Flury Roy (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Quarter brown morocco spine with gilt rules & titles, hand-made paste paper over boards; 4to; 107pp; illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, maps and facsimiles from hand-written diaries; green cloth slipcase with decoration in gilt; limited to 19 numbered (#9) copies, printed on large paper by Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press in South Freeport, Maine. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine and housed in a gray cloth-covered clamshell box with matching gilt-stamped morocco spine label. The first published account of the author's hand-written diaries of fishing for salmon on Norway's River Alten after fourteen visits between 1913 and 1936. A fascinating read and accompanied by period photographs of the sports and their catches. Bears the bookplate of noted angler and author, Ronald Saarinen Swanson. This copy in fine collectible condition with the lower corner of box being lightly bumped. An impressive production all around.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2009). 2009 1st edition. 4to (200 x 262mm). Pp106 + colophon. B/w photographs & line drawings. Green cloth, gilt spine title & vignette on front. Fine unread copy of Standard Edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. "A very fine salmon fisherman, North Dalrymple-Hamilton was also an enthusiastic diarist. Not only did he keep a personal diary of his own fishing, but he and the Duke of Roxburghe kept records of all fish caught on their visits to Alten between 1910 and 1934. He wrote a particularly detailed report, the size of a small book, on the events of 1929, and soon after this he was inspired to complete his "Red Letter Days," an account written by hand and bound in leather. This is the first published edition of that manuscript, privately published by Charles B. Wood III, and edited by Roy Flury, the author (withTheodore Dalenson) of Alten (1991) and Alten Reflections (1993). Issued in three editions: Standard Edition - 150 copies bound by Acme Bookbinders in cloth; Deluxe Edition - 60 copies bound in half leather and slipcased by Harcourt Bindery; Collector's Edition - 19 copies printed on large paper (larger than the regular editions) and hand-bound by Gray Parrot. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2009). 2009 1st edition. 4to (200 X 262mm). Pp106 + colophon. B/w photographs & line drawings. Green cloth, gilt spine title & vignette on front. Very good copy of an edition limited to 150 copies. This is an out-of-series un-numbered copy. Inscribed on the first free end-paper "For Nick Lyons with the very best wishes of Charles Wood 9-xi-09." "A very fine salmon fisherman, North Dalrymple-Hamilton was also an enthusiastic diarist. Not only did he keep a personal diary of his own fishing, but he and the Duke of Roxburghe kept records of all fish caught on their visits to Alten between 1910 and 1934. He wrote a particularly detailed report, the size of a small book, on the events of 1929, and soon after this he was inspired to complete his "Red Letter Days," an account written by hand and bound in leather. This is the first published edition of that manuscript, privately published by Charles B. Wood III, and edited by Roy Flury, the author (withTheodore Dalenson) of Alten (1991) and Alten Reflections (1993). Issued in three editions: Standard Edition - 150 copies bound by Acme Bookbinders in cloth; Deluxe Edition - 60 copies bound in half leather and slipcased by Harcourt Bindery; Collector's Edition - 19 copies printed on large paper (larger than the regular editions) and hand-bound by Gray Parrot. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. FLURY, Roy [106] pp. Privately Printed by Charles B. Wood III 2009 10 1/4" x 8" There are 150 copies of the standard edition of which this is copy no. 73 Diaries of Col. Dalrymple-Hamilton on the sporting waters of the Alten river in northern Norway, leased to his friend the Duke of Roxburghe. The diaries cover the years 1913, 1920-1923, and 1929, with a chapter on subsequent trips.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 & 1993 1st editions. 4to (205 x 265mm). Pp104 & 168. B/w photographs & other illustrations. Half morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g. Cloth slipcases decorated in gilt. Two volumes, both # 111 of 150 copies. Both volumes show slight signs of use but are very good in slightly dusty slipcases. ~. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2009). 2009 1st edition - Deluxe Edition. 4to (200 X 262mm). Pp106 + colophon. B/w photographs & line drawings. Deluxe Edition (60 copies bound in half leather and slipcased by Harcourt Bindery). A fine unread copy of the deluxe half leather edition, limited to 60 numbered copies. "A very fine salmon fisherman, North Dalrymple-Hamilton was also an enthusiastic diarist. Not only did he keep a personal diary of his own fishing, but he and the Duke of Roxburghe kept records of all fish caught on their visits to Alten between 1910 and 1934. He wrote a particularly detailed report, the size of a small book, on the events of 1929, and soon after this he was inspired to complete his "Red Letter Days," an account written by hand and bound in leather. This is the first published edition of that manuscript, privately published by Charles B. Wood III, and edited by Roy Flury, the author (withTheodore Dalenson) of Alten (1991) and Alten Reflections (1993). Issued in three editions: Standard Edition - 150 copies bound by Acme Bookbinders in cloth; Deluxe Edition - 60 copies bound in half leather and slipcased by Harcourt Bindery; Collector's Edition - 19 copies printed on large paper (larger than the regular editions) and hand-bound by Gray Parrot. .