Pease Sir a E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Sir A.E, Pease and W. Waite, frontis. and 6 addtional b.w. plates, some affected by slight dampmarking to the top edge, pp.112, a very good copy in decorated cloth binding. Fairfax Blakeborough's copy with his bookplate. Loosely inserted is a long and interesting letter from Pease to Fairfax Blakeborough describing his career and time in the Transvaal where he earned a reputation as a big game hunter. Also three letters to Fairfax Blakeborough on the subject of rat and sparrow clubs and historical bounties on vermin.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Multiple photograph illustrations including a portrait of the author. (illustrator). First edition. This scarce first edition, first impression of John Fairfax-Blakeborough's illustrated, personal history of racing and hunting, introduced by the British Liberal Party politician Sir Alfred Pease. The first edition, first impression of the work.With nineteen monochrome plate illustrations, including photographs of a North Yorkshire hound trail, of Sir Reginald Graham, and of the author himself. Collated complete. Several of the plates bear facsimile signatures of the persons depicted.Featuring an introduction written by Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet, a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1902.Scarce.John Fairfax-Blakeborough was a prolific writer on horse racing who had produced more than one hundred books on the topic by the time of his death in 1976.Sporting Days and Sporting Storiesis a series of personal recollections stemming from the author's experiences in racing and hunting. It provides a detailed account of some of the customs, practices, and traditions historically associated with these sports. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, attractive barring fading to the spine's cloth. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. Offsetting to the free endpapers and a previous owner's inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are a trifle age toned however clean, with moderate foxing throughout, heaviest to the outer leaves. Several leaves remain uncut. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 112pp, 7 plates, illus in text by Sir A.E. Pease, foxing, inscr on ffep, stamp scratched out on front pastedown, pale green cloth partly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Sir A. E. Pease (illustrator). First Edition. pp 112, includes photographic plates and in text illustrations by Pease. Original green hardback binding, with black lettering to spine and boards with decorative vignette, a little handling wear, binding firm. Contents clean and tight, original endpapers, attractive plate belonging to Peter Conder, water staining to a few pages on the top corner not affecting text or plates, no inscriptions. A very good copy of the scarce title. [Peter Conder, ornithologist and conservationist, previous Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds] Size: 8vo. Book.