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$500.00
1n16a/14

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$500.00
1n31a/1

Saltwater Game Fish of the World: An Illustrated History


DUNN, BOB & GOADBY, PETER

LIMITED EDITION. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 4to, pp. xii + 292; black leather bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, illus. to front board; aeg, illus. prelims, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; bookplate to ffep); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Australian Fishing Network 2000

KEYWORDS: big game fishing history saltwater marine fish angling angler literature pictorial

$50.00
1n31a/5

American Fly Fishing: A History


SCHULLERY, PAUL

Imp. 8vo, pp. x + 278; patterned maroon cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; double roll-tooled border with floral cornerpieces & fish motif centerpiece in gilt to front board; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; adhesive markings to ffep).

PUBLISHER: Lyons & Burford 1987

KEYWORDS: 20th century fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$75.00
1n31a/6

The Way of a Trout with a Fly


And Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics

SKUES, G E M

FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo, pp. xvi + 259 + [1]; brown/olive buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; fore edge deckled, frontis., plates; G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink & stamp in green ink to ht; lacking ffep; heavy cracking to front & rear hinge, bdg sloppy; moderate cracking to front, central & rear gutters; stamp in green ink sporadic throughout).

PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1921

KEYWORDS: 20th century G E M Skues fish fishing trout flies fly angling angler method technique strategy history

$345.00
1n31a/17

How the Poor Live and Horrible London


SIMS, GEORGE R

Bound with Socialism in Theory and Practice: Being a Lecture Delivered to a Working Class Audience by Karl Pearson, publ., W. Reeves, 1887. Foolscap 8vo, pp. [8] + 150 + 32; black cl bds, black leathers spine; mottled edges, patterned eps; G+ (heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tearing to joints; leather to spine peeling; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to front pastedown & ht; stamp in purple ink & heavy annotation in black ink throughout Socialism).

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1889

KEYWORDS: George R Sims Karl Pearson social history essay London 19th century

$3250.00
1o18a/3

The Selfish Gene


DAWKINS, RICHARD

FIRST UK EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. xii + 224; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Richard Dawkins first edition human behaviour biology history prehistory environment life animals

$16.50
xx177pol207839

Book Collecting: An Introdiction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection


COLLISON, ROBERT L; HORN, ANDREW H (forew)

8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1957

KEYWORDS: book collecting bibliography history printing bookbinding binding publishing paper bookselling

$30.00
xx177pol207840

The Contemplative Man's Recreation: A Bibliography of Books on Angling and Game Fish in the Library of British Columbia


STARKMAN, SUSAN B & READ, STANLEY E (ed); MACKENZIE, N A (forew); HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK L

8vo hardcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Library of the University of British Columbia 1970

KEYWORDS: angling angler fishing fish game sport bibliography book history books list handlist guide

$55.00
1o18a/36

The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism


CHADWICK, WHITNEY

FIRST EDITION. Super 8vo, pp. 256; grey heavy card bds, spine lettered in black, publisher's device in blind to front board; illus. tp, photos, plates, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping;

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2017

KEYWORDS: Whitney Chadwick first edition female women 20th century habits custom social history education philosophy literature

$40.00
1o18a/38

Flight Out of Time: A Dada Dictionary


BALL, HUGH; ELDERFIELD, JOHN (ed); RAIMES, ANN (transl)

8vo, pp. lxiv + 274; illus. light card covers; plates; VG; (sl scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: art artists 20th century criticism theory philosophy literary history Dada movement

$50.00
1p20b/1

Female Acts in Greek Tragedy


FOLEY, HELENE P

Super 8vo, pp. x + 410; black buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus. tp; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate annotation in pencil throughout (by Prof. Anne Mackay)); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: ancient classical history Greece Greek tragedy play drama literature criticism female women representation

$245.00
1p20b/10

New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81


O'BRIEN, GLENN; EDO & MARIPOL (photos)

Imp. 8vo, pp. 111; heavy card bds, spine & bds lettered in black; photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Petit Grand Publishing 2001

KEYWORDS: Jean-Michel Basquiat artist 20th century New York American art history

$50.00
1p20b/12

Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing through Discipline


ELKINS, JAMES & MCGUIRE, KRISTI & BURNS, MAUREEN & CHESTER, ALICIA & KUENNEN, JOEL (eds)

Super 8vo, pp. xv + 302; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: Routledge 2013

KEYWORDS: visual cultural studies art history anthropology criticism critical theory essays

$120.00
1y48a/1

The Vintage Alvis


HULL, PETER & JOHNSON, NORMAN

Super 8vo, pp. 400; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep;); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning).

PUBLISHER: David & Charles Newton Abbot 1974

KEYWORDS: Alvis Car Company history vehicle automobile cars 20th century

$185.00
1y48a/16

Disco Years


GALELLA, RON

4to; illus. heavy card bds; F (in original packaging)

PUBLISHER: Powerhouse Books 2006

KEYWORDS: Ron Galella photos photography disco culture movement music social history

$120.00
1y48a/19

Tangi


TURNER, DENNIS; OPPENHEIM, ROGER (introd)

SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Obl fol. pp. [50] unpaginated; illus. heavy card bds; illus.; VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to front gutters; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; moderate to heavy tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1963

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori social history illustration illustrated pictorial

$95.00
1y48a/25

The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture


SOMERVILLE, KATIE & KAMITSIS, LYDIA & WHITFIELD, DANIELLE

Fol., pp. xv + 236; black heavy card bds; all edges stained black, photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Victoria 2017

KEYWORDS: high fashion art arts Dior clothing designer history 20th century

$995.00
os3/28

The Kafirs Illustrated: A Facsimile Reprint of the Original 1849 Edition of Hand-coloured Lithographs


ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH & BRADLOW, FRANK R (New Intro)

Elephant folio, green leather boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims, frontispiece, 133pp, illus/plates - plates counted & all present, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: A A Balkema 1974

KEYWORDS: facsimile reprints George French G F Angas Africa African Amazulu Amaponda Amakosa tribes history anthropology art travel Kafir

$40.00
1q1a/1

Keith Richards: A Rock 'n' Roll Life


MILKOWSKI, BILL (Text) & DE FABIANIS, VALERIA MANFERTO (Ed) & PIACCO, PAOLA (Graphic Design)

Quarto, illus heavy boards, green & grey lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 207pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges, sl chafing/soiling to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: WS White Star Publishers 2012

KEYWORDS: The Rolling Stones Keith Richards biography biographies memoir rock music musicians history entertainment

$50.00
1q1a/2

The Beatles: It Was 50 Years Ago Today


BURROWS, TERRY

INC. 5x PRINTS, DVD, POSTERS & MANY ENCLOSURES, quarto, illus cushioned heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 133pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine, prev. bookseller's retail label to front pastedown) in clamshell presentation box, VG (light bruising to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, internal framing/border section with ribbon detached but present & still tidy)

PUBLISHER: Carlton Books 2012

KEYWORDS: britpop pop popular music bands history The Beatles illustrated entertainment

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