- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
AbeBooks seller since May 18, 2007
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View this seller's itemsCondition: Used - Very good
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The first edition of this illustrated guidebook to fishing, particularly fishing rod use and repair. First edition of Casting Tackle and Methods by O. W. Smith in the original publisher's cloth binding.This fishing guidebook from the early twentieth century is more of a technical guidebook to fishing equipment rather than to fishing itself.Contents include The Bait Casting Rod, Repair Kits and Methods, and Shore Casting.With fourteen monochrome plates from photographs. Collated, complete.Includes gilt lettering to the spine. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.
Seller Inventory # 829W59
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Casting Tackle and Methods
- Author
- O. W. Smith
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., London
- Publication year
- 1922
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Cloth
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Edition
- First edition.
- Item weight
- 0.75 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 8.5" by 6"
Rooke Books PBFA
Bath, United Kingdom
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Thompson Acquisitions Ltd
The Dispensary, 8 Cleveland Pl, 8 Cleveland Place East
Bath, United Kingdom BA1 5DJ
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