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A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS. A Companion Volume of New Research to "British Sporting Artists" and "Angling in British Art". With One Hundred and Thirty-Six Illustrations.
Edition: First Edition
London: John Lane, 1931. Thick quarto, hardcover, green cloth. (2), (xviii), 240 pp + 15 colour plates plus folding chart and black and white plates. Yellowing to page edges; a fine copy, no previous owner names. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 3960More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
A SPORTSMAN'S WANDERINGS. With 4 Colotype plates and 11 other illustrations from author's drawings and photographs
Edition: First US issue
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Octavo, red cloth. pp xii, 298, (2) + 4 collotype plates with tissue guards and 11 b&w plates. VG+ clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names. Made from sheets of the 1919 UK edition, which was titled WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES. Hunting and fishing in South Africa (elephant and lions), Scotland (salmon and grouse). Iceland, Norway, and more.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36406More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
ADVANCED EQUITATION
New York: Dutton, 1926. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (xl), 419 + photo plates. Illustrations in text. Spine gilt lettering a bit dulled, with nicks to head of spine; page edges yellowed; small owner name at front; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46638More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
ARCTIC ISLAND HUNTER
Edition: First edition.
London: George Ronald, 1961. Octavo, brown cloth. pp 136 + plates. 2 maps in text. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light rubbing to front panel else fine, flap price intact. The experiences of a hunter in Spitzbergen.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36404More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
BURKE'S STEERAGE, or The Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes
Edition: First printing
London: Collins, 1938. Light brown cloth gilt (vs black) lettered, presumed first binding. Small bump to lower outer corner of front cover, else fine. Dust jacket has small chips at ends of lightly darkened spine; front panel a little darkened with a small tear and two light spots (erasures?); rear panel lightly dusty, with a small chipped tear; VG otherwise. Satirical and serious treatment of hunting, shooting, and fishing. Uncommon.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 49650More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
CANADIAN TURF RECOLLECTIONS AND OTHER SKETCHES.
Edition: First Edition
Author: Toronto, 1909. Octavo, dark blue morocco grain cloth, front cover gilt lettered. 304 pp. Photo portaits of persons in text. Chips and tears to fore margin of two leaves from careless opening (no text affected); else fine. Thoroughbred horse racing.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 9184More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
GOING FISHING. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe
London: Country Life, 1949. 6th printing (first was in 1942). Quarto, blue cloth. pp 144. Excellent full page wood engravings. Light yellowing to page edges, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and small creased tears, spine lightly yellowed, VG generally. Memories of fishing in the Americas, England, Scotland, France, Norway, and the Caucasus.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43966More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
GUERRE AUX LOUPS !
Montréal: Éditions Marcel Cognac, 1962. Quarto, [40] pp stapled in card covers. Photos. Some rubbing, small indentations, to front cover; VG otherwise. Advocates the slaughter of wolves, a regrettable practice now much curtailed. Text is in French. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45373More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
HUNTING SONGS AND BALLADS
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40712More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMOS: the unique record of a sportsman's year among the northernmost tribe - the big game hunting, the native life, and the battle for existence through the long Arctic night
Toronto: Coles Publishing Company, 1974. Facsimile reprint of the NY, 1910, original. Octavo, maroon cloth. pp [2], (2), xiv, 453, [5]. Many photos in text. Fine in fine price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42315More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
KATERFELTO: a story of Exmoor. Illustrated by Lucy E. Kemp-Welch
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40710More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
LIVES OF GAME ANIMALS: an account of those land animals in America north of the Mexican border, which are considered "Game." either because they have held the attention of sportsmen, or received the protection of the law...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Second printing (first was 1925-28 in a 4 volume format). Quarto, 4 volumes in 8 volume format, original green buckram gilt, 50 maps and 1500 illustrations by the author. Spines lightly sunned, with gilt stamping oxidized and mostly flaked away but stamping still visible; foxing to bottom page edges of one volume. Otherwise a VG+, clean, tight & unworn jacketless set, no owner names. Note: 10.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42871More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
MAYFLIES: AN ANGLER'S STUDY OF TROUT WATER EPHEMEROPTERA.
Edition: First Edition
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 1997. Quarto, glossy card covers. xvi,366. Colour photos, illustrations by Robert Cormier, bibliography, index. Fine copy. "This really is the new bible on mayflies...(it includes) all the latest information from anglers and professional entomologists alike. This book will be the flyfisher's key to success with all the great mayfly hatches on North American trout waters .where, when and how [mayflies] emerge and lay eggs, .the best angling tactics .and the best imitations for fishing all the life stages of these important insects". Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 45948More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN. With illustrations by William Nicholson
Edition: First illustrated edition
London: Faber, 1929. White cloth stamped in red and black, illustrated endpapers. pp (296) + 7 plates; vignette illustrations in text. Page edges tanned; 1.5 cm tear to head of lightly darkened spine; mild cover soiling; ink gift inscription and small annotation at front; else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. This classic autobiographical novel won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was first published anonymously in 1928. Keynes A30d. Really excellent illustrations.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51718More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
MY HORSES and Other Essays. Edited with Introduction by E.D. Cuming. Illustrations in Colour and Line from Contemporary Prints.
Edition: First Edition
Edinburgh / New York: Blackwood / Scribner's, 1928. Red bevel edged cloth gilt lettered, top edge gilt. [2], xxvi, 304 pp + 4 colour plates and 26 black & white plates. Spine lightly sunned; yellowing to page edges; lacking the front free endpaper; tanning to first and last pages from binding materials; cloth creases to front cover; front inner hinge repaired with paper; else a nice, bright copy.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 11502More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
RANDOM JOTTINGS OF A HORSEMAN.
Edition: First edition
London: Country Life, 1940. Octavo, green cloth. (xii), 163 pp. + frontispiece; illustrations in text. Fine copy, no previous owner names. Cream price-clipped dust jacket is soiled; spine darkened with small chips, tears; edge tears to panels ; just good. A selection of the author's articles from various sporting journals.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16818More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE THOMAS ASSHETON SMITH, ESQ. Or, the Pursuits of an English Country Gentleman.
London: John Murray, 1860. Octavo, original red cloth gilt, yellow endpapers. pp (xivi), (302), [2, blank], 32 pp Jan., 1860, publisher's catalogue. Engraved frontispiece portrait, illustrated title leaf, and 7 other plates inserted, one vignette in text. Spine has darkening, one small black spot, bit of wear to tips; cloth splits to joints reglued; front cover has a dark spot to inner margin; small dark spots on rear cover; foxing to the frontispiece and title leaf; in all, good externally, internally fine, tight in the binding, inner hinges not cracked, no owner names. English sporting classic.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 20578More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
RIDING WITH REKA. A Tale of Horses and Ponies. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, R.I.
Edition: First edition.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. Square octavo, green cloth. (2), (xii), (176), (2) pp + 10 full page drawings. Light foxing to fore edges; orange topstain very slightly sunned; else fine. Orange jacket has shallow chip (1/2 inch deep - no lettering lost) to hea d of very slightly darkened spine; small chip to lower inner corner of lightly dust soiled rear panel; one inch split to top of front flap fold; price-clipped; VG o/w. A story about horses written by a young girl of 15 who died in an accident before publication, with black and white illustrations by the noted sporting artist Lionel Edwards, who was impressed with the text.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5696More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN. Revised and re-edited
London: Warne, no date (ca. 1880s). Octavo, red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, dark olive endpapers. pp viii, 471 + engraved frontispiece portrait and engraved title. Spine sunned and a little worn at ends; inner hinges repaired with white rice paper; corner chip to last leaf (no text loss); page edges yellowed; 1888 ink gift inscription; externally good, internally very good and clean. A later printing. Though the title page calls for steel engravings, this printing wasn't issued with any but those two at the front. The engraved title is subtitled "Or English Farm and Sporting Worthies".
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46637More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SCARLET FEVER: a lifetime with horses
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44822More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50