Arthur Ransome began to fish as a boy in the Lake District, but the pursuit became almost an obsession when he lived in Russia during World War I and reported the Revolution and its aftermath for the "Daily News" and the "Manchester Guardian". When he returned to England with Trotsky's secretary as his wife, he settled in Lakeland and began his four-year weekly column "Rod and Line" for the "Guardian", stopping only to write the twelve Swallows and Amazons books for children which made him famous. Although he published a few of these and other fishing essays in two books, "Rod and Line" and "Mainly about Fishing", most of his writing and broadcasting on the subject has never appeared in book form. Jeremy Swift's book not only tells for the first time of Ransome's fishing adventures - in exotic places with men of history or by small English streams with unknown, eccentric fellow countrymen - but it rescues many of Ransome's fishing articles from the oblivion of the archive shelf.
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Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR003609850
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Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). 1994 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (141 x 224mm). Pp280. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in red. Slight damage to photos and text between pp92-93, due to having been previously stuck together, else very good in dust-wrapper. A long introduction on Ransome's fishing life precedes a collection of his previously unpublished Guardian pieces and part of his unfinished novel. A de luxe leather-bound edition was also produced by The Flyfisher's Classic Library (our stock number 1743). . N° de réf. du vendeur 14075
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Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). 1994 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (145 x 224mm). Pp280. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in red. Spotting to edges otherwise very good in dust-wrapper. A long introduction on Ransome's fishing life precedes a collection of his previously unpublished Guardian pieces and part of his unfinished novel. A de luxe leather-bound edition was also produced by The Flyfisher's Classic Library (our stock number 1743). . N° de réf. du vendeur 1254
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Vendeur : Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Royaume-Uni
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1994). 1994 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (145 x 224mm). Pp280. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in red. Very good in slightly used and price-clipped dust-wrapper. A long introduction on Ransome's fishing life precedes a collection of his previously unpublished Guardian pieces and part of his unfinished novel. A de luxe leather-bound edition was also produced by The Flyfisher's Classic Library (our stock number 1743). . N° de réf. du vendeur 56437
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hardcover. Etat : fine. Limited Edition. This specially bound edition is limited to 250 copies of which this is number 69. Signed by Jeremy Swift on bookplate. Octavo.24 cm x 16 cm.Bound in full green leather. Gilt design to front cover & gilt design and lettering to spine.Ribbon. 280pp.Slipcase. N° de réf. du vendeur 87151
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