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Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1959). (1935) 1961 5th edition reprint. 8vo (134 x 205mm). Ppviii,245. B/w photographs, illustrations. Reddish brown boards, spine titled in silver gilt. Various minor faults. Slight fading to boards, some browning, else good-plus in marked and slightly frayed dust-wrapper. "A new edition in an enlarged format, edited by Roy Eaton, Assistant Editor of the The Field, with eight plates from photographs and drawings in the text." "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying; Knots for nylon, diameters of nylon, diameters of nylon filament. .…

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Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1935) 1961 5th edition reprint. 8vo (134 x 205mm). Ppviii,245. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Edges and end-papers slightly browned, small booksellers label to paste down, slight fading to top edge of cloth else very good in slightly used and rubbed dust-wrapper. "A new edition in an enlarged format, edited by Roy Eaton, Assistant Editor of the The Field, with eight plates from photographs and drawings in the text." "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying; Knots for nylon, diameters of nylon, diameters of nylon filament. .…

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sewn PAPERBACK, cover price $3.45, good used copy with crease marks on spine, remains solid due to sewn binding. ROOT, ROBERT KILBURN, ed. . Geoffrey Chaucer: The book of Troilus and Criseyde. Edited from all the known manuscripts by Robert Kilburn Root. Princeton University Press, 1954, lxxxix, 572pp., . Series: Princeton Paperbacks. …

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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Classical Mythology in Shakespeare. Book.

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1935). 1935 1st edition. Small 8vo (125mm x 190mm). B&w photograph plates. 254 pp + 1 page advertisement. Red cloth, spine & upper board lettered in silver gilt. Cloth rather used and faded, browned, name to end-paper, booksellers label to paste-down. Reading copy only, lacks dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1948). 1948 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 233mm). Ppviii,190. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 other half-tone plates from photographs by Dr. E.A. Barton. Binding A. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Hinges tender, foxing and use. Working copy, lacks dust-wrapper. An attempt to ".straighten out the muddle of suppositions, theories and discoveries which had been produced by anglers and scientists in the matter of a trout's apparently inconsistent habits and behaviour." The idea of this book was originally that of H.T. Sheringham who, unfortunately, passed away before he could put pen to paper. Chapters include: What is a trout stream; The problem of the spawning bed; The problem of trout growth; The problem of the size limit; The problem of the rise; The problem of the olive; The problem of improving fly hatches; Summer-fly problems; The problem of the dry fly; Casting problems; Nymph problems in theory; Nymph problems in practice; The angler and the underwater nymph; Rainbow trout: the problem of their introduction; Rainbow trout: the problem of their acclimatization; Is it possible to make a trout stream? .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1948). (1935) 1948 4th edition reprint. Small 8vo (127 x 189mm). Ppviii,245. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped crenellated border and titles to upper board, spine titled in white. Slight browning, inscription to end-paper but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. * This is the copy of the late Danish sporting artist, Svend Saabye. An invoice made out to him for the purchase of the book in 1954, for Kr.10.20, is laid in. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1941). (1935) 1941 3rd edition. Small 8vo (126 x 187mm). Ppviii,254,ad. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine-titled in gilt. Rather browned, name to end-paper, some use to boards but a good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1944). (1937) 1950 2nd edition reprint. Small 8vo (124 x 187mm). Ppx,165. B/w photographs. Green cloth, spine titled in white/yellow, titles blind-stamped on upper board. Signatures to front end-paper. Slight foxing. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In his method of treatment, Mr. Turing is refreshingly original.". Chapters include: In defence of coarse fishing; The sportsman's fish; The slow-flowing river I - its problems; The slow-flowing river II - tackle and methods; The slow-flowing river III - bank fishing; The slow-flowing river IV - fishing without a float; The slow-flowing river V - fishing from a boat; Still-water fishing, I - canals and drains; Still-water fishing II - lakes and ponds; The swift river and its problems I - how they differ from slow-water problems; The swift river and its problems II - bottom and surface fishing; Spinning I - revolving baits, and why fish take them; Spinning II - making the cast; Spinning III - the American style; Baits and their preparation; Fishermen's knots. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1953). (1937) 1953 2nd edition reprint. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Ppx,165. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped title and border to upper board, spine titled in white. Gift inscription, some browning. A good copy in poor dust-wrapper. The title-page says 1943, title-page verso says 2nd edition 1944. "In his method of treatment, Mr. Turing is refreshingly original." Chapters include: In defence of coarse fishing; The sportsman's fish; The slow-flowing river I - it's problems; The slow-flowing river II - tackle and methods; The slow-flowing river III - bank fishing; The slow-flowing river IV - fishing without a float; The slow-flowing river V - fishing from a boat; Still-water fishing, I - canals and drains; Still-water fishing II - lakes and ponds; The swift river and its problems I - how they differ from slow-water problems; The swift river and its problems II - bottom and surface fishing; Spinning I - revolving baits, and why fish take them; Spinning II - making the cast; Spinning III - the American style; Baits and their preparation; Fishermen's knots. . …

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 198mm). Ppxii,244. B/w photographs. Stone cloth, spine titled in green. Quite foxed, stains to cover. Good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. A good detailed approach to coarse fishing on fast and slow rivers along with lakes, drains and canals. "It is not so much different kinds of fish which require different methods as different kinds of water. So in the following pages I have tried to approach this old subject from a slightly new angle. Instead of following the usual method of explaining how to angle for one or another species of fish, I have endeavoured to suggest how different types of water can best be fished." (From the author's preface). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). (1935) 1936 2nd edition. Small 8vo. Pp254,ad. B/w photographs. Spine faded with rubbed ends, dedication / bookseller's label to front end-paper, spotting. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1961). (1935) 1961 5th edition reprint. Small 8vo. Ppiv,245. B/w photographs, illustrations. Cloth slightly faded but good-plus. Dust-wrapper remnant laid in. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. This 1961 5th edition also contains three further sections: Knots for nylon, diameters of nylon, diameters of nylon filament. .…

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 198mm). Ppxii,244. B/w photographs. Stone cloth, spine titled in green. Cloth slightly soiled, slight use, ownership signature to front end-paper, good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. A good detailed approach to coarse fishing on fast and slow rivers along with lakes, drains and canals. "It is not so much different kinds of fish which require different methods as different kinds of water. So in the following pages I have tried to approach this old subject from a slightly new angle. Instead of following the usual method of explaining how to angle for one or another species of fish, I have endeavoured to suggest how different types of water can best be fished." (From the author's preface). . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1941). (1935) 1941 3rd edition. Small 8vo. Ppviii,254,ad. B/w photographs. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .…

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, Schultz, Franz, 1877-1950. Jean Paul (Zum 100. Todestage des Dichters) Vortrag, gehalten in der Gesellschaft am 29. November 1925. Frankfurt am Main, Privatdruck der Frankfurter Gesellschaft der Goethe-Freunde, 1926, 21pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, very good, laid in: Satzungen der Frankfurter Gesellschaft der Goethe-Freunde. Privatdruck der Gesellschaft der Freunde des Frankfurter Goethemuseums, 7.…

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). (1937) 1943/44 2nd edition. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Ppx,165. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped title and border to upper board, spine titled in yellow (very faded on this copy). Various minor faults. Browning to end-papers. Some pages creased at the edge. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The title-page says 1943, title-page verso says 2nd edition 1944. "In his method of treatment, Mr. Turing is refreshingly original." Chapters include: In defence of coarse fishing; The sportsman's fish; The slow-flowing river I - it's problems; The slow-flowing river II - tackle and methods; The slow-flowing river III - bank fishing; The slow-flowing river IV - fishing without a float; The slow-flowing river V - fishing from a boat; Still-water fishing, I - canals and drains; Still-water fishing II - lakes and ponds; The swift river and its problems I - how they differ from slow-water problems; The swift river and its problems II - bottom and surface fishing; Spinning I - revolving baits, and why fish take them; Spinning II - making the cast; Spinning III - the American style; Baits and their preparation; Fishermen's knots. .…

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 198mm). Ppxii,244. B/w photographs. Stone cloth, spine titled in green. Gift inscription and browning to end-papers, some use and wear but good copy in poor dust-wrapper remnant with large areas of loss from spine. A good detailed approach to coarse fishing on fast and slow rivers along with lakes, drains and canals. "It is not so much different kinds of fish which require different methods as different kinds of water. So in the following pages I have tried to approach this old subject from a slightly new angle. Instead of following the usual method of explaining how to angle for one or another species of fish, I have endeavoured to suggest how different types of water can best be fished." (From the author's preface). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1953). (1937) 1950 2nd edition reprint. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Ppx,165. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped title and border to upper board, spine titled in white. Marks to end-papers. Some browning but good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. The title-page says 1943, title-page verso says 2nd edition 1944. "In his method of treatment, Mr. Turing is refreshingly original." Chapters include: In defence of coarse fishing; The sportsman's fish; The slow-flowing river I - it's problems; The slow-flowing river II - tackle and methods; The slow-flowing river III - bank fishing; The slow-flowing river IV - fishing without a float; The slow-flowing river V - fishing from a boat; Still-water fishing, I - canals and drains; Still-water fishing II - lakes and ponds; The swift river and its problems I - how they differ from slow-water problems; The swift river and its problems II - bottom and surface fishing; Spinning I - revolving baits, and why fish take them; Spinning II - making the cast; Spinning III - the American style; Baits and their preparation; Fishermen's knots. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1953). (1937) 1953 2nd edition reprint. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Ppx,165. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped title and border to upper board, spine titled in white. Slight fading to spine, quite browned but good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. The title-page says 1943, title-page verso says 2nd edition 1944. "In his method of treatment, Mr. Turing is refreshingly original." Chapters include: In defence of coarse fishing; The sportsman's fish; The slow-flowing river I - it's problems; The slow-flowing river II - tackle and methods; The slow-flowing river III - bank fishing; The slow-flowing river IV - fishing without a float; The slow-flowing river V - fishing from a boat; Still-water fishing, I - canals and drains; Still-water fishing II - lakes and ponds; The swift river and its problems I - how they differ from slow-water problems; The swift river and its problems II - bottom and surface fishing; Spinning I - revolving baits, and why fish take them; Spinning II - making the cast; Spinning III - the American style; Baits and their preparation; Fishermen's knots. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1943). (1935) 1943 4th edition. Small 8vo (127 x 189mm). Ppviii,245. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped crenellated border and titles to upper board, spine titled in white. Names to end-paper, including that of angling author Malcolm Greenhalgh. Boards stained, rather browned but good. Lacks dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1948). 1948 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 233mm). Ppviii,190. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 other half-tone plates from photographs by Dr. E.A. Barton. Binding A. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some use. Good only. Lacks dust-wrapper. An attempt to ".straighten out the muddle of suppositions, theories and discoveries which had been produced by anglers and scientists in the matter of a trout's apparently inconsistent habits and behaviour." The idea of this book was originally that of H.T. Sheringham who, unfortunately, passed away before he could put pen to paper. Chapters include: What is a trout stream; The problem of the spawning bed; The problem of trout growth; The problem of the size limit; The problem of the rise; The problem of the olive; The problem of improving fly hatches; Summer-fly problems; The problem of the dry fly; Casting problems; Nymph problems in theory; Nymph problems in practice; The angler and the underwater nymph; Rainbow trout: the problem of their introduction; Rainbow trout: the problem of their acclimatization; Is it possible to make a trout stream? .…