Purdey Capt J A (8 results)

Green Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 4th Edition. Slight fading to top of boards, small tear to fep in front gully, personal inscription on free end paper (front). Dust jacket has some rubbing and chipping and has some repair near bottom of spine panel. Also there is some creasing to front and rear panels. Bert Smith (illustrator).…

Hard cover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Reprint. The Sportsman's Library Vol. XX, covers have some spots and the corners are a little bumped. book is tight, text is clean and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. A very good clean copy. The jacket is in a protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Tight and clean.

Full Calf. Condition: Fine. Fascimilie Edition. Octavo, [18.75/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed teal-coloured calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 241, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . James Purdey & Sons, or simply Purdey, is a British gunmaker based in London, specialising in high-end bespoke sporting shotguns and rifles. Purdey holds three Royal Warrants of appointment as gun and rifle makers to the British and other European royal families. . As early as 1838, Queen Victoria is recorded as having bought a pair of Purdey pistols. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the company supplied ornate guns and rifles to various Indian princes. …

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Gilded page edges, clean and unmarked. All pages are intact and binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

2nd edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo vii + 167pp., frontis., b/w plates, text ills., index, The Sportsman's Library. 2 loose pages o/w a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Third Edition (first published 1936). Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 144pp. B/w photographic frontispiece and plates throughout. Not library copy, name/address in ink to ffep. (13/7). …