George bird evans (175 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. some wear, minor edge tears. This hardcover edition shows minor wear typical of its age, with some edge tears on the dust jacket. The binding remains solid, and the pages are clean and unmarked. Overall, it is in good condition for collectors and enthusiasts of Nash Buckingham's work.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Winchester Press, Published 1973. Hardcover, 320, [8] pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; sepia pictorial endpapers of wildfowl and bobwhites. Selected, edited and annotated by George Bird Evans; foreword by John M. Olin. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine with Winchester Press device at foot; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; mild toning to endpapers and mild foxing to edges of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (photograph by William F. Andrews and Frank Braden of Buckingham's Burt Becker duck gun, shooting hat, decoy and books) has a 1/4-inch tear at head of rear panel, a few other small nicks and tears, and light creasing along edges; mild to moderate toning, heavier on spine panel and rear panel, and mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Thirty stories and articles by Nash Buckingham (1880-1971), the Tennessee wildfowler, bird-dog man and field-trial judge best known for De Shootinest Gent'man. George Bird Evans, a grouse and woodcock writer and friend of Buckingham's, chose them from 111 stories and articles and grouped them in six parts, adding editor's notes and a biographical "Portrait of Nash." Olin, who wrote the foreword, hired Buckingham in 1925 as Western Cartridge Company's Director of Game Restoration, the first such post in American industry. Photographs include pictures of him as a young weightlifter and football captain, his wife Irma shooting, dogs and companions from the stories, and his guns, among them the Burt Becker magnum "Bo Whoop," lost in 1948 and recovered in 2005. Includes a bibliography of his books and magazine pieces. Contents: Foreword; Portrait of Nash; Part One: Wildfowl (Minutes and Years; Great Day in the Morning!; Comin' Twenty-One; How Come?; Jump-Shooting's Joys; De Shootinest Gent'man; Opportunity Flies But Once; Recall to Eden); Part Two: Bobwhites (Editor's Note: Brick House; The Harp That Once . . .; Pipeline "Pottiges"; Amid Whirring Wings; Play House; After All These Years); Part Three: Guns & Shooting (Editor's Note: Mr. Buck's Guns; Are We Shooting 8-Gauge Guns?; Long-Range Duck Shooting; Here's How in Quail Shooting; The Dove); Part Four: Dogs (Point! Judges; Given Only to the Honored; What Really Happens Out Quail Shooting; Not Unsung; The Great Reprisal; The Family Honor); Part Five: Possibles Bag (The Neglected Duck Call; Hail and Farewell; The Ropes and Tools of Goose Shooting; Thou and Thy Gun Bearer; Wax and Wane; The Prodigal Years); Part Six: Star at Evening (A la Belle Etoile); Bibliography. …

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover with a dust jacket in an archival protective cover. The text is Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Attractive copy. Prompt shipping.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, 301p + 11p Index. First Edition Stated, illustrated by the author. From the front flap of the books dj; "George Bird Evans is a man to whom upland shooting has been a way of life for 50 years. The book is half how to, and half anecdotal & philosophical, that reveals in rich and intimate detail the unity that makes upland shooting that triad of bird-dog-gun in which no part is complete without the others".Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt spine title, illustrated endpapers, page edges untrimmed, top edge dyed orange, dust jacket. A Very Good copy with some wear and soiling,foxing spots along page edges, previous owners bookplate inside front cover. In a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear and soiling, with a crease the length of the dj flap, not price clipped. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos. Illustrated by the Author (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Brown cloth, slight edge rubbing, in edge chipped, slightly spine faded, price clipped DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 301 pages.

Condición: VG+/VG+. 1st Thus. 8vo. 320pp. Book itself is decent, but DJ has rippling from wetness, Marginal copy, but Buckinghams aren't cheap anymore.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover in slipcase as issued. Illustrated by Tom Hennessey.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Heavy wear to the dust jacket with chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Acceptable. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. 320pp followed by Bibliography. Mylar protected jacket has short tears and wear to extremities. Lightly bumped corners. Clean, unmarked book.

hardcover. Condición: Good. No DJ. NOT the signed/limited. 1986 second edition. Clean text. Shelving code NW shlff GA.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Slipcase--very good. First Edition thus. This is the 10th-anniversary edition, in slipcase. The original edition appeared in 1979. " tall, xv + 305 pages pages, intertextual illustration, brown hardcover. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear but spine cloth slightly color faded; binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn slipcase, with one corner bumped.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. DJ: shelf wear, including small, closed tears, light soil. Brown embossed boards with gold gilt spine text. Deckled pages toned with age.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good. Spotting along page ends. Tear along dust jacket back.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Near Fine. Red cloth, as new in DJ with just a hint of edge rubbing. Now protected in a mylar jacket. INSCRIBED BY EVANS inside front. ; with special reference to Bird Dogs and their Handling.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 408 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Brown boards have light wear, lower page corners lightly finger smudged. Interior is clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Very good/good, used, illustrated end papers, 320pp plus bibliography to rear. Interior clean, no marks, binding tight. Slight rubbing to dj, top fore-corners rubbed and worn, 2 small tears to top edge of the upper, small tear and tiny chip at the bottom edge of the lower at spine, dj is not price-clipped. DJ enclosed in protective sleeve. …

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Very Good +. First Edition. [10], 307 pp. Dust Jacket: Spine lightly sun faded Troubles with Bird Dogs, and What to Do about Them: Training Experiences with Actual Dogs under the Gun Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Upland Gunners Book by George Bird Evans. Signed by Evans, Jin Rikhoff, and Tom Hennessey on limitation page. Signature only. Copy number 683 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Hardcover with slipcase published in 1979 by The Amwell Press. Signed by Author(s).

Brossura. Condición: buono. Estado de la sobrecubierta: buono. TITOLO: "A BREED APART. A Tribute to the Hunting Dogs that Own Our Souls. An Original Anthology - Volume I" AUTORE: Philip Bourjaily, George Bird Evans, Charles Fergus, Steve Grooms, Tom Huggler, Robert F. Jones, Randy Lawrence, Gary Marek, Thomas McIntyre, Geoffrey Norman, Dan O'Brien, Glen Sheppard, Charles Waterman. EDITED BY Doug Truax ILLUSTRATIONS BY Bruce Langton EDITORE: COUNTRYSPORT PRESS, Michigan ANNO: 1993 LINGUA DEL TESTO: INGLESE ISBN: 092435738X NUMERO DI PAGINE: 190 DIMENSIONI: 18,5 X 26,5 cm circa STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE: UN LEGGERO E PICCOLO ALONE (probabilmente causato da un pregressa umidità) SUL MARGINE INFERIORE LATERALE DELLE ULTIME PAGINE - Si veda la terza fotografia -, UN'AMPIA DEDICA A BIRO SULLA PAGINA DEL TITOLO (non so se sia di uno degli autori o meno in quanto è semplicemente siglata "Charlie") MA, NEL COMPLESSO, UN BUON ESEMPLARE. Nessuna scritta, sottolineatura o altro segno nel testo. NOTE: COPERTINA CARTONATA RIGIDA CON SOVRACCOPERTA ILLUSTRATA. CON DISEGNI IN NERO NEL TESTO E TAVOLE ILLUSTRATE A COLORI FUORI TESTO. INDICE DEI GRANDI CAPITOLI: Introduction; Bittersweet; Pointing West; Rusty and Belle; Jake; Toots; Sam; A dog named bernie; Owned and disowned by hunting dogs; The heart of my hunting; Blanca; In praise of porcupines and other men's dogs; Pirates; Ring the bell for Popeye.…

Condición: acceptable. The book has obvious signs of wear which may include some damage to the cover, deeper corner dings, markings, or creases, but its integrity is intact. The binding may also be slightly damaged but its integrity is intact. There may also be possible writing in the margins and underlining and highlighting of text, but there are no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. The imagery is a stock photo of the item.…