major simpson (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No edition remarks. 98 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to board edges. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Mild tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has losses and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 98pp.

Zustand: Good. Book has a slight lean with little wear to boards. Light toning to pages. DJ is toned with tears and some loss.

Zustand: Good. General wear to boards with marks. Content has light toning and spotting, No DJ.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt to spine, no dust wrapper, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in b&w by G D Armour, 220pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. blue boards with titles spine, minor bumping to spine ends, pen inscription front end-paper, 98pp, overall VG condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards, brown cloth spine. Small handling wear on cover and spine. White marks on front end paper. No jacket.

Zustand: Fair. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 85 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavier tanning toendpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Water staining to front board.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Some advice to young shooters: A series of interesting and instructive letters from Uncle to Nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. From the choice of his gun to the training of his dog, the tyro will find Major Dawson's book a mine of information". First edition, 1929. Gorgeous illustrations throughout by sporting artist Charles Simpson. Inscription on front endpaper and preliminary pages rather foxed/tanned but contents otherwise in very good bright condition. In the scarce dust jacket, not price-clipped (12/6 net) but rubbed to front cover and chipped at edges with small loss.

Red Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. "Some Advice to Young Shooters", (viii), 155pp, illustrated with drawings printed in green ink, foxing to edges and endpapers, occasionally to pages, red cloth, blue lettering to upper board and spine, spine sunned where there is loss to the dust jacket, unclipped dust jacket, loss to top edge of spine and part of front cover. A series of interesting and instructive letters from uncle to nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Shooting.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. G. D. Armour (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Fish - and Find Out. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Previous owners name in crayon to inside cover. Slight marks to cloth. Slight wear to corners of cloth. Green cloth with blue lettering. Contents: Salmon Fishing - Preliminary Consideration. Thoughts For Early Days. The Playing of Fish With a Rod. Those Little Matters Which Count. Fish Sense. Gillies, Gaffs and Gadgets. Lifelong Leaning. Wet-Fly Trouting in Springtime. Nymphing and Notes on Wading. A System for Wet Trout-Fly Choice. The Elements and the 'Short Rise'. Mayfly and Mother Nature. Sea-Trout, 'Slobbing', and Loch Fishing. Dry-Fly in June - Some Faults and Hints. Bulls and Fishermen - Advice Gratis. Natural Fly Recognition and its Importance. How and How Not to Gain Knowledge in Sport. High Lights of Dry-Fly Fishing. The Art of Upstream Worming: The Curtain Lowers. Illustrations. 220 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. Edgar Backus, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Incorporating 'The Druid's' Chapters from 'Silk and Scarlet', and 'Post and Paddock', and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston. With 40 full-page illustrations, 25 of them in color, and many vignettes in black and white, by Charles Simpson. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Front board is slightly warped, top corner is lightly bumped, all other corners a bit turned. Pages are clean and unmarked with light foxing on first few and last few pages. Binding is tight, hinges are perfect. Good reading copy.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. The author of the 13/18th Hussars lately Equitation Officer R.M.C., Sandhurst. Covers all aspects of jumping of all types from Racing, Point to Point and Show Jumping. 29 line and wash full plate illustrations plus chapter vignettes by Charles Simpson. 164 pages. End papers lightly browned. Some splash marks to front board otherwise very good throughout.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine. "Privately printed for some of my friends at Christmastide, 1924, this copy intended for William A. Heath Esq., With the best wishes of James Simpson." Signed by Simpson. William Heath's name also handwritten. Octavo, green leather covers with gilt titles, rulles, and emblem; marbled endpapers.Top edge gilt; gilt innner dentelles. Binding signed by Donnelley, Chicago. 46 pages. Frontispiece illuatration of the Memorial; also, a portrait of Coolidge. Fine condition. Military 092508B.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on sports and hunting. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, fourteen colour plates, twenty-three monochrome plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of writings on hunting and equestrian sports, with reference to the life and letters of Richard Christian, or Dick Christian, an English horseman. This work contains writing from Reverend John Empson, a British clergyman known and respected by Christian, who was best known as the famous "Flying Parson", because of his insatiable and nerveless passion for hunting. Written and edited by Major Thomas Guy Frederick Paget, a British soldier and Conservative Party politician, and Lionel Irvine, a British editor. Illustrated by Charles Walter Simpson, an English painter. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally. firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Excellent history, this being an original copy published in 1931. 511pp., 44 maps& plans, Roll of honour, awards. Black cloth with some uneven fading, still very good copy. Tipped-in letter (probably roneod) to all subscribers and signed by author (facsimile.) 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. Incorporating The Druids Chapters from Silk and Scarlet and Post and Paddock and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine Boards a little bumped to edges but clean and tight With 40 fullpage illustrations 25 of them in colour and many vignettes in black and white Map to rear endpaper A good tight copy pp 292. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Privately printed January 1924 Binding: Hardcover IN SLIPCASE SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, VERY GOOD $NRP.

Limited edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter burgundy leather, donkey brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine with gilt fox to the front cover, gilt upper edges. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Hand written number 72 of 100 Limited Edition Copies, printed upon special paper. Contains 292 printed pages of text with 40 full page illustrations, 25 in colour and many monochrome vignettes, hunting map to the rear paste down. Leather spine ends rubbed, foxing to the free end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow chips to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Elcock, Howard; De Walton, John; Abbey, S.; Small, A.G.;Bates, Leao; Wood, Stanley L.; Oakdale, E.G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Pitcher, S.;Holmes, F.; Brightwell, L.R. (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Was it Coincidence? - a Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - an unusual American detective case; The Wily Coyote - interesting stories of these hated coyotes and their ways in the Western States; McNeill's Lapse - a good man falls victim to temptation; Climbing the White Elephant near the Tom Reed Mine at Oatman, Arizona - article with nice photos; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone (part II) - tales from two young naval officers who set off to see the world with five dollars between them; Lion Hunting in Somaliland - article with many photos; The Cruise of the Dream Ship - part IV of Ralph Stock's sailing through the enchanted South Sea Islands - article with nice photos; Trapped by a Flash-flood in a canyon; Down the River - two youngsters seek fortune and adventure running a little launch on a New Zealand river; Robert Tipp's terrible ordeal at the top of a lofty flagstaff; My Visit to Mexico - why the author didn't want to go and now likes Mexico less than ever; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - the author's experiences with the Shawia Berbers of Algeria - article with great photos; That Donkey! - the pathetic story of a journalist and the donkey he bought; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine For Everybody, April 1921 Zulu witch doctor and his magic; The Man Who Hesitated - a dramatic story from West Africa; Comacchio on the Adriatic - the Venice of the Eels - article with photos; The Brophy Will Case - a.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Little Rock, Arkansas: Tunnah & Pittard, Printers, 1899. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 488 pages. Frontispiece portrait. Good.Hinges cracked else good binding; clean pages; some wear. First hand acount of the Cibil War by a Confederate officer. Author fought at theWilderness, Spottsylvania, and Petersburg. Scarce. "These reminiscences by a soldier who fought in both South Carolina and Mississippi units are lengthy but unbalanced."--Nevins I, page 84. References:Dornbusch Vol 3, 1222, Howes D-573. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .