A Jerk On One End
by Hughes, Robert
Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia, and has lived and worked in the United States since 1970, as art critic for Time magazine. He has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his twelve previous books are The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, The Culture of Complaint, and American Visions: The Epic History of American Art.
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Jerk on One End
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London Harvill Press 1999. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo hardcover 117pp index, b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w. An art and cultural critic combines memoir, history, folklore, adventure, philosophical meditation, and personal reflection in an celebration of the sport of fishing. . Item Price
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A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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The Harvill Press, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Andrew McLean. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 117 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust wrapper is… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Jerk on One End - Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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London: Harvill Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Yellowed paper. 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. 1860467032 . Index. In A Jerk On One End, Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his earliest boyhood on Sydney Harbour and the highs and lows of his career with rod and reel. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo ; 120… Read more about this item Item Price
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London, England: The Harvill Press, 2000. Book. Illus. by McLean, Andrew. Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Medium softcover, first thus, 152gms, 109 pages. The author of 'The Fatal Shore' and 'The Shock of the New' brings his passion, erudition and wit to bear on the pastime he loves best: fishing. Book is in… Read more about this item Item Price
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A JERK ON ONE END; Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman / With Illustrations by Andrew McLean
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London: The Harvill Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Andrew McLean. 8vo, forest green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Illustrated with 11 B&W reproductions of pen-charcoal-watercolor plates and three section headings by Andrew McLean, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with jacket art of a fly fisherman by Andrew McLlean, publisher's faint yellow topstain,… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Harvill Press, 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The Great Fulminator's true love affair is not painting, but fishing, it seems. From earliest childhood dramas to tall tales picked up on the Sydney waterfront, Hughes confronts what it is to be a fish and what it is to want to catch one. Item Price
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A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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The Harvill Press, Australia, 2000. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Andrew McLean. Mixing memoir, history, adventure, folklore, and descriptions of the deep, this is a meditation on the excitement and pleasures of fishing. Robert Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his boyhood on Sydney Harbour, and recounts the high and low points of his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Harvill Press, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Andrew McLean. X, 117 pages, indexed, illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Andrew McLean. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Slight yellowing of the top edge of the text block.. Unlike most of Robert Hughes's other books, this one is readable and… Read more about this item Item Price
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JERK ON ONE END, A: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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Harvill Press, London, 1999. Hardcover in Dustjacket. FINE. Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his earliest boyhood on Sydney Harbour and the highs and lows of his career with rod and reel. pp. 117 illusts First Edition #0119/0121 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Jerk on One End : Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman
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London: The Harvill Press, 1999. With illustrations by Andrew McLean. Pp. [x]+118(last blank), text illustrations (several full page), index; demy 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; text block faintly browned; The Harvill Press, London, 1999. First U.K. edition.. Item Price
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New York, The Library of Contemporary Thought, The Ballantine Publishing Group, (1999).. 8vo; pp. (x) 134; original papered boards, dustjacket; a fine copy. Item Price
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