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Published by Barrie & Jenkins. The Angler's Library. London. 1971., 1971
ISBN 10: 0257652280ISBN 13: 9780257652283
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
(Hardcover, 1971). (1952) 1971 3rd revised edition. Small 8vo (113 x 190mm). Pp238. B/w line illustrations. Blue-green boards, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy. Usual stamps and faults. Front end-paper excised. Working copy in dust-wrapper. Beginner's guide to sea fishing. Much general information. Chapters include: Sea angling: a general survey; Tackle; Lures and baits; Bass and bass fishing; Cod; Flounders; Mackerel; Tope; Other fish; Sea angler's encyclopaedia; Where and when to fish. Appendices give advice on safety at sea and French and German names of fish. .
Seller Inventory # 43449
Published by The British Publishing Company Ltd., Gloucester. 1971., 1971
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
(Paperback, 1971). ND (1971) 1st edition thus. Small 8vo (122 x 186mm). Pp60. Illustrated with b&w photographs & sketch maps. Printed card covers. Slight use but a very good copy. A guide to the angling facilities of the Wye Valley. .
Seller Inventory # 60985
Published by Stackpole Books. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0811709531ISBN 13: 9780811709538
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). (Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 236mm). Pp159. Colour plate, b/w illustrations. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine and upper boards. Very good in slightly faded, frayed and clipped dust-wrapper. The thoughts and theories of one of the masters of American fly-tying. Chapters include: Beginnings; What makes a fish take a fly; Matching the hatch; A basic assortment of trout flies; The Wulff flies; Spiders and skaters; Streamers; Special flies, including flexible flies, backward dry flies, looped-hackle flies, the wretched mess, Form-a-Lure plastic-bodied flies; Flies for bass and lake fishes; Saltwater flies; Choosing Atlantic salmon flies; Thoughts on flies and fly-fishing. .
Seller Inventory # 60991
Published by Merlin Unwin / B.B.C. Ludlow, Shropshire. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 0563367415ISBN 13: 9780563367413
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Rodger McPhail (illustrator). (Hardcover, 1993). (1993) later reprint. 4to (195 x 252mm). Pp191. Colour photographs throughout, b/w illustrations by Rodger McPhail. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight tanning to end-papers and edges, smells slightly musty but good copy. Snap to head of slightly tanned dust-wrapper. This book was first published to accompany the BBC TV series of the same name. It "tells of a fishing adventure which takes .Chris Yates, Bob James and Hugh Miles across Britain. Redmire, the Spey, the Kennet and the Avon. Carp, salmon, trout, barbel, pike, roach, tench, chub, rudd, grayling and gudgeon. A great read. .
Seller Inventory # 20859
Published by Dorling Kindersley. London. 1999., 1994
ISBN 10: 0751300853ISBN 13: 9780751300857
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1999). 1994 1st edition. Large 4to (234 x 290mm). Pp288. Coloured photographs and illustrations throughout. Pictorial laminated boards, in matching dust-wrapper. D/w price £19.95. Slight browning to edges else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "The complete guide to the fish, tackle and techniques of fresh and saltwater angling." Covers flyfishing, coarse fishing and sea fishing in Europe and America. An attractive and very well illustrated coffee-table book that might serve to encourage a youngster. Contributors include Peter Gathercole, Trevor Housby, Dennis Moss, Bruce Vaughan and Phill Williams. .
Seller Inventory # 61004
Published by George Allen & Unwin. London. 1957., 1957
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
(Hardcover, 1957). 1957 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp108 + 4pp ads. B/w photographs. Green cloth, silver-gilt kingfisher motif to upper board, spine titled in silver-gilt. Fading and use to boards, slightly browned, name to end-paper but a good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. Ian Wood, then editor of Trout and Salmon Magazine and captor of over a thousand salmon, gives his advice on salmon fishing based on a lifetime's experience. Chapters include: The sporting outlook; Rods, reels and other things; Flies; Casting; Wading; Loch fishing; River fishing - spinning; River fishing - fly; Hooking salmon; Playing salmon; Boats; Landing salmon; Etiquette; Bits and pieces; On salmon generally. .
Seller Inventory # 60988
Published by Boxtree. London. 2001., 2000
ISBN 10: 0752219294ISBN 13: 9780752219295
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Condition: new. (Paperback, 2001). (1993, 2001) ND 2nd edn reprint. 4to paperback (189 x 246mm). Pp160. Colour photographs throughout, b/w illustrations. Slight use but very good. Lots of information on baits of all sorts. Natural baits, manufactured baits, floaters - cakes baked in the oven, making your own boilies, particle baits, livebaits and deadbaits, artificial lures. Whilst the book sets out to deal with coarse species in general, the author obviously does like carp. This second edition has a new chapter on the large, American jerkbaits and soft plastics that revolutionised lure fishing in the UK for pike during the mid to late nineties. Chapters include: Natural baits; Manufactured baits; Floaters; Making your own boilies; Particle baits; Livebaits and deadbaits; Artificial lures; The 'jerk bait' syndrome. .
Seller Inventory # 61007
Published by A & C Black. London. 1970., 1970
ISBN 10: 0713611278ISBN 13: 9780713611274
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Book First Edition Signed
(Hardcover, 1970). (1957) 1970 1st edn thus. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,217. B/w photographs, illustrations. Blue-green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Signed on the front end-paper. First published in 1957 under the title 'Dry-Fly Beginnings'. "Dermot Wilson was the leading authority in the UK on dry fly fishing, particularly in the chalk streams. The poet Ted Hughes wrote of Wilson's book Fishing the Dry Fly: "Wherever I open it my eye alights on a paragraph that is delightful to read, and that leads on irresistibly to the next paragraph that is equally delightful and that leads on irresistibly . . . etc etc." In 1968 he set up a mail-order tackle business, the first of its kind, at Nether Wallop, Hampshire, supplying a full range of fly-fishing tackle. It gave an extraordinarily good service. If you ordered flies from Dermot Wilson, they arrived in the post next day. The company grew to employ a staff of 14, many of them friends from his Greenjacket days. In 1981, ill-health caused him to give up, and the business was sold to the US company Orvis, who still run it successfully. Wilson was for some years Chairman of the Anglers Co-operative Association, which combats pollution of the rivers. He set up the Water Resources Board of the Salmon and Trout Association. He wrote for Country Life and the Field and was a popular lecturer at fishing gatherings." (From Sidney Vines' obituary of Wilson in the Independent newspaper). .
Seller Inventory # 60989
Published by Methuen Children's Books. London. 1974., 1974
ISBN 10: 0416780903ISBN 13: 9780416780901
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1974). 1974 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 205mm). Ppx,119. Illustrated with full-page b&w woodcuts & vignettes by the author. Red boards, spine titled in gilt, blind-stamped trout motif to upper board. Very good in price-clipped & slightly faded dust-wrapper. "Timothy is crazy about fishing, so a caravan on the banks of a Welsh trout stream is his idea of a perfect holiday. And it's even better when he makes friends with Willie Rees, a poacher, for Willie teaches Timothy about fly fishing and takes him to his own favourite spot for trout, the Pool of the Black Witch. Legend says the pool is cursed and Timothy starts to believe the old tales when he is dogged by bad luck. But all fisherman dream of catching a big one and Timothy is no exception." .
Seller Inventory # 61019
Published by Promotional Reprint Company. Devizes, Wiltshire. 1992., 1992
ISBN 10: 185648095XISBN 13: 9781856480956
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Arthur Rackham (illustrator). (Hardcover, 1992). (1653) 1992 promotional reprint of 1931 edition. 4to (195 x 255mm). Pp224. Colour plates by Arthur Rackham, illustrations, introductory essay by Henry Williamson. Pictorial laminated boards, in matching dust-wrapper. Minor faults, slight use / inscriptions / slight browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in slightly used and spine-faded dust-wrapper. Does not include Charles Cotton's contribution. Chapters include: Introduction by Henry Williamson; Conference betwixt an angler, a hunter, and a falconer, each commending his recreation; Observation of the otter and chub; How to fish for, and to dress, the chavender, or chub; Observations of the nature and breeding of the trout, and how to fish for him, and the milkmaid's song; More directions how to fish for, and how to make for the trout an artificial minnow and flies, with some merriment; Observation of the umber or grayling, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the salmon, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the luce or pike, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the carp, with directions how to fish for him; Observations of the bream, and directions to catch him; Observations of the tench, and advice how to angle for him; Observations of the perch, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the eel, and how to fish for them; Observations of the barbel, and directions how to fish for him; Observations of the gudgeon, the ruffe, and the bleak, and how to fish for them; Chapter Sixteen is of nothing, or that which is nothing worth; Of roach and dace and how to fish for them, and of cadis; Of the minnow or the penk, of the loach, and of the bull-head or miller's thumb; Of several rivers, and some observations of fish; Of fish-ponds, and how to order them; Directions for making a line, and for the colouring of both rod and line. .
Seller Inventory # 47478
Published by Herbert Jenkins. "How to catch them" series. 1954., 1954
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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First Edition
(Hardcover, 1954). 1954 1st edition. Small format (95 x 165mm). Pp95. B/w illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in dark blue. Slight foxing to end-papers and edges else very good in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. Another volume in this highly collectable series. Chapters include: Description; Food; Spawning; Size of pike; Habitat; Tackle - rods and reels; Baits; lures and miscellaneous tackle; Methods - spinning for pike; Live-baiting; Snap-trolling and trailing; Tackle-making. .
Seller Inventory # 39284
Published by Macgibbon & Kee. London. 1965., 1965
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
(Hardcover, 1955). (1953) 1962 3rd edition reprint. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp237. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards bound upside down, slightly browned, label ghost to paste-down but a good copy lacks dust-wrapper. Dick Walker introduces his revolutionary techniques to the coarse fishing world, laying the foundation for the school of "specimen hunting" which has continued until the present day. This most important of post-war fishing books, the cornerstone of any coarse angling collection, includes many anecdotes, including the story of Walker's capture of the 44lb record carp from Redmire Pool in 1952. "He is an angler with a scientist's bent, who has always made his own fishing tackle, and it is against this background of scientific knowledge and craftsman's experience that he has worked out the theories that have now so successfully been put to the test." .
Seller Inventory # 60994
Published by Macgibbon & Kee. London. 1965., 1965
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardcover, 1955). (1953) 1962 3rd edition reprint. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp237. B/w photographs, illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards bound upside down, slightly browned, label ghost to paste-down but a good copy lacks dust-wrapper. Dick Walker introduces his revolutionary techniques to the coarse fishing world, laying the foundation for the school of "specimen hunting" which has continued until the present day. This most important of post-war fishing books, the cornerstone of any coarse angling collection, includes many anecdotes, including the story of Walker's capture of the 44lb record carp from Redmire Pool in 1952. "He is an angler with a scientist's bent, who has always made his own fishing tackle, and it is against this background of scientific knowledge and craftsman's experience that he has worked out the theories that have now so successfully been put to the test." .
Seller Inventory # 60995
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby. London. 1972., 1972
ISBN 10: 0854931023ISBN 13: 9780854931026
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp128. Colour plates of flies. Turquoise boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly worn dust-wrapper. Conrad Voss Bark addresses the previous seventy-five years of still-water fly fishing when "many kinds of bait were allowed and spinners were widely used. When bait and spinners were gradually banned, anglers created lures of 'minnow flies' as a substitute. The author contends that it is now time to end the confusion and to return to true fly-fishing methods .and .conrad Voss Bark devotes much of his absorbing book to the subtle art and specialised techniques of nymph fishing." "You will always come back to the nymph with relief and gratitude." .
Seller Inventory # 9368
Published by Merlin Unwin Books. Ludlow, Shropshire. 1993., 1993
ISBN 10: 1873674066ISBN 13: 9781873674062
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1993). 1993 1st edition. Landscape 4to (260 x 210mm). Ppxvi,135,ads. Colour plates, illustrations throughout. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Fading and use, soiling to top edge. Good-plus in like dust-wrapper. A beautifully illustrated story of Bernard Venables' angling life. .
Seller Inventory # 60971
Published by Daily Mirror. London. 1964., 1964
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
(Paperback, 1964). ND [1964] 1st edition. Oblong paperback (250 x 195mm). Pp160. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations by Bernard Venables. Green cloth spine strip. Spotting to covers and edges else good-plus copy. In three parts: "Sea Fishing," (58 pp) - written by Hal Mount and John Mills, with photographs by Michael Barrington-Martin. This is illustrated with colour and b&w photographs; "Coarse Fishing," (61 pp) - written and edited by Bernard Venables with illustrations by the author. This is illustrated with Venables' colour paintings and cartoon-strip illustrations; "Game fishing," (40 pp) - written by Hal Mount and illustrated by Bernard Venables. This uses Venables' illustrations as well as colour and b&w photographs. Venables' illustrations are taken from his earlier book, Mr. Crabtree Goes Fishing. .
Seller Inventory # 33097
Published by Adam & Charles Black. London. 1948., 1948
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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(Hardcover, 1948). (1935) 1948 4th edition reprint. Small 8vo (127 x 189mm). Ppviii,245. B/w photographs. Green cloth, blind-stamped crenellated border and titles to upper board, spine titled in white. Slight browning, inscription to end-paper but good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. * This is the copy of the late Danish sporting artist, Svend Saabye. An invoice made out to him for the purchase of the book in 1954, for Kr.10.20, is laid in. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .
Seller Inventory # 60961
Published by Philip Allan. London. 1935., 1935
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
(Hardcover, 1935). 1935 1st edition. Small 8vo (125mm x 190mm). B&w photograph plates. 254 pp + 1 page advertisement. Red cloth, spine & upper board lettered in silver gilt. Some browning, edges of boards slightly faded, from the library of Sidney Spencer with his ex-libris bookplate to the paste-down and a compliments slip from the publisher. Good-plus in browned, frayed and chipped dust-wrapper. H.D. Turing was editor of The Salmon and Trout Magazine, and had previously been angling editor of The Field. "We congratulate Mr. Turing. He has written a book which is pleasantly discursive and yet he keeps sufficiently close to the subject throughout to be practical and instructive, and he has been wise enough to include chapters on spinning and fishing with worm and bait." Chapters include: About trout; Tackle; Casting; A day on the river; Dry-fly fishing and its problems; Nymph fishing; On flies, artificial and natural; The underwater world; Trout fishing in rapid streams; Lochs and still waters; On spinning for trout; More about spinning; On worm and bait fishing; On playing and landing fish; Knots and emergency repairs; The fascination of the 'odd day'; The principles of fly tying. The later, 1961 5th edition had three further sections added, dealing with nylon lines. .
Seller Inventory # 60987
Published by The Derrydale Press. Lyon, Mississippi. 1998., 1998
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Condition: new. (Hardcover, 1998). (1930) 1998 new edition. 4to (200 x 278mm). Pp293. Colour frontispiece, b/w photograph plates, illustrations. Pictorial blue bonded leather gilt, all edges gilt. Two corners severely bumped, breaking cloth. O/w a clean un-numbered copy from an edition of only 500. Issued without a dust-wrapper. Pacific sportfishing for tuna, swordfish, marlin, giant bass, yellowtail, white sea bass and sharks. In the Derrydale Blue Water Classics Series. .
Seller Inventory # 61017
Published by Swan Hill Press. Shrewsbury, Shropshire. 1999., 2002
ISBN 10: 1840371099ISBN 13: 9781840371093
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Condition: new. (Paperback, 1999). (1988) 1999 new edition. 8vo paperback (151 x 215mm). Pp128. B/w photographs and illustrations. Slight use but clean and solidly intact. Good-plus second-hand paperback. "Much of value has been written about stillwater trout fishing and even more about fishing the chalk streams, but fishing the small rivers and rough streams has not been fully covered - until now." Chapters include: The water; Tackle; The quarry; Fishing tactics 1; Spiders and variants; Fishing tactics 2; Wet flies; Fishing tactics 3; Fishing tactics 4; The streamerette. Appendices cover hooking, playing and landing, wading and casting, and weather conditions. .
Seller Inventory # 24096
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. London. 1972., 1972
ISBN 10: 0854930981ISBN 13: 9780854930982
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp224. Colour photographs, b/w illustrations, introduction by Eric Linklater. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Letters from Ted Malone to previous owner enclosed. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. In this book Spencer takes a more instructional approach to salmon, sea-trout and trout fishing. "His book - and this I emphasize - is most enjoyable, truly good, and so widely instructive that it leaves me with a deep sense of guilt: why, for example, in my long life, have I failed to acquire the delicate art of up-stream worming? The answer is, of course, that Mr. Spencer didn't write his book in time. If he had written it fifty years ago, I would be a better fisherman - even, perhaps, a better man - than I am today." (From the introduction by Eric Linklater). Chapters include: Tackle and where to use it; Seatrout and the Loch Ordie; Rocks and moonlight; March day; Judging, handling, packing and storage of fish; Rain; The Donegal Blue; After the storm; At random from a fishing diary; Covering the water; 'There was a kind of rage on thim'; The finest moment in salmon fishing; Fishing river mouths; According to Michael; Upstream worming in perspective; Rods and tackle; Hooks; Baits and baiting; When and where to fish; How to fish; Bites and their interpretation; Approaching the water - wading - concealment; On being a fisherman. .
Seller Inventory # 60990
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. London. 1934., 1934
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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First Edition
(Hardcover, 1934). 1934 1st edition. 8vo (147 x 226). Pp224. B/w photographs, illustrations. Tan cloth with trout vignette to upper board & spine. Rather used and stained, name to end-paper, foxing. Just good. A volume of the Sports and Pastimes Library. A practical handbook on fly-fishing from bank and boat. .
Seller Inventory # 27231
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. London. 1968., 1968
ISBN 10: 0854930051ISBN 13: 9780854930050
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1968). 1968 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp159. Colour & b/w photographs. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, end-papers browned - good-plus in used and clipped dust-wrapper. Irish and Hebridean salmon and sea-trout fishing. Chapters include: When spate meets tide; Flies for specific conditions; The Point - a Hebridean day; Salmon in shallow water; Gillies, ghillies and boatmen; Loch of a thousand salmon; Sea-trout in the loch - wet fly v. other methods; Takes and mistakes; Exceptional fish; Salmon rod and fly sizes; The river mouth - another Hebridean day; When salmon 'come on'; Pacific salmon in Britain; Future stocks - how many fish?; Rough weather; Attitude to angling. .
Seller Inventory # 29113
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby. London. 1969., 1969
ISBN 10: 0854930116ISBN 13: 9780854930111
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1969). 1969 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Pp250. Colour frontispiece photograph, b/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Foreword by Bernard Venables. Slight lean to spine otherwise a nice clean copy in a tatty, torn and chipped dust-wrapper. Mostly Irish salmon and sea-trout in lough, river and saltwater. "Mr Spencer has fished so widely, so steadily, so thoughtfully; he has within his record the solving and explanation of so many of the day-to-day problems of individual fish, that the teaching of the book has a penetrative authenticity. And, as I expected, that authenticity is intensified by his retention of atmosphere, his conveying the feeling of each day and place. I can feel the soft scrunch of the heather, smell it and the rivery earth in the summer sun of sea-trout and salmon time.This is a satisfying and lingering book for fishers of sea-trout and salmon. I anticipate re-reading when next good fortune takes me to such places as have served him so well." Bernard Venables in the Foreword to Newly From The Sea. .
Seller Inventory # 46271
Published by Adam Charles & Black. London. 1939., 1939
ISBN 10: 0713607114ISBN 13: 9780713607116
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1939). 1939 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 255mm). Ppx,136. Colour frontispiece of flies, double-page b/w plate of marrow scoop and trout's stomach contents. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Corners slightly bumped, slight wear to boards, end-papers removed and slightly browned but a good copy. Skues summarises his thoughts on nymphs and nymph fishing. Includes a good bibliographical chapter on the subject. Chapters include: apologia; History and evolution; What is a nymph? What is nymph fishing? Fish 'in position'; The way of a trout with a nymph; Exceptions; Personal; Reaction; The pronouncements of Halford; Pros and cons; Hooks; Hackles for nymphs; Dressing methods; Patterns; Bibliographical. .
Seller Inventory # 61000
Published by A & C Black. London. 1910., 1910
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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First Edition
(Hardcover, 1910). 1910 1st edition. Large 8vo (165 x 255mm). Ppxii,133 + 2pp advertisements. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece of flies. Dark olive cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Ex-library (C.H. Gow Memorial Library) with label and stamps, rather browned, some use. Good. "If one had to name a single book which changed the course of fly-fishing, this would probably be it. Published in 1910 when the cult of the dry fly had reached a high point, Minor Tactics threw a sensational spanner in the works. Skues was 53, a successful London solicitor and avid fly-fisher with a razor-keen mind. He refused to follow Mr Halford into the straitjacket of 'Dry Fly Only' practice. Instead Skues demonstrated that upstream nymph fishing for chalk stream trout was based on an old method, as sporting, as demanding and as interesting (if not more so) than fishing dry. The arguments have been smouldering ever since." (From the introduction to the Flyfisher's Classic Library edition by David Burnett). .
Seller Inventory # 61001
Published by Macmillan. London. 1973., 1973
ISBN 10: 0333144953ISBN 13: 9780333144954
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (170 x 240). Pp239. Colour & b/w photograph plates, brief bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in dust-wrapper. The author sells his farm and puts his money into a wildlife reserve in the terai on the border with Nepal. An account of the reserve and the work carried out there. Tigers, chital, swamp deer, sambhar, leopard, marsh crocodiles and swamp deer. .
Seller Inventory # 58129
Published by Harper & Row. New York. 1973., 1973
ISBN 10: 0060139161ISBN 13: 9780060139162
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st US edition. 8vo (170 x 240). Pp239. Colour & b/w photograph plates, brief bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Boards stained - good in used dust-wrapper. The author sells his farm and puts his money into a wildlife reserve in the terai on the border with Nepal. An account of the reserve and the work carried out there. Tigers, chital, swamp deer, sambhar, leopard, marsh crocodiles and swamp deer. .
Seller Inventory # 60975
Published by Herbert Jenkins. London. 1932., 1932
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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First Edition
(Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition. Small 8vo (125 x 190mm). Pp160. B/w photograph plates, ills. Green cloth, spine & upper board titled in black. Bookplate & signature of Hugh McNab. A good copy. Nice angling essays by an all-round angler. .
Seller Inventory # 7600
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1920., 1920
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
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First Edition
(Hardcover, 1920). 1920 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 218mm). Ppviii,296. B/w photographs. Grey cloth, spine titled in gilt, cloth printed and decorated in light and dark blue. Cloth rippled and used, small patch of damage to rear board. Usual foxing and browning but good. Lacks dust-wrapper. Sheringham's delightful ramblings on trout fishing: from Welsh brooks to the chalk streams; from the Mayfly to the minnow and worm; angling controversies and "the fly question." "Mr. Sheringham gives us the real atmosphere of angling, mysterious failure, mysterious success, the caprice of the long-looked-for evening rise, the sad ultimate fallibility of the infallible fly, the enchanting and unending pursuit of the unattainable which angling opens to its votaries. A book to read and a book to keep." (Review in Salmon & Trout Magazine, June, 1920). .
Seller Inventory # 56230