Savory alan (36 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ is clean but has light edgewear and sunning to the spine. Contents are clean and bright. Free from markings or inscriptions.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Ppxii,183. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt, dust-wrapper price L3.75. Ex library, usual faults. Working copy in complete dust-rapper. "I sometimes wonder how on earth I ever survived the rough and tumble way I started my shooting career. It was obvious I did everything wrong from the start. The start began at the age of eight. .I used to spend all my time away from school working, or thinking I was, harrowing with the horse or trying to plough. .[A double-barrelled muzzle loader was produced] from a pile of junk in the shed next to the cow shed. .We took it to pieces and washed the barrels out with boiling water. Then we got it together and loaded it with a clay pipe of black powder, a wad of the Eastern Daily Press, a pipeful of shot and rammed the whole lot down with more paper .We then put on two caps, tied the gun to a tree and fired it by pulling the triggers with a long piece of string. .The stock, which was full of worm holes stood the test without shedding a sprinkle of sawdust and the gun was deemed safe." "Alan Savory's latest collection or reminiscences about shooting, fishing and natural history in general ranges from Norfolk to the West Country." Chapters include: Guns, rods and dogs; The magic of wildfowling; Broadland; Fishing; A mixed bag. .…

Zustand: Good. 1960. First Edition. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Grey pictorial paper covered boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Zustand: Fair. 1953. First Edition. 148 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and notable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Moderate water staining to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped.…

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No jacket. The Boydell Press, 1983. Paperback, 8vo, 149pp. Pages yellowed, covers slightly faded and worn. A fair copy. 0851152147/0.2uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).…

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,450grams, ISBN:0851150292.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in good condition- with jacket. Pages in good clean condition. Jacket is in clean and bright condition. Inscription on front endpaper. A collection of reminiscences about shooting, fishing and natural history in general ranging from Norfolk to the West Country.…

Zustand: Good. 1953. First Edition. 148 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with large tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1960). 1960 1st edition. Square 8vo (175 x 217mm). Pp126. B/w photographs, folding map. Printed paper-covered boards. Some browning, staining and wear to boards as usual. Good-plus in original clear-plastic dust-wrapper. The author and his wife made a five-month tour of south-east Africa, looking at wildlife and fishing for tigerfish, trout and South African sea fish. Chapters include:- Thunder in the air; Tunny fishing off the Cape Peninsula; We leave Cape Town; David and animals; The little ballerina; After tiger fish in the Zambezi; Miles and miles of trees; Round about Salisbury; The ruins of Zimbabwe; Bird sanctuary; Trout fishing in Basutoland; Zululand Reserve; Crocodile trouble at St. Lucia; The green hills of the Transkei; Round about Port Elizabeth; Fishing for black bass in a flooded hayfield; Elephants and fish; The elf of Plettenberg Bay; Knysna and Hermanus; The swallows go north. .…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth now mylar-sleeved. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 180 p. : ill. Subjects: Hunting Great Britain. Fishing. 1 Kg.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Ppxii,183. B/w photograph plates. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Minor faults but good-plus in price-clipped dust-wrapper. "I sometimes wonder how on earth I ever survived the rough and tumble way I started my shooting career. It was obvious I did everything wrong from the start. The start began at the age of eight. .I used to spend all my time away from school working, or thinking I was, harrowing with the horse or trying to plough. .[A double-barrelled muzzle loader was produced] from a pile of junk in the shed next to the cow shed. .We took it to pieces and washed the barrels out with boiling water. Then we got it together and loaded it with a clay pipe of black powder, a wad of the Eastern Daily Press, a pipeful of shot and rammed the whole lot down with more paper .We then put on two caps, tied the gun to a tree and fired it by pulling the triggers with a long piece of string. .The stock, which was full of worm holes stood the test without shedding a sprinkle of sawdust and the gun was deemed safe." "Alan Savory's latest collection or reminiscences about shooting, fishing and natural history in general ranges from Norfolk to the West Country." Chapters include: Guns, rods and dogs; The magic of wildfowling; Broadland; Fishing; A mixed bag. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shooting, fishing and natural history from Norfolk to the West Country, in the company of gifted writer Savory. All in VG clean, crisp and bright internal order. Smart green boards with bright silver titling to spine. Light fading to extremities. VG unclipped d/j, lightly worn, price to fly crossed through with pen. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 183pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Red hard cover - Good+. In DJ - small tears to edges/fading/Fair. 180 pages plus additional illustrations. Content Good+. (374g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. shelf wear on boards. one sticker and inscriptions.light foxing. all pages intact. good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. The boards are slightly shelf rubbed and age related marks are visible. Internally clean and tightly bound. There is a fold out map after page 120. Complete with 126 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Ex Library missing front endpage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair/Good. 1st Edition. Green hard cover - Good. In DJ - spine fading/closed tear to front/light wear edges/Fair-Good. 183 pages with additional illustrations. Content Good. (413g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, no inscriptions, in an unclipped, worn dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and creased and chipped with significant loss at to the front cover xii + 148 pages, frontispiece plus 15 photos on plates.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 18pp. Fine in white stapled wrappers. A booklet recreated from a reading held at the First Methodist Church in Santa Barbara on July 23, 1967 sponsored by the Santa Barbara Women for Peace, New Politics, SANE, University Committee on War, Unicorn Press and the Community Council to End the War in Vietnam. Includes poems by Philip Levine, Robert M. Hyde, Lissa Shauvin, Elizabeth Bartlett, Neysa Turner, Peter Whigham, Gavin Hyde, Laurence Fixel, Teo Savory, Tom Mooney, Alan Brilliant, and Daniel Yashinsky.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs. Binding A. Cloth-effect red boards, spine titled in gilt. Various minor faults else good-plus in frayed dust-wrapper. Norfolk wildfowling and game shooting, pike, trout and eel fishing. Chapters include: Ragmuffin dog; North African interlude; Blue days; North Sea days; The shore shooter; The red dog; Fresh marshes and cold weather; Lazy fishing; Coypu Marsh; Teal and teal shooting; Pheasants in the reed-beds; Opening Day; The Brandy Hole flight pond; Flight-ponds and flood-water; The Bure and the Yare; The Tas and the Wensum; On a Sligo snipe bog. .…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 148pp. Frontis. Numerous b&w illustrations. 1st edition 1953. D/w slightly chipped with small losses. A pleasing copy. (bs129).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1956). 1956 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,180. B/w photographs. Binding B. Textured (pebbled effect) red cloth, spine titled in black. Slight use, slight browning to edges else very good in frayed dust-wrapper. Norfolk wildfowling and game shooting, pike, trout and eel fishing. Chapters include: Ragmuffin dog; North African interlude; Blue days; North Sea days; The shore shooter; The red dog; Fresh marshes and gold weather; Lazy fishing; Coypu Marsh; Teal and teal shooting; Pheasants in the reed-beds; Opening Day; The Brandy Hole flight pond; Flight-ponds and flood-water; The Bure and the Yare; The Tas and the Wensum; On a Sligo snipe bog. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1953). 1953 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppxii,148. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Boards faded, edges & end-papers browned. Good copy in poor dust-wrapper. "This is the tale of days and nights of enchantment spent with dog and gun in some of the wildest and loveliest corners of the British Isles. I was born and brought up among the marshes and shining waters of East Norfolk, a part of England that is still largely unspoiled, still a whisper of the ancient and beautiful England of the Saxon." Memories of wildfowling and rough shooting in Norfolk between the wars; the author's houseboat on Breydon Water, recollections of the old professional gunners, snipe shooting, war on otters and much else. Chapters include: The Norfolk scene; Dog and duck; The first duck; With the old gunners; September tides; Wells Next The Sea; Moonlight and east winds; Wild marshland; Island days; The Syndicate; Claxton marshes; War with the otters; Snipe shooting; When the sea broke through; Diving duck. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. First edition. xii, 148 pp. Green cloth with black lettering to the spine, in dustjacket. Photographs throughout. Fading to cloth at spine and edges. Dustjacket torn with some loss. Internally clean. 8vo.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back publisher's original illustrated paper covered boards, cerise lettering to the spine and front cover. 8vo 8½'' x 6¾'' 126 printed pages of text with fold-out map, thirty-two monochrome photographic illustrations on semi-glossy paper. Spine very slightly darkened dust wrapper and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. AFRICAN CONTINENT.…

Geoffrey Bles, London. 1953. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Illustrated and with black and white frontis. Green cloth with silver type to spine. Spine is browned and edges of boards are browned and bumped. Corner missing from top of front end paper. Pages browned with some foxing to edges. Overall a nice copy.…