Garrison Everett Hoagy Carmichael (17 results)

4To Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 2nd ptg. 296pp. Green boards, golden lettering, unclipped jacket. Text and photography/illustration is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate book shelf/timewear, boardwear, foxing and spotting on textblock edges, light page patina throughout, written name on frontleaf; considerable jacketwear, jacket edge and cornerwear, small edge tears, chipping, foxing, sunning. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book is in good condition, small tear to the dust jacket. 296pp with b/w photographs.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 2007). (1977) 2007 3rd edition reprint. Large 4to (229 x 295mm). Ppxxx,296. B/w photographs, illustrations. Two-tone buckram, pictorial slip-case. Very good in slightly marked slip-case. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). (1977) 2001 3rd edition reprint. Large 4to (230 x 300mm). Ppxxx,296. B/w photographs, illustrations. Two-tone buckram, spine titled in gilt, pictorial slip-case. Fine copy in slip-case. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). (1977) 1994 3rd edition. Large 4to (223 x 287mm). Ppxxx,296. B/w photographs, illustrations. Two-tone buckram, pictorial slip-case. Slight use else very good in slip-case. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). (1977) 2007 3rd edition reprint. Large 4to (229 x 295mm). Ppxxx,296. B/w photographs, illustrations. Two-tone buckram, pictorial slip-case. Very good in slightly used slip-case. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1977) 1st edition reprint. Large 4to (218 x 284mm). Ppxx,296. Two colour plates, b/w photographs & illustrations. Green cloth, Garrison's facsimile signature in gilt to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Very good in faded and slightly frayed dust-wrapper. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1977) 1st edition reprint. Large 4to (218 x 284mm). Ppxx,296. Two colour plates, b/w photographs & illustrations. Green cloth, Garrison's facsimile signature in gilt to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in slightly faded dust-wrapper. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1977) 1985 new edition. Large 4to (220 x 280mm). Ppxx,296. B/w photographs & illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. "By unanimous agreement, this is simply the best work on the subject - the definitive book. Mr. Garrison, a mechanical engineer by training, built perhaps the finest rods ever - and describes how it's done. He died before the book was first published (in 1977) though his protege, Hoagy B. Carmichael, completed it and brought it to publication. Essential reading for all who admire fine bamboo rods. A useful section is included on restoration, refinishing and repair as well." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth; 4to; 296pp; illustrated with text drawings by Robert Seaman plus photos by Matthew Vinciguerra & Luis Marden; color photographic dust jacket; foreword by C.O.v. Kienbusch. An in-depth account of bamboo rod building from two experts of the craft. Garrison passed two years before the publication and Carmichael was instrumental in the project's completion. Reprinted many times, this is the1st printing in very good condition with the slightest wear along bottom edge from shelving. The jacket also is in VG condition with a small chips along edges. Bears Carmichael's uncommon signature to the half title page. A quite nice copy, better than most encountered. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Clamshell Like New. # 51 of 128 Copies. Katonah, NY: Published by Martha's Glen, 1977, #51 of 128 Copies, Inscribed by Hoagy Carmichael and signed & remarqued by the artist Robert Seaman on half-title page, along with a pencil signed copy of Introduction by Hoagy Carmichael, 296p. Deluxe Edition, illustrated with photos and drawings by Robert Seaman. Bound in full leather with silk end papers, all edges gilt, glassine dust jacket. In a custom clamshell box of three quarter leather and marbled boards with a small leather pouch at ehe fore-edge containing a 2" piece of a Garrison rod. A Fine Copy. In a Fine glassine dust jacket and near fine clamshell box. A Beauty! See Photos. Robert Seaman (illustrator). Signed by Author & Illustrator.…

4to. pp. xix, 296. text in double columns. 1 double-sided colour plate & numerous text illus. cloth. dw. (edges of dw. chipped). Associaton copy with signed (signature illegible) inscription "For Roy Cole The Canadian of whom Otto speaks of in the forward on page xviii I am pleased that you own several fine examples of Garry's work". First Edition.…

Hardcover. Second printing. Very near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a facsimile signature of the author on the front board. A small quarto of 10 7/8 by 8 3/8 inches with a tiny bit of rubbing to the cloth at the upper fore corner and the lower fore corner of the spine. In a very good+ unclipped (no price) dust jacket with a 1/4 inch deep chip from the upper edge of the spine area, rubbing and wear to the lower edge of the same and several small chips from the edges of the rear panel. 296 including and index and text. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and over 370 black and white images from photographs and two pages of images from color photographs. A clean and handsome copy with no prior ownership marks of any kind.…

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY HOAGY CARMICHAEL (BUT NOT TO A SPECIFIC PERSON) on the half-title. A sharp copy to boot of the 1994 3rd edition, revised and updated. Clean and Near Fine in its yellow and light-green boards, with just a touch of rubbing at the spine. Also includes a sturdy, Near Fine example of the publisher's dark-green slipcase. Signed.…

First edition, the DeLuxe issue, 1/128 copies (this #125) with a small pencil sketch of a plane by the illustrator, signed by him. 4to. xix, 296 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates, some in color, mounted color frontispiece portrait of the author, small piece of a bamboo Garrison fly-rod in leather case attached to slipcase. Inscribed in 1980 by Hoagy Carmichael to a student of his, the bamboo rodmaker Peter Phelps, on the half-title, below Seaman's drawing. Slipcase somewhat rubbed, else a fine copy. Publisher's brown morocco, gilt, thin gilt rules framing the boards, gilt spine title and devices between raised bands, green silk endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher's glassine dust jacket (tired, eroding along front joint) and half-leather and marbled board clamshell box, gilt title on spine. (#8433).…

Third Edition, revised and updated. Third Edition, revised and updated. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. xvii, [iii], 296 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A revised version of this classic work, first published in 1977. Despite the enormous amount of precise craftsmanship involved in the production of a fine fly rod (and its repair and refinishing), the authors' step-by-step approach, with careful and explicit illustrations, make it seem almost easy. Or, the book can simply be enjoyed as a unique celebration of a sporting implement that comes close to being a true work of art. In three quarter green calf and marbled boards. Fine Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. xvii, [iii], 296 pp. 1 vols. 4to.…

Seaman, Robert. Deluxe edition, no. 41 of 128 copies, signed on the half title by the author and with a signed remarque by the artist Robert Seaman. Color frontispiece portrait of Garrison at work, profusely illustrated with drawings by Robert Seaman and numerous photographs by Matthew Vinciguerra and Luis Marden. 246 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A classic work, with careful and explicit illustrations: a unique celebration of a sporting implement that attains the status of a work of art. Garrison worked extensively with Carmichael but died before the book was published. Here in the uncommon deluxe issue, which Carmichael has warmly inscribed Rudy Coigney, fisherman, book collector, and bibliographer of Izaak Walton. Full brown morocco, spine gilt, upper board with gilt rule borders about a central design of a casting angler's hand stamped in blind, a.e.g. In three-quarter morocco drop box with a lift tab made from a leather pouch housing a two-inch section of a Garrison rod. Fine Color frontispiece portrait of Garrison at work, profusely illustrated with drawings by Robert Seaman and numerous photographs by Matthew Vinciguerra and Luis Marden. 246 pp. 1 vols. 4to Deluxe edition, no. 41 of 128 copies, signed on the half title by the author and with a signed remarque by the artist Robert Seaman. Signed.…