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0 119 p. Includes illustrations. Very good. No dust jacket. light shelfwear, moderate foxing to first and last few pages.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 38 pages. Features: The Now Generation - B.C. Conservationists Get Things Done; Helicopter Over Canada; Giant Atlantic Salmon of Newfoundland's Humber River; The Suicidal Duck; Fighting Witefish - The most exciting fishing in years; Saving lost plugs; A Trip to Remember - Largemouth Bass near Parry Sound; Three Best Flies for Big Trout; Good Bass Fishing in B.C. Lakes; Fishing Bruce County's Saugeen River; Spring Methods for Walleyes; Fishfood; Sturgeon from Sturgeon Falls; All Canada N.S.S.A. Skeet Team for 1967; Early Honda generator ad on back cover shows young lady watching TV in her rowboat; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Four center pages loose but present (and will be restapled if you request). A worthy vintage copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Illustrated by Gordon Grant; W.H. Lizars (illustrator). First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full oatmeal cloth, gilt lettering on red panels on spine and cover, gilt compass medallion on cover, top edge red, red and black title page. Illustrated with duotone engraved portrait frontispiece by W. H. Lizars and duotone engravings by Gordon Grant at the head of each chapter. Includes Foreword and Afterword by Alexander Laing. NB. John Nicol (1755-1825) was a Scottish sailor who in 1789 sailed on Lady Juliana, a ship that transported convict women to Port Jackson in New South Wales, Australia. His autobiography, published in 1822, offers a rare first-hand account of the life of an ordinary Georgian sailor. . Spine and covers lightly soiled, else near fine; unmarked, tight, and square. The unclipped ($4.00) dust jacket, now in Mylar, is missing its spine and is chipped and worn. VERY GOOD/POOR. . Duotone engravings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. vii, 214 pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features; Fisherman's Quiz; The Red Fox; The Wheeled Hunters (on motorcycles) Take to the Bush; Crossword Puzzle (completed); Christmas Cougar - article with photos - Edgewater, B.C.; Elk are where you find them - Havelock, Ontario; How I Got a Black Bear - or How it Got Me; The Story of Ontario Moose License; Coonhounds; Great colour photo ad for Polaris snowmobiles on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy.

Eight volumes: Volumes 1-6 (published 1926 - 1932) : the main volumes, containing an alphabetical listing from A-Z and at the end of Volume 6 a first supplement (pages 273-449), Volume 7 (published 1934) containing the index (by authors, initials and psedonyms), Volume 8 published in 1956, contains alphabetical listings from A to Z for the years 1900 - 1950. Large 8vo. clothbound hardbacks, gilt. Almost 3,000pp. and approximately 65,000 entries. This is not an ex-library set and there are no marks or inscriptions. Slight dulling to gilt lettering on spines, small paint splashes to spine of Volume 3, but overall a VERY GOOD SET. (Shelf 256) Over 20,000 books in stock - please come and browse. Credit and (UK) debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Seven volumes of the new and enlarged edition of the dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, with the original dust wrappers. Seven volumes of the new and enlarged edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Top edges gilt.A set of seven volumes of Halkett and Laing's Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, edited and enlarged by Dr James Kennedy, W. A. Smith and A. F. Johnson.After Samuel Halkett's death in 1871, the materials he collected for a dictionary of anonymous literature were given to John Laing. Laing enlarged the collection but passed away before the work was published. The work was then edited and published by Laing's daughter.This set comprises volumes I to VI (published 1926 to 1932) of the main volumes, which contain the alphabetically arranged dictionary, with a supplement to the rear of volume VI. In addition, this set includes volume VII (published 1934), which contains the index (by authors, initials and pseudonyms) and the second supplement. Two extra volumes, not included in this set, were later added in 1956 and 1962. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, smart, with very light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are untrimmed but very bright and clean. Dust wrappers are generally smart, with light chipping to the wraps, more so to the head and tail of the spine, and closed tears to the flyleaves. Light marks to the wraps and sunning to the spines of the wraps. Scattering of spots to the spines of the wraps to volumes II-VI. Two tape repairs to the rear of the wrap, and a loss to the tail of the spine of the wraps, to volume IV. Ink mark to the front of the wrap to volume V. Fine. book.

Golf book. With an introduction by Andrew Lang. Frederick Guthrie Tait (1870-1900) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a leading physicist and amateur golfer. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Sedbergh before entering RMA, Sandhurst, where he introduced golf. A very powerful and long hitter, at the R&A, St Andrews, on Jan 11, 1893, he hit the ball 250 yards onto frozen ground stopping 341 yards from the tee, thereby refuting his father's calculation that 190 yards was the maximum possible flight of a ball. Tait won the the Amateur Championship twice (1896, 1898), finished third in the Open Championship twice (1896, 1897) and was leading amateur in the same competition six times. He was also a crack shot and a first-class rugby player. Tait was killed in action at Koodoosbergh during the second Boer War. In a pocket on his dead body was found a letter showing the paw marks of his favourite dog "Nails". All profits from original sales of this book were donated to the Black Watch Widows' and Orphans' Fund. First Edition. 8vo. 304pp. Portrait frontis. (tissue-guard), 16 plates (tissue-guards). Bound in attractive full calf, raised bands and gilt embossed spine label, marbled endpapers. Internally clean and bright, tissue guards intact, mild foxing to prelims else very good condition. [D&M, 3460].

Golf book. With an introduction by Andrew Lang. Frederick Guthrie Tait (1870-1900) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a leading physicist and amateur golfer. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Sedbergh before entering RMA, Sandhurst, where he introduced golf. A very powerful and long hitter, at the R&A, St Andrews, on Jan 11, 1893, he hit the ball 250 yards onto frozen ground stopping 341 yards from the tee, thereby refuting his father's calculation that 190 yards was the maximum possible flight of a ball. Tait won the the Amateur Championship twice (1896, 1898), finished third in the Open Championship twice (1896, 1897) and was leading amateur in the same competition six times. He was also a crack shot and a first-class rugby player. Tait was killed in action at Koodoosbergh during the second Boer War. In a pocket on his dead body was found a letter showing the paw marks of his favourite dog "Nails". All profits from original sales of this book were donated to the Black Watch Widows' and Orphans' Fund. First Edition. 8vo. 304pp. Portrait frontis. (tissue-guard), 16 plates (tissue-guards). Original decorative green cloth, sl soiled, gilt lettering and golfing devices to front cover and spine. This is the variant green cloth edition, as opposed to the red cloth and vellum editions. A good copy. Uncommon. [D&M, 3460].