macdowell syl (5 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fair - Cash. Heavier wear to the cover, corners, and edges. There is soiling to the cover and pages, with heavy creases and tearing. In protective plastic sheet. Pages are chipping. The corners have some heavy rubbing. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

First edition, from the "Borzoi Books for Sportsmen" series. 8vo. xiv, 261, vii pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, map. Fly fishing for trout in the western states. Very good. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, color illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, closed tear in rear panel). (#6737).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. [5], v-xiv [2], 3-261, [1], i-vii, 3 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Luis M. Henderson. Illustrated by a frontispiece of the author and his wife fishing together (dedication at the bottom: "To a Lady Angler, the Ida Walton of my household, my wife, this book is fondly dedicated.), fourteen plates with several photographs of rivers, lakes, and environs the author encountered while fishing in the western United States, along with photographs of the fish he caught and the bait and tackle used. One of the plates is in color. A comprehensive book on Western trout fishing. Every species of trout found in Western American waters is discussed, with complete information on the life, habitat, and behaviors of each species, with the best techniques for catching each species. Near Fine with a Capitol Book Store (Indianapolis) sticker from the mid-twentieth century on the rear pastedown; dust jacket is Very Good with a few traces of edge wear and foxing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1948 First Edition Hardcover Fine/Very Good Alfred A Knopf, Pub, NY, 1948; 1st edition; Introduction by Paul R Needham; fine condition with a very good dust jacket: minor wear to corners and edges of jacket; Syl Macdowell; Fishing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Small ownership name and label on the front pastedown, corners slightly bumped, near fine in an attractive, very good, Nat Falk-illustrated dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown and some small nicks and tears at the extremities. Greenhorn heads west with his grandfather's pistol to become a cattle rancher. Syl MacDowell was also half (along with Frank Gruber) of the pseudonymous author, Tom Gunn.