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Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 450 copies signed by the artist of which this is # 300. An elegant editon with decorations and illustrations by Frank Adams, bound in quarter vellum, marbled boards. Corners worn, some soiling to vellum, no slipcase or jacket. 124 pp.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
Price: US$122.89 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: (Hardcover, 1930). (1653) 1930 new edition. Folio (225 x 350mm). Ppxii,124. Colour and b/w illustrations by Frank Adams. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 450 copies. Wear to one corner o/w a very good copy. Copy number 447 of 450, signed by the artist, Frank Adams. A large format reprint of the first edition with the addition of Frank Adams colour and black and white illustrations. Four hundred and fifty copies were produced in total - two hundred and fifty for sale in the British Empire and two hundred for sale in the United States of America. Issued for subscriber's and with an original price of four guineas. Coigney 308. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$142.30 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: (Hardcover, 1930). (1653) 1930 new edition. Folio (225 x 350mm). Ppxii,124. Colour and b/w illustrations by Frank Adams. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 450 copies. Light wear & foxing, bookplate of Herbert Flower, a good-plus copy. Copy number 8 of 450, signed by the artist, Frank Adams. A large format reprint of the first edition with the addition of Frank Adams colour and black and white illustrations. Four hundred and fifty copies were produced in total - two hundred and fifty for sale in the British Empire and two hundred for sale in the United States of America. Issued for subscriber's and with an original price of four guineas. Coigney 308. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$142.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A SIGNED LIMITED EDITION BY THE ILLUSTRATOR BEING NUMBER 286 OF 450 COPIES ONLY, HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH ORIGINAL VELLUM SPINE, COLOUR FRONTIS PLUS SEVERAL COLOUR & BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 14 x 9 INCHES. FEW MINOR MARKS TO VELLUM SPINE, CORNERS BUMPED, LIGHT FOXING TO ENDPAPERS WITH A FEW SMALL PENCIL REFERENCE NOTES TO INNER FRONT BOARD, VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR SEPARATION AT INNER PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH COVERS WELL ATTACHED & TEXT PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$155.23 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio. 124pp. Portrait frontis. Decorated with colour and black & white chapter headings, plus tailpieces by Frank Adams. Number 284 of a SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies. Additional presentation inscription to limitation page. Quarter vellum, marbled paper boards in protective plastic wrapper. Very good copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$226.38 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: (Hardcover, 1930). (1653) 1930 new edition. Folio (225 x 350mm). Ppxii,124. Colour and b/w illustrations by Frank Adams. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 450 copies. Slight wear to corners else very good copy housed in a marbled slipcase with title-label made by A.F. Sismore of the Honey Dun Press. Copy number 435 of 450, signed by the artist, Frank Adams. A large format reprint of the first edition with the addition of Frank Adams colour and black and white illustrations. Four hundred and fifty copies were produced in total - two hundred and fifty for sale in the British Empire and two hundred for sale in the United States of America. Issued for subscriber's and with an original price of four guineas. Coigney 308. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$245.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Compleat Angler Or The Contemplative Man's Recreation Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy The Perusal of Most Anglers, Decorated by Frank Adams, 1930, Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode (publishers) Limited London and in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons, First Thus of This Edition. This is number #301 of a total printing of 450 Signed by the Illustrator FRANK ADAMS, 250 were printed for sale in the British Empire and 200 for sale in the United States of America (This is 0ne of the two hundred copies for America), Vellum Spine with Marbled boards, there is also a presentation bookplate stating "This is Mrs. Robert P. Bartlett Copy of THE COMPLEAT ANGLER, numbered and signed by the artist. This is #301. Underneath that in small print appears the written statement: Presented To F. Marion Barker, Lolla H. Bartlett 1/29 1934. 124 pages, beautiful illustrations. Great shape, minor rubbing at corners otherwise a very nice piece.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8 1/2 X 13". 124 pages. This lovely book published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in London has Frank Adams illustrations. The spine is velum and the boards are watered pattern decoration, SIGNED, LILMITED, near fine Language: eng
Seller: Barbers Book Store Online, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION; signed by the illustrator, Frank Adams, on the limitation page; one of 450 copies, this copy is 150. VERY GOOD with marbled boards, vellum spine, and beautiful illustrations (some of which are in color); second front fly leaf has a paper taped in titled, "Presentation by Frank Morris at Ceremony of Despositing Ashes of Fred K. George on the Water of the Little Manistee River at Gramont"; no other markings to the pages. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 450 copies Signed by the Artist, this no. 400. Folio. [xii], 124p. Decorated by Frank Adams, including color plates. Folio. Gilt-titled quarter vellum with marbled boards. Coigney 308. The portions of the vellum on the covers spotted, endpapers very lightly spotted, light corner wear, contents fine. Owner's name in ink on flyleaf Limited to 450 copies Signed by the Artist, this no. 400.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.