Going Fishing
by Negley Farson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
€332.64€299.38
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About This Item
London: Country Life Limited, 1943 . Leather. Fine. 10.5" by 8". C. F. Tunnicliffe. A beautifully bound copy of American author and adventurer Negley Farson's classic work of fishing literature. The second impression of this work, published the year after the first.An autobiographical study of a life spent fishing, Farson described his vast experiences river fishing while travelling the world. With chapters on Pacific salmon, the Shetland Islands, Uxbridge, the Hebrides, Ireland, the Caucasus, Moscow, the Danube, erupting volcanoes in Chile, and both rural and urban life in England, France, and Norway.Illustrated with sixteen full page illustrations by renowned wildlife painter Charles Tunnicliffe, best know for his illustrations for the novel 'Tarka the Otter'.A beautifully bound copy of this classic fishing work. Rebound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 846F6
- Title
- Going Fishing
- Author
- Negley Farson
- Illustrator
- C. F. Tunnicliffe
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Country Life Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Size
- 10.5" by 8"
- Keywords
- fishing angling country life james Scott Negley Farson angling
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.