temple perkins e a (10 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt spine titles; 8vo; 271 pp; illustrated with b/w photos plus 2 maps; color pictorial dust jacket. Stories of hunting elephant, both for conservation and also sport. The author was perhaps one of the most famous big-game wardens in the world, at the same time, considered one of the most daring and persistent hunters of big game. This is a reading copy only with dingy cloth covers; text block a bit cocked but internally clean. The jacket is intact with wrinkles on rear panel and was once taped to pastedowns.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. First Edition, Third Printing. Black cloth boards, faded lettering on spine, 271pp. Boards bear wear marks. Textblock clean and tight, bumped. Pencilled price mark on fflp, PON sticker inside back board. Preface by Col Sir James Sleeman. 40 illustrations including two maps (Uganda Protectorate and Western Uganda). All our books are triple wrapped or boxed, never shipped "naked" in a mylar bag!

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd reprint, the same year as the first edition. Preface by Col Sir James Sleeman. 271pp. Green cloth covered boards, the title faded to the spine. 40 b + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Memoirs of many years of big game hunting in Uganda, especially elephants, lions and buffaloes,

REPRINT, SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 271pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, sl bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor general soiling throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, top of spine missing, light tanning & soiling).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. the jacket is chipped, a few tears. mild foxing and some minor markings. all pages and plates are intact and presentable. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. 1st edition. The dust jacket is edge worn, has some small edge tears, chipped and marked. The boards are slightly edge worn. Tanning. It is in very good condition, excellent binding. MK. (r*fh). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paris, Payot, coll. "Bibliothèque Scientifique", 1956 ; in-8, 276 pp., demi-toile grise moderne à la Bradel, dos lisse, pièce de titre de chagrin vert, premier plat de couverture conservé. Bon exemplaire, relié. 1956.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. London: Andrew Melrose Ltd., 1953. First edition, third printing. Good/fair. Dedicated and signed by the author, scarce thus. D.j. with significant loss to top of spine and front cover, splits and minor losses, boards stained, contents largely clean and binding sound. Signed by Author.

Etat : Good. Inscribed by the author. A story of hunting, drama and adventures in Ugana. Temple-Perkins was regarded as one of the most famous and experienced big-game wardens in the world. With 40 b&w illustrations. some foxing to top edges. 271 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Reprint. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good. Foxing with some sunning to covers and verso. Chipping to spine. A couple of small tears to the edges. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt. Some bumping to head and foot of spine.

London: Andrew Melrose. 1955. 8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. xii, 271, 40 photographic plates; a little chipping to dustwrapper at head of spine, internally very fresh, very good indeed.Third printing inscribed by the author to title page. A vigorous defence of elephant hunting as a necessary conservation activity is followed by tall tales of safari escapades.