Grey Falloden (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fly Fishing (Modern Fishing Classics S.) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The great Edwardian statesman Sir Edward Grey was a passionate naturalist, and co-founder of the RSPB. Between 1895 and 1905 he made detailed nature notes at his cottage by a trout stream near Itchen Abbas in Hampshire. The text of his "Cottage Book" forms the basis for this beautiful book, alongside dozens of specially commissioned watercolours, contemporary photographs and woodcuts, and maps. This is a volume that all nature-lovers will treasure. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. 1947. Fourteenth Edition. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Robert Gibbings. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine.

Condition: Good. 1947. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. No publication date, xxii, 438 pages, frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth, (Nelson Classics 182). Light foxing to page edges, dust jacket spine faded.

Hardback. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: V G Chipped and Foxed. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). Sixth Impression. xii, 244pp. Illustrated with 21 woodcuts by Robert Gibbings and a colour illustrated d.j., chipped and incomplete but now enclosed with a clear mylar cover. D.j. unclipped and priced at 12/6. Bound in green buckram, gilt. First published in 1927. A nice early copy in the original but chipped colour d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Eric Fitch Daglish (illustrator). Revised & Enlarged. Green hardboards, lighter green cloth spine. Edge wear on boards, with corners slightly bent. Former owner's bookplate (fly fishing plate) inside front pastedown. Worn, torn and edge chipped DJ, repaired with old fashioned library tape inside. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Wood engraving; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket.

Paper covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Little used. Some press cuttings loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

3 vols., 8vo., with portrait frontispiece; black cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in blue, backstrips with printed paper labels, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Grey's classic autobiography was first published in two volumes in 1925. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Hard Cover. INSCRIBED BY BINDER. Third Popular Edition. Octavo, pp. xii, 305, [3]. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and vignette to title page by Robert Gibbings. Later craft binding in full bottle green morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to upper board and bird design in gilt over both boards and spine. Aeg, gilt dentelles and leather doublures and endpapers by Desmond Yardley. Spine lightly sunned, minor chip to lower edge of upper board (see photograph). Contents clean and bright with inscription to final blank to fore: "D. Yardley Rebound 1937 L.C.C. C.S.A.C.", with number 7 written above a crossed-through 9, all in the same hand. A Near Fine copy. Handsome binding by the widely admired craft binder H.J. Desmond Yardley (1905-72), whose skilled work was much in demand by collectors. Yardley began his binding career with music scores in the early 1930s, after which he studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (the C.S.A.C. of the inscription) and he was elected to the Guild of Contemporary Binders in 1956. Examples of his meticulous work may be seen at the British Library, V&A and Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. An early "apprentice piece" by Yardley whilst at the Central School where he received tuition from William Matthews, George Frewin and Peter McLeish. Harrop, Dorothy A : Craft Binders at Work V H.J. Desmond Yardley, pp. 245-250 [1975 Book Collector].