Eric Parker Editor (56 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. H.R. Van Dongen (front cover) (illustrator). First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories in this issue are the conclusion of Gunner Cade by Kornbluth and Merril (as Cyril Judd), and Blood's a Rover by Oliver. Faint spine crease, a little dusty to the back cover, a near fine copy. Back cover advertisement is for Linguaphone Institute.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Symposium 7, American Fisheries Society. Indentation across spine cover, else modest wear. Pages unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Chicago: Blake Publishing Corp. Near Fine. 1978. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Profusely illustrated media magazine [most of this issue being devoted to Superman]. Oversize [about 8.25" x 10.75"] pictorial wrappers, Includes poster still attached [70] pages. Near Fine copy. with a trace of wear. See photos.mag9.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 376 page hardcover sports anthology with many illustrations. Lonsdale Library No. XII. Dark tan cloth exterior with title on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean. No date - but Lippincott printing appears to be early 1930s.

Red Cloth. Condition: V.g. Second Edition. 376pp, with 23 illustrations. The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes,Volume XII. Editor The Right Hon. The Earl Of Lonsdale. With an intrduction by E. Parker. Marks on lower front and back binding.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1934). (1929) 1934 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp380. B/w photographs & illustrations. Full brown buckram, spine titled in gilt. Generally quite well-used. A good reading copy only. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, & James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include: The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. second edition, revised. x,308pp, 10 colour plates. Dark green buckram, gilt. Unfaded binding with no wear. Trifle occasional foxing. A nice copy. Neat owners name to f.e.p.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). (1932) ND (1932) 2nd edition. 12mo (120 x 175mm). Pp376. Tipped in colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, illustrations. "Pocket edition" Second edition - Binding B. Purple / lilac cloth, spine titled in gilt, two small gilt Lonsdale Library monograms in opposite corners of upper board, plain white end-papers. Boards rather stained and used, ex-libris book-plate to paste-down, spotting to end-papers, a good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. An anthology of sporting prose and poetry. The largest sections are on angling, game shooting, hunting and cricket, but also includes pieces on deer-stalking, racing, pig-sticking, golf, boxing, archery, mountaineering, swimming and "various." "Especially notable for many unusual items which Mr. Parker has extracted from unexpected sources." (Where To Fish 1933). .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) 1934 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp380. B/w photographs & illustrations. Full brown buckram, spine titled in gilt. Spine shaken, foxing to edges and end-papers. Reading copy in poor dust-wrapper. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include; The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering and edge papers in slipcase, limited reprint edition, one of 2500 copies, some white paint spots on lower portion of slipcase, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, one of 2500 copies. A clean, tight copy with minimal wear. Bright red boards with gold decoration; tiny rubs to corners, top rear spine and lower front corner lightly bumped. Ribbon bookmark. Red slipcase has minor scuffs and rubs. Text is unmarked. Selections from the Colonel's diaries from 1802-1853. 300 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. First American Edition; no date given, circa 1930?; dj w/lite wear, in mylar; 376 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First U.S. Edition. [1934] 384 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed along extremities; bottom corners bumped. Front inner hinge starting; rear inner hinge cracked. Neat inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper; pencil notes to front and rear blank endpapers. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Illust. w/ several b/w plates and 9 fold-out maps.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). 1929 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp380. B/w photographs & illustrations. Gilt monogram to brown buckram, spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly shaken, book-seller's label and ink erasure to fep. Foxing to preliminaries and edges else good copy. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include: The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator). Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some handling wear to spine edges with marks and scuffing to surfaces; rubbed and bumped corners. Mostly clean inside, with tanning and foxing to pages, edges and end papers. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. No jacket,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 150 Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. 376 Pp. Standard Lonsdale Series Binding In Light Brown Burlap, Spine Gilt. 8 5/8" X 6". First Printing, 1932 Date On Title Page. Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Very Small Foxing Spot To Foredge And Bottom Edge Of Text Block, Browning To Free Endpapers, Small Bookseller's Stamp On Front Free Endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Colour frontispiece by Lionel Edwards, illustrations in the text by Pamela Searight (illustrator). Firmly bound red spine, light grey boards with green and red markings, light handling wear and a few marks.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). 1929 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp380. B/w photographs & illustrations. Full brown buckram, spine titled in gilt. Cloth slightly used, armorial bookplate and browning to end-papers, spotting to edges else presentable. Good-plus without dust-wrapper. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include; The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1942). ND [1942] 1st edition. Small 8vo (123 x 190mm). Pp319. B/w illustrations by Beryl Irving, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, green titles on white printed label to yellow cloth spine. Slight browning and use but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. A wonderful anthology of every aspect of field sports and the countryside. The chapters are arranged according to subject: Natural history of game birds; characteristics of birds of prey; Owl family; Gulls; Rabbits and hares; Four-footed enemies of game; Rooks and rookeries; Woodpigeons; Training dogs for the gun; Diseases of game birds; Guns and cartridges; Shooting schools; Which is the most difficult shot?; Clothes and kit; Don't and always; Discomforts; Tips and tipping; Shooting and forestry; Gamekeepers ancient and modern, the first time through; Gamekeepers and foxes; Gamekeepers, grouse and sheep; Game farms; Facts and records; Deer stalking; The shooter's landscape; Lunch, larder and kitchen; The law; Wildfowling. An anthology: Colonel Peter Hawker; Red letter days; Keepers, poachers and foxes; Dogs and their masters; Time was; To-day; Experience teaches; A shooter's notebook. Shooting books and writers. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Seeley, Service & Co., 1932. Hardback, 8vo, [vi],376pp, illust. No d/j, owner names/date, edges and endpapers a little spotted/foxed. A fair copy . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) 1951 reprint. 8vo (145 x 220mm). Pp380 + 3pp ads. B/w photographs & illustrations. Buckram-backed tan cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth slightly soiled and used, foxing to end-papers and edges. Good copy in frayed dust-wrapper. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include; The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

Condition: Good. 1952 reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), 256pp. 60 illustrations. Original two-tone brown cloth binding, dustwrapper. Minor foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (slight sunning of the spine panel, price-clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 376 pages. Covers worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. With over five hundred illustrations (illustrator). Firmly bound brown boards with gilt decorations. Some marks to cloth surfaces. Clean inside, with tanning to page edges. Signed on the front paste down by the previous owner. Jacket has some marks and tears to hinges and edges, price clipped. Magazine cutting of a motor boat stuck in on the title page.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1952). (1938) 1952 reprint. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Pp256. Illustrated with b&w photographs, plates and drawings. Light tan buckram-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt Lonsdale Library monogram on upper board. Some use, minor faults, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "Written by well-known keepers, game farmers and with contributions by Frank Wallace and Eric Taverner". An extremely wide-ranging book which sets out the gamekeper's duties in great detail. Chapters include; Grouse and moor management, Yorkshire and Scotland; Principal foods of grouse; Feeding capacity of a moor; Pointers and setters; Partridge beats and hand rearing; Partridge's winter feeding; Pheasant rearing; Rearing and penning pheasants; Rearing pheasants in large numbers; Inside hatching; Pheasant managementon the Cotswold Game Farm; Dry food or wet?; Organizing a pheasant shoot; Rearing and management of wild duck; Trapping of vermin; Game shooting from the keeper's point of view; The gamekeeper as naturalist; The stalker and his duties; The duties of a ghillie, the improvement of lochs and rivers. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1929). (1929) 1947 reprint. Pp380. B/w photographs & illustrations. Gilt motif to buckram backed tan cloth. Dent to rear board, spotting to eps. Good copy in worn dw. "A practical guide to modern methods, by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt.-Col. Badcock, Dugald MacIntyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, Barrister-at-Law, and James Andrews, M.B." Chapters include; The gun and general ballistics; General shooting hints; Clothing and equipment; The partridge, natural history, preservation, shooting; The grouse, natural history, preservation, shooting; The pheasant, natural history, rearing and stocking, shooting; The woodcock, England, Scotland; The snipe; Black game, capercaillie, ptarmigan; Hare drives; Wild geese and wild duck, shooting, ashore, punt gunning; The rough shoot; The management of a syndicate; The modern gamekeeper and his duties; Training of spaniels and retrievers, pointers and setters; The legal aspect of shooting; First aid and shooting accidents; The cookery of game. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1932). 1932 1st edition - small format issue. 12mo (120 x 175mm). Pp376. Tipped in colour frontispiece, b/w photographs, illustrations. Small format issue, Binding A. Matt brick red cloth, spine titled in gilt, two small gilt Lonsdale Library monograms in opposite corners of upper board, marble-effect end-papers, silk marker. Preliminary pages slightly creased o/w very good. An anthology of sporting prose and poetry. The largest sections are on angling, game shooting, hunting and cricket, but also includes pieces on deer-stalking, racing, pig-sticking, golf, boxing, archery, mountaineering, swimming and "various." "Especially notable for many unusual items which Mr. Parker has extracted from unexpected sources." (Where To Fish 1933). This "Thin Paper Pocket Edition" was issued simultaneously with the regular 8vo edition. .

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. This near fine copy is bound in blue cloth cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. There is some very mild spotting to the f.e.p. The price clipped dust wrapper has some minimal edge wear and is lightly sunned to the spine so best described as very good condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, archival, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Three hundred years ago Walton's 'The Compleat Angler was being sold in London streets for eighteen pence. Here in 'An Angler's Garland' are pages of the best books that have been written on the same subject from that day to this. Here in short, are 300 pages of rodand line on loch, lough andchalkstream, of flies and tackle, of the philosophy,poetry and humour of angling from the days of Walton to yesterday on brook, river and burn. Ref E2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Straight square hardcover in plum colored cloth with bumped spine ends and one tip, other 3 are sharp. Comes in a professionally reproduced, price clipped dust wrapper in new mylar. Nice looking book with gilt letter L and crown on 2 cover corners. Gilt titles on spine, top edge of page block gilt, ribbon marker bound in. Cream endpps have one tidy name & date on upper tip of blank fep. Hinges fine. 376 pp. Tipped in color frontis and numerous b/w plates within. Poems include the following sports: Fox Hunting, Cricket, Angling, Stalking, Shooting, Big Game, Polo, Pig Sticking, Horse Racing, Football, Fives, Winter Sports, Golf, Athletics, Skating, Fencing, Rowing, Boxing, Archery, Mountaineering, Yachting, Swimming and various other sports.

8vo. Original black lettered green cloth (spine worn and toned at head and tail - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (partial loss at head of spine and edges creased and marked - in protective cover). Pp. xxvi + 340, with coloured and numerous b&w plates and illus in text (no inscriptions).