stockley col (19 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Jacket Has Some Chips And Rips In It, Fraying Along The Edges, And Light Soiling. Book Binding Is Good, A Few Pages Have Some Pen Marks Highlighting Particular Paragraphs About Trophy Animals. This Is A Very Good Reading Copy. "In This Book, Col Stockley Explodes Several Popular Beliefs. One Is That There Is Little Or Not Danger In Photographing Big Game. Writing With Forty Year's Experience Of Actual Hunting, He Declares That Photography Is Even More Dangerous Than Shooting.".

Condizione: Good. 1948. First Edition. 182 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Includes many black and white photographs of wildlife by the author.

First edition. 10 x 7 1/2 inches, green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine and front board, 182 pp., 75 b/w photo illustrations. Good plus (focal insect damage to board edges, moderate insect staining to top edge of book block, mildly warped boards, mildly bumped fore-edge of book block; offsetting to endpapers; otherwise clean internally and binding tight). No dustcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by C. H. Stockley (illustratore). First Edition. Dark green bds with gilt titles to spine and upper, spine dulled, a few surface marks to bds, rear panel has very sl bump to top edge at middle, sl rub to spine ends, corners very gently bumped, thin line white mark to rear outer edge, tanned and foxed text block edge, some leaf edges also, inscr to ffep. ; 250x190mm; 182 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by the author with photographs. Clean, unmarked copy, solid binding, overall in excellent condition, edge of text block mildly foxed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Printing. 254p, ills, map on e/ps. A very fine, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. 182 pages (complete). By the end of the war years the predeliction for full scale hunting in Africa was on the wane. The incipient hobby of photographing wildlife was in the ascendant. This book was a timely encouragement. The dustjacket is worn and torn and creased. It is whole and intact. The board cover is dutiful. There is some mild scuffing to its healthy covers. The contents are foxed throughout. The papertrims are also foxed. The contents are genial, companionable, eager, at times thrilling, clear, certain and comfortable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, Country life limited 1948. In-8 relié toile de 182 pages Illustrées de planches hors texte. La toile est abimée. Très bon état.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condizione: CONDITION - used/fair. 1st Edition. 254 Pages. Illustrated. 2/3 Minor Pin Holes. External Wear.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 4to. 1948. 182pp. Owner's name to f.e.p. Foxing to fore-edges and sporadic foxing to pages. Good in original green cloth gilt. Light wear to edges and some minor marks otherwise good and gilt bright. D/w chiipped and torn with minor loss. Creased and browned. Fair. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: No d.j. 1st Edition. 254,[ii index] pp. Original blue/green hardback covers, black titles. Well illus. with b/w photographs throughout. Map end-papers. No inscriptions, fading, wear or marks. A lovely copy. Clean throughout/.

254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Poor attempt to remover private library label from verso of front endpaper. Internally very good but boards and spine rubbed and marked.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 218mm). Pp254 + 2pp ads. B/w photograph plates, end-paper maps. Blue-green cloth, upper board and spine titled in black. Snag to slightly worn and tanned spine, slight browning to end-papers, preliminaries and edges. Good, lacks dust-wrapper. "This book has been written for the man of moderate means, and with the intention of showing that the camera and the rifle are not incompatible companions of a hunting trip. The telephotos of living animals, not one of which has been taken from a hide, are intended to give some idea of the country which they inhabit and the circumstances under which a sportsman is likely to see them; also to draw attention to the very interesting forms of animal life to be met with round the camp and on the march. Many of these photographs have appeared in the Field, Game and Gun, The Illustrated Weekly of India." Deer of various sorts, bears, wild sheep and goats in the northern states of India and what is now Pakistan. Several binding variations are known including dark blue cloth and mid blue-green cloth, some are titled in black whilst others are titled in gilt. This copy is the mid blue-green cloth with black titles. "[The author] provides chapters on various game to be stalked, how to stalk and where to stalk. While most of the text concerns a how-to approach, the author does include brief vignettes of his own experiences hunting goral, bear, tiger, barasingh, and other species." (Czech). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1936). 1936 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 218mm). Pp254 + 2pp ads. B/w photograph plates, end-paper maps. Blind-stamped titles and ruled borders to blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Stains to front and rear boards, slight foxing to end-papers, preliminaries and edges else clean internally, good copy. Chip from spine of frayed dust-wrapper. "This book has been written for the man of moderate means, and with the intention of showing that the camera and the rifle are not incompatible companions of a hunting trip. The telephotos of living animals, not one of which has been taken from a hide, are intended to give some idea of the country which they inhabit and the circumstances under which a sportsman is likely to see them; also to draw attention to the very interesting forms of animal life to be met with round the camp and on the march. Many of these photographs have appeared in the Field, Game and Gun, The Illustrated Weekly of India." Deer of various sorts, bears, wild sheep and goats in the northern states of India and what is now Pakistan. Several binding variations are known including dark blue cloth and mid blue-green cloth, some are titled in black whilst others are titled in gilt. This copy is the mid blue-green cloth with black titles. "[The author] provides chapters on various game to be stalked, how to stalk and where to stalk. While most of the text concerns a how-to approach, the author does include brief vignettes of his own experiences hunting goral, bear, tiger, barasingh, and other species." (Czech). Scarce in a dust-wrapper in any condition. .

Covering author's extensive hunting in the Himalayas, Kashmir, Ladakh, Sindh, Baltistan and elsewhere after Ibex, Markhor, Tahr, Shapu, Bharal, Tsine, Bison, Tiger, Leopard, Bear, Sambhar, Serow, Nilgai and other game. Illustrated with photographs, decorated red cloth, VG.

254pp. Index. 37 b/w photographs. Emphasis on photography. Very good in the original blue cloth.

1st Edn, 254 pages, illus, map end papers, vg-.

1st Edn, 254 pages, illus, advs, head of spine bumped, vg.