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New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Endpapers have some pieces tipped in; cloth a little rubbed. .

New York And London: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Mylar-wrapped blue cloth boards with gilt stamped fish illustration to front and gilt stamped lettering to spine; lettering and cloth to spine are somewhat sunfaded; edges and corners slightly rubbed; text block edges slightly toned; else in great condition; some foxing to edges of B&W plates tipped in at rear of text block; else fine. Edward R. Hewitt (1866 - 1957) was an American author, inventor and fly fisherman. A Trout and Salmon Fisherman for Seventy-Five Years is a new and rewritten edition combining two of the author's previous books - Secrets of the Salmon and Telling on the Trout - and providing new anecdotes, tips and tricks gleaned from the author's decades of fly fishing experience. ; B & W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pp .

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Very good, clean, tight condition. First printing. Rough jacket in mylar cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Charles Scribner's Son, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. Light wear to board edges. Overall a clean tight copy..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 338pp. 42 plates. Blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition with Scribner's A on copyright page. There is tape residue to the front and rear endpapers. There is also tape residue to the jacket flaps.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Hbk, 338pp, illustr frontis + a section of b+w photos at the rear, lacks dj, fine blue cloth boards with gilt titles, now in custom acetate jacket, otherwise internally an excellent clean tight and unmarked text and overall a fine copy of this fishing classic

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (a little bumped at head and tail of spine - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xxiv + 338, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

New York: Van Cortlandt Press. Very Good. (1972). Hardcover. The Abercrombie & Fitch Library. 338 pages, navy blue cloth with gilt printing to the spine. Covers are just slightly scuffed, previous owner inscribed. Otherwise, clean and nice. Very Good in a price-clipped, soiled and chipped dust jacket. .

Van Cortlandt Press, 1972. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. A posthumous book recounting E.D. Hewitt's scientific, unorthodox methods of fishing, his choice of tackle, his knowledge of piscine psychology. It makes controversial, highly argumentative, inflammable reading for the Isaac Walton clan. For his methods, his ideas, practised and observed in underwater photography, are against tradition. Speaking to his brother salmon fishermen, he concentrates on the physical habits of the salmon, gives his first hand experience with the finny fellows, shares the adventures of a well-traveled life, and makes a fishing book of some wonder for the followers of rod and creel. Combines the earlier 'Secrets of the Salmon' (1922) and 'Telling on the Trout' (1926) Subjects covered include flyfishing for trout in the English chalkstreams, and in Canada and the Pyrenees, as well as much on dry fly fishing for Atlantic salmon. Chapters include: Fishing in early life and some fishing incidents;… Read More

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Nice clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket has mild tanning to spine panel and light wear at the edges, no chips or tears, price on dj flap $4.50. Dust jacket presented in a new protective mylar sleeve. First printing with the Scribner's A on copyright page.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. The summation of the Author's unequalled knowledge, light wear to price-clipped spine-sunned dustjacket,previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, illustrated with b/w photos, 338pp, NF/VG.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good.

Charles Scribner's Sons 1948. first edition thus ('A' to colophon), octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illus to front board, frontispiece, xxiv + 338pp, illus, VG+ (v light wear, ink owner's name to fep, v light foxing to prelims and rear pages)

Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 2001. Collector's Edition. Fine in full, dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and gilt tool work in the compartments. The boards are decorated with gilt borders and designs of fishing knots in gilt. The end sheets are gilt and the edges of the text block are gilt. There is a silk placement ribbon sewn in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. This copy remains contained within the publisher's shrink wrap. This title represents a rewriting of the author's first two books: Secrets of the Salmon of 1922 and Telling on the Trout of 1926. 338 pages including plates from black and white photographs at the end of the text. The text is illustrated with many line drawings. One of the volumes in the Easton Press Library of Fly-Fishing Classics which is no longer available for sale. A fine copy with no previous owner's markings of any kind.

Charles Scribner. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. illustrations from photos and drawings, Size: Octavo (standard book size). All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Category: Fishing & Hunting; .

Van Cortlandt Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards and dust jacket show slight signs of shelf wear. All pages are intact and unmarked, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Croton-on-Hudson: Van Cortlandt Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Two volumes. Reprints. Cloth hardcovers in dust jackets in single slipcase, clean unmarked text, near fine copies in very good+ dust jackets in near fine slipcase, minor soiling and discoloration to the dust jackets, light edgewear to the dust jackets as well, a bit of soiling and rubbing to the slipcase.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Frontispiece, illustrations and plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, fine in slightly soiled and chipped dust wrapper. First edition. Frontispiece, illustrations and plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Bill Wigton.