Wm B Daniel (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this double issue of 17 pieces of writing including novellas, novelettes, short stories and poetry. Featured are Protection by Maureen McHugh (novella), Cleon the Emperor by Isaac Asimov (novella), Faces by Tony Daniel (novelette), Letting Go of Waverley by Rand B Lee (novelette), Kayla, Lost by Gene Van Troyer (novelette), The Abduction of Bunny Steiner or A Shameless Lie by Thomas M Disch (novelette), A Father's Gift by WM Shockley (novelette), Even the Queen by Connie Willis (short story), The Mountain to Mohammed by Nancy Kress (short story), 50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm by Pat Cadigan (short story), The Arbitrary Placement of Walls by Martha Soukup (short story), Great Cars of the Mayans by Roger Dutcher and Robert Frazier (poetry), Life in the Belt by Roger Dutcher (poetry), The Pipe by David Lunde (poetry), Post Coitum Tristesse by David Lunde (poetry), Human Composition by David Lunde (poetry) and In Praise of Timelessness by Bruce Boston (poetry). In Fine Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volumes 1 and 3. Bound in green leather with gilt and blind stamped decoration on the covers and gilt title and decoration on the spine. Gilt page edges.Vol.1 preface + 633pp. Vol.3 504pp + index.CONDITION: Both volumes have considerable edge wear and heavily sunned spines.VOl.1 The text block is detached from the binding. Spine is heavily tattered. End paper through the first 10 pages are detached. Remaining textblock is square and sound. Light staining on a few pages at the bottom foredge of the pages, text is clear and pages are crisp.Vol.3 Both covers are fully detached. Spine is tattered and only loosely attached. End paper through the first 10 pages are detached. Remaining textblock is square and sound. Text is clear and pages are crisp.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to, two small folio volumes bound in contemporary calf, stamped blind and with gilt borders to panels, gilt dentelles, later calf backstrips carefully laid in, raised bands, compartments decorated gilt, title gilt to spines, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, a handsome set, minor foxing to pre-lims, b&w plates, tissued guarded but foxed in parts, volume II which was published a year later than the first is devoted entirely to fishing and Birds and has plates which have been water-stained at head and to a lesser extent at some tails before binding, the text remaining clean and free of staining, 383pp & Index & 520pp & index, a handsome set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, London, 1812. In three volumes, totalling approximately 1,800 pages, Plus thick supplement volume dated 1813 with engraved title page each volume, 68 plates (10 folding, all of which have been linen-backed), index; nineteenth century brown morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, marbled papered boards, rubbed, edges lightly worn; marbled endpapers,scattered light foxing and soiling; Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, London, 1812. New edition. *Originally published in two volumes in 1801. A Supplement volume was published separately in 1813. The first volume covers traditional country sports: hunting foxes, rabbits and hares, martin, badger and otter, etc. Volume II is devoted to fishing, and Volume III to bird shooting (game, water fowl, pigeons and rooks, etc). From the library of George John Dupuis with his heraldic book plate inside front cover of each volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Daniel s Rural Sports - Vol 2 ~ by The Rev. Wm. B. Daniel; pub by Longman, London 1812. The covers are brown buckram with no title noted on the spine or cover. The book has obviously been rebound at sometime in it s life. 4to - 8 ½ x 11 , 374pps. The book is missing the title page and any pps showing the contents and illustr, there is a small piece of old paper showing the basic contents which is glued to an original blank page. Book starts at p1; there are a number of b&w engravings of various fish throughout the book, also a double page spread at p141 called Table for Baits . The covers are stained and the 2 corners on the front cover are bumped; there is some slight weakness of the joint at p268 & also p296, but all pps are firmly attached to the binding; there is some slight foxing at the first, some pps through the book & last few pps of the book, also there are a few small brown stains on the inside pps. There is personal book plate on the inside front cover. Basically all pps in the book are clean & tidy with no notes or marks apart from those noted.

REBOUND 3 VOL SET- volume 2 only- bound as 2 vols plus supplement volume, super octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, red speckling to page edges, modern eps, part 1- (6) + 378pp, part 2- (10) + 354pp, supp. vol- (14) + 742pp + index to rear, frontispiece to supplement vol, illus, VG (moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to spines & board edges & extrems- some surface loss, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to front gutters of parts 1 & 2, moderate foxing throughout, light chafing to boards- minor surface loss).

1st Ed. 4to. [x] + [viii] Subscribers + 507pp. + [i] + [xxiv] Index. Additional engraved title page, port. frontis, 4 plates. Extra illustrated with 15 plates. Light age toning, ex.-libris Brownlow R.C. Tower, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, some loss to boards, extremities rubbed, joints cracked, gilt motifs to rubbed spine lacking title label. Topics include the average weight to cattle killed in London markets, unequal operation of land tax in various counties, Character of John Knox, Account of Opah or King Fish, remarkable skeleton of a mammoth, Price of Lobsters, Depredations of poachers in the River Severn, Anecdotes of Quails and Quail shooting, etc. US$223.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Quarto, leather spine and tips, brown cloth over boards, raised bands with gilt title and decorations on spine, engraves frontispiece, list of subscribers, 507 pages, plus index, plus 19 full page engravings at end and three in the text, one of them colored. The illustrations at the end are on light weight paper and are browned and foxed. The text and illustrations in the text are clean and bright. The scarce supplement volume to Daniel's comprehensive study of the English sporting world of the Regency Period. This, the supplement, was published 11 years after the first two volumes were released.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. beautiful polished tan leather with gold trim solid and tight Raised ribs on spine some scraping and wear to boards but all solid and tight.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good Minus. Thick supplement volume dated 1813. Marbled boards and endpapers, green page marker ribbons. Spines sunned, cracked and chipped, two vols have a panel missing. Corners bumped, hinges cracked. However, contents in good order, textblocks very clean, tidy and tight. Size: 8vo.

Full leather. 1st edition. 1st ed., 3 volumes, the first issue with the dedication to W. Holden Strutt; Vol. I: pp.535, (i, coursing calendar); Vol. II (Part I), pp.378, contemporary ink inscr opp. p.256 noting mispagination but complete in second part; Vol. II (Part II): 356 with pp.257-264 inserted here but intended for first part, incl. Index, the three vols all with b&w copper engravings, some folding, 'Tench' plate unnumbered in list of illus and absent in Part II, plates clean but with some scattered foxing, the three vols bound in full mottled leather, professionally restored with gilt decoration to spine, a beautiful set in very good condition of the first edition complete in three volumes. Photographs available on request. First edition in two volumes. Rev. William Barker Daniel (1754-1833) was an English cleric and writer on field sports and game laws. 'Rural Sports' with much information on hunting and shooting, sporting dogs and predominately dealing with angling and fishes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 3 vols.: [8], 535; 592, [8]; [6], 494, [8] p. 24 cm. Vol.I has 19 listed engraved plates plus one unnamed fold-out at p. 108. Vol. II has 18 plates but lacks Perch and Trout plate opposite p. 493 (p. 491-2 missing). Vol. III has 28 plates but lacks Covey of Partridges at p. 80 and Grey and Black Goose at p. 242. Full leather with gilt trim. Marbled text block edges. Corners bumped, boards rubbed and scuffed. Vol. II lacks title page. Other titles have ink signature from 1814. A few tears, minor stains, and light foxing. Supplement volume missing. A treatise on all aspects of hunting, shooting and fishing, focusing primarily on the game animals themselves as well as the animals used to catch them. William Barker Daniel (1753?-1833) was a clergyman but indulged in "sporting" to a degree which shocked even his own time period. A correspondent in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1802 wrote of him as "fitter to act the character of Nimrod than that of a dignitary in the church of England.".

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Type: Z A lovely two volume set of this work by William Daniel. Bound in contemporary full leather boards with rebacked spines. Gilt embossed lettering to the spines. Marbled end papers. 13 steel engraving illustration plates to volume I and 45 steel engraiving illustration plates to volume II - all as called for. The spines are a slightly lighter brown in colour and have no rubbing or loss. There is rubbing to the board corners with some loss of the overlying leather and some rubbing to the board peripheries. There is a split to the leather on the rear board of Volume I - measuring about 5 cm in length adjacent to the spine - no loss. Volume II also has a short split to the leather of 2.5 cm on the front board - again with no loss, and a small stain mark to the centre of the front board. Previous owners bookplate with the name George arnold Esq and date 1806 to the front paste downs. New end papers. Scattered foxing to the periphery of the illustration pages. pp364 in volume I is more heavily toned than the other pages - most of which show slight normal age toning. There is a stain with tide mark to the upper margin of most of the illustration plates in Volume II from pp 406 onwards - though this only affects the corner of the laste illustration plate in the book. There is also a little creasing to the top corners of about 18 leaves of the textblock in Volume II, suggestive of previous light bumping and a light soil mark to one page corner. The volumes are tightly bound and remain otherwise clean. A very good two volume set.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. A three volume set of Daniel's Rural Sports bound in original leather. Illustrated throughout with numerous full page steel engravings as called for. Gilt embossed lettering to the title blocks on the spine and decorative design to the spines. Marbled end papers. There is an additional plate inserted to volume III on page 304. Volume I - 535pp. Volume II - 378pp; Volume III - 356pp. Light rubbing to the board edges and to the spine edges. A little patchy loss to the gilt embossed decorations to the spine. There is los of 1 cm to the tail of the prelimianry blank page of volume I and neat pencil notes to the reverse of the rear end paper. Volume II has a loosely inserted page divider, no longer attached at the head of the spine. There is an oval light stain mark of 5.5 cm x 3.5 cm to the front board of Volume III and a couple of light stain marks to the front fore edges. A few page corners have been turned, leaving a neat crease. Area of rubbing with loss of the marbled pattern to the rear end paper measuring 3.5 cm x 1 cm in size. There is some scattered light foxing to the reverse of several illustation pages and also to the margins of several pages, affecting the text on a few pages and also affecting a few of the illustrations. The books are clean and tight and make up a lovely, attractie set.