Search Results: Fox Hunting

Denver: Privately printed. Very Good+ Bright tight condition Limited edition. 1st edition. Rare account of the Arapahoe hunt,South of Denver, and their development. Pursuing Coyotes produced much good riding, and rar .

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 2nd revised. Second Edition Revised. Top spine end bumped, owners name on front pastedown, off-setting to end papers, else fine. Dustwrapper has a few closed tears on panel edges, torn top spine end, light soiling on back panel, front flap clipped, else Very good.

John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1927. First Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A New Edition With an Introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow, and Nineteen Illustrations in Colour, Half-Tone and Line After Francis Barlow, George Stubbs, John Wooton, Tom Rowlandson, Henry Alken, F.C. Turner, James Pollard, G. Havell, J. F. Herring, Sen., Wildrake & Thomas Bewick. Originally published by Edward Arnold in1898 & containing Nimrod's sporting essays, from the Quarterly Review, on Hunting; Horse-drawn Coaches & Horse Racing. Some pages uncut. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 231 pages. light mark to front cover - (possible water splash);. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact but with some fading to spine colour. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Top edge blue, outer & bottom edges deckled. Gilt titles spine, blind-stamped titles front. some migration of top edge blue colour to top… Read More

London: Springwood Books, 1979. First. hardcover. good/very good(-). Many Illus., folding color map. 4to, red cloth, d.w. with small tear, cloth covers slightly warped, a few pages slightly underlined in red ink. London: Springwood Books, (1979).<br/><br/>

London: Bradbury, 1885. hardcover. very good. Phiz. Illustrated by Phiz, with illustrations by H. K. Browne & W. T. Maud. More than 40 illustrations, including 8 colored steel plate engravings. 265pp., 8vo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth; spine faded, ends worn. London: Bradbury & Agnew, n.d. (ca. 1885). A very good copy.<br/><br/>

BAILY'S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES, Vinton, February, 1889, first edition., vg+ in wraps. Contains articles on hunting and fox hunting, rowing, harness racing, etc. 

London: Humphreys, 1906. First Edition. A little foxing; about fine.

THE HUNTING FIELD WITH HORSE AND HOUND, Mitchell Kennerley, 1910, first edition, slight soiling to the spine, else a tight vg copy. Profusely illustrated with photos. Fox hunting in America, the British Isles and France. A very nice copy.

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional light foxing. Fine in an attractive, Fine binding. G. Bowers. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9") bound by Bayntun for Brentano's in 3/4 red morocco leather with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 22 color plates and a number of black-and-white text illustrations by G. Bowers.

THE MEYNELLIAN SCIENCE OR FOX HUNTING UPON SYSTEM, Privately printed for Ernest R. Gee, 1926, first American edition, a reprint of the fabulously rare 1848 edition. Hugo Meynell is considered The Father of Fox-Hunting. Some light foxing to the end-papers, else a near fine copy. (Some experts consider this book a scarce undesignated Derrydale Press item).

London: I. Dickinson, 1823. unbound. very good. View. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 6.75" x 10.5".<br/><br/> Little is known about this charming lithograph depicting two horses and their riders at a hunt with the hounds leading the way. Minor wear and aging to edges and margins. Lower right corner has slight crease. Small tear to bottom edge.<br/><br/>

Paris: Emile Hazan, 1952. Limited. paperback. very good(+). Baron Karl Reille. Handsomely illustrated by Baron Karl Reille with 13 color plates. 181 pages with text in French. Tall 8vo, pictorial wrappers, very slightly edgeworn and sunned. Paris: Emile Hazan, 1952. A very good(+) copy.<br/><br/> Limited edition - number 1265 of 1400 copies sur Chiffon de Rives (total edition of 1500).<br/><br/>

London. Tinted lithograph. Image measures 12.5" x 16.75".<br/><br/> In this print, a young and old fallow buck lay in a grassy field, with the young buck, distinguishable by his spots, resting his head on the stomach of the older deer. Fallow deer are native to Europe, and the sight is one that would not have been uncommon in the countryside of England, where the print was likely published circa 1840. The deer's antlers and fur have been rendered with exquisite detail that differentiates between their two very different materials. The print is in good condition with minor stains. Wear to the margins not affecting the image.<br/><br/>

Westminster: Constable, 1899. First. hardcover. Sepia frontispiece portrait, and many black and white plates; large folding color map at rear, one crease at corner. 415 pages. Thick 8vo, gilt-stamped red cloth, t.e.g., uncut. Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1899. A very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/>

London. unbound. very good. View. Engraving with original hand coloring. Page measures 12" x 15.75".<br/><br/> Hunt scene engraved by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), circa 1820. Light scattered foxing in the margins.<br/><br/>

London: Ackermann, 1839. hardcover. very good. Engraved frontis., half-title illustration, many wood engravings, xii + 327pp., plus ads, 8vo, full gilt-bordered and lettered leather, inner dentelles, a.e.g.; original cloth covers bound in, minor scuffing and fading. London: Ruldolph Ackermann, 1839. First Edition. A very good copy.<br/><br/>

NY: The Derrydale Press, 1940. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiii, 393. Illustrated with frontispiece & 10 other plates. Bound in red cloth. In a Good plastic dust jacket with a few chips and some rubbing. Fine. Number 192 of 570 copies privately printed. Siegel 161; Frazier R-5-a.

London: Routledge, 1910. hardcover. fine. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, 12 hand colored plates, 239 and 184 pages including the index, bookplate in each volume. Full original green cloth, blind doubled ruled, gilt and black stamped, pictorial green cloth, t.e.g., all others deckled. London: Routledge, 1810. A fine set.<br/> <br/>

MORE SHIRES & PROVINCES, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928, first edition, front cover exhibits a bit of bowing and soil, else a just about fine copy bound in full vellum without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/200 copies in this deluxe binding with marbled end-papers, t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt and gold-gilt stamping, rules and/or lettering to the front cover and spine. SIGNED by both author and artist with 16 full color, full page plates. Fox hunting through the British countryside.