boydell press 1984 (27 resultados)

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 242mm). Ppviii,216. Colour plates by John Gould (3), Maurice Pledger (4) and Trevor Boyer (1), b/w photographs & illustrations. Olive cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A comprehensive work on the natural history of all British game birds and waterfowl, as well as snipe, woodcock, golden plover, wood pigeon, rabbits and hares. Historical background, physical description, accounts of range, breeding habits and life-cycle. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 14.95.

Gewicht in Gramm: 550 äußere gebrauchsspuren,innen sauber.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 129pp. 370g. Covers all the 47 tropical and non-tropical species. Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and line drawings. FINE in like d/w with slight crease along top edge.

1st edition. 8vo. xi + 198pp. B/w. portrait, maps and tables. Original boards. Pale grey d/w. lettered in red with 1cm. tear, some minor wear to edges. Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0851154042 US$18.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1984). (1953) 1984 3rd edition. Small 8vo paperback (120 x 197mm). Ppxii,164. B/w illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Uniform slight browning, slight use to cover, small stain to rear, slight fading to spine but good-plus second-hand paperback. "So does the true fowler taste of the inward charm of his sport. It is the natural scene: the beauty of northern winter drawn, the blazing sunset sky reflected across the quiet firth at evening, the silent majesty of a night of stars with the faint, unearthly cries of wildfowl moving on their mysterious journeying, which means so much". ('BB', 1953). "When Dark Estuary appeared as a successor to Tide's Ending, it was still possible to meet no other gunner on the sea walls of Britain, save perhaps a local fowler. It is a little-known world, the world of tideways where the sea first meets the flat lands of marsh and ooze. It is the private kingdom of the tideline birds, from the little waders which are the most graceful and dainty of all our British birds to the stately wild geese. .If the time should ever come when there is no more true wildfowling around the coasts of Britain, 'BB' hopes that this book - and its companion Tide's Ending - will stand as some sort of memorial and a record of what wildfowling was all about." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1984). (1960) 1984 paperback edition. Small 8vo paperback (120 x 198mm). Ppxii,156. Black & white illutrations by Sylvanus Marston. Usual slight browning, mark to top edge but a good-plus second-hand paperback. "Water has passed under the bridge since the original edition of The Poacher's handbook was written, water and a salmon or two. Things, people and creatures natural to the countryside have come and gone. Even a decade ago there were more men about who remembered the squire and who recalled the word 'transported' being used. Poachers there are, however, in the tradition. .Country rascals they may have been, .but resourceful men, and their sons and grandsons have stood more than once to defend the country that nurtured them. Many hard words were addressed to me for daring to produce a handbook on poaching, but I made no apology for it when it [first] appeared, and I make none now, .I trust I will offend none but those whose liver is sadly out of order." From Niall's 'Notes to the Revised Edition'. Contents include: Harvest of idleness; Bewitched hares; Respectability; The peacock and the perch; A hare by stealth; The long net; Clever dogs; Of gins and snares; A partridge whistle; Elusive coveys; Longtails; Bold characters; Legends; The day of Butcher Murphy; Deer and desperadoes; The ways of the fowler; Duck catching; The quiet river; Line setting; Otters and otter boards; Snatchers at work; A noose for trout; The gorse dam; Nets and netsmen; Sundry adventures; An eel from the stream; The modern market. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Ppvi,137. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Some foxing throughout, several pages beginning to stick slightly (though easily separated). Good copy in slightly frayed and foxed dust-wrapper. Certainly written by Brian Plummer, but whether Shaw was merely a pen-name or actually existed I do not know. I invite elucidation. .

Condición: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), viii, 216pp. 8 colour plates, 42 b&w illustrations. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Light tanning to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed and dusty). ISBN 0851151965.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1984). (1960) 1984 paperback edition. Small 8vo paperback (120 x 198mm). Ppxii,156. Black & white illutrations by Sylvanus Marston. Slight use but very good used paperback. Scarce in this edition. "Water has passed under the bridge since the original edition of The Poacher's handbook was written, water and a salmon or two. Things, people and creatures natural to the countryside have come and gone. Even a decade ago there were more men about who remembered the squire and who recalled the word 'transported' being used. Poachers there are, however, in the tradition. .Country rascals they may have been, .but resourceful men, and their sons and grandsons have stood more than once to defend the country that nurtured them. Many hard words were addressed to me for daring to produce a handbook on poaching, but I made no apology for it when it [first] appeared, and I make none now, .I trust I will offend none but those whose liver is sadly out of order." From Niall's 'Notes to the Revised Edition'. Contents include: Harvest of idleness; Bewitched hares; Respectability; The peacock and the perch; A hare by stealth; The long net; Clever dogs; Of gins and snares; A partridge whistle; Elusive coveys; Longtails; Bold characters; Legends; The day of Butcher Murphy; Deer and desperadoes; The ways of the fowler; Duck catching; The quiet river; Line setting; Otters and otter boards; Snatchers at work; A noose for trout; The gorse dam; Nets and netsmen; Sundry adventures; An eel from the stream; The modern market. .

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

HC. B&W illustrations Ilustrador. 216pp ISBN 0839003285 very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). (1984) 1984 amended reprint. 8vo (161 x 239mm). Ppxiv,288. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in silver gilt. Very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Colonel Ted Walsh and Mary Lowe have a vast store of knowledge on the whippet; Col Walsh particularly on working whippets while Mrs Lowe is a leading international judge of the breed. The cover the history of show, coursing, hunting and racing whippets as well as breeding and care of the breed and details of show champions up to 1982. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). (1984) 1989 reprint. Ppvi,113. B/w photographs. Olive boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good. Sticker ghost to only slightly used, price-clipped dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer recounts the story of his most famous Jack Russell Terrier bitch. "Omega is Brian Plummer's most famous Jack Russell terrier, star of many a rat hunt, and his book chronicles her life and adventures in the context of the author's quest for the perfect ratting terrier, a dog that might perhaps go down in history as 'the Plummer Terrier'." "The book is also a celebration of his exploits on his favourite hunting ground .For thirteen years I've hunted David's farm, thirteen of the happiest years of my life, thirteen years marred only by my failure to cope with my job as a teacher. Now in three weeks the farm will be shut down, the buildings sold, the meal sheds emptied and the rats will go. For a while they'll hang around, .but after that, nothing; and my life will take on the same meaningless note it had before I met David. The starting of this book will be difficult, the end all too damnably easy." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 241mm). Ppvi,113. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Spine bumped, slight browning to end-papers but good copy in like, price-clipped dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer recounts the story of his most famous Jack Russell Terrier bitch. "Omega is Brian Plummer's most famous Jack Russell terrier, star of many a rat hunt, and his book chronicles her life and adventures in the context of the author's quest for the perfect ratting terrier, a dog that might perhaps go down in history as 'the Plummer Terrier'." "The book is also a celebration of his exploits on his favourite hunting ground .For thirteen years I've hunted David's farm, thirteen of the happiest years of my life, thirteen years marred only by my failure to cope with my job as a teacher. Now in three weeks the farm will be shut down, the buildings sold, the meal sheds emptied and the rats will go. For a while they'll hang around, .but after that, nothing; and my life will take on the same meaningless note it had before I met David. The starting of this book will be difficult, the end all too damnably easy." .

1st Ed. Large 8vo. xxxii + 220pp. 6 plates. Inscription, original black lettered cream boards, minor wear. Volume 75 US$13.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 241mm). Ppvi,113. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, slight browning to end-papers and edges, small end-paper stamp otherwise good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer recounts the story of his most famous Jack Russell Terrier bitch. "Omega is Brian Plummer's most famous Jack Russell terrier, star of many a rat hunt, and his book chronicles her life and adventures in the context of the author's quest for the perfect ratting terrier, a dog that might perhaps go down in history as 'the Plummer Terrier'." "The book is also a celebration of his exploits on his favourite hunting ground .For thirteen years I've hunted David's farm, thirteen of the happiest years of my life, thirteen years marred only by my failure to cope with my job as a teacher. Now in three weeks the farm will be shut down, the buildings sold, the meal sheds emptied and the rats will go. For a while they'll hang around, .but after that, nothing; and my life will take on the same meaningless note it had before I met David. The starting of this book will be difficult, the end all too damnably easy." .

Revised edn. 8vo. Original white lettered black cloth (lightly bumped at head and tail of spine - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover). Pp. 142, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Ppvi,137. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Book-seller's label to fep, slight browning to end-papers and edges but very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Certainly written by Brian Plummer, but whether Shaw was merely a pen-name or actually existed I do not know. I invite elucidation. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. Large 8vo (159 x 241mm). Ppvi,113. B/w photographs. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in rubbed and price-clipped dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer recounts the story of his most famous Jack Russell Terrier bitch. "Omega is Brian Plummer's most famous Jack Russell terrier, star of many a rat hunt, and his book chronicles her life and adventures in the context of the author's quest for the perfect ratting terrier, a dog that might perhaps go down in history as 'the Plummer Terrier'." "The book is also a celebration of his exploits on his favourite hunting ground .For thirteen years I've hunted David's farm, thirteen of the happiest years of my life, thirteen years marred only by my failure to cope with my job as a teacher. Now in three weeks the farm will be shut down, the buildings sold, the meal sheds emptied and the rats will go. For a while they'll hang around, .but after that, nothing; and my life will take on the same meaningless note it had before I met David. The starting of this book will be difficult, the end all too damnably easy." .

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xiii, 227 pp, plates (115 ills). Slight yellowing to endpapers, a review copy with pencilled notes for the review in the margins, Good. Publisher's slip inviting review laid in.

Condición: Near Fine. 8vo., pp.x,242, brown hardcover, lettered in silver, b/w maps; slightly rubbed to head of spine, a near fine copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket which is very slightly sunned to spine and has a small price sticker to inner flap, overall very good indeed.

198pp. dw.

x,242pp. roy.8vo. with yellow dust jacket. very good.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Paperback, 1984). (1948) 1984 paperback edition. 8vo paperback (121 x 198mm). Pp341. Not illustrated. Usual uniform browning, slight use to cover but a good-plus second-hand copy. "This is the story of a game bird, a hybrid pheasant, in the period of change that came upon the countryside, and these facts are set down as part of the background of the bird's life: for all background in England at that time was man-made, or man mis-made." The story is set in "a small coastal farm in England's premier game-shooting county, Norfolk. The chronicle opens in the winter of 1937, in the period of deriliction that had fallen on British farming." A good read, as always with Henry Williamson, and something of an English social document. .

Condición: New. (inventory#Shelf).

Condición: Very Good. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,149;vii,183, olive hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 10 further b/w illustrations to volume I, 5 further b/w illustrations to volume II; volume I contains ink inscription to front free endpaper verso, and is very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, volume II contains editor's ink inscription to front free endpaper verso and signature to title and is very lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, both in unclipped pictorial dust jackets which are lightly shelf-worn and very slightly soiled but otherwise very good.