Major Kenneth Dawson (87 results)

Condition: Good. 1933. Reprinted. 216 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with blue decoration. Pages are mildly tanned and moderately foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is slightly sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. A few visible marks overall. Minor forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Slight fading to spine.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Winifred Austen (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fair to good, clean, tight condition with wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. Text is free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to illus. Annotated by "The Wag." 1st Ed. -Intoduction to fly fishing in series of humorous letters with drawings. [Cat. 48-88 & 63-151.] Spine chipped at top; VGood no DJ.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Lionel Edwards Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Fair. 1929. First Edition. 155 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Green illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper with red water staining to top edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to edges. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Red water staining to edges. Wear marks overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to illus. Annotated by "The Wag." 1st Ed. -With Gary H. Howells blind library stamp. [Cat. 48-87 & 63-150.] Very Good no DJ.

Condition: Good. 1951. First Edition. 175 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Fishing tales. Illustrated with black & white photos throughout. Blue boards, sunned on spine and edges, clean with tight binding, no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. h/b 158 pages, condition is very good, some small tears to teh edges of the DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Printing. Very mild fade to spine and rear margin area of bds, with small edge marks to part bottom edge of upper panel, light spotting to side text block edge, dw has tanning and spotting mainly to rear cover, with some to the fore-edge fold-over flap, wear, nicks and sl chips to some extremeties, price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Winifred Austen (illustrator). Hardcover with green cloth-bound boards. Dust-jacket is good+ with some minor chipping to top of spine, and one spot of discoloration to spine. Book itself is very good. No notes or highlights and binding sound.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated. 158pp. Blue cloth, slightly faded to spine.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Hbk 12mo, 175pp, illustr b+w photo plates, dj has losses front and rear but is unclipped (10/6) and now stabilized in protective sleeve, very good green cloth boards and internally a very good clean tight unmarked text.

Condition: Good. 1931. First Edition. 100 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Illustrated by Winifred Austin. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nine duotone photographs by the author. Stated first printing. Previous owner's address label on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. B000RY8TV6.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Winifred Austen (illustrator). First Edition. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to spine, slightl;y dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 143pp. An account of the sport from the viewpoint of the average owner (!) or tenant of a few hundred acres of mixed shooting. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 10 x 7.5 inches.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First Edition, 1929. No dust jacket. Light foxing to the page edges, and a neat dedication on the front pastedown. Contents clear and firm overall. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). 1st Edition. "Some advice to young shooters: A series of interesting and instructive letters from Uncle to Nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. From the choice of his gun to the training of his dog, the tyro will find Major Dawson's book a mine of information". First edition, 1929. Gorgeous illustrations throughout by sporting artist Charles Simpson. Inscription on front endpaper and preliminary pages rather foxed/tanned but contents otherwise in very good bright condition. In the scarce dust jacket, not price-clipped (12/6 net) but rubbed to front cover and chipped at edges with small loss.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Charles Simpson (illustrator). First Edition. "Some Advice to Young Shooters", (viii), 155pp, illustrated with drawings printed in green ink, foxing to edges and endpapers, occasionally to pages, red cloth, blue lettering to upper board and spine, spine sunned where there is loss to the dust jacket, unclipped dust jacket, loss to top edge of spine and part of front cover. A series of interesting and instructive letters from uncle to nephew teaching a beginner - whether young or old - all he wants to learn about shooting. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Shooting.

Illustrated Beige Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Annotated by The Wag, (viii), 292pp, illustrated with numerous black & white drawings, some foxing to edges and within, mostly to the front and rear pages, ink initials and a scribbled out price to front free endpapers, beige cloth with black spine lettering and a green band and black illustration to upper board, no dust jacket. Size: 10.5 x 7.5 Inches. Fishing, Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Winifred Austen. R.E. (illustrator). In almost fine condition, but lacks dustwrapper.A clean tight copy.

Octavo hardcover (VG) frontispiece partially loose, still attached; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Small 4to, original cloth, frontis., [iv], 227pp. Illustrated. Very slight fraying at spine tips, else Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spots of foxing, first free endpaper has been torn out. Green boards have light wear, corners lightly bent.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 1930. No dust jacket. Minimal wear to orange cloth boards. Some foxing to the page edges. Contents otherwise clear, bright and firm within. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Winifred Dawson (illustrator). 1st Edition. ex library, rebound, red boards with gilt titles spine, clean condition, repair to page loss half title page, frontispiece, 100pp, pages clean and overall very good condition.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), [viii], 155pp. Frontispiece and text illustrations by Charles Simpson. Original grey cloth. Some light marking of the binding, endpapers browned, leading edge dusty. Overall, this book is in good condition.