Henry p davis foreword (7 risultati)

First edition (not stated per publisher's standard practice). 59 pages. Hardcover: H 25.5cm x L 17cm. Dust jacket separated along spine which has paper loss of bottom 10cm and top 4cm; soiled and toned panels and flaps mostly intact but still with chipping particularly at corners; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Off-white cloth with some staining/soiling to boards; gilt stamped dog vignette at front board center and spine's gilt stamping all remain fairly bright. Dark purple top edge; light foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge; occasional foxing spots to interior pages. Binding is firm. A very good copy in only a fair dust jacket. Features three fox-hunting reminiscences: "The Stranger" by Marcellus L. Davis, "Tate's Band" by Henry P. Davis, and "E-String" by C.T. Davis - Charles T. Davis. With a Foreword by renowned Tennessee outdoor writer and columnist Nash Buckingham. Dardanelle, Arkansas native Marcellus L. Davis served as American consul general to the British West Indies during President Grover Cleveland's administration and was also judge of the Arkansas fifth judicial circuit. The book's other two contributors were the judge's sons - Henry Davis was a newspaper and magazine columnist/editor as well as secretary of the American Wildlife Institute and Charles Davis was Arkansas poet laureate from 1923 to 1945.…

Reprint limited edition of 2500 unnumbered copies (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). xxii, 227 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket presumably as issued. Dark maroon boards; bright gilt stamping to front board and spine with former also decorated with circular color pictorial paste-on of a drake mallard; mild bumping at spine ends. Light soiling to top edge and fore-edge; faint foxing to front and rear free endpapers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. With Foreword by Henry P. Davis, a b/w portrait frontispiece, and ten other b/w plates on seven unpaged leaves. A reprint of the classic Nash Buckingham book which first published in 1938 by the original New York City-based Derrydale Press founded by publisher, author, and outdoorsman Eugene V. Connett III and which operated from 1926 to 1942. The reborn Derrydale Press of Lyon, Mississippi was founded by Douglas C. Mauldin in 1988 and was dissolved in 1999. Mauldin's Derrydale was an interesting but somewhat obscure publishing experiment as his reprints were certainly well crafted and sated pent-up demand for titles that were difficult to obtain for many of Connett's Derrydale print runs were fairly modest in number. However, Mauldin's enterprise may not have proven lucrative as his print runs probably exceeded the then current demand for this bookseller recalls a number of Lyon imprint Derrydales as being available as remainders back in the early to mid 1990s. Educated at Harvard and the University of Tennessee, Nash Buckingham was a famed Memphis sportsman, magazine outdoor writer, and conservationist who authored a number of still popular books on hunting and fishing in the South. {Shelf-SportsBox06}.…

#676 of a reprint edition limited to 2500 copies (originally published 1938 by The Derrydale Press). xxii, 227 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dark maroon dust jacket rubbed with some nicks, shallow chips, and creasing at edges. Dark maroon boards with bright gilt stamping to front board and spine, short scrape and ding at front board's top edge. Touch of foxing and soiling to fore-edge and top edge; light crease to title page; light soiling at fore-edge margins of pages 102-103. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good copy in a good+ dust jacket. With frontispiece and Foreword by Henry P. Davis. Handwritten copy number and limitation statement provided upon copyright page.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Hard Cover -- FINE -- Burgandy cover with gilt lettering. Beautiful paste-down -- 227 pages -- Limited Edition of 2,500.

Full Leather. Condizione: Fine. Limited edition. 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 227pp. Bound in full blue leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine. Limited to 3000 copies printed for the Premier Collection, of which this is copy 12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Fine with very good to fine glassine dust jacket. Full leather dark blue decorative binding. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at top and bottom back edges. 227 pages plus eleven illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Printing of First Trade Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. First trade edition of the 1938 Derrydale Press original. Very Good condition but for brown speckles (foxing) on a few pages. Otherwise clean, square, tight, and unmarked. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Buckingham and 9 other photos. By the author of De Shootinest Gent'man. Bound in the original black cloth. the front cover is embossed with an image of a hunter aiming his rifle at birds in flight. See Siegel 128. First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 192pp.…