Fighting Fins (8 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AH & AW Reed Wellington 1961 First Edition 256pp ills (bw) VG- (green cloth, sl worn, head and foot of spine sl bumped, spine sl faded, some marks on boards, edges sl foxed) lacks dw reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth; 4to; 256pp; illustrated with drawings, maps plus b/w photos; color pictorial dust jacket. Information on coastal fishing as well as blue water; tackle choices; baits; angling clubs & charter launches; etc. Profusely illustrated. This copy in G to VG condition with bright spine titles; ink ownership data to front free endsheet o/w internally bright & clean. The jacket is missing bottom inch at tail of spine; mild wear more so to rear panel and is price-clipped at inner flap. An affordable copy in the uncommon dust jacket and seldom seen for sale in the United States.

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). 1961 1st edition. 4to (192 x 255mm). Ppxv,256. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Owner's name and bookseller's stamp to front end-paper else good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. Angling for shark, marlin, swordfish, tuna and other big game species in New Zealand waters. "Since Zane Grey's books first drew the attention of world fishermen to his fabulous success in New Zealand waters, the sport has been brought to a very high level. But since Zane Grey there has been no book to show this progress, to describe the sport in all its aspects, or to record the stories of battles with great game fish along the New Zealand coast. The author has visited all New Zealand's game fishing regions - Whangaroa, the Bay of Islands, Whangarei (Tutukaka), Mercury Bay (Whitianga) and Touranga (Mayor Island) - talked with those who initiated the sport and those who are now its main administrators and participants, and spent many days at sea. Contributing also to this book are R.C. Dinsdale (secretary of the Whangarei Club and past-secretary of the federated clubs), J.M. Moreland (ichthyologist to the Dominion Museum) and F. Wilkins (skipper of the Sou-East of Tauranaga)." Chapters include: The land and the sea; It started with Zane Grey; Grand days at sea; New Zealand's fighting mako; Game fishes of New Zealand; Tackle for big game fishing; Baiting, drifting and trolling; Finding and fighting game fish; Big game fishing with light tackle; Catching tuna and other light-tackle fish; New Zealand Big Game Fishing Council; International fishing contests in New Zealand; Whangaroa; The Bay of Islands; Whangarei (Tutukaka); Mercury Bay (Whitianga); Tauranga (Mayor Island); New Zealand and world records. .

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean green cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: moderate foxing, light soiling. Few only pages with a few only foxings to the margins. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 256p Dj: moderate soiling, rubbing and marks. Rear flap separated from jacket. Spine: head & foot with thin wear, small splits and chips. It looks as though another jacket has been glued onto the back of the top jacket.Top and bottom edges with a few chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st printing; frontis., Illus. throughout, b/w photos, green cloth, original DJ in Mylar wraps, 26 cm. : Sound binding (lightly cocked), bright unmarked pages free of foxing, one name in pen on FFEP else unmarked, bright cloth with light rubbing/bumping to spine-ends/corners. Edge tears (mostly closed) to edges of DJ, not clipped. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 256pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, patches of moderate foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate soiling).

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). 1961 1st edition. 4to (192 x 255mm). Ppxv,256. B/w photographs, illustrations, maps. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Suggestion of a bump to head of spine else very good in frayed, tape-repaired dust-wrapper. Angling for shark, marlin, swordfish, tuna and other big game species in New Zealand waters. "Since Zane Grey's books first drew the attention of world fishermen to his fabulous success in New Zealand waters, the sport has been brought to a very high level. But since Zane Grey there has been no book to show this progress, to describe the sport in all its aspects, or to record the stories of battles with great game fish along the New Zealand coast. The author has visited all New Zealand's game fishing regions - Whangaroa, the Bay of Islands, Whangarei (Tutukaka), Mercury Bay (Whitianga) and Touranga (Mayor Island) - talked with those who initiated the sport and those who are now its main administrators and participants, and spent many days at sea. Contributing also to this book are R.C. Dinsdale (secretary of the Whangarei Club and past-secretary of the federated clubs), J.M. Moreland (ichthyologist to the Dominion Museum) and F. Wilkins (skipper of the Sou-East of Tauranaga)." Chapters include: The land and the sea; It started with Zane Grey; Grand days at sea; New Zealand's fighting mako; Game fishes of New Zealand; Tackle for big game fishing; Baiting, drifting and trolling; Finding and fighting game fish; Big game fishing with light tackle; Catching tuna and other light-tackle fish; New Zealand Big Game Fishing Council; International fishing contests in New Zealand; Whangaroa; The Bay of Islands; Whangarei (Tutukaka); Mercury Bay (Whitianga); Tauranga (Mayor Island); New Zealand and world records. .

Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, (1961). Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth. (xvi, 256pp.). With frontisp., plates, and text-illusts.