Edited Eric Parker (14 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Plate facing pages 87-87 is detached but present. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Noticeable cracking to gutters and hinges . Binding is weakened. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is somewhat dulled. Clipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Hbk, 376 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. A clean unmarked copy in very good condition. The dust wrapper is dulled, scuffed and slightly stained around spine with one minor annotation o/w good condition. [Sports ; Poetry - English literature (Selections: Extracts, etc.)] e1054 / m11790.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 340 pages. Green cloth boards; titles in black on front and spine; publisher's device on rear. 4 colour plates, including frontispiece; 16 monochrome plates; drawings in the text. 2-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Boards lightly rubbed; with a couple of spots; ends of spine crushed. Edges of text block spotted. Pages almost entirely clean. Gutter cracked in one place but binding otherwise firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. no date circa 1930, original two tone cloth hardcover, illustrated, 256 pages, page edges spotted, very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 175.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie Eainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ in VG- dustwrapper. First revised edition of a classic shooting work originally published in 1925. Substantially revised by Lord Tweedsmuir this edition also contains a number of Thomas Bewick's engravings. 315pp Maroon cloth, gold lettering. But for a hint of rubbing at the ends of the spine the book is virtually as new. The d/w has a few creases and a little wear at the foot of the spine. There is a small piece missing at the lower edge of the front panel.

Light Brown Cloth/Cloth Spine. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. THE LONSDALE LIBRARY OF SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES. (Undated), 256pp, contributions by Frank Wallace and Eric Taverner, 60 black & white illustrations (photos and drawings), the plate opposite p90 is loose, spotting to edges but pages appear to be free from foxing, ink gift inscription dated 1945 to front free endpaper, light brown cloth boards, corners a little bumped and margins discoloured, glazed cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, no dust jacket. Size: 8.75 X 5.75 Inches. Game Keeping.

hardback, 8vo, xxvi,342pp, illustrated, foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, black titles, slightly soiled, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Softback. With one hundred and fifty illustrations Brown cloth with gilt titles and small gilt inset to spine and upper board 380 pp. book.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 299 pages; 5 7/8 x 9" Introduction by Eric Parker. Illustrated. This edition is limited to 2500 copies. Red cloth boards with gilt page edges, lettering and embellishments on front board and spine. Slipcase is in fine condition.

FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN BROWN BOARDS.

FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. 376 pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt, with gilt blocks, in pictorial dust wrapper, with pasted in colour prints on front board and spine, with edge wear including head and tail of spine, which is darkened. A little wear to extremities and light foxing, largely confined to fore edge; otherwise a very good copy. 1944 inscription on first free endpaper and bookplate. Illustrated by 16 pages of plates, including colour frontispiece and by full page text figure. A well illustrated volume in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games and Pastimes, series edited by the Earl of Lonsdale and Eric Parker, also the editor for this volume. Eric Parker (1870-1955) was Editor-in-Chief of The Field and a writer on sport, topography and natural history. This wide ranging anthology includes sections on angling, shooting, hunting, riding and driving, racing, cricket, football, tennis, golf, winter sports, fencing, rowing, archery, yachting, swimming, etc. SPORTS/PASTIMES ANTHOLOGIES SPORT- RURAL PURSUITS LIT. NON-FICTION POETRY ILLUSTRATED SPORTS/PASTIMES.

Cloth. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator). Reprint. London, UK: The Field. VG/No Dustjacket. ca. 1922. Reprint. Cloth. Color Frontispiece by F. W. Frohawk Edited with an introduction by Eric Parker, with a chapter on the diseases of pheasants by H. Hammond Smith, and illustrations by J. G. Millais, T. W. Wood and F. W. Frohawk. circa 1922 . 8vo., 268 pp., Faint staining on front cover; else, vg, shelfwear .

8vo. 21cm, The First Edition, 380p., with 75 plates including frontis, 41 text illustrations, index, in contemporary half dark green calf, gilt ruled raised bands, gilt panel borders, gilt titles and center panel motif decorations, gilt ruled borders on the boards, light green cloth boards, t.e.g., bookplate, a fine copy in an attractive "Signed Binding", near fine. (Spg). One of "The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes" series, edited by The Earl of Lonsdale and Eric Parker. Chapters on all aspects of shooting and hunting: partridge, grouse, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, ptarmigan, geese, ducks, shore birds. Includes training of dogs, legal aspects of shooting, shooting accidents, cookery of game, punt gunning, gamekeeper duties, field trials.