Briggs Ellis Ormsbee (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover with DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear with tears. Light shelving foxing/dust-dulling on page edges.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wonderful frontispiece art by and illustrated by Rudolf Freund. Ellis O. Briggs was a writer and former Ambassador to seven countries. Briggs's favorite recreation was shooting waterfowl and upland game birds on the continents on which he had served, including Korea, Brazil and Czechoslovakia, and spent his free time hunting duck, goose, pheasant, guinea fowl and pigeon in those countries, and in Peru, Cuba, Liberia and Patagonia as well, and competition bat shooting in wartime China. Includes an account of Ernest Hemingway turning his fishing boat "Pilar" into an armed warship, and fishing for marlin while hunting U-Boats.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1958). (1957) 1958 1st UK edition. 8vo (155 x 240mm). Ppviii,149. B/w illustrations by Rudolf Freund. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Corners slightly bumped, browning to end-papers and edges. Good-plus in slightly frayed and used dust-wrapper. An entertaining account of an American diplomat's extra-curricular hunting and shooting expeditions in South America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe: collecting giant frogs in Peru, wildfowling in Patagonia and Korea, gamebird shooting in Liberia, Czechoslovakia and Korea, and bat-shooting in China. Chapters include: The biggest frog in the world; Snakes, pepper birds, and wild guineas in Liberia; Dona Mercedes and the wild geese of Patagonia; No hasta el postre - meaning, you can't throw rolls until dessert; Pokey and the Chungking flying bat sweepstake; How to shoot non-communist pheasants in Czechoslovakia; Pheasants, vice admirals, and Lohengrin in Korea; The pheasants of Cheju Island; A helicopter is a duck's best friend; Animal interlude - with bears. .

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (biography, history, ambassador, united states) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; Blue Cloth Binding, Book Shows Some Little Wear Text is clean no markings seen. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition with worn dust jacket some mild bending to outer boards- rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Condition: good, poor. First? Edition. First? Printing. 306, damp stains on DJ, erasure residue on front endpaper. Foreword by Christian Herter. Mr. Briggs worked in the State Department from 1925-1962. He served as Ambassador to seven nations by appointment of three presidents. He had a long and interesting career during a fascinating period in American history.