British Eagle by Knight (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover in good professionally protected dw. b/w photos. 178 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. REPRINT. ILLUSTRATED. NO DJ, DISCOLOURING / STAINING TO CLOTH, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, NAME TOP OF FFEP, FOXING ON EPS AND SIDES, OTHERWISE GOOD. 500 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. The lead character in these 178 pages is Mr. Ranshaw, a Golden Eagle. The author acquired him through the Offices of the Zoological Society in London. Read more about : Gardiner's Island, Montauk Point, tea-time, Grampian, lure, secretary birds, upwards-jumping, ENSA, Cheval Boucherie, Chipstead, Coronation, and September 3'rd 1939. Roughly 35 b/w photos accompany text. Cond : Boards are buckskin brown with black lettering. White end-papers. No dust jacket. Clean and bright. Minor age toning. No tears. Name plate of p/o on half-title. Excellent reading copy. QUote (p. 124) : " At that time we had a couple of horses, Jean and I would sometimes take Ramshaw out to a suitable piece of country in the medieval style; both of us mounted, and I carrying Ramshaw, hooded of course, on my gloved arm. Incidentally, I made a ._._._. . " Size: Octavo. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Front board stained. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 177 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Eagles; Golden; Ramshaw (an eagle); Knight, Charles William Robert 1884-. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Front board stained. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 177 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Eagles; Golden; Ramshaw (an eagle); Knight, Charles William Robert 1884-. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. 178, 37 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Inscription to endpaper. Vg in worn d/w (in removable protective sleeve). Reprint (first published 1943). The war-time activities of Captain Knight's world-famous golden eagle, named Mr Ramshaw, which was taken as youngster from a nest in the Scottish highlands.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 177 pages. missing dj, cloth worn, shelf wear, light tanning.

First edition. 178pp; 37 photographs. Original mustard cloth. No inscriptions. VG in the scarce dustwrapper which is slightly worn at the head and tail of the spine, and now protected in a clear removable plastic sleeve. [the war-time activities of Captain Knight's world-famous golden eagle, named Mr Ramshaw, which was taken as youngster from a nest in the Scottish highlands].…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Buff cloth, black lettering to spine. 178 pages, illustrated with photographs. 5.5 X 8.25 inches. Externally the book is a bit rubbed, lightly marked and faded to the cloth, Inside, a picture of a golden eagle has been fixed to the front free endpaper, and a brief press cutting about the author and his daughter tipped onto the back of the frontispiece. Brief Christmas gift inscription dated '53 on the front pastedown. All complete and in good order. A good sound copy, No dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 178 pages + portrait frontispiece of the author with Mr Ramshaw + 36 illustrations on 19 plate leaves. Orange-brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 204 x 131mm. Falconry, eagles, Mr Ramshaw (the author's eagle).; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Later Printing. Good condition book with some browning to end papers, crunch to upper right corner of book, leaving pages a bit creased, in a Good to Very Good condition, price-clipped dustjacket with slight browning to spine, dust soiling, minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.…