Dark Estuary by B B (66 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Denys J. Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). Light creasing and edgewear to covers. Solid, lightly creased binding and clean text. Former owner address label on first page. No ex-lib marks or stamps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Slight rubbing and soiling to wrapper, twoe very small chips to top edge of spine and front fold over. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustated. Bright and clean internally with very little wear, just a hint of browning to page edges.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). Reprint. book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. New Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. Black & white illustrations by the author. 164 pages. In this delightful book BB captures in words some of the magic of tideways, shape and colours of clouds, the effects of light on marshes and sea and the patterns of flighting fowl. A memorial and record of what wildfowling is all about. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Condition: Fair. 1953. First Published. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Sticker and ring mark to front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Denys Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). Reprint Reissued. Unmarked. Dust jacket is price clipped, very slight wear to top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. D. J. Watkins- Pitchford. (illustrator). New Edition. xi, 164pp, appendix, bw ills throughout. Or black cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket. Successor to Tides Ending this book deals with the world of the tide-ways where the sea first meets the flat lands of marsh and ooze. In this delightful book BB captures in words some of the magic of the tideways, the shapes and colours of the clouds, the effects of light on the marshes and the sea and the patterns of flighting fowl. Includes new illustrations for this edition. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. D J Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First Thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. D.J. WATKINS- PITCHFORD (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good clean firm interior, contain 15 stunning colour plates including the frontispiece, also numerous black and white illustrations all by 'B.B'. no marks to main interior, front and rear e/paper toned with an inscription to first section, boards show standard usage as shown in photo, white surface rubs to front and rear but all tight and firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Watkins-Pitchford, D. J. (illustrator). First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight, but ages and pages show some age, fep and bep are mottled, binding is tight, and illustrations are in excellent condition. The covers are very good,: including color and design, but spine is sunned and missing half-inch chip at top. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1984). (1953) 1984 3rd edition. Small 8vo paperback (120 x 197mm). Ppxii,164. B/w illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Uniform slight browning, slight use to cover, small stain to rear, slight fading to spine but good-plus second-hand paperback. "So does the true fowler taste of the inward charm of his sport. It is the natural scene: the beauty of northern winter drawn, the blazing sunset sky reflected across the quiet firth at evening, the silent majesty of a night of stars with the faint, unearthly cries of wildfowl moving on their mysterious journeying, which means so much". ('BB', 1953). "When Dark Estuary appeared as a successor to Tide's Ending, it was still possible to meet no other gunner on the sea walls of Britain, save perhaps a local fowler. It is a little-known world, the world of tideways where the sea first meets the flat lands of marsh and ooze. It is the private kingdom of the tideline birds, from the little waders which are the most graceful and dainty of all our British birds to the stately wild geese. .If the time should ever come when there is no more true wildfowling around the coasts of Britain, 'BB' hopes that this book - and its companion Tide's Ending - will stand as some sort of memorial and a record of what wildfowling was all about." .

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. VG++, Mild wear, browning/VG, Edgewear, tear (internally repaired with clear tape), browning. Wildfowling reminiscences. Revised edition, with new scraperboard illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. 164 pages. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins - Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover, no dustjacket. First edition. 1953 Hollis & Carter. Red boards with gold text and decoration, clean and bright, bottom corners worn through, fraying along edge to 1/3 of spine front, shelf wear to spine ends, chip to top. Ex-library with usual markings, including pocket on front pastedown, writing on spine. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior, back hinge started, numerous handsome color watercolors and b&w illustrations, 15 color plates by D. Watkins-Pitchford. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 164 pages.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0718118669.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1953) 1980 2nd edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Ppxii,164. B/w plates and illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "So does the true fowler taste of the inward charm of his sport. It is the natural scene: the beauty of northern winter drawn, the blazing sunset sky reflected across the quiet firth at evening, the silent majesty of a night of stars with the faint, unearthly cries of wildfowl moving on their mysterious journeying, which means so much". ('BB', 1953). "When Dark Estuary appeared as a successor to Tide's Ending, it was still possible to meet no other gunner on the sea walls of Britain, save perhaps a local fowler. It is a little-known world, the world of tideways where the sea first meets the flat lands of marsh and ooze. It is the private kingdom of the tideline birds, from the little waders which are the most graceful and dainty of all our British birds to the stately wild geese. .If the time should ever come when there is no more true wildfowling around the coasts of Britain, 'BB' hopes that this book - and its companion Tide's Ending - will stand as some sort of memorial and a record of what wildfowling was all about." .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in original dark brown/maroon cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.There is some fading to the outer boards and a little fading also to spine.Contents remain clean internally with no foxing to the text block.Wonderfully illustrated as ever by BB,and with 15 full-page coloured plates and large chapter illustrated headings.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.4to 164pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1953].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D.J. Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). New Revised Edition. New Revised edition 1980 near fine hardback, in a very good dust wrapper, small loss to top right corner of rear cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 164 pages. Black and white Scraperboard illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford.

xii+164pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. New edition.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. D J Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1953) 1980 2nd edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Ppxii,164. B/w plates and illustrations by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Near fine in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Bookseller's label to end-paper. "So does the true fowler taste of the inward charm of his sport. It is the natural scene: the beauty of northern winter drawn, the blazing sunset sky reflected across the quiet firth at evening, the silent majesty of a night of stars with the faint, unearthly cries of wildfowl moving on their mysterious journeying, which means so much". ('BB', 1953). "When Dark Estuary appeared as a successor to Tide's Ending, it was still possible to meet no other gunner on the sea walls of Britain, save perhaps a local fowler. It is a little-known world, the world of tideways where the sea first meets the flat lands of marsh and ooze. It is the private kingdom of the tideline birds, from the little waders which are the most graceful and dainty of all our British birds to the stately wild geese. .If the time should ever come when there is no more true wildfowling around the coasts of Britain, 'BB' hopes that this book - and its companion Tide's Ending - will stand as some sort of memorial and a record of what wildfowling was all about." .

Hardcover. pp. 164. 4to. Bound in light red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Colour plates illustrated by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. Faded publisher's topstain. Sunning and rippling to spine, some discolouration to boards, ink name to ffep; very good-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Joseph, London, 1980, second edition. Illustrated with b&w plates and drawings. 6.25" x 9.5". 164 pp. Black paper covered boards, small ink stamp of publisher and bookseller Tideline Books on the endpaper. Well illustrated stories of duck and goose shooting in England and Scotland, and a 2 pp appendix of wildfowling terms. Includes a very good chapter on shooting books and sporting art. The plates in the first edition were in color - they are reproduced in black and white in this edition. Very good in very good wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Watkins-Pitchford, Denys (BB) (illustrator). 1st Edition. British re-issued edition, first printing, 2000. First thus. Originally published by Hollis & Carter in 1953. With original unclipped jacket (£30.00). Large format. Profusely illustrated by the author. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd very small mark, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, one very small patch of loss to front lower corner and the odd very small mark/spots of foxing/bit of dustiness to reverse (white side). Boards are near fine with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd very small mark and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages are slightly dusty with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Odd small marks/spots of foxing to page edges. Pages slightly tanned. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. D.J. Watkins-Pitchford ['BB'] (illustrator). New Edition. 2000. New edition. xii, 164pp., a colour frontispiece and black and white chapter heading illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990), the British naturalist, illustrator, writer and children's author who is also known as 'BB'. In this book he writes of his adventures with his gun and dogs on the salt marshes of the east coast, the remote estuaries of the highlands and about the techniques and weapons of a wild fowler. He tells in detail of the perils of wildfowling, of his experiences of being trapped in quicksand and mud, of being cut off by the tide. In essence this is a shooting book, but it is also one of love for the natural world, and of comradeship and freindship in wild and remote places. The book is bound in the original light brown boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in excellent condition with light bumping to the top of the spine and top front corner. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The unclipped dustwrapper is also very good with light shelf wear and bumping to the spine ends and top front corner.

Cloth on Board. Condition: VG. First Edition. Rubbing and bumping to corners; sunning to spine and edges; gilt titles on spine worn; some foxing to cloth; light/mild yellowing and foxing throughout book, including page edges; binding strong.

First edition thus. Hardcover. Neat ownership signature on the top corner of the fly-leaf, o/w fine in like dustjacket. Revised edition, newly illustrated by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. An account of wildfowling around the coasts of Britain.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. D J Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). Slight Scratches on Dust Jacket. Tanning to edge of pages Appears unread, may have minor superficial marking. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, xii, 164 pp, illustrated by the author with 15 colour plates and black and white woodcut vignettes at the top of each chapter, pages clean and crisp, brown cloth with gilt lettering to both spine and front board, spine a little sunned, no dust jacket. Denys Watkins Pitchford MBE (1905-1990) was born at Lamport, Northamptonshire. His first book was published in 1937. Over the next 50 years he wrote some 60 books of his own and illustrated another 35 by other authors. Although he used his real name for his illustrations he decided it was too long for an author which is why he adopted the psuedonym "B.B." for his writings. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. BB.

First edition of this Michael Joseph publication. Hardback. Illustrated by the author. Book and clipped dust jacket are in near Fine condition, small gift inscription and book shop sticker on the front end paper. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.