british sports sportsmen series (6 résultats)

(Hardcover, 1914). 1914 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp593. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding B. Two-tone cloth binding (half-bound green buckram over beige buckram boards), spine & upper board titled in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers with green cloth strip to hinges, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Some wear, inner hinges tender, frontispiece & title-page loose, minor damp-staining to a corner. Still a good copy - no. 308 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. The third volume in a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. The first 172 pages are on big game hunting; the following 166 pages are concerned with angling. There are a further 192 pages of short biographies of 186 "Celebrities With The Rifle," and 60 pages on 47 noted anglers, "Sportsmen With The Rod," most of which include a portrait photograph of the subject. Chapters on big game hunting by F.C. Selous, James Sutherland, J.C.B. Statham, H. Frank Wallace, J. Turner-Turner, C.R.E. Radclyffe, C. Phillipps-Wolley and others. Chapters on angling by R.B. Marston, F.G. Morgan, Col. R.F. Meysey-Thompson, Cecil Braithwaite, John Holt Schooling, J. Turner-Turner, J.C. Rokeby-Hallen, Rev. H.T. Adams, F.G. Richmond, Arthur R. Price and F.G. Aflalo. Brief biographies, usually with a portrait, of "Celebrities with the rifle" and "Sportsmen with the rod." This were mostly penned by the individual concerned and were presumably offered as an incentive to subscribe to the series. This is volume 3 in a 13-volume series (though bookseller Peter Harrington lists a set of 16 works in 17 volumes). .

(Hardcover, 1914). 1914 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp593. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding A. Original red full morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt and blind rules to boards, inner dentelles gilt, titles, gilt crest to upper board, marbled endpapers with red cloth strip to hinges, all edges gilt, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Head & tail of spine rubbed but a good-plus copy - no. 52 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. The third volume in a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. The first 172 pages are on big game hunting; the following 166 pages are concerned with angling. There are a further 192 pages of short biographies of 186 "Celebrities With The Rifle," and 60 pages on 47 noted anglers, "Sportsmen With The Rod," most of which include a portrait photograph of the subject. Chapters on big game hunting by F.C. Selous, James Sutherland, J.C.B. Statham, H. Frank Wallace, J. Turner-Turner, C.R.E. Radclyffe, C. Phillipps-Wolley and others. Chapters on angling by R.B. Marston, F.G. Morgan, Col. R.F. Meysey-Thompson, Cecil Braithwaite, John Holt Schooling, J. Turner-Turner, J.C. Rokeby-Hallen, Rev. H.T. Adams, F.G. Richmond, Arthur R. Price and F.G. Aflalo. Brief biographies, usually with a portrait, of "Celebrities with the rifle" and "Sportsmen with the rod." This were mostly penned by the individual concerned and were presumably offered as an incentive to subscribe to the series. This is volume 3 in a 13-volume series (though bookseller Peter Harrington lists a set of 16 works in 17 volumes). .

(Hardcover, 1914). 1914 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp593. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding B. Two-tone cloth binding (half-bound green buckram over beige buckram boards), spine & upper board titled in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers with green cloth strip to hinges, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Some rubbing & spotting to cloth but a very good copy - no. 280 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. The third volume in a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. The first 172 pages are on big game hunting; the following 166 pages are concerned with angling. There are a further 192 pages of short biographies of 186 "Celebrities With The Rifle," and 60 pages on 47 noted anglers, "Sportsmen With The Rod," most of which include a portrait photograph of the subject. Chapters on big game hunting by F.C. Selous, James Sutherland, J.C.B. Statham, H. Frank Wallace, J. Turner-Turner, C.R.E. Radclyffe, C. Phillipps-Wolley and others. Chapters on angling by R.B. Marston, F.G. Morgan, Col. R.F. Meysey-Thompson, Cecil Braithwaite, John Holt Schooling, J. Turner-Turner, J.C. Rokeby-Hallen, Rev. H.T. Adams, F.G. Richmond, Arthur R. Price and F.G. Aflalo. Brief biographies, usually with a portrait, of "Celebrities with the rifle" and "Sportsmen with the rod." This were mostly penned by the individual concerned and were presumably offered as an incentive to subscribe to the series. This is volume 3 in a 13-volume series (though bookseller Peter Harrington lists a set of 16 works in 17 volumes). .

(Hardcover, 1913). 1913 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp359. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding B. Two-tone cloth binding (half-bound green buckram over beige buckram boards), spine & upper board titled in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers with green cloth strip to hinges, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Quite well-used, inner hinges tender with initial signature loose, slight damp-staining to one corner. Despite all this, a good copy. No. 472 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. One of a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. Essays on all aspects of shooting and stalking by Horace G. Hutchinson, B.J. Warwick, J.W. Marples, "A country gunmaker," G.A. Schofield, George Manners, Boswell G. Jalland, J.C. Rokeby Hallen, J. Turner-Turner, G.C. Macrae, Allan Gordon Cameron, John Bourne and Col. Vincent J. Applin. More than half of the book (pages 173 to 359), is taken up with short biographies of "Celebrities with the Gun," most of them with portraits. .

(Hardcover, 1913). 1913 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp359. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding B. Two-tone cloth binding (half-bound green buckram over beige buckram boards), spine & upper board titled in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers with green cloth strip to hinges, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth has some staining, particularly of rear board, end-papers browned. A good copy. No. 277 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. One of a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. Essays on all aspects of shooting and stalking by Horace G. Hutchinson, B.J. Warwick, J.W. Marples, "A country gunmaker," G.A. Schofield, George Manners, Boswell G. Jalland, J.C. Rokeby Hallen, J. Turner-Turner, G.C. Macrae, Allan Gordon Cameron, John Bourne and Col. Vincent J. Applin. More than half of the book (pages 173 to 359), is taken up with short biographies of "Celebrities with the Gun," most of them with portraits. .

(Hardcover, 1913). 1913 1st edition. Folio (285 x 390mm). Pp359. Illustrated with photogravure & b&w photograph plates, including portraits, title-page printed in red and black. Binding B. Two-tone cloth binding (half-bound green buckram over beige buckram boards), spine & upper board titled in gilt, gilt rules, marbled endpapers with green cloth strip to hinges, bevelled edges. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Cloth has a little general wear, end-papers browned. A good copy. No. 403 of 1000. Very heavy and will entail extra postage if mailing overseas. One of a lavish series of books by and about leading sportsmen of the day. Essays on all aspects of shooting and stalking by Horace G. Hutchinson, B.J. Warwick, J.W. Marples, "A country gunmaker," G.A. Schofield, George Manners, Boswell G. Jalland, J.C. Rokeby Hallen, J. Turner-Turner, G.C. Macrae, Allan Gordon Cameron, John Bourne and Col. Vincent J. Applin. More than half of the book (pages 173 to 359), is taken up with short biographies of "Celebrities with the Gun," most of them with portraits. .