Balliett Editor (10 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). 1994 1st edition. Square 8vo (180 x 183mm). Pp126. B/w photographs, introduction by Nick Lyons. Green paper-covered boards with grey cloth spine, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped and shelf-worn. Marks to edges but good-plus in dust-wrapper. "In his introduction, Nick Lyons quotes his old friend Sparse Grey Hackle, who told him, 'The finest fishing often takes place not on water, but in print.' 'And so it does,' Lyons concurs, 'as this brief and balanced little book will show you.'" This readable anthology includes; introduction by Nick Lyons; East Hampton, August 28, 1939, by John N. Cole; Mecca, by Nick Lyons; Tuna Fishing in Spain, by Ernest Hemingway; Trout, by Seamus Heaney; The Long Night, by Le Anne Schreiber; Abe Lincoln Fished Here, by Lin Sutherland; Mr. Theodore Castwell, by G.E.M. Skues; Murder, by Sparse Grey Hackle; The Brakes Got Drunk, by Red Smith; Hairy Gertz And The Forty-SevenCrappies, by Jean Shepherd; an excerpt from, Nothing But Blue Skies, by Thomas McGuane; Fly Fishing Folly, by Ailm Travler; A Meditation On The Midlife Crisis And The Literature, Psychoogy And Mystique Of Fly Fishing, by Howell Raines. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Black and white illustrations. Introduction by Nick Lyons. Edited by Will Balliett. Fourteen varied selections by fourteen distinctly voices--narrative, humorous, philosophical tales of what fishing means to them, of the experiences and absurdities of their fishing lives. Lovely small book in gray half cloth with gilt titles, green boards, very bright and clean, lower corners gently bumped, else Fine. Tight and solid binding, square. Internals as new. Dust jacket is clean and unmarked, rear upper edge wrinkled, not price-clipped. 126 pages. 7.25 x 7.25 inches. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1994.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good book plate front pastedown in Very good dust jacket. First Edition.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 106 pages; Vol LXI, No. 1. Single issue magazine February 25,1985. Features classic Rea Irvin cover art of man in top hat and monocle. Cover is bright and fresh. Contents are clean and unmarked. Includes work by John Updike, William Maxwell, Whitney Balliett, Pauline Kael, and more. NF.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 162 pages; Vol LVII, No. 10. Single issue magazine April 27, 1981. Features Lonni Sue Johnson cover art of Manhattan rooftops with water towers. Cover is bright and fresh. Contents are clean and unmarked. Includes fiction by John Cheever and Elizabeth Tallen; pieces by Jonathan Schell, Ralph Engels, and Naomi Bliven and more. NF.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1994, first printing, signed by Nick Lyons. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 7" x 7.25". 126 pp. Green paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, discoloration on front paste-down. 14 stories by John Cole, Nick Lyons, Ernest Hemingway, Seamus Heaney, Le Anne Schreiber, Lin Sutherland, G.E.M. Skues, Sparse Grey Hackle, Red Smith, Thomas McGuane, Ailm Travler, P.J. O'Rourke, Howell Raines, and Jean Shepherd. Very good in very good wrapper. …

Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. An anthology, signed by Steve Erickson at his essay 'Neil Young on a Good Day.' Also includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, David Rakoff, Mike Doughty, Richard Meltzer, Sarah Vowell, William Gay, Ryan Malan, Monica Kendrick, Gilbert Garcia, Whitney Balliett and more. Introduction by Nick Hornby, Series editor Ben Schafer. List of other notable essays of the year 2000 and notes on the contributors. 337 pp. Fine (as new.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1994 first printing. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 7" x 7.25". 126 pp. Green paper covered boards, grey cloth spine, cover corner bumped. Introduction by Nick Lyons. An anthology of 14 stories by John Cole, Nick Lyons, Ernest Hemingway ("Tuna Fishing In Spain"), Seamus Heaney, LeAnne Schreiber, Lin Sutherland, G.E.M. Skues, Sparse Grey Hackle, Red Smith, Thomas McGuane, Ailm Travler, P.J. O'Rourke ("A Fly Fishing Primer"), Howell Raines, and Jean Shepherd ("Hairy Gertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies). Very good in very good wrapper.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. IN MEMORIAM 16 ANCF FIDDLERS,CLEAN COPY,62 PAGES,PHOTO AND BIO OF EACH.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.