MY SPORTING LIFE John Hills FLYFISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY leather LTD fly fishing

Description: MY SPORTING LIFE John Hills FLYFISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY leather LTD fly fishing Click images to enlarge Description MY SPORTING LIFE by John Waller Hills published by the THE FLY-FISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY in 2000. This full LEATHER book is a LIMITED EDITION of #118/950 copies. ********************************************** THE FLY-FISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY publishes titles of some of the greatest fly-fishing books of all time, by such famous angling authors as Arthur Ransome, William Blacker, Harry Plucket Greene, Frederic Halford, Ephemera and G E M Skues. Published in Great Britain and produced to the highest standards, there books are quarter or fully bound in LEATHER with marbled or colored ENDPAPERS, head and tail BANDS, silk RIBBON-MARKERS and SLIPCASES. These important and rare books on angling are usually based on the original first edition with relevent additions to provide the most comprehensive text, togeather with the finest ILLUSTRATIONS. Many of the books feature specially commissioned introductions from leading authorities, and previosly unpublished manuscript pages, letters and photographs. Most titles are produced as LIMITED EDITIONS. ********************************************* MY SPORTING LIFE tells of John Hills own education on the Test, Itchen, Kannet, and Driffield Beck rivers, and of his broad-minded resolution of North and South County styles provides a valuable part of angling history. He also describes salmon fishing on the Dee, the Sprey, and in Norway, and recollects hunting expeditions in places as diverse as Canada and Uruguay and even parts of the USA. ********************************************* Illustrated with a black and white portait of the author on the frontispiece. ********************************** Bound in beautiful ORANGE leather, printed red endpapers, spine lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the stamp (three fish in a circle) of "The Flyfisher's Classic Library". The front cover is also gilt stamped with the design of "The Flyfisher's Classic Library", marbled endpapers, and a ORANGE slipcase. ************************* THE BOOK AND SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION. ********************************* -6 1/4" by 9 1/4" -satin ribbon marker -298 pages. -foreward by Tom Fort. -introduction by Tony Hayter. -printed and bound by the Short Run Press, Ltd England. ******************************** A LIMITED EDITION OF #118/950 COPIES. ******************************** The most interesting part of the book extracts from his angling diaries. Hill's method was not the terse 'game book' form; he adopted the more ambitious way of writing a reasoned and self-critical account of each days fishing. Raw material of this sort is extremely uncommon in the literature of fishing, and adds enormously to the interest of the book. *******************************. I am currently selling AMWELL PRESS, BRIAR PATCH PRESS, FLYFISHER'S CLASSICS LIBRARYAND SAFARI PRESS Limited Edition titles, as well as other LEATHER "Hunting & Fishing" titles from other publishers. NOTE: any glare is from my camera, not the book. Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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Location: Woodstock, Georgia

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