Macmillan Company 1951. first edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & silver fish to front board, vii + 195pp, illus, VG+ (slight stains to front board, slight rubbing to spine extrems, slight foxing to eps) in VG- d/w (price clipped, rubbing, brusing & chipping to edges & folds, pieces missing from spine extrems & rear upper corner)

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

Details

Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 130074
Title: The Fly and the Fish
Author: ATHERTON, JOHN
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Company 1951
Keywords: first edition John Atherton sports fishing angler angling fly fishing fly tying trout

Terms of Sale

Hard To Find Books

Fast and professional shipping. All stock is returnable within seven days of receipt if it does not match description.

About the Seller

Hard To Find Books

This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Biblio member since 2004

DUNEDIN, Auckland

Ask Seller a Question

About Hard To Find Books

New Zealand's largest Bookdealer.We stock:History, First Editions, Military,Science, Law, Car manuals, Antiquarian, Genealogy, New Zealand, Travel, Art, Politics, Royalty, Aviation, Science, Technology, Humanities, Sport, Nautical,Poetry, Literature etc

Glossary
Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...