wildflower snapshot (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1878. No Edition Remarks. 440 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker residue to front pastedown, endpapers and rear of frontispiece. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining overall.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of stories from shooting and fishing trips across Europe. Complete in two volumes. First edition. A collection of reminiscences from shooting and fishing trips across Europe, with chapters on wildfowl shooting, free shootings, angling and shrimping, sea-fishing excursions, and more. Written by Lewis Clements, under the pseudonym "Wildflower" "Snapshot", a British author and sportsman. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with small marks to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Light scattered spotting and age toning to the first and last few pages. Booth Bird Museum Brighton bookplate to the front pastedown with their ink stamp to the half-title and the odd page. Pencil notes to the front pastedown of volume one. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart second series of this collection of stories from shooting and yachting trips across Europe. Complete in two volumes. Second series. A collection of reminiscences from shooting and yachting trips across Europe, including: rabbiting, pigeon shooting, duck-decoying, game-preserving, open cruises, sea-fishing, sea-fowl shooting excursions, and more. Written by Lewis Clements, under the pseudonym "Wildflower" "Snapshot", a British author and sportsman. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Booth Bird Museum Brighton bookplate to the front pastedown with their ink stamp to the front endpaper and the odd page. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Volume One (vii) 279pp. Volume Two (vii) 268pp. Brown buckram boards with black impressed decorations to front covers and blind decorations to rear covers. Gilt titles to spines. Attractive contemporary illustrated bookplates pasted to fep of both volumes. Bookplates show young man seated and reading in mountains with walking stick, fishing rod and gun propped against trees. Boards to both volumes bumped at extremities and frayed at tops and bottoms of spines. Minor foxing to some pages. Otherwise these are two very nice authentically worn volumes. Rare.