THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION;
- Used
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.Callahan and Company Booksellers
AbeBooks seller since September 14, 2004
Condition: Used
£ 38.03
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a bibliography of books on angling and game fishing in the University of British Columbia, with a chronological appendix indicating landmarks in the evolution of angling literature and some prefatory matters pertaining to the history of the Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation and Propagation of the Principles and Ethics of Fly Fishing, including an informal foreword by the Hon. N.A. Mackenzie and a tribute to the memory of Tom Brayshaw by Roderick Haig-Brown. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1970. Illustrated with several b&w plates and text figures. 6.25" x 9.25". 138 pp. Brown imitation leather boards, decorated endpapers. A useful, partially annotated bibliography of over 600 books, with a more heavily annotated 22 pp appendix on "Landmarks in the Evolution of the Literature of Angling: 1496-1969". This is a particularly attractive reference book. Very fine.
Seller Inventory # 5211
Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION;
- Author
- Starkman, Susan B. and Read, Stanley E.
- Seller catalogs
- 29APRIL2016
Callahan and Company Booksellers
Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 14, 2004
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| Item | 5 to 8 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
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| First item | £ 5.91 | £ 23.63 |
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We will send our catalogs of interesting and unusual out-of-print books on fishing, shooting and related field sports to anyone who requests a copy, and add your name to our mailing list for future catalogs.
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Callahan and Company Booksellers
NH, U.S.A.
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