Herbert Atkinson John Harris (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. Reprint. 253 pages. Clean, tight copy without marks of previous ownership. 10 colour plates and 12 in black and white. Jacket in removable film sleeve. Original grey buckram boards and printed endpapers. A very good example with very few signs of age and use.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dust jacket, light staining from use; bumped; light foxing to text block edges, Henry Sotheran bookseller label to front endpaper, otherwise the pages are clean and bright and the binding is undamaged and tight. Cock-Fighting and Game Fowl, from the Note-Books of Herbert Atkinson of Ewelme together with the Life and Letters of John Harris, the Cornish Cocker. Edited and with an Introductory Memoir by Game Cock. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top edge, rough cut pages,10 colour plates and 12 b/w plates from paintings and drawings by Herbert Atkinson, viii + 253 pages Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ten plates in colour and twelve in black and white from paintings and drawings by the author. First edition. 4to. [260 x 200 x 38 mm]. viii, 253, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut edges. (No dust jacket, some soiling to the cloth, spine lightly bumped). The odd light scattered foxing, otherwise internally clean, overall in good condition. Bookplate located on the front paste down.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, original brown paper wrappers. Sm.8vo, engraved frontispiece slightly dusty, c.pp70 + [4] advts, wrappers bit worn around the backstrip and a little dusty, small little ink blot to extreme top margin of some 10 leaves, overall a very good copy of a vulnerable little item, and internally rather crisp. ** Includes poems in English bar 3 in Greek, 3 in Latin, and 1 in parallel Hebrew & English. *** The poems are by John Wickens & George Tickell of Balliol : J. C. Prichard, George K. Rickards & Roundell Palmer of Trinity College : Isaac Nicholson Allen & Charles Seager of Magdalen : A. Lloyd & John Graham of Wadham : Miles Atkinson, Regents Park : John Adams, William Herbert Woodhouse & Lord Maidstone of Christ Church : G. K. Morrell, St John's : W. F. Donkin, St Edmund's : John W. Wing, University College : and Hon. W. L. T. Harris, Oriel. ***** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce first edition copy of this abundantly illustrated account of cock-fighting from the notebooks of Herbert Atkinson with the letters of John Harris. A very scarce work.The first edition.In the publisher's original red cloth binding. With the original price clipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, nine coloured plates, and twelve monochrome plates from paintings and drawings by the author. Collated, complete.From the note-books of Herbert Atkinson, one of the original founders of the Oxford Old English Game Club in 1885.Together with the life and letters of John Harris, the Cornish Cocker.Edited with an introductory memoir by Game Cock. In publisher's original cloth binding. In the original price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is smart, with sunning and spotting, and a closed tear to the head of the front joint, and chipping to the head of the spine. Near Fine. book.