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Let's Go Fishing!
Bates, L Vernon (Nelson) London, 1946
2nd impression, out-of-print hardback in repro dustjacket [new, showing some rubbing]; book has faint small dark patch centre front cover o/w minor blemishes & rubbed edges, very light foxed foredges, pgs clean & white; 244pp, mono illustrations + photos. VG-/VG. [AA 7682] £8.95 ($14.00)

Let's Go Fishing!
Bates, L Vernon (Nelson) London, 1946
Out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [spine top/tail frayed, small closed/repaired tears, edges slightly rubbed, price-clipped], lacks free front endpaper, lightly foxed foredges, illustrations with line-drawing, diagrams and b/w plates. VG/VG. [DD* 22610] £9.50 ($15.00)

Sporting Tactics for Coarse Fish
Bates, L Vernon (Herbert Jenkins) London, 1962
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [small closed/repaired tears, faint marks, rubbed edges], little rubbed, foredges slightly marked, diagrams. VG+/VG. {fly-fishing for coarse fish;} [DD* 22624] £10.50 ($17.00)

Whopper
Bb (illus Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (Ernest Benn) London, 1967
First edition, out-of-print hardback in protected dust jacket [quite clean shelf-rubbed jacket with lightly frayed edges, abrasion affecting title lettering with small triangular loss & faded tape residue on front cover, not price-clipped, 11s 6d net], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 119 pp, line-drawings illustrations by Watkins-Pitchford, clean green cloth boards with bright silver titling, very faint edge-fade & few small indents to upper board impressed through to endpapers, no owner's inscriptions, occasional light page blemish o/w textblock clean & bright, nice tight copy of this scarce very collectable item. VG/VG-. *see an actual image of this item on our website or by request. NB at time of writing we have another 54 books by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) on our website & Abe. NB special rate shipping will apply. [AZ 32143] £550.00 ($874.00)

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Carp Water (Wood Pool) and How to Fish It
Bb (illus Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (Putnam) London, 1958
First edition, 1st printing, in the 'Fisherman's Choice' series - general editor Colin Willock, author was founder member of the 'Carp Catchers Club' which included other luminaries like Richard Walker, out-of-print hardback in archive-protection dustjacket [green/white decorative illustrated jacket with scraper-board vignette by Watkins-Pitchford, generally very nice-looking & clean, with only small chips to spine extremities, slightly chafed corners, and age-darkened white rear panel showing slight discoloration of incipient spotting, price-clipped], Demy octavo over 8.5x5.5inches, 72 pp with index, frontis, map & chapter decorations by the author, green cloth/gilt, exceptionally clean boards, no inscriptions, few very faint spots to prelims o/w clean practically unmarked textblock, dusty top-edge, top corner of free front endpaper clipped o/w VVG/VG. *see an actual image of this item on our website or by request. NB at time of writing we have another 54 books by BB on our website & Abe. NB special rate shipping will apply. [AZ 32414] £550.00 ($874.00)

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Pool of the Black Witch
Bb (illustrations Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (Methuen Children's Books~) London, 1977
2nd impression of First edition, out-of-print hardback in clear archive-film protected dustjacket [pictorial wraparound artwork by Watkins-Pitchford, lightly tanned o/w virtually unblemished], 119 pp, frontis plus scraperboard etching illustrations by author, bright red cloth with blindstamped rising trout motif, no inscriptions, small school ID stamp used o/w covers & contents immaculate, would be fine, copy. near Fine/near Fine. *see an actual image of this item on our website or by request. NB at time of writing we have another 54 books by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) on our website & Abe. NB special rate shipping will apply. ISBN 0416780903 [AZ 27712] £95.00 ($151.00)
[View Pool of the Black Witch front cover].

We Go A-Fishing
Blaikie, Francis (Paul Harris Publishing) Edinburgh, 1975
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in dustjacket [clean bright unblemished pictorial jacket with only faint edge-tan, not price-clipped], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, xiii + 104pp, frontis with 15 b/w photo plate illustrations, grey cloth/gilt, no inscriptions, single ex-library stamp without residues, slightly dusty top-edge o/w covers & content [AA 19936] £7.95 ($13.00)

Sandgroper's Guide to Better Fishing
Bodeker, Philip & Andy Musgrave (Hyams) Subiaco, nd
6th edition, out-of-print softback, Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 128pp with adverts, illustrated throughout, glossy pictorial wraps, no inscriptions, contents excellent. VG++. [AA 18907] £9.50 ($15.00)

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Unless otherwise stated, all titles are published in the UK and are octavo size ( 8" x 6" or larger.)