Sketch Book Shiny by Snaffles (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With illustrations by the Author, 4to, , no dustjacket.A facsimile reprint, nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition, Hardback, d/j is a little tatty, small tears front and back, small pieces missing from bumping to spine and corners and scuffing along edges. Previous owners name date 1931, o/w internally v/g. This is a large book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Hardcover. Beige cloth boards with title and illustration on front board show some soil. Text pages are crisp and clean. Black and white illustrations throughout. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

4to, 98pp, black and white and tinted illustrations. A good hardback copy with stained and marked covers. Intermittent foxing. Pencilled inscription dated 1933. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gale & Polden, London, (1930). Illustrated with b&w drawings and plates. 10" x 12.5". Brown cloth, pasted-on front cover illustration. Unpaged (95 pp). "The author recounts numerous pig sticking adventures while he was stationed in India. Though sparse in words, the illustrations are superb." (Czech). Primarily pig sticking, also some polo, hunting and shooting. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.

(1.edition). illustr. cloth binding, (illustr. O.Lwd. geb. 4°) 98 unpag. (p.) S. troughout with illustrations (durchgehend mit Zeichnungen) by Snaffles,

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Snaffles (illustrator). A charming and very smart collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India during the first part of the twentieth century. A wonderfully preserved second edition of this work, in the original unclipped dust wrapper.A work containing numerous full plate and vignette sketches of sporting life in India, including depictions of hoghunting, horses, polo and pigsticking. This is the work of Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne, an English painter known for his humorous work and for his outstanding draughtsmanship and depiction of the horse in action. Snaffles specialised in water colours and drawings sold as prints which, at least initially, were hand-coloured by the artist and his sisters. His subject matter was invariably military, racing or hunting and equestrian scenes, or some combination of these. Many of his most famous pictures contrast or combine military life with the peacetime pursuits of racing and hunting.With an attractive inscription to the front endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart and bright, with light shelf wear to spine head and tail. Dust wrapper reinforced with tape to reverse. General edgewear, with a tear to foot of back strip and a closed tear to fold at rear joint. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. A humorous look at life and hog hunting in India. Delightful sketches by Snaffles. Extra large format book. Humorous text and or captions to many of the drawings. A lovely, fine copy in orig. cloth with drawing inset on front cover AND in orig. dust jacket which is in vg condition (small pieces missing from top, bottom of spine. But there is no jacket text on spine. Front cover with title, author and drawing is all present.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of sketches of the sporting habits of the British in India, signed by the author. First edition. Scarce edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with thirty-four plates and numerous full-page and vignette images. Collated complete. A charming work containing detailed sketches of sporting life in India during the first part of the twentieth century, including depictions of hog-hunting, horses, polo and pigsticking. Written and illustrated by Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne, an English painter known for his humorous work and for his outstanding draughtsmanship and depiction of the horse in action. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is worn with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and panel edges with the odd small mark. Two 4" closed tears to the front panel. Light loss to the head and tail of the spine. A 5" closed tear to the front fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and light age toning to the extremities. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Gale & Polden, London, (1930). Illustrated with very good b&w drawings and plates by Snaffles - this copy is lacking fifteen of twenty-eight plates. 10" x 12.5". Brown cloth, pasted-on front cover illustration, rear cover corner and upper edge bumped, lower spine edge bumped, inner hinge cracked but sound. Unpaged (95 pp). "The author recounts numerous pig sticking adventures while he was stationed in India. Though sparse in words, the illustrations are superb." (Czech). Primarily pig sticking, also some polo, hunting and shooting. Really great captioned drawings. Scarce. Lacking plates. Very good.

1st Edn,. Unpaginated, large 4to., illustrated throughout in b/w and full-page sepia illustrations by the author. Publishers tan cloth titled in brown with and insert illustration of pig sticking to upper cover. A vg clean copy in the pictorial dj, dj has loss to the head of the spine. The author recounts his pig sticking adventure while stationed in India with his superb illustrations and captures a bygone era in Anglo-India during the heyday of the British Raj. Czech 193.