Hobday Colonel (8 results)

Printer Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Colonel E. A. Hobday (illustrator). A very good copy; binding is wrappers. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. Unpaginated. A sharp copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by the late Lt.-Col. E. A. Hobday and 2 sketches by L. Raven Hill. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Spine sunned. Slightly foxed. Stamped 'With the Publishers Compliments' to title page. Rare.

Staple Binding. Condition: Very Good. Undated pamphlet. Pages clean and bright, some rusting to staples but binding firm, light spotting on covers. Size: 8vo. Pamphlet.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good 50 page softcover booklet. There's a couple of tiny dot stains on the rear cover along with a small nick on the rear cover edge. The binding is very tight, the staples are rust-free and the pages are clean, bright and spotting-free. Please see photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in burgundy cloth boards with godl gilt lettering to spine, gold gilt design to front board, no dustjacket. 288pp + 144pp book catalogue to rear. B/w frontispiece, b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, missing 2 photographs to pages 200/201, wear to spine edges, rubbing to endpapers. (44/7).

With 10 black and white illustrations by E. Hobday, from sketches by the author. (illustrator). First edition, first printing. 257pp. 8.5" x 6". CATCH A TIGER While stationed by the British Army in northern India, Lt-Colonel J. C. Fife-Cookson was determined to hunt a tiger as the ultimate match of wits against the most difficult and dangerous of animals. Fife-Cookson's passionate pursuit was during the height of tiger hunting as a popular and prestigious hobby of British and Indian nobility from the 1870s into the early 20th Century. During this period the upwards of 45,000 tigers in India dwindled to a meager 1,800 by 1971. Outlawed in 1972, Fife-Cookson's account gives a glimpse into the tiger hunting fever of a long-gone era. Ffep verso has gift inscription to Claud Stracey, from his father, dated 18th February 1890, along with a second ownership inscription by Helmut Adomite, a noted Denver, Colorado-based wildlife painter. Marginalia to final page with the date, 9 July 1890, and one word,"Feeble". Owner's gift inscription, minor discoloration to rear panel, light rubbing, very good with hinges firm and internally clean, in custom mylar cover. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Book measures 33x22.cm. Collation, v,105,lvi,4pp, 24 maps, many folding, some in colour, 2 full page plates, including frontis, 1 text illustrations. Bound in original publishers cloth backed printed boards. Boards rubbed on edges, with minor loss, dust/dirt marked, library label on top board. Generally a good solid binding. Internally, cancellation stamp on title page, a couple of blind stamps. Pages and maps/illustrations in good clean condition. A good solid clean copy. Size: Quarto.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Hobday, e (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. Very good, with a little bumping and wear to extremities, closed tear in tissue guard of frontis., and some loosening internally. A very presentable copy of an uncommon title.