Colonel Hugh Wise (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Full-leather binding with decorated covers, gilt page edges. Discount Book.

Condition: Fair. . No Dust Jacket Limited edition No. 424 of 950 copies. Spine detatching. Covers sunned and slightly soiled. (shark fishing ).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. This book is in excellent condition and very clean. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no marks anywhere inside. ; Blue Water Classics Collection; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pages; A Limited Edition of 500 copies. Leatherbound and gilt-edged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good or better. 247/950 copies. Slightly oversize green cloth hardcover shows shelf wear, upper corner of front cover worn to pressbord, discolored binding, spine sunned. tightly bound, internally clean and unmarked, light tanning to borders of the pages, no handling wear to pages. Contains the ex-libris bookplate of William Simon Glazier (1907-1962) image of fish and medival men in a boat, paper label with dryed rubber cement making it brown stained. xvi, 189pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Numbered limited edition of 950 copies, this being 247.…

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited Edition. 4to. xvi,189pp. 1/500. Blue leather with gold lettering and decoration on front board and spine. Frontis b/w reproduction of painting of various shark species. Includes many b/w reproductions of photographs, drawings or models, and early fishermen. A Blue Water Classic edition. Overall very good condition.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, limited to 950 copies this being number 179, 1937. Very Good. 4to., 188 pp., with black & white images. Bound in publishers green cloth with gilt sharks and title on front cover and spine. The only real defect is the sun faded spine and very top of the boards, otherwise clean and unmarked. Internally a very well produced title with heavy paper and crisp, dark images. The Derrydale Press was an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan, New York. It was the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891-1969). He told Time magazine that he got the Derrydale name "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland." An important publisher of outdoor books for North American audiences during the first half of the 20th century, according to a 1938 Time magazine article, it was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books. 1st edition, limited to 950 copies of which this is number 179.…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good large octavo xvi + 189pp., frontis., b/w pls., appends., Limited to 950 copies. 'This is an unnumbered copy for review purposes only'. Some fading to boards & dust jacket chipped with some loss at foot of spine o/w a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 7 3/4 inches x 10 1/8 in., half-title, frontispiece of various types of sharks; title-page printed in blue and black, with shark design; dedication page, acknowledgments page; preface; contents; list of illustrations; xvi+pp., 189 pp., including appendixes; illustrated with reproduction of historical black & white photographs relating to sharks and shark fishing, and other illustrations of types sharks. Light green cloth with titling and shark designs gilt on the spine and front cover. Lacking the dustjacket. The spine shows consierable fading and tanning, and the cover margins, edges show fading, small nick to the upper edge of the front cover. With the sporting bookplate (Fox & duck hunting, & fishing designs), of John Sherwin, Jr. (designed by S. B. Hill, 1928, engraved by A. J. Downey), on the front paste-down, and with a loose tissue guard to protect the bookplate. …

dj. First Edition, No. 2326 of 950 copies. First Edition, No. 2326 of 950 copies. Illustrated. xvi, [iv], 189 pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to. Unuusual in such a fine dj. Siegel 125; Frazier W-11-a Original sea-green cloth, gilt. Fine bright copy in about fine original printed dust jacket. Laid into a half green morocco slipcase and chemise Illustrated. xvi, [iv], 189 pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to.…