Morritt Major H E (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo, illustrated, 192 pgs., pages clean, no markings, old signature on first free end paper, Bound in blue cloth and wrapped in a very good dust jacket. A very nice copy.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 91 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by Raymond Sheppard. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1950, INSCRIBED, 192p including Index. A New and Enlarged Edition, with frontispiece illustration. The book is divided into two parts as follows: Part One - Fishing Ways and Wiles, ( with 9 chapters) Part Two - Postscript (with 5 chapters). Dark blue cloth with silver spine title, top edge dyed blue, dust jacket. A Very Good+ copy with light wear, INSCRIBED on front free endpaper. In a Very Good dust jacket printed on both sides, with some edgewear and light soiling, not price clipped. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. New and Enlarged edition. The book has only a tiny hint of foxing to the prelims and page edges and light dulling down to the very tips of the blue boards. The jacket has some minor staining and light shelf wear.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 91 pages. Blue dust jacket with black lettering over green cloth. Illustrated by Raymond Sheppard. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with soiling to DJ.…

LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Condition: very good. Hbk 12mo, 1st edition, 141pp + advertisements, illustr color frontis, several other full page b+w plates lacks dj, very good royal blue cloth boards with embossed titles front and gilt titles to the spine, small loss to top of spine and a light bump to the outside lower front corner, now in custom acetate jacket, prev ownerÕs bookplate on front pastedown and small name stamp on front endpaper, otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.…

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 141pp with index. Colour frontis by the author, 9 monotone illustrations and 3 by Frank Reynolds. Worn copy with small section of spine above title missing, a little foxing to title and margins, still a very nice fishing read, or rather, fishing as it used to be. pencil inscription to f.endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author (illustrator). Book.…

1st edition hardback in original cloth Very Good octavo vii + 91pp., frontis., illusts., With an Introduction by Arthur Ransome & superb Raymond Sheppard illustrations. Signs of use & neat ownership stamp o/w a very good reading copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. original green cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed, occasional spotting; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xviii (last blank), 142 (last colophon), 8 (Pubs. cat.), with colour frontispiece + 12 illustrations. A very good copy.

Jonathan Cape. 1950. First edition, thus. (New and Enlarged edition). Hardback in DW. Frontis. + 4 illustrations. Some light foxing throughout o/w a clean and sound copy in slightly chipped and worn wrapper that is browned to rear panel and spine.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. An angling classic. Cover: fishing generally: the dry fly purist, the fly fisherman, the general practitioner: wet fly fishing, definition, difficulties, a popular fallacy, the nymph, hints; the dry fly: striking, timing; bait fishing for trout: where to fish, wind drag, tackle, spinning, kelts; salmon fishing: life history, the scale theory, feeding in freshwater, what lure?, the favourite fly, prawn fishing, salmon fly, hints, spinning and lies of salmon in low water, casting and choice of a rod and line, playing a salmon; sea trout fishing: habits, flies, estuary, tide effects, bait fishing, success secrets; night fishing: touch, the lie of the fish, mist and moon, adverse conditions, what the fish sees, where to night-fish and selection of a pool, the white wing: lake-fishing, tackle & flies, where to fish, wind-strength, dry fly in a calm, our allies the swallows.141 pages, including index, + 9 b&w illus., + coloured frontis., + intro. by Lord Howard de Walden. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped lettering to front. Ex-owners name in blue pencil on f.e.p. Some stains to the boards. Book tight and clean. …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A smart first edition of H. M. Morritt's work on fishing, illustrated with plates by the author including a frontispiece in colour. Covering fishing, wet fly fishing, dry fly fishing, samon fishing, bait fishing for trout, trout fishing, night fishing and lake fishing, as well as two experiences of the war by the author.Written by Major H. E. Morritt; with an introduction by Lord Howard de Walden.Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and twelve illustrations in black and white.The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little spotted. Near Fine. Major H. E. Morritt; Frank Reynolds (illustrator). book.…