Minor Tactics Chalk Stream by Skues (128 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 252.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good plus condition. Reprint of the 1914 second edition. 133 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 257.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. pp. 151.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1974). (1910/1939) 1974 combined edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Ppx,244. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy with various stamps and faults, foxing to edges but a good copy in dust-wrapper. The two volumes, Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout, and, Minor Tactics of The Chalk Stream, combined as one book. Chapters include: Apologia; History and evolution; Definitions - What is a nymph? What is nymph fishing? Fish 'in position'; The way of a trout with a nymph; Rods and gear; Fishing the nymph, and mayfly nymphs; Exceptions; Personal; Reaction; The pronouncements of Halford; Pros and cons; Hooks; Hackles for nymphs; Dressing methods; Patterns; Bibliographical. .

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. 133pp. Light spots to endpapers. O/w Clean copy internlly. No inscriptions. Some marks to external cloth. Binding remains strong. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. All books outside UK sent airmail and all books tracked. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected. Illustrated coloured frontispiece. Second Impression of third edition of 1924. Original brown cloth, gilt titling. Neat name on front end paper. A little spotting to foredge. In dust wrapper complete with original price.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition, with frontis, pp. 133.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New.

Third edition. xiv + 133pp; frontispiece plate. Original brown buckram with gilt lettering to spine. No inscriptions. Near Fine.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1910) 1950 3rd edition reprint. 8vo (142 x 225mm). Ppxiv,133. Colour frontispiece plate of flies. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some foxing, particularly to half-title page. Spine ends rubbed. Good-plus used copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. If one had to name a single book which changed the course of fly-fishing, this would probably be it. Published in 1910 when the cult of the dry fly had reached a high point, Minor Tactics threw a sensational spanner in the works. Skues was 53, a successful London solicitor and avid fly-fisher with a razor-keen mind. He refused to follow Mr Halford into the straitjacket of 'Dry Fly Only' practice. Instead Skues demonstrated that upstream nymph fishing for chalk stream trout was based on an old method, as sporting, as demanding and as interesting (if not more so) than fishing dry. The arguments have been smouldering ever since. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Published by A & C Black in 1950, this is the second impression, third edition hardback printing of G.E.M. Skues' MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM. Brown cloth binding, gilt lettering the book is in very good condition with light browning throughout and some mild spotty foxing to the end papers and page edges. The dust jacket is very good with some light finger marking to the jacket.

Combined volume. Adam & Charles Black, London. 1979. Hardback with DW. 244 pages. Dust-wrapper spine sunned; inscription to front paste-down end-paper.

8vo. xiv. 133pp. Colour frontis. Brown cloth in cream & blue dust wrapper. Some spotting foxing to end papers and fore edge. Spine of wrapper slightly darkened but generally a very good copy of this angling classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. hardback, a reprint of the 1910 original and published in an edition limited to 750 copies. Quarter bonded leather in burgundy with red cloth covered boards, top edge gilt. Lettered gilt to the spine and publisher device to the upper board, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Dust jacket not called for in this edition, but housed in a very good red cloth covered slipcase.A very well preserved and tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text. Coloured frontis. xiv + 133pp.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st thus 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Two volumes in one. First combined edition. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. 244 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Neat name and address in ink to front free-endpaper. Page browning and spotting to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and just a little grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. second Edition, with frontis, pp. 133.

Hardback. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW. Shelving marks to covers. Rubbed along edges. Small nicks to corners and ends of spine. In protective cellophane wrapper.). Ends of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some marks to cloth. Foxing spots to endpapers and page edges. Else a very clean and tight copy. 244pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 3rd Edition. 1950, Adam and Charles Black. Third edition second impression. VGC in similar grade jacket (bit grubby) nicks to extremities. Jacket now protected by removable archival cover. Firm binding. Slight spotting and toning to page block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First combined volume of the two titles originally published in 1910 and 1939. DESCRIPTION: Blue illustrated DJ over black cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Lightly toned text block edges DJ Condition: Very Good: Light wear to upper and lower edges. Minor chipping to corners and spine ends. Clipped Pages 244. Size: 8vo 22cm by 14cm. Not signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Gilt-stamped brown cloth; 8vo; 244pp; not illustrated; color pictorial dust jacket titled in black. A reprinting of Skues' two classics on English chalk stream fishing, both expounding the use of the wet fly and nymph. This copy in very nice, collectible condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some minor adhesive tape stains to corners of endpapers. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Combined edition of two works, "Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout" (originally published 1939) and "Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream Trout" (originally published 1910, third edition 1924). First combined edition. [xii], 244 pages. Dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215mm x 136mm. "In 'Nymph Fishing for Chalk Stream Trout', the author set[s] out in detail the case for the employment of the artificial nymph in the capture of sub-aqueously feeding trout [. . .] together with another Skues classic; 'Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream,' in which the case was made for the use of the wet fly and the nymph in the capture of chalk stream trout. - from dust-jacket blurb. Dust-jacket illustration by Donald Downs.; 8vo.

3rd Edn, XIV 133 pages, Lge 8vo. coloured frontis, some occasional spotting to contents, original cloth, vg.

3rd Edn, XIV 133 pages, Lge 8vo. coloured frontis, neat ownership stamp for Grassington Angling Club, some neat pencil underlining to contents, occasional foxing.