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$19.50
xxeac42826

New Zealand Hunter


HOLDEN, PHILIP

softcover super octavo (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: Hodder Moa Beckett 1998

KEYWORDS: new zealand sport outdoors hunting philip holden autobiography specials

$22.50
2f12/49

Great Hunting Yarns


HOLDEN, PHILIP

first edition, octavo softcover, 256pp, illus, VG (wear to extremities, some page corners bent, light soiling, prev owners name in ink to fep, correction fluid to fep)

PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Becket 1996

KEYWORDS: first edition new zealand outdoors sport hunting autobiography philip holden

$8.00
xxebb43211

It's a Funny Game


JOHNSTON, BRIAN

hardcover octavo (VG) 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: W.H. Allen 1978

KEYWORDS: autobiography brian johnston cricket sport specials

$29.50
1h13a/63

The Overlook Martial Arts Reader volume 2


DONOHUE, JOHN (ed)

this volume only, octavo, brown boards with black cloth and gilt lettering to spine, 352pp, near fine in near fine d/w

PUBLISHER: The Overlook Press 2004

KEYWORDS: martial arts sport john donohue

$675.00
1i49/40

All Blacks Souvenir 1928


FLETCHER, T A ( REID, P G & PATERSON, A S illus)

imperial octavo illus paper stapled wrappers, 36pp, VG (lacks rear cover, cellotape stains & remnants to spine, light wear to extremities) RARE

PUBLISHER: lankshears 1928

KEYWORDS: new zealand rugby sport t a fletcher pg reid a s paterson

$14.00
xxegc44923

Golds Aren't Easy


TAYLER, DICK & JOLLY, SPENCER

hardcover octavo (VG) 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1975

KEYWORDS: dick tayler spencer jolly new zealand sport commonwealth games athletics running specials

$10.00
xxegc44933

A Good Keen Girl


CRUMP, BARRY

softcover octavo (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1997

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature outdoor sport barry crump specials

$12.50
xxegc44858

Australian Rugby 1972


V/A

paperback, magazine pulling at staples (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: australian rugby football union

KEYWORDS: specials australia rugby sport history 1972

$300.00
1i50/5

Rangiora Photo News


Near complete run: Vol 1No.1 Appril 2, 1953 to Vol 1 No.31 November 12, 1953

n/a

31 magazines, near complete run, no.7 missing, two copies no.23, no.17 incomplete, super octavo, five folded illustrated newspint pages (10 pages), unpaginated, illustrated, quality varies from VG to VG+ (some tanning, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: Logan Publishing Company 1953

KEYWORDS: Rangiora New Zealand photo news politics sociology history government society sport local paper

$50.00
1j39a/20

Two Mountains and a River


TILMAN, H.W.

octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 233pp, illus including folding map (VG+), VG (light wear, bruising to head and tail of spine, ink owner's details to fep, occasional foxing esp. to eps and page edges) in VG d/w (wear to extremities, large chip to lower spine, upper 5mm of spine missing, heavy bruising to upper edge and corner, light rubbing and fading)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: h.w. tilman outdoors sport mountaineering travel adventure autobiography

$100.00
1m44/10

A History of Fly Fishing for Trout


HILLS, JOHN WALLER

First edition, green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine & blind rule & embossed blind design to front board, errata slip after contents page, ii + 244pp, VG (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front board, browning to front and rear eps & to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Philip Allan & Co 1921

KEYWORDS: first edition John Waller Hills trout fly fishing anglers angling sport history compleat angler Charles Cotton Stewart

$70.00
1j39b/22

Wet-Fly Fishing Treated Methodically


TOD, E.M.

first edition, duodecimo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, gilt and black rule and illus to front board, frontispiece, xiii + 243pp, illus, VG (light wear and soiling to boards, v light bruising to corners and head and tail of spine, gutters slightly cracked, occasional foxing esp. to eps), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston and Company 1903

KEYWORDS: e.m. tod wet-fly fishing angling sport outdoors first edition

$245.00
1j39b/23

The Diary of a Test Fisherman 1809 to 1819


The Fishing Diary 1809-1819 of The Rev. Richard Durnford of Chilbolton, Hampshire

DURNFORD, Reverend RICHARD

octavo, light blue cloth boards with black lettering to front board and spine, pages uncut, frontispiece, xi + 112pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear to extremities, pencil marks to fep, occasional foxing, v light soiling to boards), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Warren & Son/Simpkin & Co. 1911

KEYWORDS: diary autobiography fishing angling reverend richard durnford chilbolton hampshire sport outdoors

$77.50
1j39b/27

A Trout and Salmon Fisherman for Seventy-Five Years


HEWITT, EDWARD R.

first edition thus ('A' to colophon), octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illus to front board, frontispiece, xxiv + 338pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, ink owner's name to fep, v light foxing to prelims and rear pages)

PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1948

KEYWORDS: first edition edward r. hewitt trout salmon fishing sport angling outdoors autobiography

$300.00
1j39b/28

The Art of Tying the Wet Fly


LEISENRING, JAMES E. & HIDY, V.S.

first edition, duodecimo, light brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine and blind-stamped device to front board, frontispiece, xvii + 81pp, illus, VG (light wear to extremities and soiling to boards, ink owner's name to fep, light soiling to prelims) in VG d/w (soiled, tanning to interior, chips to front corners, small hole to spine) in plastic wrapper

PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead & Company 1941

KEYWORDS: fishing angling fly fishing wet fly tying james e. leisenring v.s. hidy sport outdoors

$345.00
1j39b/29

The Complete Angler; or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation & Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream


with copious notes, for the most part original, a bibliographical preface, giving an account of fishing and fishing-books, from the earliest antiquity to the time of Walton, and a Notice of Cotton and

COTTON, CHARLES & WALTON, ISAAC

first U.S. edition, two parts bound as one, original binding, small octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board and spine, blind rule to boards and spine, frontispiece, cxi + 249pp (part one) + 249pp (part two), illus, VG (fading and rubbing to boards esp. spine, wear to extremities esp. corners and head and tail of spine, small hole to upper spine, small closed tear to head and tail of spine, light tanning, occasional foxing), lacks d/w

PUBLISHER: Wiley & Putnam 1847

KEYWORDS: charles cotton isaac walton fishing history sport angling outdoors trout grayling america

$145.00
1j39b/30

The Art of Trout Fishing on Rapid Streams


comprising a complete system of fishing the North Devon Streams and their like: with detailed instructions in the art of fishing with the artificial fly, the natural fly, the fern web, beetle, maggot,

CUTCLIFFE, H.C.

undated second edition (1883), original binding, 105 x 163mm, chocolate cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, blind rule to boards, ii + 212pp, VG (v light wear, small closed tears to head of spine, v light soiling to boards, ink owners' names to fep, creasing to corner of some pages)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1883

KEYWORDS: trout fishing angling sport outdoors h.c. cutcliffe north devon fly fishing

$245.00
1j39b/31

Trout Hunter: The Way of An Angler


introduction by Andre Puyans, foreword by John Randolph

HARROP, RENE

first edition, quarto, green boards with silver lettering to spine, xviii + 205pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w with protective plastic wrapper

PUBLISHER: Pruett 2003

KEYWORDS: first edition sport angling outdoors fishing rene harrop trout andre puyans john randolph

$120.00
1j39b/32

Fly Casting with Lefty Creh


KREH, LEFTY & KESSLER, HERMANN (ed) & SWOPE, IRV (

warmly inscribed by author and signed, also enlosed a signed typed letter from author on his letterhead, a signed copy of his postage stamp stuck to fep, and three more signed postage stamps in an envelope, oblong quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt device to front board, unpaginated, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w in protective plastic wrapper

PUBLISHER: J.B. Lippincott Company 1974

KEYWORDS: signed lefty creh hermann kessler irv swope fishing fly fishing fly casting sport outdoors

$60.00
1j39b/34

Eighty Years in New Zealand embracing Fifty Years of New Zealand Fishing


MANNERING, GEORGE EDWARD

first edition, octavo, grey cloth boards with red lettering to front board and spine, 255pp, illus, VG+ (foxing to page edges) in G+ d/w (soiling & rubbing to exterior, sellotape marks to interior, 2cmx2cm missing patch to lower left front, all edges rubbed & nicked, 5cm closed tear repaired with sellotape to to lower rear right)

PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams Ltd 1943

KEYWORDS: first edition George Edward Mannering New Zealand memoir fishing sport Waimak Waitake canoeing angler angling mountaineering autobiography

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