Charles James Apperley (317 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Presume First Edition Thus, with "1931" on both copyright and title pages, reprinted from the original, true First Edition of 1832. Introduction by Owen Culbertson, and with five black-and-white illustrations by Edward P. Buyck, including at frontis, full-page. xi, 64 pp. and with several illustrated plates. Rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges. Sans sut jacket, as issued. Several racing chapters on early fox-hunting and fox-hunters, famous and infamous. Bound in light blue illustrated paper over boards, brick-red cloth backed. Mildly soiled and sunned along top edge, else quite clean of interior, unmarked.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is in rough shape with numerous large chips and tears, creases. The underside of the jacket was neatly reinforced with masking tape along the top and bottom edges, over the decades the glue has bled through to the front of the jacket. Despite the rough DJ it did a very fine job protecting the book underneath. Beveled red cloth boards are clean and bright and the gilt text shines like new. The only issues with the exterior of the book is a few small dents in the cloth. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No hinge issues, no handwriting, no library markings, no bookplates, no signatures present. Paper is toned due to age and there is some foxing which is mainly limited to the end pages. The second end page is the darkest out of all the toned pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good minus. Without dust jacket. First American Edition. Sold as a very nice reading copy only. Octavo, 9" tall, xviii + 341 pages + plates; gilt titles on red cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, hardcover first edition with moderate shelf wear, slight fraying started at the spine corners; hinges and binding solid, text paper light to moderately yellowed with scattered foxing and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. GOOD / NO JACKET. . xxi, [5], 239 pp. New edition with introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Top edge yellow. Illustrated with 6 color illustrations, 16 half-tone illustrations, 8 hunting maps, and 21 decorated tailpieces and initial letters in b/w, for 51 illustrations in total. Red cloth boards with blindstamped border at front, lettered in gilt at front and spine. Spine sunned, corners rubbed, spine top and tail rubbed.Joints and hinges good, binding firm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. xxi, [5], 239 pp. New edition with introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Top edge yellow. Illustrated with 6 color illustrations, 16 half-tone illustrations, 8 hunting maps, and 21 decorated tailpieces and initial letters in b/w, for 51 illustrations in total. Red cloth boards with blindstamped border at front, lettered in gilt at front and spine. Boards slightly scuffed, spine sunned, top corners bumped, faded, and dampstained, lower corners rubbed. Front hinge cracked at title page, but endpapers are intact, textblock firm, binding over all good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. xxi, [5], 239 pp. New edition with introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow. Text clean and unmarked, except for previous owner's identification at free front endpaper. Pages slightly toned, page edges very foxed.Top edge blue. Illustrated with 6 color illustrations, 16 half-tone illustrations, 8 hunting maps, and 21 decorated tailpieces and initial letters in b/w, for 51 illustrations in total. Green cloth boards with blindstamped border at front, lettered in gilt at front and spine. Boards slightly sunned, spine sunned, corners rubbed, spine top and tail rubbed. Joints and hinges good, textblock firm, binding over all good.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small 4to, red cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on front cover, 18 color plates. Spine faded, title-page foxed and some occasional foxing in margins, else a clean sound copy. H. Alken & T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. "Fifty one illustrations in colour, line and half-tone." Uncut fore edge and bottom edge while the top edge is stained blue. Front inner hinge partially split, book plate inside, light foxing throughout. Pages largely unopened. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10". 260 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good/no dust jacket. Red spine and green boards. Hardcover. Soiling and darkening to boards--mostly edges. Former owners name and date on front endpaper. Small stain on rear board and browning to pages. Nice solid copy. Edward P. Buyck (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. 1931. First Edition. 64 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Black and white illustrations by Edward Buyck. Rough cut edges to textblock. Ex libris plate at front belonging to Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.…

Quarto, cloth (hardcover), uncut, top edge red, xx, 294 pp + [ii] pp. ads. Good, with sunned covers and spine, light soiling to spine. Numerous illustrations including full-color foxing themed plates and a folding-map. Hunting, Outdoor Life, British History, Illustrated. zslic.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Dustjacket. Presumed First. Presumed first edition w/NAP & SD, hardcover, has tiny skew to binding, faint touch of bowing to boards, light bumps to spine ends and board corners with small peels to paper starting to expose boards at corners, light sunning to spine, slight shelfwear to board edges, and faint rubbing with a few small spots and smudges, otherwise a solid, tight Near VG copy. Buyck, Edward P. (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading Copy. Spine label missing. Front and rear hinge cracked. In polypropylene bag. (hunting, hunters, wales, 18th century, autobiography, sportsman, sports writers, sporting writer).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition thus. First edition thus, Green paper covered boards lettered and decorated in red over brick colored cloth spien, paper spine label. 64 pp. Introduction by Owen Culbertson and illustrations by Edward P. Buyck. "Nimrod"'s paper on fox hunting first appeared in an English sporting periodical in the 1840s was called at the time the most scholarly treatment of the origin, growth and final-perfection of the sport yet produced. Gewnerally fine, touch of toning to the edges and label.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lacks jacket if issued. Gifters inscription in ink on ffep, covers most of page. ; Illus. , several in color; 304 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. xvi, 231 pp, list of illustrations, introduction, test with footnotes, index. Reprinted, 1927 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, Wildrake & Thomas Bewick. Dj soiled with 3 chips from 1 to 2 inches, and small tears and chips along top edge. Small tear to boards at top edge spine with minor edgewear top and bottom of same; small puncture to spine near base, else Fine with many pages uncut. Blue cloth title and author on front in blind, and gilt lettering to spine. Size: 4to. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. red cloth, moderate wear to corners, jacket brittle and quite chipped and worn, otherwise a clean, square copy.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 34 illustrations including the original Turner lithographs. Book plate inside, little foxing. Review copy emboss on top of title page. Size: 8vo. 355 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. 1-64pp. Dis-bound single issue of the Sporting Magazine for May 1826 Vol. XVIII New series No. CIV. No plates present.Interesting glimpse of the sporting world in 1826 with accounts and stories from the turf and hunts. Racing calendar for 1826 at the rear [1-8pp]. A rare copy of the sporting magazine that included original articles by 'Nimrod'.…

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. A rare copy of the sporting magazine that included original articles by 'Nimrod'. 349-412pp. Dis-bound single issue of the Sporting Magazine for April 1826 Vol. XVI new series No CIII. Engraved plate of the race horse 'Bravura' with jockey as a frontis. Plate of 'Isabella' present. Interesting glimpse of the sporting world in 1826 with accounts and stories from the turf and hunts. Racing calendar for 1827 at the rear [77-88pp], plus index.…

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. A rare copy of the sporting magazine that included original articles by 'Nimrod'. 273-336pp. Dis-bound single issue of the Sporting Magazine for March 1827 Vol. XIX New Series No CXIV. Engraved portrait of Tom Grant [huntsman to the Late Duke of Richmond] as a frontis. Lacks 'Dead Game' plate called for on the title-page. Interesting glimpse of the sporting world in 1827 with accounts and stories from the turf and hunts. Racing calendar for 1827 at the rear [89-96pp].…

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. 19-248pp. Plate of 'Arbutus by Walton' by A.Cooper as frontis but lacking other plates. Dis-bound single issue of the Sporting Magazine for July 1927 Vol. XX New Series No CXVIII. Interesting glimpse of the sporting world in 1827 with accounts and stories from the turf and hunts. A rare copy of the sporting magazine that included original articles by 'Nimrod'.…

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. 285-348pp. Plate of 'Cognac' by Fernelli as frontis. Dis-bound single issue of the Sporting Magazine for March 1826 Vol. XVII New Series No CII. Interesting glimpse of the sporting world in 1826 with accounts and stories from the turf and hunts. A rare copy of the sporting magazine that included original articles by 'Nimrod'.…

Condition: New.