Nickson Havers (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Tim Havers (illustrator). First Edition. No. 427 of 1500 copies: 112 pp.; quarter leather with gilt-title over green boards, color plates, original slip-case, oblong 4to.: Bright, sharp, unmarked copy. Scuffing along edges of slip-case: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Tim Havers (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. Oblong folio (310 x 260mm). Pp112. 37 full-page colour plates by Tim Havers. White Morocco-backed gilt-decorated green cloth. Fine in well-used slipcase. Unnumbered, out of series copy.* As a result of prices being driven down by the internet, this is now ridiculously cheap! A very attractive collection of the very best writings on salmon fishing. There are a number of pieces by the publisher and the editor, but the majority are drawn from older angling literature; Grey of Fallodon, Scrope, Chalmers, Chaytor, Buchan, Sheringham and others. "Tim Havers's contribution consists of paintings that are in the main of well-known pools on some English, Scottish and Welsh rivers, and although they mostly contain a distant figure either fishing for or battling with a salmon, they are essentially of the river and the surrounding landscape. They will bring back pleasant memories of the pools themselves and of others like them." (David Hopley in Flyfishers' Journal, Winter 1976). * This edition is limited to 1500 numbered copies. This particular copy is an unnumbered, out of series copy. .

Tim Havers (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. Oblong folio (310 x 260mm). Pp112. 37 full-page colour plates by Tim Havers. White Morocco-backed gilt-decorated green cloth. Slight marks to end-papers but very good in rather rubbed and chipped slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies. As a result of prices being driven down by the internet, this is now ridiculously cheap! A very attractive collection of the very best writings on salmon fishing. There are a number of pieces by the publisher and the editor, but the majority are drawn from older angling literature; Grey of Fallodon, Scrope, Chalmers, Chaytor, Buchan, Sheringham and others. "Tim Havers's contribution consists of paintings that are in the main of well-known pools on some English, Scottish and Welsh rivers, and although they mostly contain a distant figure either fishing for or battling with a salmon, they are essentially of the river and the surrounding landscape. They will bring back pleasant memories of the pools themselves and of others like them." (David Hopley in Flyfishers' Journal, Winter 1976). .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tim Havers (illustrator). 1976 limited edition of 1500 copies, this no. 932, Antony Atha, oblong 4to., 112pp., 37 coloured plates, very good, quarter white morocco, green cloth gilt boards, pictorial card slipcase rubbed on edges and unevenly faded.

Tim Havers (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. Oblong folio (310 x 260mm). Pp112. 37 full-page colour plates by Tim Havers. White Morocco-backed gilt-decorated green cloth. Fine in faded and used slipcase. One of 1500 numbered copies. As a result of prices being driven down by the internet, this is now ridiculously cheap! A very attractive collection of the very best writings on salmon fishing. There are a number of pieces by the publisher and the editor, but the majority are drawn from older angling literature; Grey of Fallodon, Scrope, Chalmers, Chaytor, Buchan, Sheringham and others. "Tim Havers's contribution consists of paintings that are in the main of well-known pools on some English, Scottish and Welsh rivers, and although they mostly contain a distant figure either fishing for or battling with a salmon, they are essentially of the river and the surrounding landscape. They will bring back pleasant memories of the pools themselves and of others like them." (David Hopley in Flyfishers' Journal, Winter 1976). .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Tim Havers (illustrator). Numbered. 37 colour plates by Tim Havers; N0. 672 of a limited edition of 1500 copies; Foreword by Lord Tweedsmuir; Hardback: quarter cream leather on green ribbed cloth, decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, green end-papers, landscape format; Boards bowed out at end, else near fine in used slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tim Havers (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. Oblong folio (310 x 260mm). Pp112. 37 full-page colour plates by Tim Havers. Full maroon Morocco, all edges gilt. One of the de luxe issues in full maroon leather. Fine in faded and used slipcase. #92 of 1500 numbered copies. A very attractive collection of the very best writings on salmon fishing. There are a number of pieces by the publisher and the editor, but the majority are drawn from older angling literature; Grey of Fallodon, Scrope, Chalmers, Chaytor, Buchan, Sheringham and others. "Tim Havers's contribution consists of paintings that are in the main of well-known pools on some English, Scottish and Welsh rivers, and although they mostly contain a distant figure either fishing for or battling with a salmon, they are essentially of the river and the surrounding landscape. They will bring back pleasant memories of the pools themselves and of others like them." (David Hopley in Flyfishers' Journal, Winter 1976). A relatively small number of copies (but possibly as many as 200) were produced in a de luxe full leather binding, and were signed by both Nickson and Havers. .

Condition: Very Good. Tim Havers (illustrator). Condition Notes: Slip case unevenly, in parts heavily, age-toned and rubbed at the edges. Just a hint of fading to the spine. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback in Slip Case. Quarter-Bound White on Green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 10¼" x 12¼" (1.8 kg); pp 112; Number 624 of a limited printing run of 1500 copies. Includes: Colour plates; Colour frontispiece; Top edge gilt; 2-column text; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204214 || Hardback in Slip Case (No Dust Wrapper.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. limited edition. The total edition was limited to 1500, but this is one of the first 200 copies which are signed by both author and artist and bound in full leather. This no 157. Full red moroccan goatskin binding , contained in a card slipcase. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Gilt image of salmon to front board. Aeg. Gilt decoration to inner dentelles. Oblong format, 10.25ins x 12.25ins, 112pp. Thirty seven colour plates within the text. Amongst the writers featured are Arthur Ransome, Lord Grey of Fallodon, Henry Williamson, T.H. White, John Buchan and Geoffrey Nickson. Prospectus for the book loosely inserted. When published this copy was priced at £150 compared to £40 for the ordinary edition.The slipcase is rather rubbed and worn but the book itself is in Fine condition. Signed by Author(s).