Captain Cwr Knight (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover in good professionally protected dw. b/w photos. 178 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. REPRINT. ILLUSTRATED. NO DJ, DISCOLOURING / STAINING TO CLOTH, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, NAME TOP OF FFEP, FOXING ON EPS AND SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 500 GRAMS.

Condition: Good. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 19cm), xii, 296pp. 40 plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt titling and design to the front board. Th binding is a little rubbed and bumped, there is light foxing to the preliminary pages, the endpapers are tanned, and there is a short ownership inscription. Overall, this book is in good plus condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, i-xii, 296 pp, black and white frontispiece, 39 black and white photographic plates from photographs by the author, original green decorated cloth, tear to the top left hand corner of the page giving the list of illustrations, previous owner's neat signature on the reverse of the front free end paper but a very good bright copy. This first edition of 1927 is a far superior production to the small 8vo 1939 printing. …

Condition: Very Good. 178, 37 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Inscription to endpaper. Vg in worn d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Reprint (first published 1943). The war-time activities of Captain Knight's world-famous golden eagle, named Mr Ramshaw, which was taken as youngster from a nest in the Scottish highlands.…

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Hb. Condition: VG. None. No date, c. 1927. Cover: green cloth on boards with gilt tiles and gilt Eagle: light dusting of soiling and few only light marks. Spine: head & foot with thin bumping, and chips. Tiny bumping to three fore corner tips. Edges: light dusting of soiling and few only foxing. Eps: b/w sequence of Eagle in flight reaching a rock; dj shadowing to ffep & refp. Foot edge of half-title page and Frontis with nic splits. Frontis: colour photograph of "Ferocity" eagle. Foot of title page with a few scratches and chips. Faint and few only old foxing to a few pages margins. B/w illustrattions clean & intact. Just a few pages with small chips or splits to fore or bottom edge. Binding is VG. 296p. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This book looks at the beauty of the golden eagle and hopes that those who read it will do all in their power to preserve for the Highlands of Scotland one of its great natural attractions.There is some tanning on the end papers and slight foxing on the page ends.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 178 pages + portrait frontispiece of the author with Mr Ramshaw + 36 illustrations on 19 plate leaves. Orange-brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 204 x 131mm. Falconry, eagles, Mr Ramshaw (the author's eagle).; 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Buff cloth, black lettering to spine. 178 pages, illustrated with photographs. 5.5 X 8.25 inches. Externally the book is a bit rubbed, lightly marked and faded to the cloth, Inside, a picture of a golden eagle has been fixed to the front free endpaper, and a brief press cutting about the author and his daughter tipped onto the back of the frontispiece. Brief Christmas gift inscription dated '53 on the front pastedown. All complete and in good order. A good sound copy, No dustwrapper.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of C. W. R. Knight's vivid study of the Golden Eagle. First edition.In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with many photographs, including a frontispiece and thirty-two plates. Collated, complete.Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.Portraying the habits and wild life of the Golden Eagle, supported with the author's own observations and records of the bird through his travels across Scotland.Written by C. W. R. Knight, a well-known British falconer and extensive author on falconry. He and his own Golden Eagle, Mr Ramshaw, appear frequently in the 1945 film 'I Know Where I'm Going!'. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A couple minor marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and occasional scattered spots. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Later Printing. Good condition book with some browning to end papers, crunch to upper right corner of book, leaving pages a bit creased, in a Good to Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with slight browning to spine, dust soiling, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex library book, usual markings. Clean copy. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A smart first edition of C. W. R. Knight's vivid illustrated study of the Golden Eagle. The first edition.In the original cloth binding.Illustrated with many photographs, including a colour frontispiece and thirty-two black and white plates. Collated, complete.Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.Portraying the habits and wild life of the Golden Eagle, supported with the author's own observations and records of the bird through his travels across Scotland.Written by C. W. R. Knight, a well-known British falconer and extensive author on falconry. He and his own Golden Eagle, Mr. Ramshaw, appear frequently in the 1945 film 'I Know Where I'm Going!'. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, very smart with only light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with the odd light spot to first and last few leaves. Slight spotting to fore edges. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Fine. Hardcover, first edition? -no date but c 1920. 295 pages. A lovely copy of this book in dark green buckram with gilt titles and Eagle inset. Illustrated from photographs taken by the author in the Scottish Highlands. A near Fine copy. No inscriptions. Pictures available.

Condition: Good. Second edition (first in this form). Heavy scuffs, nicks and small tears at clipped jacket edges, some taped inside. Gift inscription on FFEP. Tanning and foxing, predominantly to endpapers and edge of text block.