Spence Prater (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 200 pages. (SL#128).

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Paperback. 66pp. 19 plates, 14 of which are coloured. Crease down centre of pages. Previous owner's details to front cover. Corners a little scuffed. A decent copy. (bs40).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. xxii + 1070 pages, figures, illustrations (some colour) + index : 24 cm. covers are stained. some water staining to edges of end papers.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1932). 1932. 4to. (176mm x 250mm). 38 pp. Illustrated with 19 plates of fish (14 in colour). Green wrappers. Tiny snag to spine but a very good copy. Reprinted, with new pagination, from The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, November 15th, 1932. A description of the 19 most important fishes of the area, including, of course, the mahseer. .

Bound in full black leather gilt titles to spine and front covers , 5 raised bands , Part III, Pages 577-847 & Part IV Pages 849-1070 and containing 2 Coloured plates , 44 Lithographed plates + 1 Diagram and 12 Text-Figures A Vg copy in impressive binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. li + 575 pages, figures, illustrations (some colour) + index : 24 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pages 651-973 figures, illustrations (some colour) + index : 24 cm.

Offprints from Bombay Natural History Society Journal. 8vo. Rebound in brown cloth with type written label (corners scuffed - otherwise VG). Pp. variously paginated, illus with coloured plates and b&w plates (previous owner's stamps on front endpapers and some light pencil markings in margins). The Game Fishes of India (Part I The Indian Trout, Part II The Bachhwa or Butchwa, Part III Garua Bachcha or Gaurchcha, Part IV The Silond Catfish, Part V The Pungas Catfish, Part VI The Goonch, Part VII The Mulley or Boali, Part VIII-XV The Mahseers or Large-Scaled Barbels of India 1. The Putitor Mahseer, 2. The Tor Mahseer, 3. The Mosal Mahseer, 4. The Bokar of the Assamese and Katli of the Nepalese, 5. The Extra-Indian Distribution of the Bokar, 6. The Jungha of the Assamese, 7. The Black Mahseer, 8. On the Specific Identity of Sykes's Species of Barbus from the Deccan) [with] Game Fishes of Bombay and the Neighbouring Dsitricts of the Bombay Presidency, etc.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Lance; Sindall, A.W.; Holloway, Cyril; Prater, Ernest; Spence, Percy; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Inns, Kenneth; Seper, George (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.