simpson richard charles (16 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 213mm). Pp98. Binding A. Dark blue "bobbled" cloth, spine titled in gilt, and slightly smaller than Binding B. Some use. A good copy without dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp98. Not illustrated. Binding B. Light blue cloth, spine titled in black. Slightly larger than binding A. Slight stains to cloth. A good copy only without dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 220 p : illus. Subject; Fishing. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 127pp. Perfectbound. Art editor is Gail Howell-Jones. Black and white illustrations. Light rubbing else fine. Ian Robinson founded Oasis in 1969 and continued to publish the magazine while Robinson founded Oasis Books in 1970. This magazine is devoted to the translation and review of well known poets and authors such as: Bruno Jasienski, Florence Chia Ying Yeh Chao, and Max Jacob. Well known poets and author's include George Bowering, a well known poet and historian and Martin Booth, a British novelist and poet who founded the Sceptre Press. Three chapters of Lotte Bullock's *The Lost Tiger* are printed in this issue. Also includes Illustrations by Carol Chapman, Jean Demelier, Patrick O'Keeffe, Stanley Engel, and John Mitchinson. Additional contributors include Anthony Hodge, Philip Weeks, David H W Grubb, Reginald Levy, John Rice, Donato Cinicolo III, Sally Tylecote, Paul Matthews, William Oxley, Paul Gogarty, Colin Nixon, Thea Clark, Ervin Gaspar, Michael Gold, Richard Austin, Paul Green, Robin Lee, William Bedford, Bruton Connors, Andrew Darlington, Valerie Owen, Charles Black, Craig Anderson, Matt Simpson, Simon McNulty, Cecily Lambert, John Mitchinson, David Jaffin, Roger Bonner, Rachel Blake, Mark Young, and Francesca de Masi.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). 1929 1st edition. 12mo (115 x 174mm). Ppx,85 + 1 page ads. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Binding A. Light green cloth, titled in dark blue on spine & upper board, dark blue fish vignette on upper board. Various minor faults - staining, foxing, signature etc. Good copy only. Chapters: Casting. The ABC of the overhead cast in dry-fly fishing; The choice and care of tackle; Fly life and fly families; The choice of dry-fly patterns for the fly-box; Through the trout's eyes; Watercraft, etc. ; Throwing the dry-fly to a trout; Striking, playing and landing; Olla podrida. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 213mm). Pp98. Binding A. Dark blue "bobbled" cloth, spine titled in gilt, and slightly smaller than Binding B. Edges foxed, spine bumped. Good only in chipped dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Red wrappers. 95-188pp. Spine lightly tanned and cocked, corners bumped, near fine. Articles, notes and queries, and book reviews by Leonard W. Moss, Stephen C. Cappannari, Merle L. Simmons, Robert Stevenson, Morris E. Opler, Macedward Leach, Ed Cray, Tristram P. Coffin, Americo Paredes, S.J. Sackett, Walter E. Boyer, Leonard Roberts, Howard Mumford Jones, Daniel G. Hoffman, Bela Gunda, Morton Y. Jacobs, Claude M. Simpson, Norman Cazden, Morton H. Levine, Arthur Freeman, Richard M. Dorson, Wolf Leslau, Gertrude P. Kurath, Marshall W. Stearns, Charles O. Frake, David Bidney, Bacil F. Kirtley, Carmen Cook de Leonard, and J. David Sapir.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp98. Not illustrated. Binding B. Light blue cloth, spine titled in black. Slightly larger than binding A. Cloth faded & slightly stained. Good-plus in remnant dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 213mm). Pp98. Binding A. Dark blue "bobbled" cloth, spine titled in gilt, and slightly smaller than Binding B. Browning to end-papers, owner's name but good copy in rubbed but complete dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Hardback. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 213mm). Pp98. Binding A. Dark blue "bobbled" cloth, spine titled in gilt, and slightly smaller than Binding B. Slight lean to spine, slight browning to edges and end-papers. Good copy in slightly frayed and price-clipped dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1947). ND (1947) 1st edition. 8vo (136 x 213mm). Pp98. Binding A. Dark blue "bobbled" cloth, spine titled in gilt, and slightly smaller than Binding B. Slight browning to edges and end-papers else very good in unusually clean dust-wrapper. Based on A.H.E. Wood's precepts on Scottish salmon fishing with the "greased line" and small fly. Simpson also discusses bank angling (as opposed to wading), on the larger Southern rivers such as the Wye, Test, Avon and Blackwater. Chapters include: The floating line method - preliminary introduction; Rods and tackle particulars; Starting off to fish - the general idea; Casting details - switch over, feed up, etc; Greased line or sunken method?; The size of fly - its choice and changing; The 'non-strike' and playing considerations; Gaffing and things in general. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 230mm). Ppxii,220. B/w illustrations by G.D. Armour. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 15s. net. Signature to front paste-down/end-paper. Bottom of spine frayed, some marks to cloth, light foxing. Good-plus in slightly torn dust-wrapper. Useful and entertaining essays and advice on all kinds of game fishing - from nymphing and upstream worming to 'Sea-trout, "slobbing", and loch fishing.' Chapters include:- Salmon fishing - preliminary considerations; Thoughts for early days; The playing of fish with a rod; Those little matters which count; Fish sense; Gillies, gaffs and gadgets; Lifelong leaning; Wet-fly trouting in springtime; Nymphing and notes on wading; A system for wet trout-fly choice; The elements and the "short rise"; Mayfly and mother nature; Sea-trout, "slobbing", and loch fishing; Dry-fly in June - some faults and hints; Bulls and fishermen - advice gratis; Natural fly recognition and its importance; How and how not to gain knowledge in sport; High lights of dry-fly fishing; The art of upstream worming: the curtain lowers. .

No Binding. Zustand: Fine. Two rare pieces of Saudi travel ephemera. (1) "Mecca Inter-Continental - Opening August 1975". Original promotional label 41x41mm, English text in green and gold with palm tree motif. (2) "Mecca (Makkah) Inter-Continental Hotel, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Original luggage label 114x148mm with rounded corners, English and Arabic text, in cream and brown with gilt palm tree motif and lettering. Undated c1975. Both fine and unused with original backings in place. InterContinental opened its first hotel in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh in May 1975, with Mecca following soon after in August. The 215 room Mecca hotel was located on the main highway four miles from the centre. It was designed by Rolf Gutbrod, with IHG's Graphic and Interior Design VP Neil Prince leading on the interiors. Prince credits his staff Charles R. Alvey and Richard Simpson with the label graphics, noting that they were copied by competitors. (Reference: Neil Prince's CV in the InterContinental Corporation Digital Archives, which features a photo of the luggage label).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very rare, highly collectible CHAPBOOK for an event (ball) hosted by Lauren Bacall, William Styron and George Plimpton in 1980, "Tenth Birthday Party of Poets & Writers, Inc." In this chapbook, there are 31 famous writers and poets, half of which have signed their name underneath the piece of writing presented in this book. Among the honored poets & writers are 17 signatures including: Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Peter Matthiessen, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Grace Paley, Judith Rossner, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith and John A. Williams on the page of their presented piece of writing. The program in the forefront presents the benefactors, patrons, sponsors and board of directors and in the rear 'Happy Birthday' ads; to list a few: The Swallow Press, Inc., CBS, Inc. The New York Times, The Paris Review, etc. The other 16 authors presented in the program that did not sign are: Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Richard Eberhart, John Hawkes, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Carl Rakosi, Samuel Beckett, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, William Stafford, John Updike and Derek Walcott. Roseland, CA, October 22, 1980, 1980 Poet's & Writers, Inc., New York, New York. Helen Handley, General Chair, President, Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc.; Galen Williams, Founder and Executive Director. 4to. Unpaginated ~64pp. RARE. COLLECTIBLE. MORE PICS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST- B.R. Box 162.