Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, (1954).. (1954).. Good. - Octavo, tan cloth titled in brown with vignettes in brown on front cover. The covers are soiled & lightly bumped. ix & 270 pp. There is an owner's stamp on the front pastedown. Full-page & textual illustrations by Jack Hogg. Good. View More...
Monaco: Sotheby's, 1987.. 1987.. Very good. - Small quarto, green cloth titled in gilt. Very slightly warped & rubbed. 515 pp. Illustrated in B&W. Very good.
Sale catalogue for an important collection of books on hunting. 598 items are catalogued. View More...
Paris: Le Sport Universel, (1933).. (1933).. Good. - Quarto [12-3/8 inches high by 9-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in black, white & orange pictorial wraps. The wraps are rubbed, soiled & bumped. There is a tear & crease to the front edge of the front wrap. Title & pages 262-280 plus ads. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. The top page corners are creased & there is a small stain to the fore-edge. Good. Among the contents of this issue are "Le Concours Hippique de Paris", "Les Courses Militaires", "Etrier Belge" and "L'Exposition Canine de Paris". The te... View More...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1930).. (1930).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is very lightly rubbed & bumped & the spine is sunned. 667 pages. Illustrated by John Leech with 17 color plates, including a frontispiece, & with profuse black-and-white textual illustrations. Very good.
Number 447 of a limited edition of 1,050 copies for England. The introduction is by Siegfried Sassoon. View More...
- Octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 4-7/8 inches wide. Reddish-brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed and heavily stained. The tail of the spine is chipped. 100 pages, with a full-page frontispiece and 4 textual illustrations by William Morton. The front hinge is cracked opposite the title page. A previous owner's name is penned on the verso of the frontispiece. The pages are soiled and stained along the margins. Good. First edition. Richard Wright Procter was a barber, poet, and author. This work consists of historical sketches of racing and sporting life in Manchester. RAR... View More...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1926).. (1926).. Good. - Quarto, tan cloth titled in brown on the front cover & the spine with a vignette in brown & blue at the bottom of the spine. The covers are rubbed and the corners bumped. lv, [v] & 260 pages, illustrated with color and black & white plates and a folding map. There is some occasional light foxing. An early book seller's label is mounted at the bottom of the rear pastedown and there is a tiny slit to the bottom of the rear hinge. The pages are slightly darkened, there is a small chip to the f... View More...
- Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Color pictorial stapled self-wraps. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased and the rear cover is lightly soiled. 32 pages, including the covers, illustrated in color throughout. There are minor creases to a few page corners and there is a tiny stain to the front edge of the last few leaves. Very good. Laid in at the front is an order letter, typed on the company's 10-1/2 inch high by 6-1/4 inch wide stationery dated "11.16.56" with the prices, order date and shipping date penned in ink within their respective frames at the bottom. Also laid in... View More...
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, (1955).. (1955).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in silver on spine with vignette stamped in silver on front cover. The covers are bumped. The bottom edges of the covers & the head & tail of the spine are rubbed. [x] & 276 pages, with black & white illustrated chapter titles and pictorial head-pieces by E.S. Smith. There is an owner's stamp on the front pastedown. Very good. View More...
- Approximately 300 words penned on 4 sides of a folded sheet of creamy white paper, with each page measuring 8 inches high by 5 inches wide. "Richmond Park" is printed at the top of the cover page. Aldridge has altered the partially printed date from "1903" to "1913". Started on the cover page, Aldridge has continued his letter on the last page to then conclude on the inner 2 leaves. Signed "J.H. Aldridge" on the inner leaf. Once apparently mounted along the inner edge with glue or tape, there are heavy stains with remnants of glue to the inner edge of the first and last page. There is a tiny... View More...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948.. 1948.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is rubbed, soiled & chipped with part of the surface of the front panel rubbed away. There are tears to the head of the jacket spine & the top corner of the front panel & the corners of the front flap have been clipped. [xi] & 115 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables, graphs & diagrams. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., (1923).. (1923).. Good. - Octavo, softcovers bound in light brown paper wraps backed with a limp brown cloth spine. The front cover is titled with a vignette in brown. The covers are creased with a small piece out from the bottom corner of the front cover and an ink marking. The chapters are spearately paginated:105 pages, 41 pages, 23 pages, 71 pages, 56 pages, and 23 pages respectively. Illustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs. The half-title is darkened and several page corners are creased. Good. The chapters include: I - Shotguns, Rif... View More...
- Four-page brochure [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide]. Softcover. The title page is illustrated with a black & flame-colored image of a rampaging elephant & its young, along with a black-and-white portrait of Frank Buck. The two center pages promote Buck's thrilling jungle stories of encountering and capturing dangerous wild animals with a border of black-and-white sketches of more animals on the attack, as well as native hunters. An account of Buck's career, a list of the animals he has captured and some tributes are included on the fourth page. There is a stain on page 3 & two small lig... View More...
New York: Outdoor Life Books, (1981).. (1981).. Very good. - Quarto, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are bumped. The top edge of the dust jacket is lightly chipped with a tear & creasing to the rear panel. viii, [i] & 341 pages. There is very light creasing to the top page corners. Illustrated in black & white. Very good.
Second edition, revised and updated. Dust jacket present. View More...
(Tacoma, WA: published by the author, June 1980).. June 1980).. Very good. - Quarto, stapled printed green wraps with image of a black bass on the front wrap. The wraps are lightly soiled with the extremities slightly faded. Title & pp. 47-78, pp. vii & viii & 1 plate in black & tan, plus blank pages with heading Notes. Very good.
This publication supplements the second edition, which was published in in May 1979 and reprinted in February 1980. View More...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1961).. (1961).. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth. The spine & extremities are faded. The covers are lightly rubbed with some tiny white marks & with some light staining to the front cover. 156 pages. Color frontispiece, 4 pages of black-and-white illustrations & diagrams in the text. The contents are very good.
Torino: Fratelli Bocca Editori, 1932.. 1932.. Fair. - Large octavo [approximately 10 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers with an illustration in blue & white mounted on the front wrap. The spine is perished. The wraps are darkened, bumped & chipped with a few small stains. The lower half of the front wrap is detached. vii, [i] & 195 pages. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. The text block is shaken and nearly disbound. Fair working copy, well worth binding. Scarce first edition.The last chapter of the text, which is in Italian, is about cowboys riding bu... View More...
- Large octavo, cloth backed boards, in dust wrapper. There are 3 tiny holes in the cloth of the rear joint. 344 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout. Light foxing to the top edge & the fore-edge of the book. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
London and NY: Hutchinson and Co. Ltd., 1951.. 1951.. Good. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt. The binding is spotted. 443 pp. The blanks are foxed. Illustrated with B&W plates. Good.
