HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Reprint thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1972(1965)* Publisher: Adam & Charles Black.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Very slight bumps, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing fishermen with a skate to front cover, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £4.25 on publishers adhesive label. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with tears (now re-inforced). Severe loss at top two inches of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Colour photo to frontis & b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 343 pp. text. iv pp., index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Sea angling is a relatively young sport which has gained enormously in popularity in recent years. Once it was considered and still is by many, to be not quite as sporting as freshwater angling but with the new techniques and materials which have evolved, this is no longer true and sea anglers must be regarded in a new perspective. This book is a work which will benefit the experienced angler and the beginner alike and should bring a fresh outlook to a rapidly growing sport.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults in an ACC protected dust jacket.*

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KINGSLEY AMIS was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Alteration , winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old Devils , winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's Moustache , which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics, education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in October 1995.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2930
Title: The Sea Angler - afloat and ashore.
Author: Brennan, Desmond
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG+/ACC
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0713603275
ISBN 13: 9780713603279
Publisher: Black
Place of Publication: London Uk 347
Date Published: 1972-01-01

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