cuming e d editor (25 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : A good reading copy. Cassell and Co., London, 1928. Illustrated with one color plate, and b&w plates. 7.5" x 10". 228 pp. Red cloth, front cover dampmarked, foxed throughout. A collection of 20 stories of foxhunting by Somerville and Ross, Forbes, "Nimrod", Pease, "Brooksby", "Scrutator", Surtees, Osbaldeston, Vyner, Beckford, etc. Good - a reading copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a VG hardcover first edition copy in tan buckram, no DJ, 260 pages with index, untrimmed edges, 16 color & 75 black and white plates. Please note: some modest foxing of the text, not the plates. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.

Geo. Denholm Armour (illustrateur). 0-948560-15-0 The R.S. Surtees Society, Nunney, 1993. Hardcover. Blind stamped decorative beige boards. Gilt titled and gilt decorated spine. Gilt stamped titles and gilt stamped illustration to upper board. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Cellophane dustjacket. Previous owner's bookplate pasted onto the front pastedown. Bookplate partially tanned. Rear pastedown lightly foxed. Endpapers partially stained. Overall, the book is in a good condition. The dustjacket is chipped, stained and tanned and is in a fair condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Cook (sir) (illustrateur). 3rd printing (1926); cream c w/black titles; owner's lovely insc.; some toning of end papers; 260 clean, unmarked pages w/16 color plates (mostly of fox hunting scenes), 75 black & white plates (portraits, horses, hounds, etc), and a large folding map of Combe's Leicestershire and the surrounding country. Squire George Osbaldeston was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer.VERY Heavy item1.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 11 inches, lv + 260 pages plus ads, reprint July 1926, introduction by Sir Theodore Cook, sixteen color plates--largely of foxhunting scenes, 75 in black and white with many of horses and hounds, large folding map is Combe's Leicestershire and surrounding country, index, tan cloth over boards with brown title and illustration on lower portion of backstrip. Boards are damptstained and puckered, inner dampstains are scattered and confined to upper, lower and spine margins. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Decorative tan cloth, 16 color and 75 black and white illustrations, map. VERY GOOD covers rubbed, soiled and spotted, scattered foxing, a tight copy. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Colored Plates/half-tone Illus (illustrateur). 1st. 359 clean, unmarked page;red c. w/gilt decorations/titles; sunned spine; moderate wear at exremities; 4 single-sided colour plates;+ half-tonme illus.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Large hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Cloth is faded, and there are some dark stains along spine and front hinge. Stamping remains clear and bright. Bumped corners. Title page dated 1928. 304 pages. In good condition. Number 159 of a limited run of 175 copies. Pages are lightly foxed, but otherwise free of marks. Four color plates, including frontispiece. Nimrod was the pseudonym of Charles Apperley, a well known sportswriter. This collection contains essays on, unsurprisingly, his horses, but also hare-hunting, road accidents, coaching in France, and more.

Hardcover. Quarto, lv, 260 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is tan with brown print. In clear plastic sleeve with tears to top edge Boards in tan cloth with brown print. Fraying to spine caps and corners, smudging/shelf wear. Text block has has gilt top edge, (faded). Cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: "With sixteen illustration in colour, and seventy-five in black and white, and a map" title page; color frontispiece portrait, color and b&w plates. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. 1394437. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 1927, William Blackwood, London & Scribner's. Ills: In colour by George Denholm Armour & from contemporary prints. 8" x 10-3/8", 332 pgs. #130 of 230 copies. Gd hardcover, sporadic foxing throughout, cover binding faded, lite cvr soil. Due to size and weight of the book, extra postage will apply for all mail out of the U.S. and priority mail in the U.S.

Full Leather. Etat : Fine. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo.409pp. Bound into full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. Marble endpapers. Published as part of the African Collection.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good +. ARMOUR George Denholm 1864-1949 (illustrateur). Limited Edition. Small 4to, Ltd ed, VG, 1927, 28 pls. In red cloth, titles in gilt, edges faded very slightly, corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Spine, titles in gilt, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, couple of small marks and chips, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image by Armour to top cover. Internally, some light offsetting to eps, an edition limited to just 230 copies, (xxvi), [1], 2-332, 28 plates, of which 8 are coloured, printed by William Blackwood and Sons, teg remainder uncut. Surtees, was an author whose books ran counter to the currents of his age in their lack of idealism, absence of sentimentality, and almost wilful flouting of conventional moralism. His leading male characters were coarse or shady; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism. See ODNB.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. Large quarto. Owner name in pencil, some foxing else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Limited Edition. VG+, Ltd ed, 1927, 33 pls. In red cloth, gilt titles, faded lightly at edges, corners & edges lightly rubbed & bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, faded to spine, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image to front. Internally, an edition limited to just 250 copies, half title & coloured frontis present, [1], [5], (vi-xviii), [1], 2-341 pp, [1], 33 plates (of which 4 are coloured & 5 reproduced by kind permission of the V&A Museum), teg, remainder uncut, printed by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, teg, remainder uncut. A Sporting Classic. Apperley, [pseud. Nimrod], writer on sport, wrote at first under various pseudonyms (Acastus, Eques, and A), he published his first article for the Sporting Magazine as Nimrod in January 1822 and he subsequently usually used that nom de plume. See ODNB.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 100 copies on handmade paper with extra illustrations, sixteen Illustrations in colour, and seventy-five in black and white, and a map.This is No. 60. Marbled boards, worn around the edges.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. reprint (first published March 1926). Fawn coloured boards with lettering to front & spine. Pictorial image of knight on horse to base of spine.11.5ins x 9.5ins, lv,[iii], 260pp, 4pp book adverts plus folding map, 16pp colour plates and 59pp b&w illustrations(75 images). Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook (editor of the Field). Scattered light foxing. Armorial bookplate to front paste downdown. Mark to spine else VG. Nb heavy book(1.9k pre-packing), postage will be more than standard - please check with seller.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : poor. First Edition. Quarto. 250pp +index, illustrated, A very good copy in a very worn and chipped dust jacket which is taped internally. Rear inner hinge starting to crack.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. the boards are shelf worn and there are a couple of small minor tears in the cloth on the spine. the book has a previous owner's inscription and the early pages have mild foxing. the book is complete with all plates and the map at the rear. the binding is excellent. the condition is given in terms of the book's age. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 260 pages in very good condition. Black and white and colour plates throughout. Light foxing on the pages. Previous owner's signature and some glue residue on the fpdep. Some torn paper on the flyleaf where a bookplate used to be. Deckle edges, darkened, with faded blue publisher's stain on the head edges. Bound in brown cloth with brown titles. Boards are lightly scuffed and smudged, with a glue stain on the lower cover. Spine is lightly darkened and scuffed. Corners lightly bumped. SCARCE. 2nd printing. VG/- -. Book.

Etat : Good. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 3rd printing. 4to. lv,260pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate and gifter's inscription on pastedown. (horsemen, hunters, fox hunting, horse racing, autobiographies) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : NO. SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Edited, with Commentary, by E.D. Cuming; Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook with sixteen illustrations in colour, and seventy-five in black and white, and a map. George Osbaldeston. First Edition, third printing July 1926. Ex library Hardback NO Dust JAcket. Rebound by Library bright and clean copy.Illustrations with blind stamp. Map at rear in very good condition. U5B37.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. edition limited to 175 large paper copies, this number 100, very good copy in dustjacket,

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour (illustrateur). Limited Edition; First Printing. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. This is #180 of a limited editin of 230, describing hunting tours takens by Surtees in the early 19th century. Bound in red linens, with tipped in full color illustrations, deckle edges and an illustrated dust jacket, the book has light rubbing to the boards, as well as light age-toning and foxing. The DJ has some rubbing, light stains and and a closed tear; it is now in Mylar. ; Color and B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 332 pages.

First edition. 4to. ( 278mm. ) Pp. [5] vi - lv [1], [2], [1] 2 - 260. With a half-title. Plates [16] colour, [75] black and white, plus a map. Titlepage printed in red and black. Contents occasionally spotted. Half crimson red morocco over cloth backed boards, the spine, sunned, with five raised bands, the panels with gilt field sport designs, title stamped direct. Marbled endpapers. Henry Sotheran Ltd. Booksellers ticket on verso of front free endpaper. Presentation inscription to a previous owner in ink on one of the prelims reads " Peter | Christmas | 1969 | from | Sebastian " this is probably Sebastian Basil Joseph Ziani de Ferranti ( 1927 - 2015 ) he was chairman of the pioneering electronics company founded by his grandfather, and the creator of one of Britain's finest 20th-century country houses, the neo-Palladian Henbury Hall in Cheshire. The book was bought from a member of the family.