Book 1884 1934 by Flyfishers Club (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Half black leather and gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 8vo; 93pp; illustrated with color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, b/w photos; top edge gilt. With a history of the club's formation plus chapters on the library; the Journal; various dinners; rummage sales; committees and secretaries plus appendices listing former presidents, original members, honorary life members, gifts to the club plus author members and their books. This copy in VG condition with some bubbling to the cloth lower front panel and occasional light foxing spots o/w internally quite clean.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1934). ND (1934) 1st edition. Small 4to (185 x 255mm). Pp93. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece (cartoon of "The Flyfishers' Club Arrives At Loch Ness 1933" with "key" to names on tissue overlay) and 11 b&w plates, 10 of them photographs, and a text drawing. Printed on thick paper in black and red. Binding B. Light blue buckram with dark blue buckram spine and corners, gilt rules, simulating a half-leather binding. Gilt title and emblem of the Flyfishers' Club on upper board. Spine untitled. Staining to boards, edges browned, name and marks to end-papers, internally clean. A good copy. David Beazley, the current Librarian of the Flyfishers' Club referred to the book as "the Jubilee Book." ".Main Committee decision to research, write up and compile the book by means of a 'Committee of Editors' whose identities were, as far as possible, to be kept confidential. All members were given a copy of the book, the majority being handed out on leaving the Jubilee Dinner at the Savoy. Subsequently, new members were able to buy copies for 10/6d. .

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1934). ND (1934) 1st edition. Small 4to (185 x 255mm). Pp93. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece (cartoon of "The Flyfishers' Club Arrives At Loch Ness 1933" with "key" to names on tissue overlay) and 11 b&w plates, 10 of them photographs, and a text drawing. Printed on thick paper in black and red. Binding B. Light blue buckram with dark blue buckram spine and corners, gilt rules, simulating a half-leather binding. Gilt title and emblem of the Flyfishers' Club on upper board. Spine untitled. Slight use but good-plus. Label of angling book collector, Arthur Howard Thompson, and ownership signature & ink stamp of Thor? Schwanenflugel. David Beazley, the current Librarian of the Flyfishers' Club referred to the book as "the Jubilee Book." ".Main Committee decision to research, write up and compile the book by means of a 'Committee of Editors' whose identities were, as far as possible, to be kept confidential. All members were given a copy of the book, the majority being handed out on leaving the Jubilee Dinner at the Savoy. Subsequently, new members were able to buy copies for 10/6d. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1934). ND (1934) 1st edition. Small 4to (185 x 255mm). Pp93. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece (cartoon of "The Flyfishers' Club Arrives At Loch Ness 1933" with "key" to names on tissue overlay) and 11 b&w plates, 10 of them photographs, and a text drawing. Printed on thick paper in black and red. Binding A. Full tan calf, gilt lined, gilt title and emblem (open fishing creel) of the Flyfishers' Club on upper board. Spine untitled. This scarce issue is almost certainly that described below as "in buff lambskin". Scuffs to leather, boards slightly bowed, some old damp-stain marks to rear board. A good copy of a very scarce item. "The only reference I have found to an 'edition de luxe' is in respect of two copies 'in buff lambskin' that were presented to two guests of honour at the Jubilee Dinner. However it would be reasonable to suppose that other copies were made up for senior officers of the Club and the anonymous editors. Intuitively a de luxe edition of perhaps 20 copies is suggested." (Beazley). .