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Price: US$69.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good clean tight copy, only flaw - upper right corner worn through. VOLUME 1. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.
Seller: 3rd St. Books, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$341.39 + shipping
Description: An exceptionally bright two volume Limited Edition of Izaak Walton's famed celebration of angling, illustrated throughout. A limited edition work, these volumes are nos. 313 of five-hundred copies 'printed for America and England'.A well known work first published in the seventeenth century, celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse. New editions were edited and expanded by Walton for over a quarter of a century, with the second part of this work written by Walton's friend and fellow angler, Charles Cotton.Illustrated with two portrait frontispieces, two vignette title pages, and a further thirteen engraved plates, mounted and on India paper. With further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.With an introduction from James Russell Lowell.An attractive example of this limited edition of this classic angling work. In quarter morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent, with fading to spines as is common with green morocco. Hinges reinforced. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 2 volumes. 208pp., pp. 209-4465pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean, unread set, with nearly all pages unopened. Some foxing to the frontispiece and opposite leaf in volume I, the crowns worn on both volumes, but otherwise a sharp set; overall very good. Stately gentleman's bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume. This is number 140 of 500 limited sets. This particular example includes a presumably very scarce [4]pp. promotional pamphlet regarding the set. The pamphlet notes Lowell's Introduction as the primary new feature of this oft-reprinted text, and also provides a list of illustrations, some more promotional language, and a sample page, which invludes an inset engraving of a trout. The pamphlet is curled, toned, and chipped along the edges, with an old horizontal fold; in good condition only. OCLC locates no copies of the promotional pamphlet, either as a separately listed holding, or as part of a book holding, at least as far as we can tell. Coigney 144 (also not acknowledging the existence of the pamphlet). Not a fine set, but rather nice, and quite appealing with the bonus pamphlet.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 465 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 150. 15 "Embellishments," full page tipped-in plates with tissue guards. 74 engravings on wood. General Index. Fresh, clean copy. Raised bands, spine panels with decorative gilt angling designs. Three quarter green calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers, spines uniformly faded to brown. Teg. Near fine. 2 Vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.