Garrison Everett with Hoagy Carmichael (3 results)

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. 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.…

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.…