Sparse Grey Hackle (84 results)

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Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. Paperback in Very Good+ condition. 8.75 X 0.1 X 11 inches. 344 pages. Gift inscription on title page . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Not Stated. New York: Winchester Press, 1972. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Lightly read. blank bookplate on ffep. dustjacket is priceclipped. . Photographs (color, b/w) & commentary on Streams, Rivers, Lakes, Anglers, Trout & Steelhead. Including a selection of memorable observations from classic writings of angling literature. Foreword by Sparse Grey Hackle. 127pp. ISBN: 0876910398.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Browning to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition , third printing 1971. A fine bright copy in the original binding. In a near fine bright dust jacket with slight soiling to the white jacket. NOT price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Used hardback, stated fourth printing, May, 1972, in very good, clean, tight condition. 223 pages with 16 pages of black and white pictures. Very light tanning/foxing spotting on page edges. Green boards with shiny green lettering on the spine are in very good condition with only minimal edgewear, Pictorial dust jacket (with a picture of a fisherman on the front-possibly the author) in good, almost very good condition. Has tonal staining/foxing along the edges with very small chips and tears. Yellowing and slight soiling. Fishless Days, Angling Nights is a rich and varied treasury of superb stories and articles by the acknowledged "Dean of American Fly Fishermen.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover in a dust jacket, minor wear, very good in good dust jacket with light scratching to front of dust jacket, binding tight and pages bright, a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fourth printing, May 1972. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Previous owner name stamped on the FFEP. The dust jacket shows some light soiling, faint sunning along the spine, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 223p.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Richly illlustrated. Some light foxing on rear endpapers. Dust jacket has some smalll tears around edges and light soiling. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 344 pp.

8vo softcover (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.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus. Published by Easton Press, 1996. Octavo. Hardcover. Brown leather with gilt page ends. Book is like new; clean and crisp. No writing, no bookplates. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Quarto softcover (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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Red leather binding lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Crown Publishers, New York, 1971, first printing, owner's inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 6.25" x 9". 223 pp. Green cloth. This is a revised edition, containing 12 (of 25) stories from Fishless Days, 1954, plus 10 new stories, plus a new introduction, prologue and afterword, and illustrations not found in the original book. Fine in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Name plate inside cover Very light shelf wear Gold gilt spine, cover, and page edges.

8vo. Pp: 174. First edition, second impression. Tan dust jacket with green and black lettering, black and white photographic illustration to front. Publisher's tan boards with brown buckram and gilt to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed by Elsie B. Darbee, wife of Harry Darbee, in blue ink. ISBN: 0397012144 Very good in very good dust jacket. Some spotting along edges of text block, especially along top edge. Some toning to dust jacket spine. Slight edge wear to head and tail of dust jacket spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The book has loose hinges, light smudging to the edges of the textblock, a former owner's signature in pen on the front endpage, and a very slightly shifted spine, otherwise the book is in excellent condition with crisp, unmarked pages, a tight binding, and a strong, clean cover. The dustjacket has mild rubbing and surface scratching to both covers, separation of the top layer of cellophane on the front cover causing multiple thin vertical bubbles, light fading to the spine, minor shelfwear to the edges and corners of the jacket including few tiny tears at hte top edge of the spine, and an overall uneven aging to the jacket, otherwise the dustjacket is in good condition, intact and clean, and is now in an archival protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in very good plus slipcase. The slipcase is bright and sturdy but has some shelf wear and small dings.

Crown, New York, 1972, fourth printing. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 6.25" x 9". 223 pp. Green cloth. Fine in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. The dj has some yellowing from age, and the top plastic layer has a little bit of bubbling/wear. There is some rubbing to the edges and corners of the dj. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Crown Publishers, New York, 1972, third printing. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 6.25" x 9". 223 pp. Green cloth, spine and cover edges slightly faded. "Classic stories, reminiscences and lore about fishing and camping", also stories of famous anglers, including Theodore Gordon. This edition contains 12 stories found in Fishless Days, 1954 (but excluding 15 of the original stories), with 10 new stories, plus a new introduction, prologue and afterword, also with illustrations not found in the first book. Fine in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sparse Grey Hackle pseud (MILLER, Alfred W.) [223] pp. Crown Publishers, Inc. 1971 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" A rich and varied treasury of superb stories and articles by the acknowledged Dean of American Fly Fishermen. It memorably records the perils and rewards, the delights and disappointments of a lifetime of sporting days and nights on the stream. There is lighthearted philosophy and profound insight into the character of fishermen and campers. There are hilarious pieces such as Who Is Sparse Grey Hackle? and The First Camping Trip, and starkly vivid recollections of the terrors of night fishing. Famous fly-fishing stories such as The Lotus Eaters and Murder are here, along with warm memories of chance meetings along the stream and moving reminiscences of such famed anglers as Edward R. Hewitt and George M. L. LaBranche; and there are practical and provocative articles such as The Perfect Angler and Minor Mysteries. Most, perhaps, there is a deeply evocative account of the fun of fishless days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xiv, 168p. Green cloth with the title in gilt on the spine. Preserved in the original slip case with illustrations of fish on the sides.Limited to 1000 copies privately printed by Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. A fresh clean copy in excellent condition.