Smith a Croxton Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a lovely hardcover first edition copy in heavy brown linen, gold spine lettering, over a 100 illustrations. Printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Ltd. 320 pages. With previous owner's name and a 1933 date. Photos on request.

Condition: Good. Reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 320pp. 110 plates. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. There is foxing to the preliminary pages, and a gift inscription to the front free endaper; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in fair condition only (torn with some loss to the front panel). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gift quality 1st edition hardcover in light tan cloth with tan buckram cloth backstrip with gilt titles. Spine ends barely bumped, four board tips still sharp. Bookplate and gift ded on frt pastedown that is 90% hidden by the frt flap. No other markings, no tears or soil seen in the crisp, tight 318pp text. Original, un-clipped dj has a darkened backstrip and a tiny chip to the paste-on photo mounted there, frt panel paste on image is complete. Some color loss and very shallow chipping at foot of spine. Jacket now in new mylar and displays very well. Includes 110 b/w illustrations. Founder's intro by The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L. Primarily sporting breeds with sections on pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels, terriers & hounds plus police dogs and sheep dogs.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). No Dust Jacket. Yellow cloth, illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers and text block edges a little soiled, but contents are otherwise clean and sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Animals & Birds; hunting & shooting; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 92526. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lonsdale Library Edition. Very good book in fresh clean deep ochre quarter buckram with brown cloth boards; gilt titles to spine. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; copiously illustrated with over one hundred photographic plates; binding tight; free of foxing; top edges brown; 320pp.The dust jacket is very good; price clipped; slightly darkened spine; tiny rubs at spine top. An attractive copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Two-tone tan cloth with gilt spine titles and publisher's logo to front panel; 8vo; 320 pp; illustrated with b/w photos, drawings & charts; tan dust jacket titled in red with 2 paste-on b/w photos. Volume XIII in the uniformly bound "Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes" series. Primarily sporting breeds with sections on pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels, terriers & hounds plus police dogs and sheep dogs. This copy in VG to NF condition in a VG jacket with light overall wear and price-clipped on inner flap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. No signatures. Some abrasions to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Reprint. Final page has "Strangeways Press Ltd., W.C. 2 : 1951". 320 pages + frontispiece + plates. Brown cloth boards with brown cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt "L" and crown on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 214 x 135mm. Series: The Lonsdale Library, Volume XIII. Rear panel of dust-jacket advertises "Steeplechasing" by Lord Willoughby de Broke et al., which was published in 1954, as the latest title in the series "The Lonsdale Library".…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to the care and training of hounds and dogs, from the Lonsdale Library. First edition. The Lonsdale Library Volume XIII. Illustrated with one hundred and ten plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive study of the care and training of hounds and dogs. With chapters on dog breeds, the gundog, the use of dogs in falconry, retrievers, ratting with terriers, hounds, making dogs obedient, police dogs, sheepdogs, and veterinary details. With contributions from various experts and edited by Arthur Croxton Smith, a British sportswriter and expert on dogs and their breeding. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…