pollard barclay smith (52 risultati)

Paperback. Illustrated By Philip Rickman (illustratore). First Edition As Such. Copyright Date: 1993 Sm Quarto, 1999, PP.48, As New, Both Covers Are French Folded But Miss Matched To Size Of Text Block By A Quarter Inch.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1999). (1939) 1999 paperback edition. Large 8vo paperback (187 x 268mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates by Philip Rickman. Covers 5mm (3/16") short of fore-edge - but still a fine unread copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. This edition has French-fold card covers which unfortunately fall 3/16" short of the fore-edge. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 12.95.

Condizione: Fair. 1945. No Edition Remarks. 48 pages. Grey dust jacket over orange cloth. Contains colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier foxing to free endpapers and pastedowns. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Dents to edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine/no DJ. Black leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Paste down photo on the front cover. Gilt page edges. 10.5x7.5 with 48 pp. Limited edition 102 of 2500. Illustrated by Philip Rickman.

Dark green leatherette, gilt. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated by Philip Rickman (illustratore). Limited edition. Limited to 2500 copies.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. This flawless copy is bound in dark blue leather with bright gold decoration surrounding a mounted color illustration, and titles and all edges gilt, the binding is tight as if unread, it is Number 627 in a Limited Edition of 2500 copies, illustrated with color plates by Philip Rickman, a great gift copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, quarto measuring 12" x 10", foxing to closed page edges o/w a very good tightly bound copy in a chipped and age-toned printed dust wrapper, tissue guarded colour plates by Philip Rickman and an additional chapter on Shooting in America by Eugene V Connett, 48 pages of text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, quarto measuring 12" x 10", mild foxing to closed page edges and endpapers else a very good tightly bound copy in a price clipped dust wrapper, small bookplate of a previous owner to front pastedown, text unmarked and clean, tissue guarded colour plates by Philip Rickman and an additional chapter on Shooting in America by Eugene V Connett, 48 pages of text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. The Derrydale Press, 1993. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Limited Edition, Derrydale Press. 1385 of 2500. Beautiful book! Limited edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DJ. Limited Edition, Derrydale Press. Leather covers are clean. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is clean, all edges gilt. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1993). (1939) 1993 edition. 4to (195 x 272mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates of game birds by Philip Rickman, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Colour engraving of pheasants to gilt decorated green faux leather, issued without a dust-wrapper. Limited to 2,500 numbered copies. Slight mark to cover but a near fine copy. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. A good plus hardcover. Twenty color plates by Philip Rickman, bright and clean, protected by tissue guards. Spine darkened, foxing to endpapers, edges, and margins of text pages.

pp.x, 48 with col. plates by Philip Rickman. 4to. Hardback. Damp marks to ends and lower margins o/w. contents fine. Original cloth boards vg., with some mottling and wrinkling back and front, extremities gently bumped and worn, sunning to rear board. An account of the welfare of wildfowl and the necessity of preservation amidst shooting for sport and commercial exploitation.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine Condition. One of 2500 copies printed by Douglas C. Mauldin.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1993). (1939) 1993 edition. 4to (195 x 272mm). Ppxii,48. Colour plates of game birds by Philip Rickman, marbled end-papers, gilt edges. Colour engraving of pheasants to gilt decorated green faux leather. Fine unread copy - still in publisher's box. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Believed First Edition. 48pp, no inscriptions, colour plates by Philip Rickman are all present. with tissue guards in place. Wrapper is price clipped and slightly rubbed especially to spine however there are no tears or chipping. Wrapper is now in a removable clear protective sleeve. Boards are undamaged. Hinges are tight, no turned over page corners. Some spotting to front and rear prelims and last page of text also edges of text block, but none to rest of text or plates. Happy to supply photos on request. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.

hardback, 4to, x,48pp text, 20 colour plates, foxing on page edges and grubby marks on Contents page, contents otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth, rubbed, Good conditon / no dustwrapper.

LeatherBound. Condizione: Fine/NO DUSTJACKET. Color Illustrations (illustratore). Ltd Edition. Lyon, MS: Derrydale Press. Fine/NO DUSTJACKET. 1993. Ltd Edition. LeatherBound. #666 of 2500 copies . 4to., 48 pp. .

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. Lyon, MS: The Derrydale Press, 1993. Limited edition, one of 2500 copies printed. Rich midnight blue bonded leather/leatherette printed in gilt with color illustration mounted on the front cover, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmark.Fne condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Derrydale Press, Lyon, 1993, reprint of the 1939 edition, with a chapter on shooting in America by Eugene V. Connett. Illustrated with color plates by Philip Rickman. 7.75" x 10.75". Green cloth, with a pasted-on color cover illustration. 48 pages of text + 20 plates. Natural history, and behavior of red and ruffed grouse, capercaillie, black game, partridge, quail, pheasant, wild turkey, woodcock, snipe, ducks and geese, with chapters on shooting in America by Connett and shooting in Great Britain by Pollard. Very good in very good wrapper.

Condizione: Good+; no dj. Cloth; 48p w 20 color plates by Rickman.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. With 20 coloured plates by Philip Rickman, 4to, original cloth, little soiled, pp. 48. PLEASE INQUIRE FOR POSTAGE PRICE OUTSIDE UK.

Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #103 of 2500. Limited Edition. Green leatherette boards with gold gilt upper & spine text- illustrated plate on upper. Gilt page edges. In publisher's plastic. Additional shipping cost required for insurance, amount according to USPS and destination.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Philip Rickman (illustratore). 1st. 30.0 x 24.0 cm. Pp. x, 48, 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. Original cloth, dust wrapper price-clipped, frayed and faded. Owner's details on front end papers.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Philip Rickman (illustratore). Limited Edition. Copy 281/2500 limited edition. x, 48pp, frontispiece and 19 coloured illustrations (one to a page and printed on one side of the page only), decorative end-papers. All edges gilt. Bound in decorative full green leather, gilt with full colour illustration on the front board. The four sections cover: grouse and black game; partridges and quail, and pheasant; wild turkey, woodcock and snipe, geese and ducks; Shooting in Great Britain, and Shooting in America. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1945, 1st edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 4to., 48pp., 20 fine coloured, tissue guarded plates by Rickman, a little foxing on edges & in text, very good, cloth, no dust jacket.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1945). (1939) 1945 edition. Large 4to (245 x 305mm). Ppx,48. Colour paintings by Philip Rickman. Red cloth, titled in black to front board, spine untitled. Slight wear and bumps to cloth, some pages slightly foxed. Very good in tanned and frayed dust-wrapper. "It is one of the signs and portents of our times that the future of many species of ducks should be less dependent on their fate at the hands of nature than at the hands of man. . Marshes are drained: bricks and mortar restrict the country, and where forty years ago (c1900) there was wild game, no wire fences and very little disturbance, to-day those conditions have gone. It is no good crying about it. The job of the present generation is to see that we stabilise affairs before they go too far." Hugh Pollard in the Introduction. The authors give the reader necessary background information for achieving this aim. Good colour illustrations. Chapters include: By Hugh Pollard - Grouse and Black Game; Partridges and Quail; Pheasants. By Phyllis Barclay-Smith - Wild Turkey, Woodcock and Snipe; Geese and Ducks. Shooting in Great Britain, by Hugh Pollard. Shooting in America, by Eugene V. Connett. .

Condizione: Good. 1st edition. Quarter pigskin over buckram, G+. x+46pp, 20 tissue guarded plates, printed on handmade paper with deckle edges, LIMITED to 125 copies this being copy 49, original pencil illustration by the artist on the limitation page, leather rather rubbed & worn to the spine, corners bumped, undertermined stain to the contents page. Ex libris Michael Holdway, with his memorial bookplate ( Lt Michael HH Holdway, Royal Engineers, killed in mine explosion, Qiryat Moskin, Palestine 1947 ), Ex Natural History Society with their ink stamp, a fair copy. Attractively produced guide to the game birds of Britain & North America with brief ornithological details on 6 groups of brids & an essay on shooting in the respective countries. 700 grams.