Bird George Editor (42 results)

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. Softcover; this is NOT ex-library; owner's stamps; o/w in very good condition. Book.

paperback. Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. This trade paperback is in good condition, with some minor wear visible on the cover edges. The binding remains strong, and the pages are clean and unmarked. There is no dust jacket, as typical for this format. The book is free from any library markings, inscriptions, or signatures. no dust jacket, trade paperback. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Softcover, new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Winchester Press, Published 1973. Hardcover, 320, [8] pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; sepia pictorial endpapers of wildfowl and bobwhites. Selected, edited and annotated by George Bird Evans; foreword by John M. Olin. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine with Winchester Press device at foot; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; mild toning to endpapers and mild foxing to edges of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (photograph by William F. Andrews and Frank Braden of Buckingham's Burt Becker duck gun, shooting hat, decoy and books) has a 1/4-inch tear at head of rear panel, a few other small nicks and tears, and light creasing along edges; mild to moderate toning, heavier on spine panel and rear panel, and mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Thirty stories and articles by Nash Buckingham (1880-1971), the Tennessee wildfowler, bird-dog man and field-trial judge best known for De Shootinest Gent'man. George Bird Evans, a grouse and woodcock writer and friend of Buckingham's, chose them from 111 stories and articles and grouped them in six parts, adding editor's notes and a biographical "Portrait of Nash." Olin, who wrote the foreword, hired Buckingham in 1925 as Western Cartridge Company's Director of Game Restoration, the first such post in American industry. Photographs include pictures of him as a young weightlifter and football captain, his wife Irma shooting, dogs and companions from the stories, and his guns, among them the Burt Becker magnum "Bo Whoop," lost in 1948 and recovered in 2005. Includes a bibliography of his books and magazine pieces. Contents: Foreword; Portrait of Nash; Part One: Wildfowl (Minutes and Years; Great Day in the Morning!; Comin' Twenty-One; How Come?; Jump-Shooting's Joys; De Shootinest Gent'man; Opportunity Flies But Once; Recall to Eden); Part Two: Bobwhites (Editor's Note: Brick House; The Harp That Once . . .; Pipeline "Pottiges"; Amid Whirring Wings; Play House; After All These Years); Part Three: Guns & Shooting (Editor's Note: Mr. Buck's Guns; Are We Shooting 8-Gauge Guns?; Long-Range Duck Shooting; Here's How in Quail Shooting; The Dove); Part Four: Dogs (Point! Judges; Given Only to the Honored; What Really Happens Out Quail Shooting; Not Unsung; The Great Reprisal; The Family Honor); Part Five: Possibles Bag (The Neglected Duck Call; Hail and Farewell; The Ropes and Tools of Goose Shooting; Thou and Thy Gun Bearer; Wax and Wane; The Prodigal Years); Part Six: Star at Evening (A la Belle Etoile); Bibliography.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. New York: Asia Publishing House. New York: 1962. First edition [no statement of printing]. 420 pages, illustrated with including map endpapers and a frontispiece portrait of Dhirendra Nath Majumdar, notes on contributors, index. Good or better copy with toning to the cloth on the spine and less so to that on the board, very light bumping, text paper lightly toned; but the text is tight and clean, lacking the jacket. clph.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 336 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover. An Unused, unmarked and unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - (minus). Reprint. Octavo. 345pp. Maroon cloth with silver letteirng and design in dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 additional illustrations. Facsimile of the 1893 original; this facsimile limited to 450 copies. Small stain to back of jacket. Anthology of big game stories. Hand R270.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. NOT the signed/limited. 1986 second edition. Clean text. Shelving code NW shlff GA.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 184 pages. 6.00x0.50x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 518 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 435 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 235 pages. 10.00x8.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair - Cash. Heavy wear to cover, corners and edges, exposes the boards. Has soiling to cover and pages, with creases. Denting to edges of front and back cover. Water damageto front cover and bottom corner of first few pages with waving and soiling. Front and back gutter is cracked and exposing webbing. Heavy rubbing to white title and emaellishments, spine is completly rubbed off. A few gutters are cracked and exposing webbing. A few pages are starting to come loose from binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 367 pages. 8.00x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Large 8vo., 330 pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Later print. A collection of the author's best stories on quail, waterfowl, dogs and guns culled from his nine books and numerous articles. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket that has a touch of wear at the spine extremities.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Some slight edgewear to dustjacket. Gathered here are many of the finest contemporary sporting writers: George Bird Evans, Charles Waterman, Gene Hill, Michael McIntosh, Jim Fergus, and many others. Each offers a unique story of his singular relationship with the dog (or dogs) that shaped his life. The anthology is completely original with none of the stories previously published. Well produced and finely illustrated by the famous artist Bruce Langton.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 310 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1986. 8vo. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong with very minor shelf and edge wear. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed and inscribed by editor, George Bird Evans, on half title page. Book is in Fine condition. Clean, brown cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. A tight, solid binding and clean, unmarked pages. Full of great black and white hunting photos of Buckingham and friends. Dust jacket in Near Fine condition. A couple of tears to jacket edges have been tape repaired from jacket's interior and barely visible from the exterior. Dust jacket in protective mylar wrap. Book will be carefully packaged to ensure safe delivery. See photos. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gilt-stamped brown cloth; 8v0; 330pp; illustrated with b/w photos; color photographic dust jacket; later printing with the plain endsheets. A collection of the author's best stories on quail, waterfowl, dogs and guns culled from his nine books and numerous articles. Plus an entertaining, "Portrait of Nash" by the editor. Book is in VG condition while the jacket has a vertical band of sunning along spine of front panel This copy uncommonly inscribed & dated by Evans on the half title page. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fifteenth Printing. Mylar-wrapped dust jacket; not price-clipped; white lettering and color photograph of an arrangement of Nash Buckingham's hunting possessions, including a magnum duck gun, shooting hat, gloves and duck call, duck decoy, and more; dust jacket in fine condition; signed and inscribed by editor George Bird Evans on half-title page: "For Charles Johnston - with the hope that you will feel the touch of hand from Nash Buckingham to me to you. George Bird Evans, Old Hemlock, November 1983"; one caption below a B&W photograph of Nash Buckingham with a Burt Becker magnum gun and a dog has been partially crossed out in black ink, but the text is still visible beneath; presumably this was done by the editor, Evans, as the ink appears to be crossing out a possibly incorrect dog name; else interior book clean and like new; tight binding; numerous B&W photographs printed in between pgs. 20 and 21. George Bird Evans (1906 - 1998) was an American author, artist, dog breeder, and sportsman, recognized widely as one of the world's leading authorities on upland gunning and bird dogs. Nash Buckingham (1880 - 1971) was an American sportsman, prolific writer, and outspoken conservationist, widely renowned and beloved as an outdoor writer during his time. Evans - with whom Buckingham was friends - selected, annotated, and edited some of Buckingham's best writing, creating The Best of Nash Buckingham. ; B & W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 320 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original maroon cloth, plates, lettering on covers rubbed, pp497, bookplate of E.C,Russell , nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No additional printings listed, 1904 on title page and copyright page. Spotting to page fore-edges. Surface tear on front cover. Rubbing and wear to spine lettering much of lettering rubbed off. 3/4 inch of webbing starting to show at rear hinge, binding sound. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Binding sound, no markings. Silver lettering on spine is partially rubbed off. Spotting to page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings. Light shading to covers. 71 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light brown buckram with cover titles in dark brown; thin 8vo; 71pp; not illustrated. Contains a history of the club (55pp); constitution (4pp); by-laws (1pp); officers (1pp) & list of members (6pp). This copy in VG condition with light wear to leading edges and spine; internally clean.…