Captain Drought (27 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. Booklet. 31pp. B.F.S.S. Pubn. no 57.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1948). 1948 1st edition. 8vo (148 x 227mm). Pp246. B/w photograph plates, brief bibliography. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled in dark red. Stains to cloth, inscription. Slightly foxed and used, good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. This is an interesting manual which aims to provide all-round information for the practical do it yourself shooter. Chapters include; A word to beginners; Safety, and some other things; Shots and shooters; Hits and misses; Rough shooting; Choosing a shoot; Shooting management; Farming and foods of game; Game habits and habitations; Vermin; The ways of the partridge; Partridge rearing; Woods and wild pheasants; Snapshots from the rearing fields; Gun-dogs and their work; Shoots in preparation; Grouse shooting; Partridge shooting; Pheasant shooting; Birds of the marshes; Woodcock; Wildfowl; Pigeon shooting; odds and ends; The costs of shooting. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Worn dust jacket has a short tear to the edge. Foxing to the page edges. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

Condition: Good. 1937. First Edition. 159 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavier foxing to front panel.

Condition: Good. 1936. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked sunning to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Original cloth,covers little worn, pp144.

Hard. Condition: Good. First printing. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Covers marked and sunned. Leaves foxed.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy is in near fine condition bound in tan cloth covered boards with red titling to the spine and the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square, there is a small neat signature to the front paste down. A dustwrappert is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Covers everything from safety concerns to the cost of licences in 1948. Chapters include rough shooting, vermin, keepering, partridge rearing, pheasants, gun-dogs grouse, pheasants, woodcock, pigeon and wildfowl. Ref LLL 4.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. 8vo (126 x 160mm). Ppvii,159. Unillustrated. Black titles and ruled border to green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning else very good in frayed but un-price clipped dust-wrapper. This is a detailed guide to all aspects of game shooting aimed at the beginner, originally published as a series of articles in Game & Gun under the pen-name "Errigal." Chapters include: The ethics of shooting; The novice and his gun; Safety first; Game birds and their enemies; In the spring; Choosing a shoot; Rough shooting; The moors in August; September days; Driving game; Autumn leaves; The shooter in the marshes; Snipe and woodcock; On salting and shore; Hits and misses; The compleat shot. .

Hardcover. green cloth, dust jacket, 159p. VG+/VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 155pp. 1st edition 1937. Very small spot to front board. A very pleasing copy. (bs26).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Denys Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). 1st Edition. Maroon boards and spine, the latter lettered in gilt. The price clipped jacket, in removable sleeve, has loss up to 1 cm a round head and base of spine and loss on the four front corners; the spine, rubbed down edges, has a 4 cm x 1 cm stain, just affecting the front. Internally offsetting to endpapers and a name on ffep; contents clean and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard. Condition: Good. Illustrated with woodcuts by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. (illustrator). First printing thus [1949]. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Endpapers toned and minor foxing to outermost leaves. Neatly penned ownership inscription to free front endpaper. 143pp. 0.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In green cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front cover. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with dustwrapper. (DW. Tanning and shelving marks to covers. Rubbed along edges, large chips from corners, ends of spine, and edges of covers. Not price clipped. In protective cellophane wrapper.). Ends of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Light tanning to endpapers. Inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 159pp.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt vignette on upper board. Slight stains to cloth, slightly browned. Good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Darkened dust-jacket has shelf-wear on upper and lower edges and closed tear from lower edge at rear. Red covers with silver lettering on spine and on the front and blind decoration on the front, lightly bumped corners, darkened upper block edge, very occasional light foxing, clean pages, end-papers and plates. Contains black and white plates (full page illustrations). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57222071182. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Dust Jacket Very Good (Now Protected) 8.5" x 5.5" Cloth Very Good + Green cloth, gilt decoration to front cover, gilt titles to spine, nd, [1949], pp.1- 144, illustrated by the b&w woodcuts of "B.B.", small circular bookplates on front pastedown and fly, eps & edges lightly foxed, dw corners chipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good/very Good. BB (Denys James Watkins-Pitchford) (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N.D. [1949] 8vo, pp,143,attractive woodcuts by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, gilt titled and decorated green cloth a bit rubbed, titling a little faded, early name and address on the leading free endpaper, a little mild foxing.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Printing. Green cloth with black lettering to spine and front. Ex-owner's name and date, and place and date, neatly on fep 159 pages. Book tight and clean. .

8vo., 144pp., 12 full-page and chapter head & tail-piece woodcut illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB', orig. green cloth gilt with gilt embossed fishing motif to centre of upper cover. A fine clean bright copy. An interesting account of trout and salmon fishing, wildfowling, shooting together with a chapter on bog shooting in Ireland.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding B. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt. Browned and used but good-plus in chipped and browned dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding B. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt. Some browning but very good in chipped dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt vignette on upper board. Very good in frayed dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, NOT ex-library. No date but Jisc records suggest 1949. Jacket generally spotted and toned, along with small tears to edges. Price-clipped. Boards bright. Binding tight. Spotting to faces of page block. Owner's name in biro to ffep. Spotting to pastedowns, endpapers and then mainly confined to early and final leaves. 12 full page illustrations as well as headpieces and the odd tailpiece, by Watkins-Pitchford. 143pp. Further details available on request. (Uc2).

D. J. Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback The dust jackeet with an illustrated front cover presents well although lightly foxed Chipping to the corners and to the top and base of the spine Not price clipped Underneath lie the publishers original rich green cloth with small gilt pictorial to the front In good condition despite a little bumping to the corners Large inscription as well as foxing to the front free endpaper The rest of the pages are clean throughout and beautifully illustrated by BB pp 143 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Published by Hutchinson (Hutchinson;s Library of Sports and Pastimes) in 1949, here is the first hardback printing of Captain J.B.Drought's A SPORTSMAN LOOKS AT EIRE illustrated by 'B B' (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) Plum coloured cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, 144 sensationally illustrated pages, the book is in very good condition with some moderate browning to the end papers and some minoir dusty spotting to the top and side of the page edges. The dust jacket is also very good with minor chipping/ browning to the edges plus a few spots and some light finger marking to the rear of the jacket. A humdinger.