Silver hackle (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1928. First edition. xi, 295pp., 3 pages of advertisements, 7 full-page black and white illustrations, and many illustrations within the text. This is the first-hand account of a man's adventures in big-game hunting in India, including tigers. It was published using the author pseudonym "Silver Hackle", who has since been identified as Albert George Shuttleworth. He also wrote the book, "Indian Jungle Lore And The Rifle: Being Notes On Shikar And Wild Animal Life." It includes the following chapters: Tigers, A Man-eating Panther, The Crafty Lumbwana, Wanderings in the Sewaliks, The Life of Ursus Labiatus (The Sloth Bear), The End of the Chilpi Shaitan, The Spotted Terror, A Small Shoot in the Lower Himalayas, A Little Bit of Poaching, My First Bison, Types of Native Shikaris, and Horns and Antlers. The book is bound in the original yellow-brown cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board and a red illustration of a tiger's head on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and soiling to the boards and patches of darkening and bubbling to the cloth on the rear board. The titling on the spine is very worn and is now indistinct and the titling on the front board is also worn. The corners are lightly bumped and the spine ends are more heavily bumped with a little damage to the cloth at the top of the spine. The spine is slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean with two names written on the title-page and a small purple name stamp on the back of the front free endpaper.…

Zustand: Fair. Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1929. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. xii+323pp. Illustrations. Fair book. No dust jacket. Front board slightly stained. Several leaves taped in. (Big Game Hunting, India, Humor) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. damp affected cover which is a little and red discolouration from mould on the corner (2-3 inches) of last ten pages. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, this is the scarce first edition of a first-hand account of game hunting in the Indian jungle. The first edition of this scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven photographic plates and further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete. A. G. Shuttleworth, under the pseudonym Silver Hackle, writes about game hunting and wild animal life in India in the 1920s. Including much discussion of the tiger, panther, hunting leopard, and various type of deer. With a publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise bright. Front hinge strained and somewhat tender. Internally, binding lightly strained. Frontispiece detached and loosely inserted, as is one further plate. Pages bright, with instances of spotting to pages facing plates. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with printed front board, no dust jacket, in good condition. Boards are scuffed, marked and printing on front board is faded. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block is tanned and blemished. Foxing on the first and last few pages which are otherwise clear. Hinge breaks at the boards, however binding remains sound. LW. Used.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this anonymously penned reflection on twenty-five years hunting in India. The first edition, in the green cloth variant.This work explores the world of big game hunting in the Indian jungle. The author, 'Silver Hackle', describes his experiences hunting tigers, bears, bisons, and panthers in the Mysore jungle over the period of twenty-five years.Illustrated in-text throughout, with reproductions of the author's photographs, and photographs of heads mounted by Messrs. Van Ingen and Van Ingen, Taxidermists of Mysore.Eighty-three pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks to the cloth. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Gift inscription to the front paste down. Spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

1929 1st edition with 38 illustrations (all present) from photographs and reproductions of the author's sketches. Binding fragile; cover marked/discoloured; small patch of damage on spine; small hole in back cover that has penetrated final pages; top and bottom edges of spine slightly worn. Internally, owner's name on front paste-down; page edges and outer pages browned; also true of one or two random pages within the book; otherwise, the pages are clean. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket). …

1st Edn.. viii 295 pages, 3pp adverts, illustrations from the author's photographs and sketches and photos of heads, mounted by Van Ingen and Van Ingen taxidermists Mysore. Publishers mustard yellow cloth, title in black, tiger head vignette and framed border in red to front board, title in blank to spine. The author hunts tiger, panther, bear, bison in the Mysore jungle including man-eaters. A scarce Indian big game hunting title published in India and more so in this condition. Silver Hackle is identified as A.G.Shuttleworth, the cloth differs also advert to Czech 186.…