Fred Speakman (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Spine, binding and covers all fine and contents clean though tanning. Nice gilt title on spine and robust red boards. Dustcover good, tanning on spine, but very little other wear. 164 pages.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1975). (1954) 1975 pbk edition. 8vo paperback (127 x 196mm). Pp160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Slight use and browning but good-plus second-hand paperback. ". not a sit-at-home-and-read-indoors-book, but a book to make you get out of doors, to look, smell and hear and do things for yourself." Chapters include: Getting started; Warnings in the wild; Birds; Bird nesting; In which I think of animals; Food tracking; Foot tracking; Finding the tracks; Plaster casts; Records without poaster; Your field note-book; Following the trail; The end of the trail. Appendix: The classification of animals. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Ppvi,93. B/w illustrations by Jill Gaze. Silver-gilt titles to mottled, brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slight browning to end-papers, crease to end-papers and preliminaries. Good in rather rubbed dust-wrapper. Juvenile fiction and good natural history. Foxes, badgers and an old tortoise. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1975). (1954) 1975 pbk edition. 8vo paperback (127 x 196mm). Pp160. B/w photographs, illustrations. Some use and browning. Extensive gift inscription, good reading copy. Title-page signed by the author. ". not a sit-at-home-and-read-indoors-book, but a book to make you get out of doors, to look, smell and hear and do things for yourself." Chapters include: Getting started; Warnings in the wild; Birds; Bird nesting; In which I think of animals; Food tracking; Foot tracking; Finding the tracks; Plaster casts; Records without poaster; Your field note-book; Following the trail; The end of the trail. Appendix: The classification of animals. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1972). 1972 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 223mm). Ppvi,93. B/w illustrations by Jill Gaze. Silver-gilt titles to mottled brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slight use. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. Juvenile fiction and good natural history. Foxes, badgers and an old tortoise. .

Condition: Good. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 193 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 163 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

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

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shows minor wear.

Condition: Good. 1954. New Edition. 154 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Tape marks to pastedowns. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Spine noticeably sunned. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Avis, John (illustrator). Light shelf rubbing; pen inscription to the first endpaper. Text is clean. 193 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Fair. 1967. No Edition Stated. 163 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Rear flap held with tape.

Condition: Good. Boards have little wear and light toning. Pages tonned with spotting. DJ has some edge wear.

Condition: Good. Reprint. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with little wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 160039. Speakman, Fred & Alfred Curtis. A POACHER¿S TALE. 8vo frontis. London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd. ix + 189 p. 1964 4th Printing. [1960] [Cat. 72.] 16-0039 con-sb. ¿As told by Alfred Curtis to Fred Speakman. Fascinating account of a British poacher [born in 1893] and his life of shooting, snaring, fishing, netting, and all the nefarious methods to collect fish & game to sell or eat. Near Fine no DJ. $20.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout by John Avis. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1960) later reprint. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppxi,189. B/w frontispiece portrait of A.T. Curtis by John Avis. Green boards, silver-gilt title & shotgun on spine. Minor faults, slight lean to spine / slight use / browning to end-papers and edges. Good copy in slightly frayed / stained dust-wrapper. Alf Curtis was born in Waltham Abbey, in Essex. In later life, he kept a fishing tackle shop (in Edmonton, North London?). There he met the writer, Fred J. Speakman, and told him his story. Tales of a life of poaching, bird catching and rabbiting, mostly in Epping Forest, with a lengthy chapter on fishing the River Lee and the London reservoirs. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1964). (1962) 1964 BC edition. 8vo (143 x 222mm). Ppx,165. B/w illustrations by John Avis, map. Red boards, spine titled in gilt. Rather browned throughout. Good-plus in used and tanned dust-wrapper. The life of a gamekeeper in an Essex forest. Chapters include: I come to the Forest; Gangs, poachers and frauds; On bird-catchers; On dogs and deer; Fires; A keeper's day; Life of the Forest; Anecdotes; On wine-making; I look back for the last time; Jottings from a keeper's memory. .

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Stated. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Notable forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A good condition vintage book. Notable tanning to the textblock, but still an unfaded and well-bound copy. Legible and reliable.

Condition: Good. 1962. No edition remarks. 163 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by John Avis. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Country Book Club, London, 1964, reprint edition. Illustrated with drawings. 5.5" x 8.75". 165 pp. Red paper covered boards. The story of a father and son team of gamekeepers in an Essex forest, with chapters on the life of a gamekeeper, bird catchers, poachers, winemaking, etc. Very good in very good wrapper.

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 164 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations by John Avis. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Reprint. Very good clean firm interior, no marks, neat inscription to top front e/paper, contains an illustrated frontispiece, boards have just very slight shelf wear but clean firm condition over all; d/jacket has a small tear to lower spine but very good-plus bright appearance otherwise, not price-clipped.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gaze, Jill (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1972. Very good condition with no wrapper. Brown mottled boards, silver titles. 93 pages. Story about a very old and wise tortoise. A few b/w drawings to text. SIGNED by the author to title-page. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to front free-endpaper and some light foxing to textblock else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1960) 1973 reprint. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppxi,189. B/w frontispiece portrait of A.T. Curtis by John Avis. Green boards, gilt title and shotgun on spine. Very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, in later life, Alf Curtis kept a fishing tackle shop (in Edmonton, North London?). There he met, and told his story to, writer Fred J. Speakman. Tales of a life of poaching, bird catching and rabbiting, mostly in Epping Forest, with a lengthy chapter on fishing the River Lee and the London reservoirs. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Harold Speakman (illustrator). dated and signed by author, pages clean with small amount of foxing, corners bumped and rubbed. former owner's name written in. top of spine chipped slightly. slight water stains on covers but no musty smells. Signed by Author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good used copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Avis (illustrator). The story of Sidney Butt, son of one of the first keepers of Epping Forest who followed in his father's footsteps. Here are his memories spanning 80 years, from the 1870s to the 1950s: poaching, bird catching, forest fires, wine making, the denizens human and wild. PB. 163 pages + in-text map. Book tight and clean.