Isbn: 9780921063018 - man of some importance (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First edition, 1985, Condition; Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near fine and mylar protected. Text block, tight, clean and bound in green cloth boards with tittle/pub on spine in faded gilt. 238 pages with B & W illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Trade Edition. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 238 pages; Roderick Haig Brown, a Brit who could not resist the call of British Columbia, is best known as an outdoorsman who loved to fish and supported himself by writing about his passions.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Roderick Haig-Brown, writer, lay magistrate, angler, and conservationist. Born in the UK and settled in Campbell River, BC. 238 pages plus 15 pages of illustrations from photos.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). 1985 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 235mm). Ppxvi,238. B/w photographs and illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Foxing to edges. Good-plus in dust-wrapper. "Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown, writer, magistrate, angler, conservationist, was well-known to many readers in North America and other English speaking areas of the world. His books on fishing. brought him the accolade of 'the Isaac Walton of North America.' His home on the banks of Campbell River, in British Columbia, which he and his wife named Above Tide, has become virtually a shrine for visitors who knew him through his books or in his many activities as Chancellor of the University of Victoria, member of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, public speaker or simply as a friend. But all this made up only the public man, and that was not the whole man. For this biography, E. Bennett Metcalfe went to Haig-Brown's most intimate beginnings and experiences, found access to his diaries and letters and school life and studied the man's social and political context in order to locate and examine clues to the man behind the image. Metcalfe's own life and experiences as a writer, social activist and observer brought to this work an uncommon knowledge and sensitivity to produce an intensely fascinating and delicately intimate story of a life." .…

Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 8vo pp. 238, SIGNED by the author. Signed by the author. book.