Craven Pseud (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. [4 , 474, iii, 32]. Illustrated with engraved title and 12 engraved plates (including portrait frontis). Text tight, & intact, hinges just starting: covers firm. Light shelf wear. Two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 474 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. Engraved title and 12 engraved plates plus numerous partial page engravings and drawings. Text tight, clean & intact, Front hinge just starting: cover firm. Light shelf wear. Two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 488 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. [1 (title) , 479, 1]. Illustrated with engraved title, 11 engraved plates (one hand-colored) , 4 maps and several partial page engravings and drawings. Text tight, & intact, hinges just starting: covers firm. Light shelf wear. Two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 479 pages.

New Edition,. Mit Frontispiz und zahlreichen Abbildungen auf Tafeln und im Text, XXVIII, 307 Seiten, Gutes Exemplar, der Einband etwas berieben. Fine copy, the binding a little bit rubbed. Sprache: Englisch 8°, rotes Ldr auf 5 Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.

First Edition. Provenance; bookplate of J.S. Judd. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age; boards stained. Remains reasonably well-preserved overall; tight, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages; Physical description; xxviii, 286 p. ; 12ş. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, "new edition", xxviii,307,32 pp., ads., with 62 engraved illustrations and 9 engraved plates, rebound in quarter brown morocco grain leather and brown linen boards, crimson leather label gilt, marbled endpapers, inner linen hinges, fine condition thus (gar). ~ Riling 560. With chapters on deer stalking, grouse hunting, capercailzie shooting, hunting dogs, hare and rabbit shooting, game birds and wild fowl. Illustrations by William Harvey and Abraham Cooper.

First Edition. Provenance; bookplate of J.S. Judd. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age; boards stained. Remains reasonably well-preserved overall; tight, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 307 pages; Physical description; xxviii, 286 p. ; 12ş. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Half brown leather spine & corners over brown silk boards. 4 bands with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. VOLUME #5: [1 (title) , 483, 1]; engraved title, 6 engraved plates, 6 maps and several partial page engravings and drawings. VOLUME #6: [1 (title) , 484]; engraved title, 11 engraved plates (one hand-colored) ; 4 maps; 2 drawings of trophy cups and several partial page engravings and drawings. Text tight, clean & intact with tissue guarded plates, hinges just starting: covers firm. Light shelf wear. Both volumes have two prior owner's ink stamps on front endpaper: one belonging to industrialist "William K. Dick" of Islip, Long Island, NY. Sports, Hunting, Horses. ; B/W Engravings; 8vo; 967 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Exceedingly scarce work of Arthur Scott Craven (pseud. of A. K. Harvey James), early 20th century actor and author, killed in battle in 1917. This work (58 pp.) publishes a letter (dated May, 1916) "Dear Tommy" (Thomas Leslie Graham, the book's dedicatee). The letters maintains a strong religious thrust throughout. Rare World War I book. Bound in three quarter leather and cloth. Top edge gilt. Cloth number label fixed to spine. Nice copy.

Simla, 1896; West Kensington, 1904, 1909, undated. An uncommon series by Arthur Scott Craven was the stage name and nom de plume of actor and author A.K.H. James. He published a number of novels and poems before 1914, including 'Alarums and Excursions' - which included notable poems such as 'The Cross in the Rock.'.