Frederick M Halford (14 results)
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Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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- Softcover
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- Softcover
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, , United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 520 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Published by Houghton And Mifflin 1923
- Hardcover
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.White Square - Fine Books & Art
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1923. First published in 1910, this is the 1923 reprinting. Illustrated with nine color plates of Farlow & Hardy flies, color shade charts, and photogravure plates. In two parts: The Halford Dry Fly Patterns and The Halford Dry Fly Patterns in Use. Intact with no inter…nal markings and NOT ex-library. Red cloth-covered boards are soiled and spine label is rubbed but legible. Book.
Published by Halford, Frederick M. 1913
- Hardcover
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Terrace Horticultural Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, Clean, Octavo, Original Gilt Color Lettered Black Cloth, TEG, PP.iv,416, Photogravure Fronispiece, Forty Three Plates, A Complete Manual Including The Fisherman's Entomology.
Published by Vinton & Co Ltd., London 1903
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United KingdomLeakey's Bookshop Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp xxiv, 286. Portrait frontis. and 43 plates (including photogravures) - all as called for. Original cloth lettered gilt. Edges a little foxed, but a very acceptable copy.
More imagesPublished by Scribner & Welford 1886
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- First Edition
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Seller: Ulysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB, Dublin , , IrelandUlysses Rare Books Ltd. ABA, ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large Paper Copy, one of Fifty printed on Van Gelder Dutch handmade paper for the American market. There were another 100 copies printed for the English market. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author on half-title page: "Francis Francis Esq, With Kind regards from Frederick M. Halford…." Francis Francis was a famous angler and author of 'A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch' published in 1867. The first American edition of the first, and scarcest, of Halford's books. Ex libris Dermot Earl of Mayo. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Vinton and Co, London 1897
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Leather. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A pleasing copy of the first edition of "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing" Frederick M. Halford's guide to the dry fly technique on English chalk streams The first trade edition of Frederick Halford's classic work, published a decade after his influential work 'Floating Flies and… How to Dress Them'.Illustrated with twenty-eight plates, ten of which are hand coloured and retaining their original tissue guards, and with a further folding table. Collated, complete.Halford provides an account of 'A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout & Grayling', and introduces the methodology of English chalk stream dry fly angling to readers in an informative and descriptive style. Rebound in a quarter morocco binding, retaining the publisher's original cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, excellent, with pictorial gilt detailing to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.
Published by Vinton & Co. (London, 1897) 1897
Seller: Books On Dean, Albury, NSW, AustraliaBooks On Dean
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A brief description of leading types of natural insects serving as food for trout and grayling with the 100 best patterns of floating flies and the various methods of dressing them. 8.75"X5.5", half black-leather and aquamarine cloth, gilt titles to upper board, gilt bands and titles to spine, cream eps, teg, outer edge untrimme…d, pp. (i-vii) viii-xii, 1-304 incl. index, and 1 page ad for fishing tackle, illustrated by 10 hand-coloured plates, each with tissue protector, and 18 b&w plates as well as numerous b&w engravings. 1897 first edition of a classic text, original binding rebacked with black morocco, new eps, previous owner's signature on half-title, binding sound & tight, corners rubbed, generally v.g. condition.
Published by Sampson, Low, London 1889
- First Edition
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. First edition. Frontispiece and 25 plates. xii, 289, [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Westwood & Satchell Supp. p. 246 Original green cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g. Some chipping at spine ends, very good Frontispiece and 25 plates. xii, 289, [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
Published by Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Limited. St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London 1889
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDeluxe Limited Edition, one of 100 copies (out of series, without Limitation page). Frontispiece by D. Moul (Lith. by Leighton Bros.) and 25 plates tipped onto card (5 colored), figures in text on india paper. xii, 289, [3] pp. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo (274 x 180 mm). IINSCRIBED "H.S. Hall Esq./ with t…he Author's kind regards/ Frederic M. Halford/ April 15th 1889." A group of fishermen including the author F.M. Halford, G. S. Marryat (the dedicatee of this book) , Henry Sinclair Hall (to whom this copy is inscribed) , E. J. Power, Dr. T. Sanctuary; and various professionals including Holland, Hammond, Currell and Chakley took the floating fly, improved on it and produced the dry fly that we use today. Hall with Bankart produced the eyed hooks in 1879. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION. Westwood & Satchell Supp. p. 246; see Hayter, F.M. Halford pp. 58-60 et seq Original full dark green morocco, single gilt ruled border on upper and lower covers, spine with raised bands, t.e.g., rest uncut. Spine somewhat sunned Frontispiece by D. Moul (Lith. by Leighton Bros.) and 25 plates tipped onto card (5 colored), figures in text on india paper. xii, 289, [3] pp. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson. 1 vols. Imperial 8vo (274 x 180 mm) Deluxe Limited Edition, one of 100 copies (out of series, without Limitation page). Signed.
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.Callahan and Company Booksellers
Contact seller5-star sellerRoutledge, London, 1913, first printing. Illustrated with very good b&w plates, photographs and drawings. 6.5" x 9". 416 pp. Black cloth, with a neat ink owner inscription, and a blind embossed owner name stamp on endpaper. Chapters on tackle for dry fly fishing, casting, ethics, fly patterns, striking and handling the fish, the… dry fly on lakes, entomology, managing a fishery. "He carried the torch for the dry fly.as rabid a reformer as ever was. Like most reformers.he hurt his case by over enthusiasm. He and his followers became known as 'purists' whose gospel was the sacredness of the dry fly. To them no other method of taking trout was even respectable" (von Kienbusch). Very good.
