Simpson Major (50 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Simpson, Charles (illustrator). First Edition. Good hardcover, no jacket. 1930 only date shown, assumed first. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY also mentioned. 32 black and white illustrations by Charles Simpson. Covers all aspects of jumping. Nonfiction. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Gift Quality Book. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. Hardcover has black cloth boards with gold lettering. DJ is whole, but with folds and tears at edges.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Simpson, Charles (illustrator). Text is clean, though pages have yellowed. Binding is tight. There is an ink inscription as well as an ex-libris sticker from previous owner on inside front cover and front end paper. The cover exhibits moderate corner bumping. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 98 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning to board edges. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Mild tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has losses and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, 98pp.

Condition: Good. Book has a slight lean with little wear to boards. Light toning to pages. DJ is toned with tears and some loss.

Condition: Good. General wear to boards with marks. Content has light toning and spotting, No DJ.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt to spine, no dust wrapper, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated in b&w by G D Armour, 220pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. blue boards with titles spine, minor bumping to spine ends, pen inscription front end-paper, 98pp, overall VG condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, green cloth boards, brown cloth spine. Small handling wear on cover and spine. White marks on front end paper. No jacket.

Cloth. Condition: VG. R. C. Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. Grey covers with black lettering on spine and upper cover, 85pp, plus 1pp advert, with 12 b/w illustrations by the author. Covers have very little wear, light bumping to head and foot of spine with miniscule spot of damage to lower joint. Light foxing to page edges and prelims, pencilled names on ffep, otherwise internally very clean and tight. A VG copy. No DJ. Ref:104556.

Condition: Fair. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 85 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavier tanning toendpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Water staining to front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by G.D. Armour (illustrator). First Edition. 220 pages. No dustjacket. Green hardback binding -spine lightly browned and back outer spine hinges cracked but hinges are very sound. Moderate wear to spine-ends and spine-ends. Page-edges browned, red ink one inch line to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy/.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Simpson, George (Calligrapher) ; Wynn, Keith (Photographer) (illustrator). First Edition. NO DUSTJACKET. 164 pages. No dustjacket. Light brown spine and hinges, green boards, black spine-title, blind-impressed titles to top front. Wear with creases to spine-ends, light discolouring with a couple of light marks to front, small frays to all boards' corners. Book dated 1930 - ink Christmas inscription to flyleaf dated 1930. A couple of light marks to page-edges o/w pages clean and sound. B&W drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Some advice to young shooters: A series of interesting and instructive letters from Uncle to Nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. From the choice of his gun to the training of his dog, the tyro will find Major Dawson's book a mine of information". First edition, 1929. Gorgeous illustrations throughout by sporting artist Charles Simpson. Inscription on front endpaper and preliminary pages rather foxed/tanned but contents otherwise in very good bright condition. In the scarce dust jacket, not price-clipped (12/6 net) but rubbed to front cover and chipped at edges with small loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Nice clean tight copy.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. "Some Advice to Young Shooters", (viii), 155pp, illustrated with drawings printed in green ink, foxing to edges and endpapers, occasionally to pages, red cloth, blue lettering to upper board and spine, spine sunned where there is loss to the dust jacket, unclipped dust jacket, loss to top edge of spine and part of front cover. A series of interesting and instructive letters from uncle to nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Shooting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Some rubbing to edges of dust wrapper, tears to top and bottom of spine. Wrapper has been internally reinforced with special non acidic archive tape and is now in a clear removable protective sleeve. Not price clipped, illustrated, Inscribed to rear of frontespiece, 'A.E. Barnett with my Best Wishes Kenneth Dawson Christmas 1932 ' no other inscriptions. Clean copy internally with little wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. With illustrations by G.D.Armour, with worn dustjacket, pp. 220.

Hardcover. First Edition. 1929, 1st, hb, no dw, 4to, good plus.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None Present. Crayoning to ffep, spine faded otherwise very good with text block firm and unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G. D. Armour (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Fish - and Find Out. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Previous owners name in crayon to inside cover. Slight marks to cloth. Slight wear to corners of cloth. Green cloth with blue lettering. Contents: Salmon Fishing - Preliminary Consideration. Thoughts For Early Days. The Playing of Fish With a Rod. Those Little Matters Which Count. Fish Sense. Gillies, Gaffs and Gadgets. Lifelong Leaning. Wet-Fly Trouting in Springtime. Nymphing and Notes on Wading. A System for Wet Trout-Fly Choice. The Elements and the 'Short Rise'. Mayfly and Mother Nature. Sea-Trout, 'Slobbing', and Loch Fishing. Dry-Fly in June - Some Faults and Hints. Bulls and Fishermen - Advice Gratis. Natural Fly Recognition and its Importance. How and How Not to Gain Knowledge in Sport. High Lights of Dry-Fly Fishing. The Art of Upstream Worming: The Curtain Lowers. Illustrations. 220 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). APPEARS LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to large hard cover book.Pages are very clean, bright and tight.Plain green boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1929. Spine is intact. Clean & tight book. HALF-TITLE PAGE IS FOXED. Neat gift inscription is dated 1979. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H16. Son of a Gun by Major Kenneth Dawson. Illustrated by Charles Simpson. Published in 1929 by Country Life, London.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. 4to. 28 color illustrations and 55 in black and white. xxv, 256 pp. A third to a half of the pages have some foxing, which can range to insignificant to bothersome. One of the color plates has an one inch marginal closed tear. The color plates are generally clean, and it is these that are probably the key point of interest in the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1930 near fine hardback, foxing to page edges, browning to endpapers, in a very good dust wrapper, foxing to covers inside and outside covers, bottom of front cover browned. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 164 pages. Black and white illustrations by Charles Simpson.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. Edgar Backus, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Incorporating 'The Druid's' Chapters from 'Silk and Scarlet', and 'Post and Paddock', and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston. With 40 full-page illustrations, 25 of them in color, and many vignettes in black and white, by Charles Simpson. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Front board is slightly warped, top corner is lightly bumped, all other corners a bit turned. Pages are clean and unmarked with light foxing on first few and last few pages. Binding is tight, hinges are perfect. Good reading copy.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. The author of the 13/18th Hussars lately Equitation Officer R.M.C., Sandhurst. Covers all aspects of jumping of all types from Racing, Point to Point and Show Jumping. 29 line and wash full plate illustrations plus chapter vignettes by Charles Simpson. 164 pages. End papers lightly browned. Some splash marks to front board otherwise very good throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Simpson, Charles (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to. 155pp. Red cloth boards with blue titles. Slight bumping and wear to spine head & tail and board corners. Illustrated with green ink line drawings by Charles Simpson. Overall a Very Good copy.