Phyllis Barclay Smith Chapter Shooting (4 results)

Paperback. Illustrated By Philip Rickman (illustrator). First Edition As Such. Copyright Date: 1993 Sm Quarto, 1999, PP.48, As New, Both Covers Are French Folded But Miss Matched To Size Of Text Block By A Quarter Inch.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. This flawless copy is bound in dark blue leather with bright gold decoration surrounding a mounted color illustration, and titles and all edges gilt, the binding is tight as if unread, it is Number 627 in a Limited Edition of 2500 copies, illustrated with color plates by Philip Rickman, a great gift copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First trade edition. 46 pp, small folio (13 by 10 inches approx.), with 20 vivid and sublime color plate illustrations by Rickman, the foremost British artist of waterfowl in his day. Chapters on grouse and black game, partridges and quail, pheasant, wild turkey, woodcock and snipe, gees and ducks, shooting in the U.K. and America. Some emphasis in the text on the preservation of species at time that toll of overhunting had become apparent. Binding tight. Only the most occasional and lightest of fox marks on otherwise luxuriant thick paper stock. Minor soilage in gutter area and trivial shelfwear in corner. Neat square in front inner fold of dust jacket cut out (price removal).

Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the upper panel. Folio. 12'' x 10''. Contains [x] 48 printed pages of text with twenty full-page single sided and paper guarded colour plates. Fox splashes to the half-title and front fly paper, without any ownership markings or wear to the cloth covers. Very Good condition book, in Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning of the paper to the spine and spine edges, minor rubs to the tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper without any tears or pieces of paper missing and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.