Seton Karr, First Edition (34 results)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 202, [6] p. : folding map ; 8°. Subject; Cornwallis, C, Charles 1st Marquis 1738-1805. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 202, [6] p. : folding map ; 8°. Subject; Cornwallis, C, Charles 1st Marquis 1738-1805. 1 Kg.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, small quarto, cream and red cloth lettered gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. upper hinge just starting but stitching tight, bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the body of text clean and unmarked, Tissue guarded portrait frontis. Sir John Grant (1807-1893) Member of the Supreme Council of India, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, Governor of Jamaica.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Fold out map complete. Tightly bound copy in blue cloth with gilt titles. Ex Library with usual stamps and labels. Read descriptions carefully. Avoid GLASSFROGBOOKS, ERGODOBOOKS, MORE BOOKS, IRISH BOOKSELLERS, PRO QUO/BAYSIDE BOOKS, BOOKSPLEASE, RIA CHRISTIE, DISCOVER BOOKS, BOOKS2ANYWHERE, BOOKS EXPRESS, CHIRON MEDIA! These "Booksellers" have no books of their own. they buy honest booksellers' books, upcharge you and have no idea what the book is really like. Support your local and small bookstore owners!

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a small octavo first edition in the blue Oxford binding with gold lettering on the spine, no DJ. some underling and marks in the first chapter about Cornwallis' part in the revolutionary war. From a college library with the usual exlib marks. Otherwise a VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Binding is cracked at front hinge but pages are holding firm. Boards show soiling. Pages show toning. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper, otherwise in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. First American Edition. Green hardcover shows bumping at corners and wear at edges with strips of color missing at front and rear spine and a large rectangle at bottom. Each of these has been colored with black magic marker. The book has normal library markings including stamps, removed pocket and "discard". The 367 pages show light reading with all pages lightly tanned. Chapters include: My First Stag - and Some Ohters, The Iland of Hitteren, That Mainland Stag, In Scotch Deer_Forests, Reindeer-Stalking, Elk-Hunting in Norway, In the Gula Valley, My First Trip to the Rockies, After Big-Game in Wyoming, On the Island of vancouver, Salmon-Fishing, The Twenty-Six Pounder, Western Trout-Fishing, On a Cattle-Range and Sporting Rifles and Their Use.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped blue cloth; 8vo; 367+16pp publisher's catalog at rear; illustrated with b/w photos and painting reproductions. Hunting elk, deer, grizzly, black bear, buffalo and sheep in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains plus Western trout fishing. PLus stag in Britain, elk & salmon in Norway and a good chapter on sporting rifles. This copy in VG condition with mild rubbing along edges, front hinge tender o/w internally clean.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 22.5cm, xiii, 240pp, engraved portrait frontis (tissue guard removed,) cloth covers with gilt titling - a little grubby at spine and very mild insect grazing to surface - trivial. A VG tidy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington 1887, first edition, first printing. Ex library cloth in fair condition. Covers have damp damage with rippling to cloth. Page edges darkened, wear to spine, library number on spine, pocket or labels roughly removed from rear endpapers. Foldout map is present & in very good undamaged condition. 5.75 x 9 in., 248 pp. + ads. Exploration of coastal Alaska by famed big-game hunter. Karr's party made the first attempt to climb Mt. St. Elias; they didn't get very far.

Condition: VG+, NO dj. 1st. 8vo. 367pp. Bookplate. Very light wear head and heel of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library with markings and a number on spine. Original 1891 printing. Pages firm and clean with some aging. Ships in 24 hours.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated Frontispiece (illustrator). 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. PayPal accepted. Printed for private circulation. A memoir of the services of Sir John Peter Grant - member of the Supreme Council of India. Lt. Govenor of Bengal and Govenor of Jamaica. Printed on hand made paper quarter bound two tone cloth, browned at spine and slightly marked on covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Small 8vo. Original decorated blue publisher's cloth. Pages: [ii], xv, 248. Folding map at rear. 57 illustrated plates and two coloured maps throughout. Bound in original blue publisher's cloth. Cover and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Contains Library of The Alpine Club of America plate on FBEP. Presented by "Henry G. Bryant, 1933". Bryant was a former president and member of the club. Good. Spine sunned. Adhesive marks from removed library sticker on lower spine and covers near creases. Rubbing at edges and corners. Single bump at centre of foredge. Hinge slightly cracked at front endpaper gutter. Contents in very good condition. Fresh and bright. Some foxing on plate tissue guards. An accounting of an expedition Seton Karr made to the Yakutat Bay, Copper River, and Prince William Sound regions of Alaska through 1886. Also contained is his partaking in an attempt to ascent Mount St. Elias. Provenance: From the library of Warwick H. Williams. Previously owned by Henry G. Bryant, former president and member of The American Alpine Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xviii +329pp + 40pp publishers catalogue, frontis, appends inc. a list of Officers and men. 'A review of the Imperial yeomanry Movement and some subjects connected therewith.' Nice tight copy in light wear boards with a couple of white splashes to front, bumped corners and rubbing to head of spine. 750g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 243 pp.+ Illus Plt at Frontis (With Tissue Guard), Photo & Illus Plts, 2 Maps in Text & Lge Color FoldOut Map at back, Orig Grey-Blue Illus Hardback with Blindstamped Gilt Title on F Cover & Spine, VG, no DJ, 1st ed.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1889). (1889) 1890 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 200mm). xi pp + 445 pp + ii pp + "Opinions of the press" of the first edition. Not illustrated. Red half leather, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Quite well-used, spine repaired. A good copy. Some copies have a tipped-in frontispiece, but this is not present. A book on sport and travel during the eighteen-eighties. Includes salmon and trout fishing in Sweden, Norway, Finland, western United States, British Columbia and Quebec, and tuna fishing in Sardinia, as well as travels in Alaska, South Africa and Persia. First published in 1889 as "Ten Years' Wild Sports In Foreign Lands." .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 333 pp., Red Hardback, Gilt title, light soil on spine, else VG, no DJ, 1st ed (Fishing & Hunting in Scandinavia, British Columbia, Alaska & Central Asia).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Blue/gray cloth. Lettered and decorated in gilt and black. The ads at the end are dated October, 1886. Frontispiece and three maps. The folding map at the end is largely missing. Foxing to several leaves at the front. A few leaves are roughly opened. Bumps and chips to the spine ends and corners. Good only. Interestingly, to the front free endpaper there is the pencilled inscription, "from the author" along the upper edge and to the center of the page, "Vanderbilt". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages; Signed by Author.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1904). 1904 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 230mm). Ppxii,367 + 16pp ads. Illustrated with b&w plates from photographs, & 3 from drawings by E. Caldwell. Dark green cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Newly recased with original spine and upper cloth laid on. A very good copy. Largely about deer-stalking in Scotland, Norway and North America (the author owned a ranch in Wyoming), but includes chapters on trout, salmon and sea-trout fishing in America, Norway, Scotland and Ireland. The final chapter is on sporting rifles. Hampton's Angling Bibliography (2008) wrongly attributes this book to Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, the author's younger brother, who was also a noted traveller, big-game hunter and angler. .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Mounted Sharpshooter Corps, as part of the Imperial Yeomanry in the War in South Africa, and the doings of its battalions. Original brown cloth with gilt illus to front board and titles. 329pp, list of officers and men. Edges of cloth a little rubbed, foxing to edge of text block. Signature of James Perry (3rd County of London). Firmly bound and all in very good condition.

First Edition. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to fly-leaf. Very light spotting to endpapers and preliminaries, otherwise internally crisp and clean. A touch of light wear to cloth. Very good. "This volume contains a selection of the sporting incidents with rod and rifle that have fallen to my lot in portions of two hemispheres during a period extending over thirty years.".

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1904). 1904 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 230mm). Ppxii,367 + 16pp ads. Illustrated with b&w plates from photographs, & 3 from drawings by E. Caldwell. Dark green cloth, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Bookplate of Percival Reed of Andon, slight stain to end-paper but a very good copy. Largely about deer-stalking in Scotland, Norway and North America (the author owned a ranch in Wyoming), but includes chapters on trout, salmon and sea-trout fishing in America, Norway, Scotland and Ireland. The final chapter is on sporting rifles. Hampton's Angling Bibliography (2008) wrongly attributes this book to Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, the author's younger brother, who was also a noted traveller, big-game hunter and angler. .

Condition: very good. 1st edition. xviii, 329 pp. Red-brown cloth boards with gilt title on spine and a gilt action scene on front board. Octavo. very good A record of the Mounted Sharpshooters Corps, a unit of the Imperial Yeomanry Force, in the Boer War in South Africa. With some details of its recruitment.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. London: Chapman and Hall, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 333 pages + ads. 9" x 6". Fair.Hinges reinforced with tape; lacking front blank endpaper; a few small tears and light creases; several blindstamps; covers stained. "Of Asian interest are his chapters on hunting barasingh near Mt. Kotwal in Kashmir and antelope in India's Bikaner region."--Czech Asia p. 182. Also includes takes of hunting reindeer in Norway, ibex in Corsica and Sardinia, fly-fishing for trout in Sweden and Finland, stalking mule deer in the Rockies, hunting mountain goats in the Cascades,etc. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are worn - probably insect related. Minor foxing and a few small creases. Netting just visible. One small sticker. Soundly bound. Condition in terms of age. Seemingly 1st. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: very good. 1st Edition. vii,156pp,[1 notes]pp. Small octavo in original pictorial green cloth; spine title in gilt. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrations in text. Folding map at rear. A tight copy; boards bright and clean. very good Lowther 948. Seton-Karr records his adventures hunting bears in British Columbia and Alaska in a series of letters, with drawings from his own collection.

Condition: very good. 1st Edition. [vii]156pp. Octavo. Original red illustrated cloth; spine title in gilt. Spine slightly darkened; small chip to foot, crown similar. Edges uncut at upper and fore. Textblock shows minor dust soiling to upper. Engraved frontis with original tissue guard, illustrations in text. Several small fox marks to guard. Foldout map at rear. A tight copy; pages flexible and easily turned. very good Lowther 948. Seton-Karr records his adventures hunting bears in British Columbia and Alaska in a series of letters, with drawings from his own collection. The author later died in Canada's worst maritime disaster; the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence River in 1914. Scare in un-opened copy.

1st edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked soft cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 128 p. ; 19 cm. Subject: Golf ; Anecdotes. 3 Kg.

First edition. Interesting copy of this hunting narrative from the English explorer and archaeologist, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, with an autograph letter signed to his cousin attached to the ffep. The 17-line letter is in regards to a pamphlet sent to the author, which Seton-Karr found quite interesting, and briefly discusses a few names mentioned in the publication. There are also a couple short newspaper articles about Seton-Karr attached to the front endpapers. The work itself is wonderfully illustrated throughout with both plates and chapter illustrations depicting the author's travels and hunting and fishing adventures in Alaska and Canada. Phillips pg 340, Heller 353 (plain cloth issue). 12mo, [v], vi, [3], 156, [1]pp., illustrations, folding map at rear. Green cloth boards gilt stamped on spine. Very good with some light rubbing to edges and corners and dulling to spine.