Patrick Murray Smythe (10 results)

Condition: VG+/VG- (see notes). 1st. 8vo. 222pp. Some offsetting to end papers from DJ flaps. 1/4" chip top spine. price-clipped, lightly worn DJ.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. Browning and use, good. O.M. Reed's bookplate. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. Browning to end-papers else very good. Lacks dust-wrapper. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First Edition. The Diary of an All-Round Angler: Extracts from the Fishing Journal Kept for Over Sixty Years (1872â"1935) by P. M. Smythe is a fascinating record of a lifetime devoted to angling and the British countryside. Drawn from journals kept over more than sixty years, the book offers vivid accounts of salmon, trout, coarse and sea fishing, together with observations on rivers, weather, wildlife and the changing rural world of late Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. Written with the quiet authority of long experience, Smythe combines practical angling knowledge with reflective and often nostalgic descriptions of days spent on the water. An excellent addition for readers and collectors of angling literature, sporting memoirs, natural history and classic British countryside writing. First Edition.…

1956, 222 pp, hardcover cloth binding with dust jacket, front and back page and edges tanned, dust jacket worn, chipped and torn on the edges. Pictures on request.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding B. Red boards, spine titled in black. Very good in poor dust-wrapper. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. Browning to end-papers else good-plus in slightly chipped dust-wrapper. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1956 First Edition, first printing. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. Illustrated with b&w photographs of the sport. 6.25" x 8.5". 222 pp.( LOOKS VERY GOOD BUT THIS WAS ONCE A SMOKER'S BOOK AND CARRIES THE ODOR.) NO JACKET. Personal accounts of fishing trips; fishing for trout, sea trout, salmon and grayling throughout the British Isles. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. End-papers and edges browned o/w very good in dust-wrapper. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 218mm). Pp222. B/w photographs. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt on black panel. Very good in chipped dust-wrapper. Flyfishers' Club bookplate. THE DIARY OF AN ALL-ROUND ANGLER: Extracts from the Fishing Journal kept for over sixty years (1872-1935) by the Very Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe. Edited by [his son] Patrick C. Smythe. The author, "who was born in 1860, began his diary as a schoolboy when he recorded the capture of sixteen sticklebacks and a minnow ("I ate minnow") and made his last entry only a few days before his death in 1935." A detailed and entrancing diary, mostly referring to trout and salmon fishing on Scottish lochs and rivers. .…