Fishing Ways Wiles by Morritt, First Edition (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1929. First Edition. 141 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) 1929 1st US edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppxviii,141. Colour frontispiece, b/w plates & ills by the author & Frank Reynolds. Quarter black cloth over marble-effect paper-covered boards. Gilt worn from spine o/w good-plus. Instructional but with some nice anecdotes, a couple of them about fishing close to the front line in France in 1918. "This is a book on fishing for trout, salmon and sea-trout in the British Isles and Norway." "It is a book of charm. It is a book of wisdom. I think it would be impossible for any fisherman to read it without increasing both his enjoyment of fishing and his skill." (Arthur Ransome in the publisher's blurb). The author gained his experience on the Durham Tees, and on the Dee and Dyfi in Wales. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). 1929 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 195mm). Ppxviii,141,ads. Colour frontispiece, b/w plates and illustrations by the author and Frank Reynolds. Blue cloth, blind-stamped title to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Annotation/gift inscription to end-papers, some foxing and use but a good first edition. Lacks dust-wrapper. Instructional but with some nice anecdotes, a couple of them about fishing close to the front line in France in 1918. "This is a book on fishing for trout, salmon and sea-trout in the British Isles and Norway." "It is a book of charm. It is a book of wisdom. I think it would be impossible for any fisherman to read it without increasing both his enjoyment of fishing and his skill." (Arthur Ransome in the publisher's blurb). The author gained his experience on the Durham Tees, and on the Dee and Dyfi in Wales. .

Condition: very good. Hbk 12mo, 1st edition, 141pp + advertisements, illustr color frontis, several other full page b+w plates lacks dj, very good royal blue cloth boards with embossed titles front and gilt titles to the spine, small loss to top of spine and a light bump to the outside lower front corner, now in custom acetate jacket, prev ownerÕs bookplate on front pastedown and small name stamp on front endpaper, otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo. original green cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed, occasional spotting; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xviii (last blank), 142 (last colophon), 8 (Pubs. cat.), with colour frontispiece + 12 illustrations. A very good copy.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1929 first edition in very good condition. Binding very good and tight. Text very good and tight, with only a few light fox speckles. 141 pages plus publisher's booklist. No inscriptions. 13 illustrations from photographs and drawings by Frank Reynolds. Covers brown trout, sea trout and salmon fishing, including chapters on wet, dry fly, lake fishing and night fishing. Coloured frontispiece. See photographs attached.

Jonathan Cape. 1950. First edition, thus. (New and Enlarged edition). Hardback in DW. Frontis. + 4 illustrations. Some light foxing throughout o/w a clean and sound copy in slightly chipped and worn wrapper that is browned to rear panel and spine.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Major H. E. Morritt; Frank Reynolds (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of H. M. Morritt's work on fishing, illustrated with plates by the author including a frontispiece in colour. Covering fishing, wet fly fishing, dry fly fishing, samon fishing, bait fishing for trout, trout fishing, night fishing and lake fishing, as well as two experiences of the war by the author.Written by Major H. E. Morritt; with an introduction by Lord Howard de Walden.Illustrated with a frontispiece in colour and twelve illustrations in black and white.The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little spotted. Near Fine. book.