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Price: US$17.77 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Green boards. Corners bumped. Rubbing to spine,edges and corners. Top page edges gilt. Browning to first and last page. Slight marks/soiling to covers. Scribble on inside of front cover. 445 oages. Black and White illustrations.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Navarre Society Limited January 1925 Binding: Hardcover DISCOLORATION TO END PAPERS
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Privately Printed for The Navarre Society Ltd, 1925, Good condition, tearing on top of spine, some separation in inside binding, gilding on top.
Seller: Amusespot, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decent, sound copy with no inscriptions and clean pages throughout, albeit with a touch of browning and foxing, more especially to the end papers and untrimmed page block edge. Wonderful illustrations and etchings by Damman throughout. The green cloth boards are clean and the title lettering clear, although the spine cloth is quite faded looking and there's the odd patch of discolouration to the boards.
Seller: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 445 pages. Cloth boards with title in gilt on spine and cover. Illustrated with 74 black & white wood engravings and eight etchings by Damman. Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Record # 511540
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Points of fore-corners worn and slight loss of color on rear hinge. ; Navarre Society; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xv, 445 pages; Green cloth gilt, 8 etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum, 74 wood engravings, index. **Coigney #285.
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. The Navarre Society. London. 1925. Hardcover. Sunning to spine and slight sunning to front boards. The First Navarre Edition (Coigney 285). Large 8vo (150 x 230mm). Ppxvi,445. Illustrated "With eight original etchings by Damman and seventy-four wood engravings," title & half-title printed in red & black. Green cloth, spine titled & decorated in gilt, blind-stamped design on upper board. Spine faded, slight foxing but a good copy. "This edition of The Complete Angler, edited by John Major, with eight etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum, is printed upon paper specially made for this edition and is strictly limited."
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: xv, 445 pp, tissue-protected frontis, list of tissue protected etchings, list of embellishments, introductory essay, author's dedication to John Offley, author's address to his readers, Part I. The First Day - The Fifth Day; Part II. Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream; Linnaean Arrangement of the Fish; Original and Selected Notes; General Index. 1925. Inked name ffep. Tiny-speckled rubbed spots, mostly along top edge boards with minor edge wear, and partially age-toned endpapers, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Decorative green cloth with gilt embossed figure and lettering to front board, gilt bordered and gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block edge. Size: Thick 8vo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harccover, dark green cloth lettered and decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. 445pp., Index. Illustrated with eight original etchings by Damman on japon vellum and seventy-four wood engravings. Edited by John Major. Former owner's book-plate inside front cover and some toning to endpapers, with one very minor nick to cloth at front guttet, else a clean well bound, attractive copy of this classic. Very good+.
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's green cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations; 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 445 pages with a general index; Printed on paper specially made for this edition and is strictly limited. With 8 Original tissue-guarded Etchings by Damman on Japan Vellum and 74 wood engravings; The title page tissue-guarded frontispiece of Izaak Walton is after Huysman's portrait. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine has sun-fading and edges/corners are rubbed. This is a reprint of the Major Edition of 1844. Izaak Walton wrote one of the most famous books in the English language, The Compleat Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. The first edition appeared in 1653, and it was reissued frequently with additional material. The book not only describes the technique of angling, but it draws a picture of peace and simple virtue that was Walton's protest against the civil wars taking place at the time. Armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Offley who was a Sheriff of London and Lord Mayor of London during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. A long-serving alderman of London, he was a prominent member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, thrice Mayor of the Staple, and a named founding Assistant of the Muscovy Company. REF: Coigney, 285; Oliver 254
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA- FABA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.55 + shipping
Description: With eight original etchings (with tissue guards) on Japon Vellum by Damman and 74 wood engravings. Medium 8vo (9 x 6 ins) pp xv + 445. Text set within wide margins. Bound in contemporary green half morocco with panelled spine and gilt lettering, gilt date at foot of spine; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Half-title printed in red, engraved titlepage in red and black. Later gift inscription on the first free endpaper. Spine discoloured to tan and some light rubbing to edges of boards.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Price: US$124.86 + shipping
Description: A smart limited edition copy of the Complete Angler, with eight original etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum. An illustrated limited edition volume in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board and spine. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, is a celebration of the art of fishing in prose and verse. It was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it. This limited edition, edited by John Major, was printed on paper made especially for this volume, with eight original etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, except for a faint mark and some fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, apart from offsetting to the end papers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green Linen Hard Cover, With Crown And Title Stamped In Gilt. The Spine Ia Ruled In Gilt With Title And Publisher Stamped In Gold Gilt Thick And Heavy (Solid) Volume. Profusely Illustrated With B/W Line Drawings And Engravings. Edges Untrimmed. 445 Pages The Title Is In Red On Half-Title Page. With Eight Origiinal Etchings By Damman And Seventy-Four Wood Engravings. Privately Printed For The Navarre Society Limited Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: First Landing Books & Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's green cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations; 8vo; 9.25 inches tall; 445 pages with a general index; Top edge gilt; Printed on paper specially made for this edition and is strictly limited. With 8 Original tissue-guarded Etchings by Damman on Japon Vellum and 74 wood engravings; The title page tissue-guarded frontispiece of Izaak Walton is after Huysman's portrait. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. This is a reprint of the Major Edition of 1844-. First published in 1653, this literary and nature classic was created by a Londoner with a passion for rustic life. As satisfying a primer on fishing as any angler could wish, it celebrates the art and spirit of fishing with verse, song and folklore, moral reflections, and timeless wisdom. Cast in the form of a dialogue between the veteran angler Piscator and his pupil Viator, it both informs and delights with an ingenious exploration of fishing's subtle intricacies and the pleasures of the natural world. REF: Coigney, 285; Oliver 254
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA- FABA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler. Navarre Society, 1925.
Price: US$127.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. 445 pages. 8 Etchings and other illustrations in the text. A very good example indeed. Front free endpaper creased else a near fine copy. The jacket is chipped to the head and tail of the spine and is now loosely protected in a film sleeve. No signatures or inscriptions. Top edge gilt. Internally clean and tight.
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. xv 445pp. Bound into 3/4 leather with green boards. Illustrated with 8 etchings by Damman on Japon [sic] Vellum and 74 wood engravings. 5 raised bands to spine, gilt tooling. TEG. Marble endpapers. Many pages remain unopned/uncut. Spine as well as edges of the covers are toned from black to brown. Crease to rear endpapers, else internally quite nice.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xv, 445 pages : illustrations. This is an attractive copy of the first Navarre edition, in a dust jacket that is worn, faded, and torn. Publisher's decorative green cloth-covered binding bright, gold-stamped lettering and devices at front panel and at spine fresh, light wear to corners and to head and foot of spine, a few minor scuffs to boards; top edge of textblock gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed; gift inscription at front pastedown, silk page-marker, contents clean and pleasing. The dust jacket, now in Mylar, is complete, though worn and faded, with some of its tears unsuccessfully repaired with clear tape. 1200 grams.
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$178.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DESCRIPTION: Beige DJ over green cloth with gilt title and decoration to front. Gilt upper text block edge. Silk page maker. Illustrated with eight plates by Damman and seventy four wood engravings. Rough cut pages Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Very light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with very lightly toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Prev owners name to ffep. Very lightly toned unmarked pages DJ Condition: Fair: Heavy wear to upper and lower edges. Small tears and losses to upper and lower spine ends and corners. Toned covers with heavier toning to spine. Heavy wear to spine edges and fold over edges Pages xv [1] 445 [3]. Size: 8vo 23.5cm by 15.5cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and will require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you with the additional charges. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: WALTON, Izaak, COTTON, Charles Privately Printed For The Navarre Society Limited With eight original etchings by Damman 1925 [445] pp. 9" x 6.5"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edited by John Major. With eight original etchings by Damman and 74 wood-engravings. Limited edition. 8vo. Bound c.2004 by Bayntun-Riviere in full dark green morocco, the spine lettered in gilt on brown leather labels with emblematic centre tools, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom