(Description) Significant wear to boards. Front board of volume 1 has completely separated from the rest of the volume. Bother covers and spine cloth have separated from signatures ofvolume 2. The books will need to be re-bound professionally. Foxing to interior pages, but remain tightly sewn together. View More...
(Description) One of a Limited Edition of 500 copies bound in full green leather with gilt title and highlights and silk marker ribbon. ***(Synopsis) Chapters include; general reflections; considerations on salmon fishing; behaviour of fishermen; behaviour of salmon; flies and fly making; the Test; the Avon; the Frome; the Dart; the Tamar; the Wye; the Helmsdale; the Oykel; the Ness; the Findhorn; the Spey; the Deveron; the Dee; the North Esk; the South Esk; the Tay; the Tweed; the Luce; the Stinchar; the Laggan; the Awe; the Lochy; the Gruinard; the Broom; the Grimersta; the Borgie; the Naver... View More...
(Description) One of an un-numbered Limited Edition bound in half blue leather with gilt title and highlights and silk marker ribbon. Housed in matching cloth-covered slipcase. ***(Synopsis) In 1816 Bainbridge described and illustrated in colour a calendar of natural insects of interest to the angler, and gave dressings for their artificial imitations. He paved the way for the later angler-entomologists. View More...
(Description) Limited Edition #61 of 950 copies bound in full green leather with gilt title and highlights and silk marker ribbon. Housed in matching cloth covered slipcase. ***(Synopsis) Barker describes wonderful days fishing for trout, pike, perch and occasional salmon on Lough Inchiquin (thinly disguised as Inchicrag) and other waters in the region where he ventured every year from the early 1890s. Barker was an anglicised American, working in London, who loved the Irish West, eventually setting himself up on his favourite lough with a comfortable cottage in what was then a remote and prim... View More...
(Description) No notable blemishes. Leatherbound hardcover with gilt highlights and page edges. One of the Fly Fisherman's Gold collection reprinted by Derrydale Press View More...
(Description) No notable blemishes. Leatherbound hardcover with gilt highlights and page edges. One of the Fly Fisherman's Gold collection reprinted by Derrydale Press View More...
(Description) One of the Limited Edition of 60 signed copies, bound in full black leather with gilt title , highlights and silk marker ribbon. Housed in a matching cloth-covered slipcase. ***(Synopsis) John Buckland's authoritative introduction, especially commissioned for the Flyfisher's Classic Library 1995 edition of The Salmon Fly, separately bound. View More...
(Description) Bound in original blue boards with gold lettering to spine and fish motif to front cover with 1/4 chip to spine and moderate edgewear. View More...
(Description) No notable blemishes. Leatherbound hardcover with gilt highlights and page edges. One of the Fly Fisherman's Gold collection reprinted by Derrydale Press View More...
(Description) No notable blemishes. Leatherbound hardcover with gilt highlights and page edges. One of the Fly Fisherman's Gold collection reprinted by Derrydale Press View More...
(Description) 3rd edition. Bound in full-cloth with gilt titles, and housed in a matching slipcase. One of an unstated edition limited to 1000 copies. View More...
(Description) Full leather covered boards with gilt title and highlights, with silk marker ribbon, in cloth-covered slipcase. This being one of an edition limited to 500 copies. (Synopsis) In addition to much information on contemporary trout and fishing methods, Francis devotes more than one hundred pages to the dressing of salmon flies. The colour plates are magnificent. Although first published in 1867, FFCL has chosen the text and illustrations of the most complete and revised edition of the Fifth edition of 1880 with the additions of Sir Herbert Maxwell's eight page Introduction of 1920 p... View More...
(Description) No notable blemishes. Leatherbound hardcover with gilt highlights and page edges. One of the Fly Fisherman's Gold collection reprinted by Derrydale Press View More...
(Description) Original maroon cloth boards, slightly faded spine and some spots on covers. Top and bottom of spine slightly pulled but intact. Slight tilt to spine. 16 illustrations, all present, One signature loose, but laid in. View More...
(Description) One of an un-numbered Limited Edition quarter-bound in blue leather over blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title and highlights and silk marker ribbon. Housed in matching cloth covered slipcase. ***(Synopsis) [The author] was a writer of real quality, and in Where the bright waters meet he produced an outstanding angling autobiography, which is quite rightly regarded as a classic of the chalk-streams. .In this book, as well as paying homage to the Bourne, he wrote chapters on Blagdon, the Test and the Kennet, and while he lays down no definite instructions, he brings us to his ... View More...
(Description) One of a Limited Edition of 750 copies of the Centenary Edition quarter-bound in brown leather over brown cloth-covered boards with gilt title and highlights and silk marker ribbon. Housed in matching cloth covered slipcase. ***(Synopsis) A facsimile of the first edition, but extended to include John J. Hardy's list of 361 salmon fly dressings from the second edition of 1919. View More...