Complete Fixed Spool Angling by Alexander Wanless (6 results)

Condition: Fair. 1953. First Edition. 219 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Complete information about equipment, casting, tactics, fly technique, spinning and lures. Drawings in the text by the author, photo of controllers on frontispiece. Green boards, sunned at top of spine, light foxing to free endpapers & edge of pages, tight binding, no inscriptions, good. Dust jacket price clipped, tears along edges with some loss at top of spine, fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket iw shelf worn, creased and a bit torn. tanning. ownership inscription. some stamps. light markings. well bound. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 219 pages. Dj worn, edge of pages foxed, cover slightly bent.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 219 pages. cloth binding some blotchiness corner bruising.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1953). 1953 1st edition thus. 8vo (146 x 220mm). Pp219 + 2pp ads. B/w illustrations by the author. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Edges & end-papers rather browned, fading to boards else good-plus in rubbed, price-clipped dust-wrapper. "During the twenty years in which we have published the books of Alexander Wanless, we have received many requests from fixed spool enthusiasts urging Wanless to write a full and complete work on the subject of which he was the acknowledged master. Wanless himself received many more such requests. .two years before his recent, lamented death, he informed us that the time for the major work had come, and with characteristic care and thoroughness he outlined the form it was to take - complete information as to equipment, casting, tactics, fly technique, spinning and lures. With tremendous zest he embarked on the task of compressing into a single volume all that a life-time's experience and observation had taught him. This book, completed but a few weeks before he died, is the result. Wanless led the way in all things relating to fixed spool angling; he was a pioneer who had many followers but no rivals. Complete Fixed Spool Angling is a fine and fitting memorial to the man who (to quote the Sunday Times) 'wrought a larger revolution in angling than any other single publicist.'" .