Nimrod Charles Apperley (277 results)

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. No Jacket. red lite wear only, fading gilt titles; 384 clean, unmarked pages. Chiltern Library edition, with an introduction by John Moore.

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: 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).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Fronstispiece by Aiken in color. Slightly cocked, spine worn. No jacket. Size: Cr 8vo.

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.…

Condition: Good. 1948. 1948 reprint. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. hardback, small octavo, a tightly bound copy in a chipped and age-toned dust jacket which has some strengthening tom the verso. A knock and crease at the top leading corner of a short gathering in the early part of the volume. Coloured frontis, 384pp. …

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).

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Some tears, sunning and creases to the DJ, now protected in a mylar wrap. Slight foxing to top outer edge of pages, otherwise pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP/Hunting.

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. …

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. 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. 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'.…

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].…

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.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. New Edition. 1/2 vellum, rubbed, corners bumped. Book plate inside. Illustrations in color & black & white by Henry Alken. Size: 8vo. 350 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 pounds or less. Category: Fishing & Hunting; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Not Stated. Green blind embossed hardcover with a gilt top edge. Two sets of gift inscriptions (one with a 1920 date) at the inside front cover and free endpaper (both of them somehow related/relevant to the giver/business) obviously an important person of the day. About 6-1/4 x 4-1/2 with 161 pages. Scarce. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: VG NO dj. hardcover. 16mo. 161pp. From the Sportsman's Classic series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A New Edition with an Introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow, London: John Lane, the Bodley Head Limited, 1927. 4to., (9 4/8 x 7 inches). Colour frontispiece, 7 colour plates, and 8 black and white. Contemporary green calf, gilt (unevenly faded to tan). First published in the Quarterley Review and then in book form in 1837. Apperley's "expert knowledge and social status made him an invaluable recruit to the sporting press of the time, and he may even be said to have created the role of gentleman hunting correspondent. Writing at first under various pseudonyms (Acastus, Eques, and A), he published his first article for the Sporting Magazine as Nimrod in January 1822 and he subsequently usually used that nom de plume. For five seasons, from 1824 to 1828, he was the magazine's official representative, with a contract that gave him £1500 p.a., a remarkably high salary designed to cover his travelling expenses and the upkeep of a string of hunters" (Norman Gash for DNB).…