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Green cloth/slight Fade. Condizione: Good Pl;us. No Jacket. An intersting photographic book. Can't help but wonder if this photographer is lousy or what. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 300 pages, w/photo illustrations. A story of acclimatization of trout in New Zealand. Full cloth exterior very lightly soiled. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. "First published 1938" is only statement, toning with light foxing/soiling to edges of text block with a former owners name stamp to top edge - same former owners name stamp to front paste down - light foxing to front/rear end papers with some scattered to pages through book, mylar enclosed dj shows edge wear with some scuffing to folds and chips to corners - 3/8" tear with small chip top left and 1/8" tear bottom center of front panel - small chip top right of rear panel - 3/4" wide x 11/2" deep piece missing to top and chipping to bottom edge with fading to spine, illustrated with black & white photographs.

Hardcover. Bottom corners lightly bumped; endpapers and outside margin of some pages foxed; otherwise very good condition in worn dust jacket. ]. 163p. Illus. Frontispiece.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 12mo illus. 2nd Revised Ed. [1938]. -Originally published as SPECKLED NOAMDS in 1938. About introtroduction of brown trout to New Zealand from fish's point of view. Fish from same hatchery are planted in Tongario River, NZ and the River Itchen. England. [Cat. 50-83 & 63-133.] VG-Fine no DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. B & W Photo Plates (illustratore). First Edition. Copyright Date: 1938 12mo, Green Cloth, , PP.163,

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. hardback, 8vo, beige cloth lettered red on silver to spine, spine discoloured, corners bumped, brief gift inscription to previous owner o/w a good copy, no dust jacket, b&w plates, 299pp.

Condizione: Good. 1945. Second and Revised Edition. 160 pages. Dust jacket over yellow cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Notable foxing to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy tanning to spine. Light rubbing and marking all over.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. [Cat. 34-72 & 67-141.] 8vo Photographs by the Author. 1st Ed. -Life along British chalk stream with fish rising to duns, spinners, & nymphs; foreshadowing Marinaro's IN THE RING OF THE RISE photos. VG-F in sl faded & chipped VG DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A Very Good Copy of this Book no Dust-jacket,includes over 30 illustrations,8vo 299pp First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The book has an ownership stamp to the ffep and the usual war time economy tanning. The jacket has a little dulling down, is price clipped and has tiny amounts of edge wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good ++. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket. Photographs By Author (illustratore). First Ediion. 53 pages + B&W plates. No dustjacket. Age-dulled mid-green hardback binding with moderate wear to spine-ends and boards' corners, with some colour-fading to front boardand spine and spine-junctions.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Illustrated (illustratore). VG++++/no dust jacket. Brown cloth hardcover with gold lettering and designs. 1936. J. B. Lippincott co. Former owners name and address on front endpaper with normal toning to pages. Volume XXIV of the Londsdale library, Many wonderful illustrations. A very nice copy.

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp263. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Full buckram, Lonsdale monogram to front board, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy with various stamps (including one to upper board and bottom edge), hinges tender, some use. Good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In putting a book before the public whose matter has been founded on careful observation and research work in the field and the laboratory, it is hoped that many problems which some fishery owners and clubs have to meet may be simplified. A special effort has been made to utilize 'everyday' terms where possible, the scientific names being used only to avoid confusion with identification. With the ever-increasing army of anglers, and the consequent demand for first-class fishing, many derelict streams have suddenly gained a new significance in the eyes of their owners; if not - they should have done so." Chapters include: The natural food of trout; The natural supply of food; Characteristics of good trout water; The weed problem; The mud problem; Stocking; The hatchery; Diseases of fish; Predators and competitors; Pollution; Brief general notes on fishery work repairs and management; Mud, and the flavour of trout and salmon; The rainbow trout; Non-sea-going salmon; Stocking with salmon; The improvement of salmon rivers; The making of lies; Artificial spate. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'Water Symphony: Fishing With a Camera' by H. E. Towner Coston. Eyre and Spottiswoode 1948 first edition. Very good in slightly edge frayed dust jacket with a little sunning to the spine.

Condizione: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp263. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Full buckram, Lonsdale monogram to front board, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy but relatively clean and tidy. Good. Lacks dust-wrapper. "In putting a book before the public whose matter has been founded on careful observation and research work in the field and the laboratory, it is hoped that many problems which some fishery owners and clubs have to meet may be simplified. A special effort has been made to utilize 'everyday' terms where possible, the scientific names being used only to avoid confusion with identification. With the ever-increasing army of anglers, and the consequent demand for first-class fishing, many derelict streams have suddenly gained a new significance in the eyes of their owners; if not - they should have done so." Chapters include: The natural food of trout; The natural supply of food; Characteristics of good trout water; The weed problem; The mud problem; Stocking; The hatchery; Diseases of fish; Predators and competitors; Pollution; Brief general notes on fishery work repairs and management; Mud, and the flavour of trout and salmon; The rainbow trout; Non-sea-going salmon; Stocking with salmon; The improvement of salmon rivers; The making of lies; Artificial spate. .

299pp. 8vo. Numerous black & white photo plates. Blue cloth Apparent 1st Edition. Near Fine/no dj.

Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

VG/G. dj is creased and torn notably to spine with some loss. brown boards with gilt titling to spine. top end of textblock is darkened. not price-clipped. no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 90 b/w Illustrations (illustratore). 1st. dj w/small closed tear, in mylar; from library and with siged bookplate of Charles Krom, author, fisherman,fly-tier; 263 clean, unmarked pages. Signed By Notable.

Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1936 J. B. Lippincott Company. Series: The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has tan cloth-textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering and cover decorations. Top edges colored brown. Black and white frontispiece, plates, and illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Bottom corner of back cover bumped. Top and fore edges of covers faded about an inch in. Covers lightly soiled. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Small spot on rear endpaper. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 263 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. See our listings for more collectible fishing books.

Condizione: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition with marked and edge-torn dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic foxing. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 263pp + plates. 40 b/w plates + b/w illustrations. Yellow hardback boards with gold cloth spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. With ninety illustrations. Solid binding with bumps to bottom edges and both ends of spine. Light wear to tinted top edge, mild foxing to bottom edge. Text and images unmarked. Previous owner's name stamped on FFEP. Lightly worn dust jacket shows small edge tears and chips, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 263pp.

8vo. 263pp. B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Original beige cloth with gilt device to upper board. The Lonsdale Library, Volume XXIV. US$12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 263pp. Brown cloth in dust jacket with paste-on photograph illustrations. 40 plates. Chipping to edges of jacket and there is rubbing to the back of it which obscures some of the advertisement text. Foxing to foredge.

Collins, London, 1946, second edition, originally published as Speckled Nomads, 1938. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 5.25" x 7.75". 160 pp. Gold cloth. Fiction. The tale of ".the parallel life stories of 2 trout.one.in an English river, the other.growing in New Zealand water.". Very good in very good wrapper.

THIS VOL ONLY, octavo 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 263 pp; Foredge and first 20 pages foxed else a very nice book in very nice dust jacket with just a touch of edge rubbing at the spine head. A really nice and attractive book.