Where the Bright Waters Meet.
by Harry Plunket Greene
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Citrus Heights, California, United States
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About This Item
London. Philip Allan & Company. 1929 [1924].Second Edition. Octavo (8 x 5 ½). viii, 253 pp. Photo frontispiece showing where 'The Bright Waters Meet.' Black and white plates. Harry's beguiling prose is bound to put a smile on your face; he is one of the best fishing writers of the twentieth century and his descriptions of the Hampshire Bourne "in those days unquestionably the finest small trout stream in England" reveal a keen fisherman with a discerning eye who describes his adventures in exquisite, lyrical prose. Remember that you can never have enough of Harry Plunkett Greene. The book is bound in a fine binding of green morocco and marbled boards with gilt titles on the spine. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. The binding was done by Bumpas Ltd. Oxford. The book is in very good condition with the spine lightly faded..
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- Bookseller
- Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010261
- Title
- Where the Bright Waters Meet.
- Author
- Harry Plunket Greene
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
Terms of Sale
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
For questions please telephone 916.728.5019. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Return any book for any reason within 10 days after receiving it and your money will be promptly returned. All returned books must be in same condition in which they were sent. Reciprocal terms to professional members of the trade. California residents please add 7.75% sales tax.
About the Seller
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Biblio member since 2008
Citrus Heights, California
About Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled boards
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...