Wise Hugh D (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Full-leather binding with decorated covers, gilt page edges. Discount Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Date. Unnumbered copy of 500. Part of the Blue Water Classics series.

Condition: Fair. . No Dust Jacket Limited edition No. 424 of 950 copies. Spine detatching. Covers sunned and slightly soiled. (shark fishing ).

Full Leather Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (20)189pp + many photo plates. All edges gilt. Gilt-stamped blue leather with 4 raised bands & sailfish on front. Blue Water Classics series limited to 500 copies. A reprint of the original edition on shark fishing published 1937. Crisp unread condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. FISHING.

Condition: New. 2017. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Will M. Drake, George Wright, and Henry Sandman (illustrator). Entire issue, May, 1897, in original wraps, moderate general wear and soiling, spine chipped away about half, rear wrap missing, top of first page of article has been clipped at the margin, perhaps to remove an ink stamp, but article is complete. Articles total 26 pages, printed in double columns, illustrated with 35 drawings. Scarce.

Condition: Good. 1998. Limited Edition. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. No. 353 of 500 copies. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges. Mild staining to gutters. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Condition: New. 2017. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: As New with no dust jacket. Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Blue covers, gilt decoration, raised bands on spine; 189 pages, 56 b/w illustrations. This is a facsimile of the 1937 edition, on shark fishing; in the Derrydale Blue Water Classics Collection.; Facsimile Reprint of 1937 Ed.; 8 x 11 ".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This book is in excellent condition and very clean. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no marks anywhere inside. ; Blue Water Classics Collection; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 189 pages; A Limited Edition of 500 copies. Leatherbound and gilt-edged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Many b/w illustrations. (illustrator). Limited Edition. GOOD book, no DJ. Worn extrems, sunned spine & cover make for a shabby book. Text page edges lightly aged. 26x19cm, Louis L Babcock (1868-1956) bookplate inside. Babcock wrote "THE TARPON ." and two other books on New York State military matters. He was from western NYS and the book was acquired in Buffalo. GOOD book, no DJ. #22 of 950 copies. Tight. VG contents. BKPLT.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 252 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good or better. 247/950 copies. Slightly oversize green cloth hardcover shows shelf wear, upper corner of front cover worn to pressbord, discolored binding, spine sunned. tightly bound, internally clean and unmarked, light tanning to borders of the pages, no handling wear to pages. Contains the ex-libris bookplate of William Simon Glazier (1907-1962) image of fish and medival men in a boat, paper label with dryed rubber cement making it brown stained. xvi, 189pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index. Numbered limited edition of 950 copies, this being 247.

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorHugh D. Wise, III, graduated from Princeton University with honors in history and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served in the Peace Corps in Brazil, where he was guest lecturer in A.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Limited Edition. Good 1937 hardcover, limited edition # 172 of 950 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Teal colored cloth on boards with gilt lettering and gilt sharks in corners of the front. Spine is mildly sun faded, small tears to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws otherwise. Fantastic b/w photos of sharks and others throughout. 189 pp., including appendixes; Limited Edition - this is #630 of 950 total copies.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2000). (1937) ND (2000) new edition. 4to. Ppxvi,189. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. All edges gilt. Pictorial blue bonded leather gilt, issued without a dust-wrapper. Un-numbered copy from edition limited to 500. Fine copy. Sharks: big-game fishing, natural history and lore. In the Derrydale Blue Water Classics Series. The limitation page states this, and gives a date of 1998. The title-page gives the place of publication as Lyon, Mississippi, an earlier home of the Derrydale Press. Presumably this book was bound and published in 2000 using sheets printed some time earlier. .

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited Edition. 4to. xvi,189pp. 1/500. Blue leather with gold lettering and decoration on front board and spine. Frontis b/w reproduction of painting of various shark species. Includes many b/w reproductions of photographs, drawings or models, and early fishermen. A Blue Water Classic edition. Overall very good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition, limited to 950 copies this being number 179, 1937. Very Good. 4to., 188 pp., with black & white images. Bound in publishers green cloth with gilt sharks and title on front cover and spine. The only real defect is the sun faded spine and very top of the boards, otherwise clean and unmarked. Internally a very well produced title with heavy paper and crisp, dark images. The Derrydale Press was an American book publishing company founded in 1927 with headquarters on Park Ave. in Manhattan, New York. It was the creation of Princeton University graduate Eugene V. Connett III (1891-1969). He told Time magazine that he got the Derrydale name "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland." An important publisher of outdoor books for North American audiences during the first half of the 20th century, according to a 1938 Time magazine article, it was the only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books. 1st edition, limited to 950 copies of which this is number 179.

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Quality Derrydale Press publication, Blue Water Classics, Limited Edition un numbered copy of 1,500 copies, reprint of the 1936 classics, 189 pages, 2 appendices, illustrated with 50 black and white photographs, Book is near Fine, very minor small rub on front board else As New, No previous owner bookplate or writing. Book is navy blue leather and 11 inches in height, bright gilt tiltles to spine and front board, gilt rule design, illustration of leaping sailfish on front board, tight and square with sharp corners, unmarked marbled end papers, book originally published at $65.00. A beautiful, ultra clean and most presentable Limited Edition. Professionally packed and promptly shipped. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Signed and inscribed by author to his brother. Limited edition, number 59 out of 950 copies. Hard cover published by Derrydale Press in 1937. No dust jacket. Light green cloth covers, with gilt lettering and designs of sharks on front and spine. Front cover is faded around edges and most of top area, and spine has greatly faded. Lettering on spine is dulled quite a bit. Upper corner of front cover is partially bent and tip is wrinkled. Upper back corner is bumped. Side edge of pages has a slight stain near top. Pages have slight tanning. Book is in good condition. 189 pages, 2.1 lbs.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 189 pages; Signed by Author.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good large octavo xvi + 189pp., frontis., b/w pls., appends., Limited to 950 copies. 'This is an unnumbered copy for review purposes only'. Some fading to boards & dust jacket chipped with some loss at foot of spine o/w a very good copy.

First Edition. Limited Edition, one of 950 numbered copies, of which this is no. 790. Small quarto (26cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 189pp; frontispiece illustration, with black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Spine-sunned, with light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Information on shark-fishing, with autobiographical elements and photographs. [89655].