Practical Fly Tying by Thomas Rice Henn (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ohne Schutzumschlag; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp123 + 3pp ads. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w line drawings. Green cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. D/w price, 8s. 6d. net. Slightly bumped and used, owner's name and foxing to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in stained and frayed dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction to fly-tying. Brigadier Henn was an Irish academic who also wrote Field Sports In Shakespeare (1934) and much literary criticism. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). . …

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1966). (1950) 1966 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp127. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in rubbed and frayed dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). This 1966 "reprint" is actually a new edition, which now gives the author's qualifications on the title-page ("By T.R. Henn, C.B.E. (Mil.), M.A., Hon. Litt.D., Hon. LL.D."), and includes a new 5-page postscript by the author, dated December 1965. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1950) 1952 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp123 + 3pp ads. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w line drawings. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, 1" split to gutter of fep, foxing to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in foxed, frayed and tape-reinforce dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). .…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1966). (1950) 1966 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp127. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly rubbed and scratched dust-wrapper. D/w price overstickered with publisher's decimal label, 90p net. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). This 1966 "reprint" is actually a new edition, which now gives the author's qualifications on the title-page ("By T.R. Henn, C.B.E. (Mil.), M.A., Hon. Litt.D., Hon. LL.D."), and includes a new 5-page postscript by the author, dated December 1965. .…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's personal bookplate. The copyright page has First Published in 1950. No additional printings are indicated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1950) 1952 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp123 + 3pp ads. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w line drawings. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. D/w price 10s. 6d. net. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). (1950) 1952 reprint. Small 8vo (135 x 201mm). Pp123 + 3pp ads. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w line drawings. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight foxing to edges but very good in poor dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. "The author, who deals with the tying of both trout and salmon flies, does not recommend the use of a vice." (The Scottish Angler, November-December 1950). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (135 x 202mm). Pp127. B/w photograph frontispiece, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Dark green cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. D/w price 8s. 6d. net, overstickered with publisher's label, Black 10/6 NET. Bookseller's label to d/w (The Newington Bookshop, Liverpool). Slight tanning to edges, thumb-prints to pp51/2, 56/7 and 60/1. Good-plus copy in tanned and soiled dust-wrapper. A useful, if rather dated, introduction. Chapters include: A question of form; A material heresy; The quest for materials; The mechanics of tying: the main theme, variations on the main theme, further variations; The elements of the salmon fly; Checks and disasters; Recipes and miscellaneous; Some patterns. .…