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Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red cloth boards with gilt and black embossed decorated covers and spine titles. Somewhat discoloured and moderately faded with some rubbing to extremities, creasing/wear to head and heel of spine with small tear to top spine hinge. Flyleaf and title page missing, owner's name in ink to tanned endpaper. Otherwise contents are very good with all fold-out plates complete, undamaged and unmarked. No foxing.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: , 230 pages, [14] pages of advertisements at rear, illustrated with a frontispiece along with 254 diagrams and figures throughout the text, some of which are across 4 folding plates, all illustrations in black and white, First Edition , pages with some tanning to edges, all 4 plates detached from book, illustrations nice and clear, overall in very good condition , green cloth, titles to white title label on spine , octvo, 18.5 x 13 cms Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: October, 1886 listed at the end of the Preface. A Practical Guide to the best modes and methods of making every kind of appliance necessary for taking freshwater fish, and for the equipment of the angler and fly-fisher. With 254 illustrations and explanatory diagrams. General wear, worn extremities, bumped corners, loose hinges, fold out on page 79 torn in half however, both sides present, creases in covers, slightly age toned pages, red fore edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1886 EDITION: 230
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: Ward, Lock & Co. 1886. First edition. Original illustrated grey cloth, gilt. Slightly worn and soiled, spine faded and also crumpled to head. Very attractively illustrated with steel-engravings, some folding plates. Endpapers browned otherwise contents are remarkably clean and fresh. A truly lovely volume.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1886 ). 1886 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 188mm). Pp230 + 14pp advertisements. Text and full-page engravings, some folding. Ornate gilt-decorated pictorial blue cloth, printed in black, blue, yellow & gilt. Spine shaken, spine ends rubbed, corners bumped. Slight spotting to ad. pages at rear, two lines highighting a paragraph of text to p40., else very good internally. Newspaper article about char fishing laid in. The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. "The book was issued in at least three binding states, with no established priority." (Cave). .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1886 ). 1886 1st edition. Small 8vo (127 x 187mm). Pp230 + 14pp advertisements. Text and full-page engravings, some folding. Ornate gilt-decorated pictorial gold/yellow cloth, printed in black, blue, yellow & gilt. Light use - a very good copy. The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. "The book was issued in at least three binding states, with no established priority." (Cave). .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1886 ). 1886 1st edition. Small 8vo (127 x 187mm). Pp230 + 14pp advertisements. Text and full-page engravings, some folding. Ornate gilt-decorated pictorial grey-brown cloth, printed in black, blue, yellow & gilt. Light use - a very good copy. The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. "The book was issued in at least three binding states, with no established priority." (Cave). .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$269.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, first edition, pp, viii, 230, with two hundred and fifty-four illustrations and explanatory diagrams [some of which are folding], gilt titled and coloured pictorial red cloth which is a little faded in parts, publisher's catalogue to rear, trifle foxing.
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
Price: US$269.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Viii pp 230 pages + 14 page advertisers catalogue at the rear. 4 fold-out woodcut plates and 254 woodcut illustrations throughout, red illustrated cloth to cover and spine, rear board plain, a light fade line to about a quarter of the way down the front board, hardly noticed. All edges with red finish, contents lovely and clean, tight fresh copy contents wise. Small octavo. 18 x 13 cm approx.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original, (scarce) decorated green cloth with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Spine ends softened with lightly rubbed corners. Bright, clean interior with 254 illustrations, explanatory diagrams, 4 folding plates and publisher's advertisements. A very nice copy of this scarce title in green cloth. ; 8vo; 230 pages
Seller: Carlson Turner Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Cat. 69.] 12mo with 254 illustrations and explanatory diagrams. 5" x 7" 1886 1st Ed. "A Practical Guide to the Best Modes and Methods of Making Every Kind of Appliance Necessary for Taking Freshwater Fish, and for the Equipment of the Angler and Fly-Fisher." With 4 fold-out plates. Keene speaks highly of the American bamboo rods of that period. In original decorated cloth with flies, rods, reels & nets; slight wear on spine ends; Both inner hinges starting with end papers cracked; Very Good+ Near Fine no DJ.
Seller: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1886 ). 1886 1st edition. Small 8vo (127 x 187mm). Pp230 + 14pp advertisements. Text and full-page engravings, some folding. Ornate gilt-decorated pictorial red cloth, printed in black, blue, yellow & gilt. Light foxing to edges but a beautiful near-fine copy. The second half of the book is on tying flies for trout and salmon, with many good engravings. "The book was issued in at least three binding states, with no established priority." (Cave). .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom