Fish Will Rise by Macer Wright (15 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition thus. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Pp122. B/w illustrations by Val Biro. Dark blue or grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library with usual various faults. Reading copy only in dust-wrapper. Reflections and reminiscences of flyfishing the Welsh Border streams. "Fishing books may teach or may beguile. This is not a teaching book and to say that it is a beguiling one would be to claim kinship with better men, for to beguile, so my dictionary tells me, is to divert attention from anything tedious or painful, and to do that a writer needs a goose quill or a nib of gold. We may assume that the first was used by the author of The Compleat Angler, and the second by the author of Where the Bright Waters Meet. I, alas, have had to make do with a ballpoint. However, if these reflections and recollections lighten an hour or two, that ubiquitous instrument will have served a not ignoble end." (taken from the author's foreword). Chapters include:- Along the river bank; My first trout stream; Fooled by a caterpillar; The lie of the trout; In search of the black gnat; Rising the non-risers; Unhappy mixtures; Mercies large and small; Fast by a brook; Skues of the Itchen; The fly and the driver; Epicures in still waters; Persuasion with the wet fly; A movable feast; Teachers and preachers; Fred Shaw: Fisherman extraordinary; Greenheart and cane; Days of perch and dace; Game or gamin?; Izaak Walton re-visited; Bank clearing by numbers; Fringe benefits; The good-sized trout; I alway call him 'Sir'; In praise of river keepers. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition thus. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Pp122. B/w illustrations by Val Biro. Dark blue or grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper. Reflections and reminiscences of flyfishing the Welsh Border streams. "Fishing books may teach or may beguile. This is not a teaching book and to say that it is a beguiling one would be to claim kinship with better men, for to beguile, so my dictionary tells me, is to divert attention from anything tedious or painful, and to do that a writer needs a goose quill or a nib of gold. We may assume that the first was used by the author of The Compleat Angler, and the second by the author of Where the Bright Waters Meet. I, alas, have had to make do with a ballpoint. However, if these reflections and recollections lighten an hour or two, that ubiquitous instrument will have served a not ignoble end." (taken from the author's foreword). Chapters include:- Along the river bank; My first trout stream; Fooled by a caterpillar; The lie of the trout; In search of the black gnat; Rising the non-risers; Unhappy mixtures; Mercies large and small; Fast by a brook; Skues of the Itchen; The fly and the driver; Epicures in still waters; Persuasion with the wet fly; A movable feast; Teachers and preachers; Fred Shaw: Fisherman extraordinary; Greenheart and cane; Days of perch and dace; Game or gamin?; Izaak Walton re-visited; Bank clearing by numbers; Fringe benefits; The good-sized trout; I alway call him 'Sir'; In praise of river keepers. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition thus. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Pp122. B/w illustrations by Val Biro. Dark blue or grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use but good-plus in used dust-wrapper. Reflections and reminiscences of flyfishing the Welsh Border streams. "Fishing books may teach or may beguile. This is not a teaching book and to say that it is a beguiling one would be to claim kinship with better men, for to beguile, so my dictionary tells me, is to divert attention from anything tedious or painful, and to do that a writer needs a goose quill or a nib of gold. We may assume that the first was used by the author of The Compleat Angler, and the second by the author of Where the Bright Waters Meet. I, alas, have had to make do with a ballpoint. However, if these reflections and recollections lighten an hour or two, that ubiquitous instrument will have served a not ignoble end." (taken from the author's foreword). Chapters include:- Along the river bank; My first trout stream; Fooled by a caterpillar; The lie of the trout; In search of the black gnat; Rising the non-risers; Unhappy mixtures; Mercies large and small; Fast by a brook; Skues of the Itchen; The fly and the driver; Epicures in still waters; Persuasion with the wet fly; A movable feast; Teachers and preachers; Fred Shaw: Fisherman extraordinary; Greenheart and cane; Days of perch and dace; Game or gamin?; Izaak Walton re-visited; Bank clearing by numbers; Fringe benefits; The good-sized trout; I alway call him 'Sir'; In praise of river keepers. .

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

1st ed. A tidy copy in tight binding. Illustrated by Val Biro. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, age-toned mild spotting to the closed edges, a well preserved and tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a very good pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Val Biro, 122pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Val Biro (illustrator). First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Val Biro (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. A Fish Will Rise. The reflections and reminiscences of a lifelong fly-fisherman, this delightfully-written book does not set out to teach, though it does embrace much of what the author has discovered from the writing of some of the great anglers of the past. Fishing wet, dry and with the nymph, for trout, gayling and those few coarse fish that will take the fly, he ranges widely between such differing venues as small, secret trout pools, chalk streams, Welsh mountain brooks and the lesser-known waters of the pastoral Midlands. Writing with equal felicity on freshwater biology and riverside ecology, on stream improvement and in praise of river-keepers, he recalls the quiet pleasures of the waterside with a charm that country lovers everywhere, anglers or not, will find it difficult to resist. Illustrations. 122 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

FIRST EDITION. The reflections and reminiscences of a lifelong fly-fisherman. Illustrations by Val Biro. Navy blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Complete with pictorial dustjacket. Overall NF/VG+. 8vo. 122pp.

HARD COVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. *FIRST EDITION*. 122 PAGES. FIRST EDITION (IN VOLUME FORM). Size: OCTAVO.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. line illus., pp.122, d.w.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 122 pages ISBN 0715355198. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Light age spotting to the page edges. Very Good condition book, in near Fine condition dust wrapper with one tiny rub to the spine tip, not price clipped, spine not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. RURAL VILLAGE LIFE.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Val Biro (illustrator). First Thus. Ex library, with some small stamps, missing free front endpaper. Some signs of yellowing tape on endpapers. Yellow/ blue illustrated dustjacket, slightly chipped top and bottom of spine.

1st Edn, 122 pages, illus by Val Biro, fine in dj.

1st Edn, 122 pages, illus by Val Biro, fine in dj.