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SALMONIA: or Days Of Fly Fishing, in a series of coversations with some accounts of the habits of fishes ... of genus Salmo
by An Angler (Sir Humphrey Davy) ftable
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Murray. FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.. 1828. 1st edition. Hardcover. FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves. . Spine with 5 gilted raised ribs and gilt 'SALMONIA' on a red leather spine label. Both hinges splitting but still sound. Water staining of both boards has bled into top corner margins of adjoining leaves and also the very outside of the front text block edge. Text & plates otherwise FINE. Binding still tight. There are also 8 in text fish wood cuts of. 'An Angler' is sir Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist. He did say his most famous discovery was his student, Michael Faraday. Davy dedicated this book to William Babington, a physician scientist contemporary. .
Synopsis
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow’s best-known novel, highlights the American melting pot and how the nation came to be what it is today. Set in the early 1900s, the story namely focuses on a wealthy family living in New Rochelle, New York, simply named Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather, and the boy. The boy, Father and Mother's young son, perhaps narrates the novel from a reminiscent adult perspective, but the omniscient narrator is never decidedly identified. The family’s turn-of-the-century journey of adaption addresses the tensions between reacting to the evolution of the era and executing revolution. Yet Ragtime is far more than the family’s narrative. In a beautiful execution of historical fiction, the novel weaves together biographical subplots of prominent figures of the day, including J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, and Emma Goldman. The result: Ragtime focuses not on just the nameless or the famous, but how the two groups create history together. Written when Vietnam was drawing to a close, Ragtime addresses issues that were affecting America at the time—from the abuse of power to racism to using sex to sell just about anything—but it also includes classic and enduring themes of morality, repression and injustice, change, and time. Ragtime was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1975. It also won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award the following year. The novel was adapted for a 1981 movie and a 1998 Tony award-winning Broadway musical. Ragtime is included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) and ranked 86th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001170
- Title
- SALMONIA: or Days Of Fly Fishing, in a series of coversations with some accounts of the habits of fishes ... of genus Salmo
- Author
- An Angler (Sir Humphrey Davy) ftable
- Illustrator
- 3 plates, one a fold out.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1828
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth, boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves., Davy, Babington, Faraday
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About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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