Fly Fishing by J R Hartley, First Edition (6 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp127. B/w illustrations by Patrick Benson. Brown cloth. Very good in slightly used price-clipped spine-faded dust-wrapper. Relevant newspaper clipping taped to front end-paper. Deservedly, the most famous British fly fishing autobiography. "Here are his elusive fishing recollections told in a series of sometimes vividly comic chronological cameos - from Yorkshire schooldays in the early 1930's, through memorable outings on chalk stream, spate river and loch, to a startling conclusion half a lifetime later on a Scottish summer night. .Will appeal to everyone, even [especially?] those who have never held a rod". And all who remember that advert. "In the Yellow Pages TV advert, first shown in 1983, he was seen phoning second-hand bookshops in pursuit of a copy of Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley. The payoff came when he tracked down a copy, asking for it to be reserved and revealed that he was the author." Daily Mail obituary for Norman Lumsden 30-11-2001. Norman Lumsden played the author in the TV advertisement. It was so popular that writers Russell and Lapsley were commissioned to provide a text for this, up-to-then fictitious, book. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp127. B/w illustrations by Patrick Benson. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in dust-wrapper. Deservedly, the most famous British fly fishing autobiography. "Here are his elusive fishing recollections told in a series of sometimes vividly comic chronological cameos - from Yorkshire schooldays in the early 1930's, through memorable outings on chalk stream, spate river and loch, to a startling conclusion half a lifetime later on a Scottish summer night. .Will appeal to everyone, even [especially?] those who have never held a rod". And all who remember that advert. "In the Yellow Pages TV advert, first shown in 1983, he was seen phoning second-hand bookshops in pursuit of a copy of Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley. The payoff came when he tracked down a copy, asking for it to be reserved and revealed that he was the author." Daily Mail obituary for Norman Lumsden 30-11-2001. Norman Lumsden played the author in the TV advertisement. It was so popular that writers Russell and Lapsley were commissioned to provide a text for this, up-to-then fictitious, book. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Patrick Benson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1991, 1st printing. Octavo. 127pp. Illustrated. Publisher's papered boards, gilt title to spine. Printed dust jacket, with the still image of the famous yellow pages advert on the rear. Price intact. A bright copy. Clean within. 'Near Fine'.

A pair of first edition, first printings published by Limited Editions in 1991. A very good book without inscriptions, in a very good unclipped wrapper. With 'Casts Again' in near fine condition in like wrapper. Made famous by the Yellow Pages advert in the 1980s.

A first edition, first printing, published by Stanley Paul in 1991. Fine book without inscriptions in a fine unclipped wrapper marginally faded to the spine.

A pair of first edition, first printings published by Limited Editions, Stanley Paul and Hodder in 1991-5. All very good in dust wrappers with some spotting to the edges of volume 1 and 3. Made famous by the Yellow Pages advert in the 1980s.