 184mm). Line drawings. Wrappers. Slight spotting & use. Small (1cm) tear to last page. Good. "National Handbook No 10." Chapters include:- Fly fishing; Equipment; Assembling the tackle; Casting the fly; The wet fly; The dry fly; Weather conditions; The etiquette of trout fishing; Spinning; Bait fishing; Where to fish. .

Large 8vo, 106pp. Black & white illustrations. A good paperback copy in pictorial stiff card covers. Worn and creased at edges. Foxing confined to endleaves.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1946). 1926 1st edition. 4to (185 x 240mm). Tipped in frontispiece portrait and b/w plates, line drawings. Yapp-edged pictorial stiff card covers with tipped-on plate. Old price blacked-out with ink on front cover and end-paper, some fraying to edges of covers and spine. Foxing to edges and end-papers and small gape between pages 2 and 3 else good-plus. "This book has been written with the object of helping beginners. It contains no fish stories or lengthy descriptions of streams; it is merely a technical manual to explain the methods of the trout fisher in Australia. .Fly fishing has been dealt with first, because of its greater capacity for providing sport, and because it is the goal of all trout fishers. There are many who do not use the fly, because they cannot see how it is done; it is hoped that this book will do something to solve their difficulties. .The finer points of the sport have been passed over, as being beyond the scope of the present work. It is hoped to present some of them in a subsequent publication." The author passed away in September 1926, shortly before the publication of this book. It was decided the publish the book exactly as the author left it, save that Part IV (Where to fish) "has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a close friend and fellow angler." Chapters include:- Fly fishing; Equipment; Assembling the tackle; Casting the fly; The wet fly; The dry fly; Weather conditions; The etiquette of trout fishing; Spinning; Bait fishing; Where to fish. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Robertson & Mullens Ltd, 1926. Quarto, [x], 106 pages with 7 illustrations plus 5 tipped-in plates (from photographs). Overlapping pictorial wrappers (with a small plate mounted on the front cover) mounted as issued on flush-cut plain card covers; edges of the wrappers a little chipped, with a short crack across the spine; contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy. A posthumous publication: the author 'died on the seventeenth of September, 1926, before this book had gone through the press; but it is written exactly as he left it, save that Part IV ['Where to Fish'] has been added by Mr. Frank Cudmore, a close friend and fellow angler'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good condition (DJ). First Edition. A complete set of the Woburn Books each in their original dustjacket. Minor shelfwear to bindings. Minimal foxing in some instances. The spines of the dustjackets are all lightly browned, and many have tiny chips to the extremities, small tears, small tape repair/strengthening on the reverse of some edges, and other minor defects; protected in archival mylar. The endpapers of most volumes are toned. Limited edition of 530 copies of which the first 500 were for sale. Published in 1928: 1) The Sword of Wood (Not numbered) by G.K. Chesterton, 25 pp.; 2) The Dewpond (No.255) by T.F. Powys, 29 pp.; 3) A Wedding Morn (No.446) by Sheila Kaye-Smith, 50 pp.; 4) Portrait of the Misses Harlowe (No.304) by Martin Armstrong, 26 pp.; 5) The Apple Disdained (No.205) by R.H. Mottram, 30 pp.; 6) The Man Who Missed the Bus (No.286) by Stella Benson, 31 pp.; 7) Rawdon's Roof (No.43) by D.H. Lawrence, 32 pp. (small piece clipped off of dj inner front flap); 8) The Old Dovecote (No.468) by David Garnett, 27 pp. Published in 1929: 9) The Male Impersonator (No.511 for presentation) by E.F. Benson, 28 pp. (dj spine chipped); 10. Alice and The Lost Novel (No.192) by Sherwood Anderson, 27 pp.; 11) Full Circle (No.480) by Algernon Blackwood, 22 pp.; 12) The Linhay on the Downs (No.152) by Henry Williamson, 26 pp.; 13) Fame (No.458) by May Sinclair, 40 pp.; 14) The Goldfish under the Ice (No.23) by Christopher Morley, 26 pp.; 15) A Ghost in the Isle of Wight (No.487) by Shane Leslie, 30 pp.; 16) The Shout (No.144) by Robert Graves, 31 pp. (dj spine torn); 17) Triall by Armes (No.239) by Joseph Hergesheimer, 30 pp.; 18) Some World Far from Ours (No.236) by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 31 pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Book.