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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition, number 247 of 1500. Signed by illustrator. Leather over spine scuffed, most of gilt decoration worn off, paper covered boards faded, edgeworn with some small chips, page edges lightly tanned, some pages uncut. Exterior good-/interior very good+. Large book, 13" x 9". Expedited or international shipping will require extra charge.
Seller: Vintage Quaker Books, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding solid, but with small tear at bottom of front interior hinge. Pages unmarked and only a little aged. Deckled bottom and fore-edge; blue-stained top edge. White leather over spine; decorated paper over boards -- a little wear to edges and spine is soiled. No dustjacket at issue. Slipcase in Poor condition, but thoroughly repaired with clear tape.
Seller: Eat My Words Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall 8vo (12" x 8" x 1 1/2"), green pictorial backstrip with gold lettering & vine scrolling over yellow pictorial cloth with gold CWC lettering surrounded by vine & floral designs by Douglas W. Gorsline; who has provided modern and period B&W artwork (12 plates & 40 in-text images in photo-gravure) illustrating this handsome volume; Introduction by poet James Lowell; xlii + 316 pages. Heritage Club Sandglass, No, 2M, (4pp.) laid in. Black paper over cardboard slipcase. Weight: 3 lbs. Izaak Walton (c. 1593 - 1683) was an English writer who is best known for The Compleat Angler. He also wrote a number of short biographies collected as Walton's Lives. The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century causing it to expand from 13 to 21 chapters, and to be published in five editions during Walton's lifetime. The additional chapters on fly-fishing in the river Dove were added by Walton's close friend Charles Cotton (1630 - 1687), an English poet, translator of Montaigne, and writer. Douglas W. Gorsline 1913-1985) was an American painter, illustrator, and writer. His line-engravings for 12 plates and 40 washes were used in The Complete Angler published by the Limited Editions Club. That edition served as the basis for this Heritage Press edition. THE COMPLETE ANGLER is considered a classic celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Condition: Fine Cloth: tight, very bright & clean with crisp B&W illustrations. Solid slipcase with light wear to corners and at the righthand mid-edge of the opening. No previous owner or remainder marks. Sandglass pamphlet laid in.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1948). (1653) 1948 The Second Navarre Society Edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxiv,445 + 2pp ads. B/w wood engravings, title-page printed in red and black. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt cartouche to upper board, with additional gilt stamp with motto of Beverley Grammar School. Prizegiving label to front paste-down. Slight spotting to edges and end-papers, small mark to cloth. Good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. ".a reissue of the first Navarre Society edition of 1925 in a smaller format, printed on thinner and cheaper paper." (Coigney). Coigney 373 - The Second Navarre Society Edition. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1948). (1653) 1948 The Second Navarre Society Edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxiv,445 + 2pp ads. B/w wood engravings, title-page printed in red and black. Blue cloth, gilt cartouche to upper board, spine titled in gilt. 12s. 6d. Bump to top of spine, some use but good-plus in slightly chipped and rather torn dust-wrapper. ".a reissue of the first Navarre Society edition of 1925 in a smaller format, printed on thinner and cheaper paper." (Coigney). Coigney 373 - The Second Navarre Society Edition. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Gorsline, this being #432. Quarto. 316 pp. Copper engravings and wash-drawings. Bound in half ivory calfskin over charcoal paper with gilt decorating to spine. Dark topstain. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in at front. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Spine toned and rubbed with moderate flaking; stray scuff to rear board. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase worn and sunned along edges with some general scuffing, and remains structurally sound.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. Limited SIGNED edition 621/1500. SIGNED by illustrator. Deckled edges. Gilt stamping to spine. Slight edgewear to covers with scraping to upper spine end. Light bumping to upper forecorners. Rubbing and toning to spine. Offsetting to title page from frontispiece. Fading to slicpase. Rubbing to slipcase. Edgewear to slipcase, cracking to spine ends of slipcase. VG in VG slipcase.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; Limited edition, 1114/1500; G+; Hardcover; Spine, cream with gold print; Slipcase in green paper, tear at top of spine panel, peripheral toning, light shelfwear; Volume wrapped in toned and torn cellophane; Boards quarter bound with white leather to spine and blue paper to boards, slight wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block has blue tinted top edge, deckle edges with some uncut pages, light toning on pages adjacent to plates, clean and tight; Signed in ink by the illustrator on the limited edition page; xlii, 316 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates.]. 1348914. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp. lxii, 316 (1). Illustrated with wash drawings and engravings. Partially unopened. Folio. Designed by George Macy; printed by Aldus Printers; set in , the design by Bruce Rogers on the Janson type face; on Worthy Special Paper. Bound by Russell-Rutter Co. in decorated blue paper boards, backed in ivory calf gold. The spine slightly rubbed. Heavy slipcase, sunned and cracked at edges. Number 794 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist. A nice copy of this wonderfully entertaining English classic. It would make a great gift for any fisherman. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W38 Language: eng
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, this is number 41 out of fifteen hundred copies signed by the illustrator. Folio. Approximate measurements: 9" x 13". 316pp. "How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream", by Charles Cotton. Introduction by James Russell Lowell. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. Decorated blue papercovered boards with white vellum spine. Some pages unopened, title on worn spine eroded and cracked, very good housed in a good only sunned slipcase with joints torn. Signed and numbered by Douglas W. Gorsline on the limitation page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WALTON, IZAAC. COMPLEAT ANGLER. , 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: WALTON, Izaac. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers, by Izaak Walton; with Instructions, How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, by Charles Cotton; and with an introduction by James Russell Lowell. Illustrated by Douglas W. Gorsline. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. 1/1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. 4to., vellum spine stamped in gilt, blue paper-covered boards. Small bump at top-edeg of each board, else fine. With remnants of a faded box which is missing the back panel and split at one edge.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Douglas W. Gorsline. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition by the illustrator - #916/1500. Housed in publisher's slip-case. Slip case is faded and rear hinge is separated (condition - very good).
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1948.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is the 187th book issued by the Limited Editions Club and is one of a limited edition of 1,500 signed by the illustrator with this copy being #1461.This book is in FINE CONDITION with most pages unopened thus not read!The slip case is sturdy with a minor superficial seam split to the bottom otherwise is very good shape
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.