Captain Dickinson (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition, Revised. Staining to original blue cloth covers. 179 pages, with illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 154 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . 1975 facsimile copy, bright clean copy, no dustjacket, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by L. T. Dickinson (illustrator). Hardback, Very good copy, with slight foxing on outside of pages, Facsimile of orginal ; 51/2" x 8 1/2"; 280 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by L. T. Dickinson (illustrator). Very good hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth; 8vo; 286; TEG, others untrimmed; illustrated with photographic frontispiece plus 75 other b/w photos; title page printed in red & black. Dickinson successfully hunted all the major African big game species including lion, kudu, oryx, eland and other plains game plus gunning for duck and snipe. "There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo, accompanied by some marvelous photos of the author hunting a wounded buffalo in the swamp regions near Lakes Solai and Baringo." (Czech p48). This copy in good-very good condition with moderate cover wear, spine lightly faded, former owner's inked name & date (1907) to front free endpaper and occasional light foxing. Still, a decent copy of an uncommon book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Size: 9 x 6 1/2 inches or 23 x 15.5 cms. 285pp + 16 pp publishers advertisements . Hardcover. Original publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front and spine. Deckle edges. Many illus all present inc frontis. K P Czech notes: "Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near the Gusaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo accompanied by some marvelous photos of the author hunting. in the swamp regions near lakes Solai and Baringo.". Decent sound VG copy with occasional foxing, mostly moderate, at edges and prelims, a very few page edges very slightly chipped not affecting text or plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First British printing. 8vo. Frontispiece. 285 pp. + 16 pp. ads. Illustrated with 75 B & W photographs. Original gilt and black stamped green cloth binding. Top edge gilt. Spine sunned with small edge tears at its extremities. Frontispiece missing. Bookplate of Robert Sedgwick front pastedown. Scattered foxing, a good, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Big Game Shooting On The Equator. By Captain F. A. Dickinson. Published by John Lane The Bodley Head in 1908. A First Edition. Size: 9 x 6 inches or 23 x 15.5 cms. Page number: 258. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to the front and spine. Deckle edges. Chapters describing the hunting of different kinds of game animals; Zebra, Bush-buck, Hartebeest, Bohor Reed-Buck, Greater Kudu, Eland etc. are followed by To Maivasha after Duck and Snipe, A Day on the German Boundary, The Preservation of Big Game and Game Regulations. 77 black and white photographs illustrate the text. Condition: Very Good. The boards are a little marked and the corners slightly bumped. The spine is slightly faded and ragged at the top. The corners are bumped but not unduly worn. There is a mark at the base of the front board where I suspect a library sticker has been removed since there is a library sticker on the back end paper. The binding is broken at the back hinge and at the center of the book but otherwise secure. The pages, but for some marks that have to do with age and other small flaws, are clean and un-thumbed. One photograph is a little torn. The photograph opposite the frontispiece has been creased. A previous owners name, and details havebeen written in ink on the first end paper. There is no jacket. A heavy book. Postage may be more than stated if shipped outside of the U.K.

uncut throughout in the original drab boards with white paper spine, largely chipped, extremities bumped. Oblong 8vo (143 x 220 mm), pp. 139, with 19 engraved plates, several printed in portrait format but all bound in landscape, A lovely unsophisticated copy of this scarce manual relating to infantry formation, in which detailed instructions are given for the ?Eighteen Manoevres?, the basic standard of infantry drill as refined during the Napoleonic wars. The text is presented in diagrammatic form, taking each manoeuvre in turn and giving details on the Cautions and Commands to be given by Commanding Officers, the Words of Command by Officers of Companies and finally a column giving an Explanation for each command. Each section or Manoeuvre is illustrated with an engraved plate. The work is dedicated to Colonel David Scott of the First Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers, being the author?s - or compiler?s - commanding officer and it is followed by an Index of the various components of the manoeuvres. Dickinson?s visual presentation of infantry formation proved popular, running to a second (corrected) edition in 1799 and a third in 1803. ?It may appear to require some Apology on my Part, that not being a professional Military Man, I should venture to put my Name to this Publication: Were it to contain any Opinions of my own, upon Military Tactics, I might fairly be charged with Presumption; but I pretend to no other Merit than the Endeavour to arrange the Regulations, adopted for His Majesty?s Infantry Forces, in such a Manner as to render them more easy to the Learner? (p.3). WorldCat lists BL, NLS, NYPL, Harvard and Yale.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. A very rare Churchill item that Big Game bibliophiles have made almost impossible to find. The author accompanied Churchill on his 1908 "African Journey." The frontispiece photo here shows Churchill with the author in the bush. Churchill's extended Introduction states that this book, "brings vividly back to me mellow and charming recollections of British East Africa and Uganda." This is a very good copy, without dust jacket. The spine is faded and a trifle shelfworn, the covers are beautiful, a lovely cloth period binding in ornate orange and gilt. A handsome vintage bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown alongside a tiny circular numeral sticker. Else fine. 8vo (335 pages, 18 illustrations.) (Cohen B8) (Woods B4).

Captain F. A. Dickinson. Sir Charles Norton Eliot, introduction. Big Game Shooting on the Equator. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1908. First edition. Octavo. 285pp. Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, deckled edges. . Spine sunned; small tears to spine head; boards rubbed and soiled; indention to rear board; lower front corner bumped; slight foxing to edges and prelims; frontispiece and one plate detached, but present; pressure stamp to front free endpaper. About very good.

1st. 285 (1), 16 pp adverts frontis and 45 plates with b/w photographs, one plate slight rubbing along the top blank margin edge pages uncut. Publishers' olive-green cloth with gilt title to the upper cover, light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine the cloth a little dull. "Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near the Gusaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo accompanied by some marvellous photos of the author hunting a wounded buffalo in the swamp regions near lakes Solai and Baringo." Czech 81.