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C. Arden (Bookseller) ABA, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since March 19, 2001
pp.xxiii, 400 with hand-coloured plates. Large 8vo. Hardback. TEG. Light spotting to endpapers, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards good to vg. This edition limited to 500 copies. Seller Inventory # 38703
Title: Nimrod s Hunting Tours. Interspersed with ...
Publisher: Pub. Kegan Paul. 1903
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Two volumes. Octavo, green cloth, paper spine labels, xi pp + 197 pp + [xxiv] pp ads; 228 pp + [xii] pp ads. Good, with badly chipped lables, foxing (age darkened spotting) throughout. Contents: Leicestershire; Oxfordshire; Warwickshire; Surrey; SUssex; Close of the Season 1823-4; Dorset and Devon; Hampshire; Tour in 1825; A Fortnight in New Forest; The Second Tour; The Yorkshire Tour; Visit to the New Forest; Riding to Hounds. Hunting, Sport, British History, English History, Hounds, Hunts, Outdoor, British Culture, English Culture. Seller Inventory # els2570
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA-FABA-IOBA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations by Numerous Contemporary Artists (illustrator). The author contributed to The Sporting Magazine, eventually his stories would be published in book form depicting themes related to fox hunting & horses. First Edition, Thus. A New Edition with an Introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow and Twenty-Four Illustrations in Colour and Half-tone after Ben Marshall, Henry Alken, Wolstenholme, R. B. Davis. Wm. Webb, H. D. Chalon, James Ward, R.A., etc. [First Published in 1838]; 25.5cm.; 10.25 inches tall; v-xx, 294 pages with index of principle names; 1 page of publisher adverts. color frontispiece, plates (some color) folded map. Publisher's Red cloth. Titles in stamped guilt. Top edge stained red, others deckled. Printed on Laid-paper, Illustrated with 24 color plates, additional b/w plates and drawings. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Spine has moderate sun-darkening. REF: Nevill, 23 "A Principle Sporting Book"; Higginson: 52; Smith: 400; ODNB; DWB; Biscotti: 22. Seller Inventory # 009673
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardbound in original binding w/ cloth spine over paper boards. Housed in custom green cloth clam-shell box. First Edition. (Nimrod a.k.a. Charles James Apperley). Boards and spine show wear. Front hinge is cracked but holding. Otherwise in good condition. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown, and a previous owner has written in pen on the front free endpage - the interior is otherwise clean of any writing, underlining, etc. Binding sound. Slipcase shows light shelfwear, otherwise very good. RARE! Seller Inventory # 69520
Quantity: 1 available