O'donovan Dan (4 results)

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2021). 2021 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Pp175. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Pictorial card covers with flaps. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies, each with a bookplate signed by the author. Fine new copy. Bookplate signed by the author. Sidney Spencer wrote beautifully of lough-fishing for salmon and sea-trout in the north-west of Ireland and the Western Isles of Scotland. Dan O'Donovan introduces us to Spencer's evocative and instructional writing, and gives us an insight into the life of this little-known but much-loved angling author. .

Paperbound. Condition: Mint. Coch-y-Bonddu Books, Machynlleth, 2021, a numbered copy of 250 copies, signed by the author. No. 13 in the Angling Monograph series. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs. 6.25" x 9.25". Paperbound, with folded flaps. 175 pp, including 3 pp of bibliography. A biography of the author of Salmon and Seatrout in Wild Places, Newly from the Sea, Fishing the Wilder Shores, etc., his development as an angler, his books, chapters on the ghillies he fished with, his diaries, flies, fishing for pike, trout, sea-trout and salmon in England and Ireland, including clear water trout fishing with the worm. "His books are charming and convey his knowledge in a style which, while often anecdotal, is full of detail and learning". Mint.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2021). 2021 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 242mm). Pp175. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Dark green leather over oatmeal cloth, spine titled in gilt, green angler on cloth. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies, each with a bookplate signed by the author. Fine new copy. De luxe edition limited to 26 lettered copies. Bookplate signed by the author. Sidney Spencer wrote beautifully of lough-fishing for salmon and sea-trout in the north-west of Ireland and the Western Isles of Scotland. Dan O'Donovan introduces us to Spencer's evocative and instructional writing, and gives us an insight into the life of this little-known but much-loved angling author. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2018). 2018 1st edition. 4to (220 x 280mm). Pp209. Colour and b/w photographs, pictorial end-papers. Blue boards, spine and upper board titled and illustrated with vignettes in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. A beautifully illustrated history of salmon fishing on the river Lee in Ireland, with many period photographs and good colour plates of salmon flies. A handsome and valuable addition to the literature of Irish angling. .