Stanley e read (29 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. No jacket as issued. Number 1436 of 2000 copies. Octavo. Brown cloth boards, gilt title and attributions to front and spine. Minimal wear to extremities. Teal pastedowns and endpapers illustrated with "Eulachon Migration" by Brayshaw. 94 numbered pages plus twenty-two color plates and colophon. Black and white drawings and photos.…

Hardcover. Condizione: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 94 pages. Copy 1434 of a limited edition of 2000 numbered copies . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Condizione: NF/VG. First Edition. A rather handsome bibliography and catalogue illustrated with black and white illustrations and bound in brown imitation leather. Foreword by N A M Mackenzie and a tribute of Tom Brayshaw by Roderick Haig-Brown. One inch triangular piece missing from top front panel of clear jacket. 138 pp.…

ed. hardback very good condition in a very good clear plastic dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear including the mylar dust jacket; a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

8vo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Limited/ Numbered Edition. British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 1977. This is a limited edition of 2000 and this is number 1207 in near fine condition, 96 pages in very bright clean condition, many colour illustrations by Tommy Breyshaw,all present as listed plus very informative text, NO dustwrapper, outer boards are very bright and clean. A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Limited/ Numbered Edition. Gold Embossed Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Tommy Brayshaw. 9 ¼ x 6 Inches. Hardcover. Tommy Brayshaw (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Very Good +. First Edition. [6] 7-138 pp. small piece missing from rear panel of clear plastic DJ With a long subtitle: With a Chronological Appendix Indicating Landmarks in the Evolution of Angling Literature and Some Prefatory Matters Pertaining to the History of The Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation and Propagation of the Principles and Ethics of Fly-Fishing, including An Informal Foreword by The Hon. N.A.M. Mackenzie and A Tribute to the Memory of Tom Brayshaw by Roderick L. Haig-Brown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

8vo. 96pp. Colour and b/w illustrations. Original brown cloth,gilt., a near fine copy. . Limited numbered edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. #24 of a limited 2000 copies. 95 pgs. b/w photos & drawings. Colour plates. Illustrated endpapers.A tribute by Roderick Haig-Brown. A fine unmarked copy with a trace of cloth wear at the top and bottom of the spine (photos).…

Condizione: As New. 13x14x1cm. 2008. CD. As New.

Numbered limited edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus turquoise eps, 94pp + 16pp colour plates, illus, VG+ (owner's name to f.e.p., v light foxing to upper page edges).

Tidy copy in tight binding; faux leather boards with faint blue titles; pages neat & well-kept. Very plain dust jacket with titles on spine. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No DJ, as Issued. dj. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering, printed endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 95pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition of 2000, this being 1365.

First edition, 138pp., illustrs., orig. cloth.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With owner's name inside cover. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0774800895.…

Hardcover. First edition. 94 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Copy 1193 of 2000. Illustrated with color drawings and a host of color plates. Printed on quality stock. Title page printed in red and black. Orig. brown cloth, front cover and spine printed in gilt. Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. As new limited edition of 2000 no jacket as issued. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Super 8vo, light card covers, front cover lettered in white, frontis., illus. tp, 33 pp., VG+ (light scuffing, sl bruising to edges & extrems, minor tanning to pg edges).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. With a chronological Appendix indicating landmarks in the evolution of Angling Literature and some prefatory matters pertaining to the history of the Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the inculcation and propagation of the principles and ethics of Fly-Fishing, informal Foreword by The Hon. N.A.M. MacKenzie, and a Tribute to the memory of Tom Brayshaw by Roderick L. Haig-Brown, rear endpaper torn out, gift inscription ffep otherwise unmarked, illustrated, 138pp, VG/--. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Glassine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for insignificant traces of wear to extremities. Inscribed by Stan Read on the front endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condizione: Very Good.

138 pp, illustrated end-papers, line drawn plates, fine copy in black cloth boards. Limited edition of 135 copies with wet fly mounted on white leather on upper board - includes prospectus.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustratore).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustratore). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Michel the Spy - a remarkable WWI character; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part II - "Shooting" big game with a camera - article with great photos; A Bid for a Bride - love finds a way in the lonely outpost of Mersa Matruh, Egypt; Four-Figure Milestones; Seeking Six Million Pounds - recovering gold and silver from the White Star liner 'Laurentic' which was sunk off the coast of Ireland in January 1917; Through the East By Air - Part IV - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; Diamond Cut Diamond - farmhand matches wits with farmer who cheats his men of their wages; Adrift in Mid-Air - French artilleryman M. Clinckmaille was carried high in the air by a runaway observation balloon - suspended by his leg!; Restoring the Dead to Life! - The Secrets of Katsu, known to the Japanese for two thousand years, but jealously guarded from the outside world - fascinating article with photos; A Race for Life in Death Valley - The ordeal of two motorcyclists who attempted to drive through Death Valley during the hottest month of the year - article with great photos; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part IV - A trap is set for George Keene; Magalloway's Grizzly - life and death encounter with a Wyoming rancher; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Elcock, Howard; Hodgson, E.S.; Tennant, Dudley; Prater, E.; Holmes, Fred; Wood, Stanley L.; Peddie, Tom (illustratore). …

Vancouver, Canada. The Library of the University of British Columbia. 1970. Octavo (9 x 6). 138 pp. Limited Edition. One of 135 copies published in the Deluxe Edition. With a signed holograph letter penned by Roderick Haig-Brown on his Campbell River stationery presenting the book to angling author Joseph Bates Jr., laid-in. Also signed by Haig-Brown under his Tribute essay to Tommy Brayshaw. Foreword by The Hon. N.A.M. MacKenzie. Frontispiece from The Whole Art of Fishing, 1714. Two plates of fish by Tommy Brayshaw. Includes sections on The Henry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation and Propagation of the Principles and Ethics of Fly Fishing - The Contemplative Man's Recreation - Landmarks in the Evolution of the Angling Literature - Some Pseudonyms Used by Angling Authors. This is a fine account of the Hawthorn Foundation and an excellent description of angling titles in the Special Collections' holdings at UBC. With the original four-page prospectus laid-in. The book is bound in full green and cream colored leather with an artificial fly (a Professor wet) dressed on a size 12 hook inset on the front cover and with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Clear plastic dust jacket as issued. With the book plate of Joseph Bates Jr. A unique book as well as its premium edition. The book and letter in fine condition as is the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…