fleming john arnold (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Zustand: Good. A lot of dirty marks, a crease and some shelf wear on cover. Content is fine.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:0854097783.

1st ed. reprinted. Good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, xix, 299 pages, 60 unnumbered leaves of plates : 60 illustrations ; 24 cm. Subject; Pottery Scotland. 3 Kg.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1974). (1934) 1974 reprint. 4to (210 x 280mm). Ppxv,114. B/w photographs, bibliography. Red boards. Dust-wrapper yellowed and covered in adhesive plastic. Edges slightly browned but a good-plus copy. "His (the author's) close observations of the psychology of his hawks are invaluable. While his practical knowledge and his description of wing-power and how it operates are illuminating, his work is indeed a valuable contribution to the art of flying as well as bird life." Bob Dalton, in the introduction to his Falconry Heritage Series edition, while praising Fleming's knowledge of flight and aviation, criticises his anthropomorphism and finds much fault with his knowledge as a falconer. .

4to. XV, (1), 114, (2) pp. With photographic frontispiece and 48 photographic illustrations on 19 plates. Contemporary full green cloth with giltstamped hawk to front cover and giltstamped spine-title. First edition, one of 350 copies signed by the author (this is number 277). - A practical guide to falconry by the industrial chemist, journalist, author, politician, and keen amateur falconer and golfer Fleming (1871-1966), including a glossary of falconry terms as well as observations on the relationship between hawk and falconer. It features "some excellent photographs of the birds in natural settings" (US Air Force Academy), including a hooded merlin, the author with his kestrel, falcons, hawks, merlins, and buzzards attending to their young, as well as birds in flight, and falconers with their animals, including a group of men from Tiwana in Pakistan. - Somewhat brownstained throughout. Handwritten ownership by Charles Henry Stanley Garton (b. 1920), dated Eton 1934, to front pastedown. Clipped publisher's advertising is loosely enclosed. - US Air Force Academy Library Catalogue 27, 4. Barber 22. OCLC 561016854.