Hardback, with original green boards. Overall near good condition, but the binding is a little shaken in places and p.163/164 has a piece cut away from the page margin (text not affected) and the rear endpaper has also had an approx. 1cm. strip cut away from the outside edge. The boards have some light marks, a short rubbed nick in the cloth at the spine joint with the rear board, and minor rubs to the spine ends. Pencilled name and a grey mark on the front endpaper. 168pp. 17.4cm tall. View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. A good copy in good dust jacket. Publisher's original green boards. A heavy bump to the top corners and a forwards lean to the spine. Bookplate on the front pastedown for The Seafarers Education Service and a couple of round ink stamps for the same - on front pastedown and title page. Remnants of a label (removed by a previous owner) on the front endpaper. Dust jacket has some creasing and minor rubs to the edges but overall clean; not price clipped. pp. viii, 91. 22cm tall. The dust jacket is supplied by us in a loose protective clear archival film sl... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. First edition. Very good condition in a very good dust jacket. Review copy, with review slip loosely enclosed. Publisher's original green boards. Binding firm and inner hinges very good. No previous owner's names or inscriptions. Very small identification stamp to the top corner of the front endpaper. Some foxing spots to outer closed textblock page edges. Dust jacket has some light rubs and short nicks to the edges and is very slightly faded towards the top edges of the front and spine. Front flap not price clipped. pp. xiv, 159, plates. The dust jacket is supplied ... View More...
Hardback with dust jacket. Published for subscribers. First edition. A very slight bump to the top corner of the lower board. In otherwise excellent, find condition throughout. Clean, tight, binding firm, unmarked. No previous owner's names, inscriptions or other marks. Paul Crisp has brought together here many of the pieces not already available in Ransome's own Rod & Line and Mainly About Fishing, nor in Jeremy Swift's Arthur Ransome on Fishing. pp. 416. 22cm tall. View More...