F D Holcombe (29 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, second edition, octavo, blue cloth lettered black. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, upper hinge just cracking but stitching of the text block remains sound. Scattered foxing at front and rear, portrait frontis, b&w plates, ix + 310pp.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Condition: Good. Boards have some marks and light edge wear. Content has light toning with foxing - a few browning stain amrks to lower page ends. Stable binding. 310pp. No DJ.

Condition: VG, NO dj. 3rd ed. 12mo. 326pp. Bit of a blemish to cloth top front, but quite decent on the whole.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With every good wish for tight lines from H. D. Holcombe". No other inscriptions. Spine faded, page edges tanned and a very little internal foxing. Holcombe was secretary of the British Sea Anglers Society. 12 pages of photographs. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations By A. Fraser Brunner (illustrator). Undated Circa 1940. Please Email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Condition: New.

8°, original cloth binding. 2nd ed. With frontispiece and numerous photographies on plates, 310 p. Cover slightly rubbed, cut a little stained, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

48 pp. With illustrations by A. Fraser-Brunner. 8vo, publisher's color printed wrappers. Ownership name (dated 1931) on front wrapper, light soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Milward's Angling Books, No. 5.

48 pp. With numerous illustrations of fish and equipment sold by the publisher. 8vo, publisher's illustrated wrappers. Very good.

Condition: New.

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ix, 310 pp., illustrated with b/w photographic plates, boards slightly marked, but a very good copy overall 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. - second edition with added material, mainly more photographs & vignettes and drawings - 310 pages, indexed - very near fine copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

8vo. ix[i], 310pp, portrait frontis, 11 plates, text figures. Original decorated blue cloth gilt. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spotting to leaf-edges; inked relevant comments to reverse of frontis and foot of page 3.

8°, original cloth-binding. 1st ed. With frontispiece, IX, 310 p. Edges slightly rubbed. Fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Frederick Warne, London, 1923, second edition. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.5" x 8". 310 pp. Decorated blue cloth, early ink owner name and bookplate on endpapers, blind embossed stamp of George Reiger on endpaper. Chapters on rods, reels, lines and other tackle, fishing for skate, mackerel, sea bass, coalfish, pollock, mullet, bream, shark, ling, cod, conger, wrasse, flatfish, etc., fishing from boats, shore and piers, where to fish around the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Very good.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Large 8vo. Hardcover, Publisher's Cloth, Good. ix, 310 pp. illustrated with b/w photographic plates.

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt and black stamped title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains (ix), 310 pp with monochrome archive photographs and text illustrations throughout. From the private library of Robert Clayton Swan with his smart armorial bookplate inside, spine ends and corners rolled over and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ANGLING & SPORT FISHING.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by Henry Milward and Sons Ltd in 1929 (no date given) here is the assumed first softback printing of F.D.Holcombe's SEA FISHIUNG SIMPLIFIED (Milward's Angling Books #5) illustrated by A.Fraser-Brunner. Pictorial stapled card covers, 48 illustrated pages the book is in good plus condition with some light rubbing plus some browning and light staining.

Frederick Warne, London, 1932, third edition. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.5" x 8". 310 pp. Decorated blue cloth, ink stamps on endpapers, blind embossed stamp "Property Room Not To Be Taken Away" on the endpaper and title page. Chapters on rods, reels, fishing for mackerel, sea bass, coalfish, pollock, mullet, bream, shark, ling, cod, conger, wrasse, flatfish, skate, etc., fishing from boats, shore, piers, where to fish on the coasts of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Very good in very good wrapper.

In 8° (cm. 20,5 x 14); pagg. IX, 310; con 12 tavole fotograf. f.t.; bella legatura in tela originale blu con titoli e vignetta in nero e in oro. Qualche fioritura. VG-. ** Second edition.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1864 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 559 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 559 Volume 2 Language: English.