H E Towner Coston (65 results)

Green cloth/slight Fade. Condition: Good Pl;us. No Jacket. An intersting photographic book. Can't help but wonder if this photographer is lousy or what. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First American. 299 pp. Interspersed with black & white photographic plates between the signatures. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Bottom corners lightly bumped; endpapers and outside margin of some pages foxed; otherwise very good condition in worn dust jacket. ]. 163p. Illus. Frontispiece.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copyright Date: 1938 12mo, Green Cloth, , PP.163. B & W Photo Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, 8vo, beige cloth lettered red on silver to spine, spine discoloured, corners bumped, brief gift inscription to previous owner o/w a good copy, no dust jacket, b&w plates, 299pp.

Condition: Good. 1945. Second and Revised Edition. 160 pages. Dust jacket over yellow cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Notable foxing to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A Very Good Copy of this Book no Dust-jacket,includes over 30 illustrations,8vo 299pp First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. No Dustjacket. First Ediion. 53 pages + B&W plates. No dustjacket. Age-dulled mid-green hardback binding with moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners, with some colour-fading to front boardand spine and spine-junctions. Photographs By Author (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. VG++++/no dust jacket. Brown cloth hardcover with gold lettering and designs. 1936. J. B. Lippincott co. Former owners name and address on front endpaper with normal toning to pages. Volume XXIV of the Londsdale library, Many wonderful illustrations. A very nice copy. Illustrated (illustrator). …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp263. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Full buckram, Lonsdale monogram to front board, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy with various stamps (including one to upper board and bottom edge), hinges tender, some use. Good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In putting a book before the public whose matter has been founded on careful observation and research work in the field and the laboratory, it is hoped that many problems which some fishery owners and clubs have to meet may be simplified. A special effort has been made to utilize 'everyday' terms where possible, the scientific names being used only to avoid confusion with identification. With the ever-increasing army of anglers, and the consequent demand for first-class fishing, many derelict streams have suddenly gained a new significance in the eyes of their owners; if not - they should have done so." Chapters include: The natural food of trout; The natural supply of food; Characteristics of good trout water; The weed problem; The mud problem; Stocking; The hatchery; Diseases of fish; Predators and competitors; Pollution; Brief general notes on fishery work repairs and management; Mud, and the flavour of trout and salmon; The rainbow trout; Non-sea-going salmon; Stocking with salmon; The improvement of salmon rivers; The making of lies; Artificial spate. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The book has an ownership stamp to the ffep and the usual war time economy tanning. The jacket has a little dulling down, is price clipped and has tiny amounts of edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Water Symphony: Fishing With a Camera' by H. E. Towner Coston. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1948 first edition. Very good in slightly edge frayed dust jacket with a little sunning to the spine.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp263. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Full buckram, Lonsdale monogram to front board, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy but relatively clean and tidy. Good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In putting a book before the public whose matter has been founded on careful observation and research work in the field and the laboratory, it is hoped that many problems which some fishery owners and clubs have to meet may be simplified. A special effort has been made to utilize 'everyday' terms where possible, the scientific names being used only to avoid confusion with identification. With the ever-increasing army of anglers, and the consequent demand for first-class fishing, many derelict streams have suddenly gained a new significance in the eyes of their owners; if not - they should have done so." Chapters include: The natural food of trout; The natural supply of food; Characteristics of good trout water; The weed problem; The mud problem; Stocking; The hatchery; Diseases of fish; Predators and competitors; Pollution; Brief general notes on fishery work repairs and management; Mud, and the flavour of trout and salmon; The rainbow trout; Non-sea-going salmon; Stocking with salmon; The improvement of salmon rivers; The making of lies; Artificial spate. .…

Condition: Near Fine/no dj. 299pp. Numerous black & white photo plates. Apparent 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. Cloth, dj. Octavo. 263 pp. In acetate. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket creased and fraying at top of spine, with additional minor scuffing. Front flap creased and price clipped. Foxing on fore-edge, tail edge, frontispiece and title page. Binding starting to separate at the end of third signature, but otherwise firm. Else clean, text unmarred.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 299pp, illustrated, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper browning and edges frayed.

Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/small closed tear, in mylar; from library and with siged bookplate of Charles Krom, author, fisherman,fly-tier; 263 clean, unmarked pages. 90 b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Signed By Notable.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. With ninety illustrations. Solid binding with bumps to bottom edges and both ends of spine. Light wear to tinted top edge, mild foxing to bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. Previous owner's name stamped on FFEP. Lightly worn dust jacket shows small edge tears and chips, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 263pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 263pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket with paste-on photograph illustrations. 40 plates. Chipping to edges of jacket and there is rubbing to the back of it which obscures some of the advertisement text. Foxing to foredge.

8vo. 263pp. B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Original beige cloth with gilt device to upper board. The Lonsdale Library, Volume XXIV. US$12.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Hardcover in brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine, previous owner's name label on fep, slight shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good+ condition, unclipped dustwrapper with some light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good+ condition. First edition, pp 263, b&w plates, index.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 263 pp; Foredge and first 20 pages foxed else a very nice book in very nice dust jacket with just a touch of edge rubbing at the spine head. A really nice and attractive book.

Originally published under the title "Speckled Nomads". New edition. A book about the most beautiful and intelligent of fish - the brown trout. This tells of the parallel stories of two trout, offsping of the same trout farm - one maturing in an English river, the other shipped to New Zealand. 160 pp. Frontispiece - map of Lake Taupo, & 25 photographic illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Yellow cloth boards. Black lettering on spine. Overall condition VG. In VG illustrated dust wrapper.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp263. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Full buckram, Lonsdale Library monogram to front board, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In putting a book before the public whose matter has been founded on careful observation and research work in the field and the laboratory, it is hoped that many problems which some fishery owners and clubs have to meet may be simplified. A special effort has been made to utilize 'everyday' terms where possible, the scientific names being used only to avoid confusion with identification. With the ever-increasing army of anglers, and the consequent demand for first-class fishing, many derelict streams have suddenly gained a new significance in the eyes of their owners; if not - they should have done so." Chapters include: The natural food of trout; The natural supply of food; Characteristics of good trout water; The weed problem; The mud problem; Stocking; The hatchery; Diseases of fish; Predators and competitors; Pollution; Brief general notes on fishery work repairs and management; Mud, and the flavour of trout and salmon; The rainbow trout; Non-sea-going salmon; Stocking with salmon; The improvement of salmon rivers; The making of lies; Artificial spate. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

London. Country Life Limited. 1938. First Edition. 8vo. (8 x 5). 163 pp. including index. Photo frontispiece showing a rising trout. Black and white plates. The book is bound in green cloth with back titles. Previous owner's name in pencil on end paper, otherwise very good.