Gray Silver Devon (8 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded and stained, some foxing, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight staining to boards, edges and preliminaries foxed, gift inscription to rear of half title. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .

First edition. Plates and illustrations. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 228-pages, original green cloth gilt; slight rubbing to headband, a little very light spotting to binding, light foxing to prelims. Brief contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Overall very good.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Bookplate adhesion to paste-down. Rear end-paper torn. Good-plus "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding B. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some browning but a very good copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some use to cloth, quite foxed, some marking otherwise a good-plus copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding B. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Some browning but a very good copy. Pencil ownership signature of pike specialist Malcolm Bannister. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). 1923 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp228. B/w photographs, illustrations. Binding A. Olive-green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt pike vignette on upper board. Serious foxing to title-page o/w a very good bright copy. "Happy is he who has a vast pike set up in his den, and treasured in his memory. But happier is he who has stood upon the banks or waded in the pools of a lordly stream and cast his fly or spinning bait for the loveliest, gamest, and most sporting fish that swims in all the waters of the world." The Rev Gray offers the enquiring reader a detailed account of his own fishing career, interestingly systematised into a valuable and detailed discussion of all aspects of pike angling. He adds some chapters on salmon fishing to provide a point of comparison for the keen pike angler. Chapters include: In the beginning; John Pike; The rod; The reels; The line; Traces; Live-bait tackles; The floats; Spinning; With live-bait; The way of a pike with a float and the way of a pike with a spinner; Notes from a fishing diary; Red-letter leaves from a fishing diary, by river, lake, and stream; The 'o' cast with the Malloch reel; Oddments in the way 'o' tackle; Salmon fishing, with fly and spinning baits; Salmon fishing days - February - May - July on Dartmoor. Salmon spinning reels, pros and cons. .