Cuming E D J a Shepherd (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In good green cloth boards, gilt titles and gilt vignette of birds sitting on a wire to front. The boards are flat and tight and fairly clean; spine ends and corners bumped and frayed. Lightly tanned free end papers; dedication on front free end paper. Tiny gilt and black bookseller's sticker from The Times Book Club, London on rear paste down. The text block has lightly tanned cut edges and the fore edge is deckled. The pages are firmly attached to boards and lightly foxed on most pages. With black and white illustrations - some on glossy paper - by J. A. Shepherd. Good condition. Without jacket. J. A. Shepherd (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 328pp, 12 black and white line drawn plates including frontispiece. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles and illustration on front and spine; top text block edge sprayed black; fore edge untrimmed. Numerous black and white line drawings. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, moderate wear to extremities, light soiling and staining to boards. Fore and lower text block edges tanned and foxed. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring the occasional spotting. Shepherd, J A (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: n No Jacket. y 1st Edition. London: John Murray, 1934. Book. Illus. by J A Shepherd. Good. Green Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of notes on the habits of animals and birds. 326pp with index, illustrated with black and white drawings. Gilt design and lettering to top board and spine. Top edges tinted, rest untrimmed. Slight lean to spine and foxing to edges and margins, otherwise fair/good reading copy with no inscriptions. J A Shepherd (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1903 first edition hardback in good condition. Contemporary (1904) owner's signature and date on inside cover. A few minor marks and wear to inside covers, main pages are clean, bright and unmarked. The illustrated green cloth boards have a number of marks to front and (especially) rear, spine is tanned and worn, edges a little rubbed, but all still quite solid. Slight upward curl of boards. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Green decorated boards with black/gilt desing to front, severe BLANCHING to front opening edge causing partial removal of design & erosion of surface giving disappointing appearance, flecking & darkening to rear, darkening to spine, wear with slight splits to spine-ends, tiny frays to corners. Xmas inscription to flyleaf dated 1903, darkening to end-papers & page-edges. Some discolouring/darking to lower margins of text/plates to first half of book due to much use. Outstanding humerous b/w & colour illustrations. Text is otherwise clean & binding is sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Col. frontispiece of tree creepers and one other col. plate of blackcap, delightful water-colour illustrations in the margins of every page, illustrated endpapers, pp.122, outer edges of text block rough cut, top edge gilt. brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover which has a gilt and black illustration of a bird. Minor foxing to endpapers and final page of text but otherwise in very good clean condition without inscriptions, binding firm without signs of wear. A newspaper cutting from 1934 regarding the tree-creeper pasted to final blank page and another on the song of the thrush loosely inserted, some darkening of rear endpaper. A very good copy. Size: sm. 8vo. Shepherd, J. A. (illustrator).…

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & bird illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained grey, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 326pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss & archival tape repairs, moderate tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling, heavy crack to front spine hinge with tidy archival tape repair). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 vols in 1. Small 8vo. Pp 120; 122. Colour frontispieces and illustration in the margins of every page. Original cloth wear to edges of boards. D/w edge-worn with chip to top edge front wrap. Foxing to endpapers. Inscription to ffep. Shepherd, J.A. (illustrator).…

Square 8vo, xii+215pp, Eight colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slight darkening of backstrip, a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st eds. Vol 1 British Birds. Passeres. 121pp. Illus dwgs in the margins + 3 plates. Vol 2 - British Birds. Passeres. 122pp. Illus dwgs as before + 2 plates. The boards are rubbed & sl. stained but generally sound. Internally there is occasional foxing & stains but overall clean & bright. Both volumes have the same ownership signature on the ffep's. J.A.Shepherd. (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: G+. No DW. Not dated. Inscription of owner at start of book dated 1912. Clean tight text is nearly DETACHED from worn and marked covers. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Pictorial hard covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Donor's inscription on ffep. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Illustrated Paper board/Cloth. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Folio sized, illustrated paper-covered boards with a green cloth spine, corners very rubbed, edges a little rubbed, boards generally worn, front hinge has split at the top, illustrated endpapers, tanned, printed on a single side only with the pages then folded in half, charming colour illustrations by J A Shepherd interspersed with rhymes by E D Cuming, some foxing and spotting to pages but no tears, a very attractive book. William James Affleck Shepherd (1866-1946) was an English illustrator and cartoonist, known mainly for anthropomorphic animal drawings. He rarely used his first forename - most of his works are simply signed "J.A.S." PLEASE NOTE: THIS LARGE BOOK MAY COST EXTRA TO SHIP OUTSIDE OF THE UK. Size: Folio. J A Shepherd (illustrator). Illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Oversized hardback book (not paginated) illustrated by J.A.Shepherd with rhymes by E.D.Cumings. Boards are soiled/worn especially at edge - inside gutters are cracked/weak but still holding - browning/creases on endpapers - light-moderate foxing on most pages. International shipping will require additional charge. Bookseller since 1995 (ULCPORT) rareviewbooks. …

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. J. A. Shepherd illustrations throughout. 215 pp. Publisher's illustrated and gilt-lettered cloth. Spine tanned and some rubbing to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean internally. B/w illustrated and 8 colour plates. A children's natural history book, fictionalising the lives of all kinds of animals living in the British Isles. 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Decorative green cloth boards with a little wear and mild discolouration. Colour frontispiece is loose, otherwise all illustrations intact and complete. No inscriptions. Prev bookseller's small blind stamp on ffep. Binding feels slightly loose in places but overall good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Two volume set. Vol. I is dated 1913. Vol II is dated 1914. Previous owner's embossment is on the second free endpaper of each volume. Otherwise fine. The dust jackets are soiled, spotted and edgeworn. The Vol II DJ has three small chips. The spines are darkened. The price, 2/-, appears on the spine of the Vol. I DJ. In Brodart archival dust jacket protectors. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. J. A. Shepherd (illustrator). Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A first edition of this delightfully illustrated collection of wildlife sketches. First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Collated complete. A collection of wildlife sketches with notes on sparrows, hedgehogs, moles, rats, martins, owls, otters, and many more. Written by Edward William Dirom Cuming, an English author. Illustrated by William James Affleck Shepherd, an English illustrator known for his anthropomorphic animal cartoons and drawings. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. The odd small mark to the board. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with chipping to the extremities and a 5" closed tear to the front joint. Marks to the wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed. J. A. Shepherd (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Early Edition. Colour illustrations. There is a pencil name inscription on the front pastedown, light foxing to half-title page and very lightly scatttered throughout. Small repair to lower fore corner of clear leaf following title page. All else clean and firm inside. Firm boards with pictorial pastedown to front board and a cloth spine. Some minor edge wear and small marks to boards. Shepherd, J.A. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Cuming, E. D. and J. A. Shepherd. The Arcadian calendar. London: George Newnes Limited, 1903. Hardback, FAIR. Green cloth, bumped to corners, rubbed to edges, generally grubby, with two-thirds of the backstrip from the top down MISSING. Illustration in b/w and gilt lettering to front. Binding intact but the front board is starting to pull away where the backstrip is missing. Ownership signatures to front pastedown. Grubby pencil smudge to ffep. Frontispiece colour illustration. 215pp., 8 colour plates (collated, complete) and b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. Scarce. William James Affleck Shepherd (1866 1946) was an English illustrator and cartoonist, known mainly for anthropomorphic animal drawings. He rarely used his first forename most of his works are simply signed "J.A.S." This book is a series of observations across the year of the lives of the birds, beasts and fish of the British islands, illustrated in this anthropomorphic style. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 25 French folded leaves bound in half cloth and green boards with mounded title illustrations. Wear on boards, light age toning and some foxing on half title and title page. Inside a very good copy of this early edition. Ills. in colour. 27 x 20 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. London: Blackie and Son Limited Beautifully illustrated book showing the adventures of hunting hounds, 34 pages with every other page one or more colour illustrations with the story in verse. The pages instead of being printed each side are printed side by side and then folded so that the illustrations are bck to back then bound into the book, the first of these has split to a length of 3 inches at the fold but been repaired internally with pasted on paper, a neat repair, the second page has a smaller split around ½ inch this has not been reaired. First and last couple of pages are medium to heavily foxed with just occasional spots on the other pages. Book has been professionally respined keeping the original illustrated endpapers, these are browned and a triangular loss to front bottom right of endpaper 5½ iches across by 2 inches at its deepest point. Book is not dated but has previous owners details in ink on the inside front board dated 1908. outer boards are rubbed and worn on edges with boards showing through, some marking. Though not perfect still a pleasing copy of a collectable bookSEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Illustrated Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by J A Shepherd. 15½ x 10¾ Inches. Hardcover. J A Shepherd (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Green cloth spine, dark pictorial covers. Colour illustrations and rhymes. A tale of three foxhound puppies. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges. A few scuff marks to covers. Foxing and some page browning. Appears to rear joint has been repaired. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Shepherd, J.A. (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A scarce reprint of this beautifully illustrated children's book from J. A. Shepherd. Scarce reprint. Early edition. A delightful children's story in verse about the adventures of three young hunting hounds. With illustrations to each page. Written by Edward William Dirom Cuming, an English author. Illustrated by William James Affleck Shepherd, an English illustrator known for his anthropomorphic animal cartoons and drawings. In the original quarter cloth with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the corner of the front board. The odd mark to the board. Light fading to the spine. Rear hinge tender but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning. Very Good. J. A. Shepherd (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good + overall. First American edition. (Rhymes by E.D. Cuming). Folio, unpaginated. Illustrated by J. A. Shepherd. Pictorial papered gray boards, green cloth spine. Corners rubbed, sltly. marked, inside hinges quite loose, but overall very nice copy of a scarce book. A children's book, telling the tale of three foxhound puppies and their adventures. Charming illustrations, printed in a pale ink palette.…

FIRST EDITION (1908), folio, 395 x 275 mm, 15½ x 10¾ inches, cloth backed grey boards illustrated brown and white, green and cream illustrated endpapers, illustrated half-title, (34) pages Japan folded. Colour illustrated title page and 32 pages of delightful coloured illustrations, text above and below. Foxhound puppies get up to every sort of prank. Corners and board edges slightly rubbed, tiny chips to surface at top and bottom edges of boards, head and tail of spine just very slightly worn, minute nick in spine cloth. Endpapers slightly browned, half-title foxed and last page slightly foxed, occasional faint foxing to margins. A very good clean bright copy. The reprints are smaller (270 mm, 10¾" tall) with a mounted colour plate on the cover. J. A. Shepherd (1867-1946) was an animal painter known for humorous drawings of animals with human clothing and personalities. He worked for Punch for 40 years, noted for the style and wit of his illustrations. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A heavy book which may require extra postage.…

First edition. Large slim folio. Illustrated boards with green backstrip. No DW. Pages Japanese folded, printed on one side only with blank sides inside outer fold which is unopened so the whole could be framed. Boards a little soiled and very rubbed to top right corner. Contents foxed, gift dedication. A charming copy of a scarce dog item. VG+.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A first edition copy of the first two volume of British birds, with colour plates. A first edition copy.This contains volumes one and two of the Bodley Head Natural History series on British Birds, written by E. D. Cuming and illustrated by J. A. Shepherd.The first volume considers the Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird and other birds and the second volume details the Blackcap, Garden Warbler and Golden Crested Wren.With two plates and a frontispiece to volume one and one plate and a frontispiece to volume two, all in colour and many in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally lovely with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A previous owner inscription to the half title page. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is a little worn with a tear across the front wrap and to the head of the front wrap, fading to the spine and chipping to the head and tail of the spine. With some tape to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Very Good Indeed. J. A. Shepherd (illustrator). book. …

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. First edition of this large picture book adventure of three charming young hounds. The rhymes relate the misadventures of adorable fox-hunting puppies that begin their training by hunting everything that moves - from a turkey to a garden hose. Illustrated in color on every page and with pictorial endpapers reminiscent of Aldin. An especially nice copy of a book rarely found so. 15.25'' x 10.25''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers of the three puppies menacing a startled chicken. Illustrated in color. [36] pages, French-fold. Binding with mild edgewear. Endpapers a bit toned. Clean and bright.…