david charles newton abbot devon 1991 (20 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp160. Over 200 colour and b/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in black. Minor faults, prize inscription / slight wave to pages / tanning to edges. Good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Bailey uses over two hundred photographs to illustrate his recent pursuit of ferox trout, roach and barbel, carp and pike. Includes the story and photographs of Roger Miller's near 40lb pike - caught on John Bailey's rod! Chapters include: Ferox spring; Bad weather; The weather eases; Ferox success; The love of a river; Early days; A passion for roach; The search for a 3lb roach; The facts of the roach's life; The river's problems; Living with Wensum barbel; A barbel catch; River bream; Search for chub; A hope for the future; The summer stillwaters; Smallwater carp; A surprise 'grassie'!; A carp from the Boathouse Lake; Big tench campaign; A summer's day on the lake; A bream bag; Stalking; Winter predators; Piking in Broadland; A day with perch; Night trolling; Miller's big pike. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp160. Over 200 colour and b/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in black. Minor faults, good-plus in used dust-wrapper. Bailey uses over two hundred photographs to illustrate his recent pursuit of ferox trout, roach and barbel, carp and pike. Includes the story and photographs of Roger Miller's near 40lb pike - caught on John Bailey's rod! Chapters include: Ferox spring; Bad weather; The weather eases; Ferox success; The love of a river; Early days; A passion for roach; The search for a 3lb roach; The facts of the roach's life; The river's problems; Living with Wensum barbel; A barbel catch; River bream; Search for chub; A hope for the future; The summer stillwaters; Smallwater carp; A surprise 'grassie'!; A carp from the Boathouse Lake; Big tench campaign; A summer's day on the lake; A bream bag; Stalking; Winter predators; Piking in Broadland; A day with perch; Night trolling; Miller's big pike. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 269mm). Pp181 + 1pp ad. Colour & b/w photographs and illustrations throughout, pictorial end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults but good-plus first edition copy in slightly used dust-wrapper. Memories of gillies and riverkeepers, interspersed with old illustrations and articles. In series with "Tales of the old gamekeepers" etc. Chapters include: Sixty years a gillie, Joe Taylor; What went wrong? David Morris; The royal gillies, Alec Ogilvie, Jim Ewan, Charlie Wright; angling in the archives; Something of a diplomat, Tony Waites; A meticulous recorder of life, Allan Cooke; Battles with the poachers, Gordon Rogers; Angling in the archives; Enchanted by the river, Jim Smith; Fishing with Biggles, George Smith; A wonderful companion, Bernard Aldrich; angling in the archives; Riverkeeping's greatest dynasty, Mick Lunn; Fifty years a gillie, William Fraser; Rendering the streams fit, Tom Ellis. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp160. Over 200 colour and b/w photographs, yellow end-papers. Brown boards, spine titled in black. Slight shelf-wear, top edge a little dusty, else very good in dust-wrapper. Bailey uses over two hundred photographs to illustrate his recent pursuit of ferox trout, roach and barbel, carp and pike. Includes the story and photographs of Roger Miller's near 40lb pike - caught on John Bailey's rod! Chapters include: Ferox spring; Bad weather; The weather eases; Ferox success; The love of a river; Early days; A passion for roach; The search for a 3lb roach; The facts of the roach's life; The river's problems; Living with Wensum barbel; A barbel catch; River bream; Search for chub; A hope for the future; The summer stillwaters; Smallwater carp; A surprise 'grassie'!; A carp from the Boathouse Lake; Big tench campaign; A summer's day on the lake; A bream bag; Stalking; Winter predators; Piking in Broadland; A day with perch; Night trolling; Miller's big pike. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 269mm). Pp181 + 1pp ad. Colour & b/w photographs and illustrations throughout, pictorial end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. From the library of angling author of Barrie Rickards, with his name to the title-page. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Memories of gillies and riverkeepers, interspersed with old illustrations and articles. In series with "Tales of the old gamekeepers" etc. Chapters include: Sixty years a gillie, Joe Taylor; What went wrong? David Morris; The royal gillies, Alec Ogilvie, Jim Ewan, Charlie Wright; angling in the archives; Something of a diplomat, Tony Waites; A meticulous recorder of life, Allan Cooke; Battles with the poachers, Gordon Rogers; Angling in the archives; Enchanted by the river, Jim Smith; Fishing with Biggles, George Smith; A wonderful companion, Bernard Aldrich; angling in the archives; Riverkeeping's greatest dynasty, Mick Lunn; Fifty years a gillie, William Fraser; Rendering the streams fit, Tom Ellis. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (196 x 248mm). Pp192. Colour photographs and b/w illustrations by Maggie Raynor throughout. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. This is a good account of the life of all sorts which is to be found on and near the seashore. The chapters are divided according to the various zones of the shore: Waves, tides and currents; The sand; The strandline; Dunes; Mud; Hard rock; Cliffs and caves; Islands; The sea. Lots, too, on all the things, natural and man-made, which get washed up on the beach. Appendices include a list of species mentioned, with their scientific names. Another outlines the law of wreck, handy knowledge when you find that barrel of whisky or a container washed off the deck of a freighter. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). (1991) later reprint. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp192. Colour & b/w illustrations by John Paley. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Top of spine shaken and bashed else clean working copy. Spine of dust-wrapper faded and slightly scuffed . "In this unique and beautifully illustrated book John Humphreys takes a closer look at the world of the old poachers, and presents a variety of colourful yarns of their activities in bygone days. The long-netters, hare snarers, fish snatchers and night shooters .conflict with their arch enemies, the gamekeepers." Chapters include: Beware old velveteens; 'A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'; King of the Norfolk Poachers; Bloody affray; The silent dog; The snare of the fowler; Kenzie; Burning the water; 'Small beast in hodden grey'; Longtails; Puss in the corn; Poor man's pottage; The last word; epilogue; Bibliography. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. Landscape folio (370 x 288mm). Pp96. Full page colour plates by Andrew Ellis, photographs, illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Slight use else very good in like dust-wrapper. A handsome and beautifully illustrated book on gamebird and wildfowl shooting, principally in Britain and Europe. Despite the title, this is a book about sport and natural history, not really about guns. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). (1991) later reprint. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp192. Colour & b/w illustrations by John Paley. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults but good-plus in used dust-wrapper. "In this unique and beautifully illustrated book John Humphreys takes a closer look at the world of the old poachers, and presents a variety of colourful yarns of their activities in bygone days. The long-netters, hare snarers, fish snatchers and night shooters .conflict with their arch enemies, the gamekeepers." Chapters include: Beware old velveteens; 'A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'; King of the Norfolk Poachers; Bloody affray; The silent dog; The snare of the fowler; Kenzie; Burning the water; 'Small beast in hodden grey'; Longtails; Puss in the corn; Poor man's pottage; The last word; epilogue; Bibliography. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp192. Colour & b/w illustrations by John Paley, buff end-papers. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning to edges. Good-plus in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. "In this unique and beautifully illustrated book John Humphreys takes a closer look at the world of the old poachers, and presents a variety of colourful yarns of their activities in bygone days. The long-netters, hare snarers, fish snatchers and night shooters .conflict with their arch enemies, the gamekeepers." Chapters include: Beware old velveteens; 'A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'; King of the Norfolk Poachers; Bloody affray; The silent dog; The snare of the fowler; Kenzie; Burning the water; 'Small beast in hodden grey'; Longtails; Puss in the corn; Poor man's pottage; The last word; Epilogue; Bibliography. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). (1970) 1977 sixth impression. 8vo (150 x 216mm). Pp206. B/w photographs, illustrations by Robert Gillmor, diagrams, bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in spine-faded, price-clipped dust-wrapper. "Here is a fascinating natural, and unnatural, history of the owl, of which there are over 130 species around the world. The curious anatomy of these highly efficient predators is explained, [as are] the ways in which they have adapted to widely differing habitats - anything from a hole in a giant cactus shared with woodpeckers to an underground burrow." And much else besides. Chapters include: Design for the darkness; Owls at home; Numbers of owls; Owls and man; Owls of all shapes and sizes; Owls - the unnatural history. Appendices deal with eyesight and hearing, owls in boxes, feeding wild owls, owls in captivity, injured owls. A systematic list is included. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (200 x 270mm). Pp192. Colour & b/w illustrations by John Paley. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in slightly used, slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. "In this unique and beautifully illustrated book John Humphreys takes a closer look at the world of the old poachers, and presents a variety of colourful yarns of their activities in bygone days. The long-netters, hare snarers, fish snatchers and night shooters .conflict with their arch enemies, the gamekeepers." Chapters include: Beware old velveteens; 'A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles'; King of the Norfolk Poachers; Bloody affray; The silent dog; The snare of the fowler; Kenzie; Burning the water; 'Small beast in hodden grey'; Longtails; Puss in the corn; Poor man's pottage; The last word; epilogue; Bibliography. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (192 x 247mm). Pp200. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, brief bibliography. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used / faded dust-wrapper. "All the information needed to encourage the successful rearing of gamebirds naturally. .illustrated throughout with practical photographs and explanatory line drawings". Chapters include: Shooting habitat and conservation; Woodland management: pheasants and woodcock; Partridge, hedgerows and fields; Winning ways with wildfowl; Ground for grouse; Game crops for cover and feeding; Predators; Birds, bees and butterflies; In conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. 4to (192 x 247mm). Pp200. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, brief bibliography. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine in dust-wrapper. "All the information needed to encourage the successful rearing of gamebirds naturally. .illustrated throughout with practical photographs and explanatory line drawings". Chapters include: Shooting habitat and conservation; Woodland management: pheasants and woodcock; Partridge, hedgerows and fields; Winning ways with wildfowl; Ground for grouse; Game crops for cover and feeding; Predators; Birds, bees and butterflies; In conclusion. .

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Saxe blue paper covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 192 pp with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0715398342 NAUTICAL (Shipbuilding).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original caramel cloth covers, navy lettering to the spine. Folio 12½'' x 10¼'' 192 pages. ISBN 0715398482. Colour and detailed monochrome illustrations throughout. Small mark to the title page. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tiny rubs to the spine tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips. Member of the P.B.F.A. DOLLS' HOUSES & DOLLS.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale blue paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Folio 12½'' x 8½''. Contains 127 printed pages of text with colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Rubs to the spine ends and edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the Author to the title page 'Ron Ranson'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0715393014 ART [Technique & Materials].

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1991). 1991 1st edition. Oblong folio (282 x 362mm). Pp96. Full page colour plates by Andrew Ellis, photographs, illustrations, pictorial end-papers. Fine in dust-wrapper. A handsome and beautifully illustrated book on gamebird and wildfowl shooting, principally in Britain and Europe. Despite the title this is a book about sport and natural history, not really about guns. .

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original British racing green cloth covers, gilt stamped title and author lettering to the spine, green end papers. Landscape. 11½'' x 13¼''. Contains 96 pp with monochrome and colour illustrations throughout. Small mark to the front cover. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight sun fading down the spine, not price clipped, £35.00 in 1991. Edward Lear 'Jumble Sale' auction press clipping loosely inserted. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0715397788 ART [British].

Hard back binding in publisher's original navy covers, gilt stapmed title and author lettering to the spine. Landscape folio 11½'' x 14¼''. Contains 90 printed pages with superb full-page colour plates with text and monochrome illustrations to the reverse of each, maps and sketches to the introductory pages. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper with one small mark to the top front gutter. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0715399934 AMERICA [History].