Roderick willett (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Zustand: Good. 1st Ed. Good condition book with dust jacket. Complete DJ is clean with spine a little faded. Book has clean and bright contents.

Zustand: Good. Rev. Ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some minor edge wear and a little surface toning.

Zustand: Good. DJ may have small chips, fading and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

hardcover. 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. A good condition book including an acceptable dust jacket.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). 1975 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Pp375. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Spine-faded dust-wrapper previously taped to boards leaving tape-marks and damage to end-papers, owner's address label, browning to edges. A working copy only. "The product of a lifetime of experience by a recognised expert .who has for many years been shooting correspndent of The Field." All round how to do it manual of all types of British game shooting. Concludes with a chapter of recipes, with advice on cooking more or less everything you might shoot (and want to eat). Chapters include:- The shotgun; The cartridge; Gun and cartridge in the field; How to shoot your best; Safety in the shooting field; Clothing and equipment; Factors in shoot management; Management of rough shoots; Syndicates and their organization; Partridges: natural history; Partridges: conservation and management; Partridges: shooting; Pheasants: natural history; Pheasants: conservation and management; Pheasants: shooting; Grouse: natural history; Grouse moor management; Grouse shooting; Duck on an inland shoot; Woodcock; Snipe; Blackgame; Capercaillie; Ptarmigan; Hares and hare drives; Rabbits and rabbit control; Woodpigeon; How to make the most of a day's rough shooting; Shooting overseas and for overseas visitors; Gamebird diseases; Lawful and unlawful occasions; Game cookery (or the gourmet's concise guide to game). .…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Boards slightly rubbed/shelfworn. Contents a little musty but clean, tight and bright. Used.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1968). (1957) 1968 revised edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp242. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in slightly used price-clipped dust-wrapper. ".With observations on guns, proof marks, the art of shooting, dogs and their training, game rearing, diseases of game, and the techniques of successful shoot management including month by month duties on a rough shoot, also shooting and the law including the police shotgun certificate." Chapters include: The shooting scene; The gun; The shooter and his shooting; Gun dogs; Trianing a gun dog; The partridge; Pheasants; Grouse and blackcock; Various; Rough shooting I; Rough shooting II; Rough shooting III; Management of a rough shoot; Some diseases of game birds; Monthly duties of the amateur gamekeeper; Shooting and the law. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). 1975 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Pp375. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight spotting to edges. Good-plus in spine-faded dust-wrapper. "The product of a lifetime of experience by a recognised expert .who has for many years been shooting correspndent of The Field." All round how to do it manual of all types of British game shooting. Concludes with a chapter of recipes, with advice on cooking more or less everything you might shoot (and want to eat). Chapters include:- The shotgun; The cartridge; Gun and cartridge in the field; How to shoot your best; Safety in the shooting field; Clothing and equipment; Factors in shoot management; Management of rough shoots; Syndicates and their organization; Partridges: natural history; Partridges: conservation and management; Partridges: shooting; Pheasants: natural history; Pheasants: conservation and management; Pheasants: shooting; Grouse: natural history; Grouse moor management; Grouse shooting; Duck on an inland shoot; Woodcock; Snipe; Blackgame; Capercaillie; Ptarmigan; Hares and hare drives; Rabbits and rabbit control; Woodpigeon; How to make the most of a day's rough shooting; Shooting overseas and for overseas visitors; Gamebird diseases; Lawful and unlawful occasions; Game cookery (or the gourmet's concise guide to game). .…

First Edition. A tidy copy in tight binding; dust jacket spine faded Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1968). (1957) 1968 revised edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp242. B/w photograph plates, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slightly dusty but very good in dust-wrapper. ".With observations on guns, proof marks, the art of shooting, dogs and their training, game rearing, diseases of game, and the techniques of successful shoot management including month by month duties on a rough shoot, also shooting and the law including the police shotgun certificate." Chapters include: The shooting scene; The gun; The shooter and his shooting; Gun dogs; Trianing a gun dog; The partridge; Pheasants; Grouse and blackcock; Various; Rough shooting I; Rough shooting II; Rough shooting III; Management of a rough shoot; Some diseases of game birds; Monthly duties of the amateur gamekeeper; Shooting and the law. .…

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a part faded price clipped dust wrapper that is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, b&w plates, 375pp.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). 1975 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Pp375. B/w photographs and illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. "The product of a lifetime of experience by a recognised expert .who has for many years been shooting correspndent of The Field." All round how to do it manual of all types of British game shooting. Concludes with a chapter of recipes, with advice on cooking more or less everything you might shoot (and want to eat). Chapters include:- The shotgun; The cartridge; Gun and cartridge in the field; How to shoot your best; Safety in the shooting field; Clothing and equipment; Factors in shoot management; Management of rough shoots; Syndicates and their organization; Partridges: natural history; Partridges: conservation and management; Partridges: shooting; Pheasants: natural history; Pheasants: conservation and management; Pheasants: shooting; Grouse: natural history; Grouse moor management; Grouse shooting; Duck on an inland shoot; Woodcock; Snipe; Blackgame; Capercaillie; Ptarmigan; Hares and hare drives; Rabbits and rabbit control; Woodpigeon; How to make the most of a day's rough shooting; Shooting overseas and for overseas visitors; Gamebird diseases; Lawful and unlawful occasions; Game cookery (or the gourmet's concise guide to game). .…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and sun fading to spine.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. Small 8vo (132 x 203mm). Pp92. B/w illustrations by Bill Martin. Orange-brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped and used, previous owner's notes to rear fly-leaf. Good copy in used and spine-faded dust-wrapper. "It has been appreciated that the sharp staccato style of military authorship permitting the written word to be readily assimilated whilst standing to attention, is hardly suited to a potential gun-room primer whose reader normally assumes a more relaxed position in a deep armchair in front of a fire and only requires something to while away the idle hours or just keep the flies off his face till his wife summons him to dinner." "Gun safety is a subject which has for years worried those connected with shooting in this country. Gunmakers and gun vendors are constantly bombarded by novice and veteran sportsmen with enquiries for an authoritative handbook covering all the essentials of safety drill and etiquette in the shooting field. So it is perhaps surprising that this book, so sensibly yet entertainingly written by Roderick Willett, so aptly and wittily illustrated with line drawings, photographs and diagrams, is literally the only book of its kind." .…

Zustand: Good. Original brown boards, gilt lettered spine, price clipped dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.

Zustand: Good. Protective plastic cover over the jacket which is worn & marked. Light wear to the board edges. Very slight lean to the spine. Tanned & foxed textblock edge. Content is in good, clean condition.

Oln.m.OU. 408 S, m, Abbild. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 694.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition with dust jacket ex libris with usual markings - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardback, 8 x 5 inches. Light brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated red dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW spine faded, some minor rubbing to edges and rear. Not price clipped.) Cloth clean and smart. Neat author?s signature to front endpaper. Else inside pages all very clean and tight. 92pp. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Bill Martin.…

8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of brown tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price- clipped dustwrapper.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New Edition. Hardback Illustrated with line drawings and photosAstonishingly comprehensive .covers just about everything that a shooting man would want to know". All aspects of managing and using a rough shoot, with a certain amount on running a syndicate, gundog training, gundogs, shotguns and ammunition, game birds and the amateur keeper's annual calendar of work.…