Jackson percy g (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 116.

Zustand: New. pp. 116.

Zustand: New. pp. 116.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Here are fourteen stories of animals, told by writers who know just how to spin a good yarn for youthful readers. With numerous black and white illustrations. Includes 'Grouse' - Davis Watson, 'Master Robert' - Davis Watson, 'Son of the Snow' - Ben Draper, 'Trapping a Bear' - Percy Dent, 'My First Spear' - Alice F. Jackson, 'Tracked by a Leopard' - George Surrey, 'The Alligator Hunt' - Harrie T. Clarke, 'The Spotted Monkey' - Percy Dent, 'A Lucky Shot' - G. M. Rogers, 'The Runaway Team' - G. R. Northey, 'Up for Auction' - T. C. Bridges, 'Won by a Head' - C. Bernard Rutley, 'A Schoolgirl Saved Me' - A. E. Seymour, 'A Musical Dog' - Herbert W. Green. DJ; Owner's Name inside. Dust jacket is worn with several tears; inscription on first page dated 1947. Pages foxing, readable condition. 192 pages. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover (no dust jacket). Fourth edition, revised. A few minor marks and bumps on boards and spine. Minor pen marking on front pastedown. 'Johnson, Matthew & Co.' stamp on FEP. Two very small marks on BEP. One or two slight marks on pages. Contents are clear. AF. Used.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 143 pages illustrated. A very good copy in red cloth. No previous ownership markings.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 132pp. Hardcover, no jacket. Ex-university library copy with associated library stamps. No annotations or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: Australia's [Cricket] Captain - William Maldon Woodfull - article with photo; Walter R. Hammond - One of the Greatest Batsmen England Ever Had - article with photo; How the 'Test' Team is Chosen; Head Downward in the Jaws of Death - a breath-taking story of peril and escape; False Pretences! - A Tale of the Olden Highway; Sports in Japanese Schools - interesting article with four photos; The Commemorative Stamps of the United States - Part IV; The Voice of Barton; Our Indian Tour - an interesting story of the Test Matches which were played between the M.C.C. team and All India last winter - article including photo of Major Naidu, captain of the Indian test team; Three Half Hitches - a sea story; Kings in the Making - excellent photo-illustrated article on the manufacture of cricket bats; My First Fight; The Return of the Flying Beetle (Continued); How To Become a First-Class Cricketeer - Part I; The Art of Fielding; The Airship Stowaway. pp. 641-704, xvi. Includes several pages of interesting ads and an interesting four-page insert bound in at back sponsored by the Lord's Day Observance Society which includes photos of nine famous "Sports Stalwarts who reverence God's Day". Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Spots of soiling to back cover and last few pages, otherwise a sound copy of this nice vintage issue which is heavy on cricket-related content for boys.; Illustrator; 4to. Illustrated by Briscoe, E.E.; Webb, Arch; Lumley Savile; Strange, Robert;Teek (illustrator).…

Two. vols. xvi, 453, [1]; x, 443, [1] pp., plus 2 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp. both vols., illustrated title pages, plates, text illustrations, photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher's cloth, white & black lettering front covers & spines, gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose (some minor soiling, rubbing, minor bumping to a few corners, slight fraying head & foot of spines), still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton, w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns, Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library, featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant, buffalo, lion, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, ostriches, giraffes, lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic, the Caucasus, Alps, and substantial portion for hunting in India.…