Simpson Crascredo (10 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 107 page large format HB. A good copy lacking dust jacket. Light dust soiling to the cream covers. No previous ownership markings.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). 1929 1st edition. Large 4to (231 x 296mm). Ppx,108. B/w illustrations by Charles Simpson. Cream basket-weave linen with a darker chevron effect, brown titles and brown fox's mask motif. Cloth slightly tanned, slight use bookplate and slight browning to end-papers. Good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. "Dedicated, with profound admiration, to all those who are the backbone of hunting in England; but particularly (and with even profounder admiration) to those who can't afford to hunt - and do." Everything you need to know about hunting for the would-be huntsman or woman hitherto in a state of ignorance. Crascredo gives an itemised list of necessary equipment - not including tack or the animal itself - which comes to 93 pounds 15s. 6d., in an era when a reasonably successful middle-class professional might be getting 5 to 10 pounds a week. Mind you, the account includes no less than 5 pounds for a "nickel sandwich box and a glass hunting flask with their separate leather cases," so the tenant farmers and Jorrocks' grocers would have been doing it for a lot less. Chapters include: Manners and mannerisms; 'How much have you got?'; Finding a level; Miscounting the cost; 'Bosky can go tomorrow'; The Great Majority; 'You'll be amused to hear'; Many books; Cutting the super; Kennel Sundays for the young; Two-and-a-half studs; Interrupted fragment; 'Greatness'; 'What does he put into it?' How long? A good read, with some great illustrations. "Crascredo" was the pseudonym of the author and illustrator Charles Simpson (Callahan p42). "Cras Credo" is probably a reference to the Latin tag "cras credemus, hodie nihil" "tomorrow we believe, but not today," "cras credo" being "it is tomorrow that I believe", or something similar. Crascredo wrote a number of books, notably one illustrated by G.D. Armour, entitled No Joke, which was an attempt to communicate to the reading public his experience on the Western Front. No Joke preceded much of the now famously nihilistic war literature and poetry, and takes a different view altogether, containing a greater number of cartoons than any of Sassoon or Owen's publications. This excluded Crascredo from serious consideration by the intelligentsia, but No Joke did lead the way to the War Books Controversy. The German Army took the point more or less, and from the 1920's onwards included flippant humour in their infantry training manual (they would). Avoiding controversy was presumably Crascredo's reason for keeping his real name quiet - he did after all conclude that the Great War had been a success and a sound basis for future peace. Manners and Mannerisms is Simpson's manual for the basically broke post-war country huntsman, in a basically broke post-war rural Britain. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A large hardback book, with titles on both the spine and front board, comes with dust jacket. The book is in really good condition, normal wear, tear and marks apply consistent with use and age. The dust jacket has a small amount of wear to top edges, and small stains to spine of jacket, please see photos, still has its original price of £1-1-0 net, (not price clipped). First published in 1929, First edition. Illustrated beautifully by Charles Simpson. 107 pages all intact, all pages, text and fabulous illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. Some slight shelf-life wear and fading to edge of hand cut pages. A fascinating book, which is interesting to see how the country sporting establishment and especially the hunting fraternity behaved in that specific time period.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1929, 1st. Large Quarto. 107pp. Illustrated. Original cloth, printed titles. Some edge wear and marginal soiling. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Pattened cloth boards, brown lettering to spine & front board, image of fox to front board under illustrated dustwrapper. 11.75ins x 9.75ins, [x], 107pp. Illustrated. Dw has small amount of loss to base of spine - approx 3/4inch. Spine of dw darkened. VG / G+.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and title to the front cover, illustrated end papers. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Contains 242 printed pages of text with monochrome full-page cartoon illustrations throughout. Softened spine ends, mottling to the back cover, age darkened closed page edges with dust marking. Very Good clean condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chips missing to the top spine end and corners, three closed tears to the back cover, not price clipped 12/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.

Hardback. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1 St. boards sl sunned. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First edition. A large first edition copy of Manners and Mannerisms with stunning illustrations. This is a first edition copy of Manners and Mannerisms, a book for fox hunters. The pages are beautifully decorated with hunting illustrations in a light sage green and there are thirteen larger illustrations by Charles Simpson. The book is warmly dedicated to those who are the backbone of hunting in England.With thirteen beautiful illustrations and a frontispiece. In the original clipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with just some light fading to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. In the original clipped dustwrapper.There are a few marks to the wraps. Near Fine. book.

Limited 1st edn (unnumbered). Folio (17½ x 13¾ ins). Original gilt lettered half brown cloth (extrems rubbed and worn with partial loss at centre of spine). Pp. 63, illus with 20 coloured plates mounted on art paper with captioned tissue-guards and pencil sketches in text (some spotting throughout; no inscriptions).

Paper Boards/Cloth Spine. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair/Poor. G D Armour (illustrator). Cheap Edition. Cheap edition, 20 tipped-in full-colour plates by G D Armour with captioned tissues, essays by Crascredo are decorated with pencil sketches, frontispiece has some creases, occasional foxing to pages, red paper-covered boards with white titling, white cloth spine, some spotting to spine, unclipped printed paper dust jacket with colour illustration pasted to front cover, worn and creased, tears to corners, loss to top and bottom of spine and edges, now in a protective plastic wrapper. PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A LARGE, HEAVY VOLUME AND SHIPPING OVERSEAS WILL BE MORE THAN THE STANDARD COST. Size: Larger Quarto. Hunting.