Where Spring Salmon Run by Patrick Chalmers (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus/Good Plus. 1st Edition. Moderate general wear to board includes small white spot on front cover, owner's name on ffep, deckle edges tanned, pages are clean, binding is tight. No jacket & book is priced accordingly. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Good condition copy with fair condition cover (stained and faded) believed 1st edition . Inscription to inside front flyleaf. See Photos.

8°, original cloth-binding. 1st ed. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations, XVI, 236 p. Dedication. A bit stained on preliminary page, binding slightly rubbed, otherwise fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 228mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photograph plates & line illustrations. Binding B. Pale blue or red cloth, spine titled in black. Various minor faults (cloth marked / spine faded / name to end-paper / some browning) but a good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. Chalmers' lyric pen on salmon fishing. Delightful anecdote and a little verse. "How rarely it is that we come across a man who, having made a lifelong study of a thing, can write about it with the most gifted of pens. Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers is one of these lucky people; for not only has he been acclaimed (by one of the most influential journalists of our times) as one of the most brilliant writers on field sports to-day, but he has been a salmon fisher all his life. Indeed it might be said that he was bred to the river; in this book he tells how as a small boy he watched his father catching salmon on one of those red-letter days which occur all too rarely. He has caught salmon in many rivers and under many conditions, and his adventures comprise a world of experience from which every man who wields a salmon rod can cull hints and instruction." Chapters include: Catechist and catechumen; The making of the pup; Pools and pupils; The fish in play; The game and the gaff; Mainly with a spinning-rod; In letters of red; The practical prawn; A little about worms and some other things; Unorthodox; Pearls; Bad moments and a fate that went too far; The Linn of Logie; A river of Damascus and an autumn fish; Some episodes in the life of a salmon; The gillie; Taking a river and tickling a trout; Epicists and others; In the kitchen with one in fifty thousand; Amaryllis and a little moonshine. .

Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Minor stain on top edge. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xvi, 236pp. B/w plates.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 228mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photograph plates & line illustrations. Binding B. Olive green cloth, spine titled in black. Cloth used and stained, edges browned, name to end-paper verso. A good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. Chalmers' lyric pen on salmon fishing. Delightful anecdote and a little verse. "How rarely it is that we come across a man who, having made a lifelong study of a thing, can write about it with the most gifted of pens. Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers is one of these lucky people; for not only has he been acclaimed (by one of the most influential journalists of our times) as one of the most brilliant writers on field sports to-day, but he has been a salmon fisher all his life. Indeed it might be said that he was bred to the river; in this book he tells how as a small boy he watched his father catching salmon on one of those red-letter days which occur all too rarely. He has caught salmon in many rivers and under many conditions, and his adventures comprise a world of experience from which every man who wields a salmon rod can cull hints and instruction." Chapters include:- Catechist and catechumen; The making of the pup; Pools and pupils; The fish in play; The game and the gaff; Mainly with a spinning-rod; In letters of red; The practical prawn; A little about worms and some other things; Unorthodox; Pearls; Bad moments and a fate that went too far; The Linn of Logie; A river of Damascus and an autumn fish; Some episodes in the life of a salmon; The gillie; Taking a river and tickling a trout; Epicists and others; In the kitchen with one in fifty thousand; Amaryllis and a little moonshine. .

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gripping: couldn't put it down when I opened it at the chapter on freshwater pearl fishing! HB. Grey cloth boards with dark-blue lettering to spine; boards have some wear and rubbing to edges & corners and are a bit grubby with small reddish stains on back board; some wrinkling adjacent back fore-edge. "Browning" to half-title and last page. B&w frontis, intro. xvi, and then 236 pages incl. various knot diagrams, + 11 b&w photo illus. Book tight and clean.

Condition: GOOD. First edition. A book on the delights of fly fishing, mostly in Scotland, by this Irish poet. Illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout. 236 pp. Good overall in beige cloth - some damage to one corner, two bookplates from fishing clubs on front endpapers. .

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Front hinge is cracked. Corners of boards are bent, cup ring stain to front. Reading copy only.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 228mm). Ppxvi,236. B/w photograph plates & line illustrations. Binding A. Light blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Inscribed to previous owner from the publisher. Cloth slightly used, some browning to edges but a good copy. Chalmers' lyric pen on salmon fishing. Delightful anecdote and a little verse. "How rarely it is that we come across a man who, having made a lifelong study of a thing, can write about it with the most gifted of pens. Mr. Patrick R. Chalmers is one of these lucky people; for not only has he been acclaimed (by one of the most influential journalists of our times) as one of the most brilliant writers on field sports to-day, but he has been a salmon fisher all his life. Indeed it might be said that he was bred to the river; in this book he tells how as a small boy he watched his father catching salmon on one of those red-letter days which occur all too rarely. He has caught salmon in many rivers and under many conditions, and his adventures comprise a world of experience from which every man who wields a salmon rod can cull hints and instruction." Chapters include:- Catechist and catechumen; The making of the pup; Pools and pupils; The fish in play; The game and the gaff; Mainly with a spinning-rod; In letters of red; The practical prawn; A little about worms and some other things; Unorthodox; Pearls; Bad moments and a fate that went too far; The Linn of Logie; A river of Damascus and an autumn fish; Some episodes in the life of a salmon; The gillie; Taking a river and tickling a trout; Epicists and others; In the kitchen with one in fifty thousand; Amaryllis and a little moonshine. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Large gift inscription on inner front cover, cover just starting to crack on front, cover has a few stains, corners bumped, small tear in cloth along spine. Book.

First edition. First edition. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. 1 vols. 8vo. Original olive cloth. Very good Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. 1 vols. 8vo.

Philip Allan & Co., London, 1931, first printing. This copy belonged to Harry B. Hawes, author of My Friend The Black Bass, 1930, and Fish And Game - Now Or Never, 1935, with his ink signature and ink name stamp on the front endpaper. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. 5.5" x 8.5". 236 pp. Blue cloth, heavily faded spine, half-title page darkened by a an old newspaper article. Salmon fishing in Great Britain with fly, bait and spinning tackle. "All I have tried to do is to re-visit, chiefly for my own amusement, rivers that I have fished in and to remember the few fish that I have caught in my life or lost". Salmon fishing primarily in Scotland. Good.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Irish writer Patrick R. Chalmers's work on salmon fishing, in a fine half morocco binding. The first edition of this work, illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven photographic plates. Collated, complete.The author, Chalmers, offers a charming work on the joys of fishing in twenty chapters, in a work intended to 're-visit, chiefly for my own amusement, rivers that I have fished in and to remember the few fish that I have caught in my life or lost'. Rebound in half morocco, with marbled paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Worming to head of each page from half title to leaf xiv. Near Fine. book.