Fred j speakman (40 resultados)

paperback. Condición: 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.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1975). (1954) 1975 pbk edition. 8vo paperback (127 x 196mm). Pp160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Slight use and browning but good-plus second-hand paperback. ". not a sit-at-home-and-read-indoors-book, but a book to make you get out of doors, to look, smell and hear and do things for yourself." Chapters include: Getting started; Warnings in the wild; Birds; Bird nesting; In which I think of animals; Food tracking; Foot tracking; Finding the tracks; Plaster casts; Records without poaster; Your field note-book; Following the trail; The end of the trail. Appendix: The classification of animals. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Ppvi,93. B/w illustrations by Jill Gaze. Silver-gilt titles to mottled, brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slight browning to end-papers, crease to end-papers and preliminaries. Good in rather rubbed dust-wrapper. Juvenile fiction and good natural history. Foxes, badgers and an old tortoise. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1975). (1954) 1975 pbk edition. 8vo paperback (127 x 196mm). Pp160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Some use and browning. Extensive gift inscription, good reading copy. Title-page signed by the author. ". not a sit-at-home-and-read-indoors-book, but a book to make you get out of doors, to look, smell and hear and do things for yourself." Chapters include: Getting started; Warnings in the wild; Birds; Bird nesting; In which I think of animals; Food tracking; Foot tracking; Finding the tracks; Plaster casts; Records without poaster; Your field note-book; Following the trail; The end of the trail. Appendix: The classification of animals. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Ppvi,93. B/w illustrations by Jill Gaze. Silver-gilt titles to mottled brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slight use. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. Juvenile fiction and good natural history. Foxes, badgers and an old tortoise. . …

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Spine, binding and covers all fine and contents clean though tanning. Nice gilt title on spine and robust red boards. Dustcover good, tanning on spine, but very little other wear. 164 pages. John Avis (ilustrador).

Condición: Good. Boards have little wear and light toning. Pages tonned with spotting. DJ has some edge wear.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Includes dust jacket. Shows minor wear.

Condición: Good. Reprint. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with little wear.

Condición: Good. 1954. New Edition. 154 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Tape marks to pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Condición: Fair. 1967. No Edition Stated. 163 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Rear flap held with tape.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good ++. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dustjacket Fair++/Good. Presumed First Editon. 154 pages. B&W plates and illustrations. Blue and grey-hued background dustjacket with rubs to spine-junctions and spine is rubbed, moderate wear to edges and corners. Clean grey hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Colour and B&W illustrations. Page-edges moderately yellowed and foxed o/w pages clean.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 154 pp. Gray boards with a small blue pictorial and blue lettering on the spine; illustrated with line drawings and black and white plates. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing at the head of the spine and bit of discolouration on the rear panel; presentation inscription on the front free endpaper. The Contents are: Getting Started; Thinking It Out First; Warnings in the Wild; Birds; Bird Nesting; In Which I Think of Animals; Food Tracking; Finding the Tracks; Plaster Casts; Records Without Plaster; Your Field Notebook; Following the Trail; and The End of the Trail; followed by an index. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Condición: Good. 1962. First Edition. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by John Avis. 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 mild marking and tanning.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1960) later reprint. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppxi,189. B/w frontispiece portrait of A.T. Curtis by John Avis. Green boards, silver-gilt title & shotgun on spine. Minor faults, slight lean to spine / slight use / browning to end-papers and edges. Good copy in slightly frayed / stained dust-wrapper. Alf Curtis was born in Waltham Abbey, in Essex. In later life, he kept a fishing tackle shop (in Edmonton, North London?). There he met the writer, Fred J. Speakman, and told him his story. Tales of a life of poaching, bird catching and rabbiting, mostly in Epping Forest, with a lengthy chapter on fishing the River Lee and the London reservoirs. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1964). (1962) 1964 BC edition. 8vo (143 x 222mm). Ppx,165. B/w illustrations by John Avis, map. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Rather browned throughout. Good-plus in used and tanned dust-wrapper. The life of a gamekeeper in an Essex forest. Chapters include: I come to the Forest; Gangs, poachers and frauds; On bird-catchers; On dogs and deer; Fires; A keeper's day; Life of the Forest; Anecdotes; On wine-making; I look back for the last time; Jottings from a keeper's memory. .…

Condición: Good. 1962. No Edition Stated. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Notable forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. Dark green cloth boards with silver pictorial embossed spine. Boards are worn and grubby, rear hinge split. Text has a little foxing to page edges, p37/38 has been torn and repaired with sellotape. No DJ.

Condición: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 164 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations by John Avis. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. Reprint. Very good clean firm interior, no marks, neat inscription to top front e/paper, contains an illustrated frontispiece, boards have just very slight shelf wear but clean firm condition over all; d/jacket has a small tear to lower spine but very good-plus bright appearance otherwise, not price-clipped.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Authors experiences with many varied Animals Name on fep ow book fine Jacket slightly torn top of spine ow fine.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1960) 1973 reprint. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppxi,189. B/w frontispiece portrait of A.T. Curtis by John Avis. Green boards, gilt title and shotgun on spine. Very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, in later life, Alf Curtis kept a fishing tackle shop (in Edmonton, North London?). There he met, and told his story to, writer Fred J. Speakman. Tales of a life of poaching, bird catching and rabbiting, mostly in Epping Forest, with a lengthy chapter on fishing the River Lee and the London reservoirs. .…

hardcover. Condición: 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 vintage book.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1972. Very good condition with no wrapper. Brown mottled boards, silver titles. 93 pages. Story about a very old and wise tortoise. A few b/w drawings to text. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to front free-endpaper and some light foxing to textblock else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Gaze, Jill (ilustrador). SIGNED - please see description for details.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges a little creased and worn, a small rip on bottom right corner of cover 1cm and bottom left the same, some light wear to covers and spine, corners a little bumped, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear. John Avis (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Speakman, Fred J. Tracks, trails and signs/ consultant editor Anne Wood. London: Transworld: 1975. A Carousel Book. Paperback, VG. Illustrated card covers, with light shelfwear and small marks to the back. Binding strong. 160pp., b/w plates and illustrations. Contents clean and bright. Fred J Speakman (born in Essex) was an English naturalist and author. He was one of Britain's best known naturalist-authors in the 1960s. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good used copy.

Green Cloth. Condición: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Estado de la sobrecubierta: VERY GOOD (AVERAGE). Reprint. WITH DUSTJACKET.FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed by A Previous Owner. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 193 pages, mostly rather nice. A little age to jacket as shown.