Nimrod Charles James Apperley Cuming E D Editor (4 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: Good. Large hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Cloth is faded, and there are some dark stains along spine and front hinge. Stamping remains clear and bright. Bumped corners. Title page dated 1928. 304 pages. In good condition. Number 159 of a limited run of 175 copies. Pages are lightly foxed, but otherwise free of marks. Four color plates, including frontispiece. Nimrod was the pseudonym of Charles Apperley, a well known sportswriter. This collection contains essays on, unsurprisingly, his horses, but also hare-hunting, road accidents, coaching in France, and more.…

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (light wear at head of spine - otherwise VG in protective cover). Pp. xxvi + 304, illus with coloured and half-tone plates (no inscriptions).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. VG+, Ltd ed, 1927, 33 pls. In red cloth, gilt titles, faded lightly at edges, corners & edges lightly rubbed & bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, faded to spine, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image to front. Internally, an edition limited to just 250 copies, half title & coloured frontis present, [1], [5], (vi-xviii), [1], 2-341 pp, [1], 33 plates (of which 4 are coloured & 5 reproduced by kind permission of the V&A Museum), teg, remainder uncut, printed by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, teg, remainder uncut. A Sporting Classic. Apperley, [pseud. Nimrod], writer on sport, wrote 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. See ODNB.…