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Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters.. John Lane the Bodley Head, London. (1931)., 1931.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition in VG condition, full green cloth with gilt, light rubbing, quarto, coloured frontispiece, with 136 illustrations with some in full colour, folding family tree of the Alken family, xviii+240 pages. G+ pictorial DJ with tape repairs to spine area and much chipping and several closed tears, now in a Brodart cover.

Seller: J. King, Bookseller,, Garden Bay, BC, Canada

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Pp.xv,240. 14 coloured, numerous plain plates, very slight foxing to first few pages but generally very good in original green cloth.

Seller: Stephen J Robinson, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931,, 1931.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Description: 1st edition, hardback, 4to, xvi,240pp, 15 colour plates, 121 halftone illustrations, scattered foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt titles, board corneres bumped, slightly rubbed, Very Good / no dustwrapper

Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1931.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 290 x 245mm. pp. 240. English text. A detailed edition on sporting painters, being a companion volume to 'british Sporting Artists'. Features reference to George Stubbs, John Boulbee, T. Gooch, James Seymour and others. Colour and black and white illustrations. Bound in original dark green board with gold title lettering to spine. Previous owners bookplate, some foxing and a few small closed tears to page edges and some light marking to board. Binding strong. 2kg. Extra postage.

Seller: Peter Rhodes, Southampton, United Kingdom

Sparrow [Walter Shaw]. A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTINGS A Companion Volume of New Research to "British Sporting artists" and "Angling in British Art". John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd/Charles Scribner's Sons, London/New York, 1931.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: xv, 240pp, illustrated with both black & white and colour plates (136) and a folding family tree, title page printed in red and black with a small engraved illustration of a fox, some light spotting to front and end matter, the final 8 pages are uncut and p237/238 is torn, probably where someone has tried to to turn the page, ex libris sticker to front free endopaper, green cloth with gilt spine lettering and bands, boards and spine rubbed, top and bottom of spine rubbed and frayed. NB THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 2KG AND MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS FOR AN OVERSEAS BUYER. Size: Quarto

Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS. John Lane The Bodley Head (1931), London, 1931.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: 240pp "A Companion Volume of New Research to BRITISH SPORTING ARTISTS and ANGLING IN BRITISH ART." -- NO DUSTJACKET very good, dark green buckram cloth (hardcover) NO DUSTJACKET

Seller: Ray Boas, Bookseller - Established 1980, Walpole, NH, U.S.A.

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931, 4to, xvi,240pp, 15 colour plates, 121 halftone illustrations,, 1931.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: 1st edition, hardback, scattered foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, hilt titles, Very Good / Fair dustwrapper; wrapper mostly complete but heavily worn, torn on spine edge and browned sellotape on edges

Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom

Walter Shaw Sparrow:. A book of sporting painters.. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1931., 1931.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: First edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 23cm), xv, 240pp. 136 plates (15 in colour). Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Boards lightly rubbed, endpapers browned, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom

Walter Shaw Sparrow:. A book of sporting painters.. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1931., 1931.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Description: First edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 23cm), xv, 240pp. 136 plates (15 in colour). Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Foxing to the preliminary pages; overall, this copy is in good to very good condition.

Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book Of Sporting Painters - A Companion Volume of New Research to "British Sporting Artists" and "Angling in British Art". John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. / Charles Scribner's Sons, London / New York, 1931.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Name on front free end paper. Tape marks on front and rear free end papers. Slight edge wear to boards. Always securely packed. Professional booksellers since 1994. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Seller: Blue Whale Books, ABAA, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. Published by John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, London, 1931,, 1931.

Price: US$36.39 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under dustwrapper with colour illustration pasted to front. 11.25ins x 9.5ins, xvi, 240pp text plus 15pp colour plates and 121 b/w illustrations on 100pp as listed. Artists featured include Stubbs, Gilpin, Alken, Morland & Huggins. Internally a little light foxing but generally VG. Externally, bottom front corner rubbed. Dw ( now protected) has loss to top & bottom of spine ( quarter inch and half inch)and a small patch at the bottom of the front approx half inch by one inch.

Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom

SPARROW, Walter Shaw. A book of sporting painters. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$41.46 + shipping

Description: "A companion volume of new research into 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'". Brief gift inscription; free endpapers a little browned; binding tight; dust jacket worn, with short tears & a little staining. All illustrations present. This is a heavy book (about 2.1kg packed); additional postage may be required Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket

Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw.. A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS.. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$42.56 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1931. John Lane The Bodley Head. first edition. VG, gilt titles on spine. 11.5x9. 240pp. colour frontis, 136 colour and b/w plates. A lavishly-illustrated study looking at the history of the relationship between countryside sports and art, detailing the life and work of sporting painters including George Stubbs, George C. Morland and the Ferneley family.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters : A Companion Volume of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd / Charles Scribner's Sons, London / New York, 1931.

Price: US$43.95 + shipping

Description: London / New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Very Good+ condition. Bright, clean, square. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked - some pages still unopened. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing, with "First published in 1931" so stated on the copyright page. Illustrated with 136 plates, including 15 in beautiful full color. A history and survey of the life and work of sporting painters such as George Stubbs, Sawrey Gilpin, George C. Morland, James Ward, Ben Marshall, Charles Towne, William Huggins, and the Alken and Ferneley families. Includes a fold-out plate depicting the Alken family tree. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth. Oversize Hardcover. 9.25" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.5" thick. This large, heavy book will require SUBSTANTIAL extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. For example, as of May 2013 the cheapest shipping option to Australia is a medium flat rate box ($59.95) plus $3.60 for insurance. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/No jacket. xv, 240pp. + plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. A Companion Volume of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'. John Lane - The Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$46.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition without Jacket on green cloth - A COMPANION VOLUME OF NEW RESEARCH TO "BRITISH SPORTING ARTISTS" AND "ANGLING IN BRITISH ART" WITH ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS - collectable - will send out 1 st class post

Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane - The Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$49.12 + shipping

Description: 300mm x 220mm (12" x 9"). 240pp. 136 illustrations [15 colour; 121 b/w]. A Companion Volume of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art' Heavy book – extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Previous owner inscription on pastedown Green hardback cloth cover with gilt titles

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

Sparrow Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$58.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Green covers with circular vignette of fox to front. Gilt titles to spine which shows very slight shelf wear.Top front corner bumped.Green top page edges other rough cut.Internally very clean with no foxing or inscriptions. 136 illustrations with 15 in colour. 240pp.A very clean, tight copy.

Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Advertising and British Art. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1931, London, 1931.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Description: Three-quarter board covers are worn at corner tips, light wear to bottom edge - overall covers are very good; text is overall very good ++ - ex-library- 190 pages., 36 color, 121half-tones and 27 line blocks in the text; the illustrations by Frank Brangwyn, George Clause, John Hassall, et al, have lightly impressed blind stamp - sometimes on the actual plate, sometimes in margin; one page has tape on the vertical (not affecting text or illus.)

Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Sparrow, Walter Shaw.. A Book of Sporting Painters.. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd,, 1931.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, “First published in 1931”, 4to (11¼” x 9”), pp. xv, (3), 240, 15 color plates, 121 illustrations on 100 plates, index. Original gilt lettered pictorial green buckram. Very good+ clean bright copy. Sheets & plates clean, unmarked, complete. H7406

Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.

SPARROW, Walter Shaw.. A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS. A companion volume of new research into "British Sporting Artists" and "Angling In British Art".. Lond. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1931.

Price: US$117.58 + shipping

Description: 4to. Original buckram with gilt lettered spine. 240pp. uncut. t.e.g. Col & b/w plates. The buckram soiled else a good copy. Number 66 of 125 limited copies printed on rag paper with two extra hand coloured photogravure plates. The Welsh writer Walter Shaw Sparrow had a special interest in British sporting artists & studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1879.

Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia

Walter Shaw Sparrow. A Book of Sporting Painters, A Companion Volume Of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Description: A smart, first edition copy of this colourfully illustrated work on sporting and hunting painters, written by Welsh writer and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists.Copiously illustrated throughout with fifteen colour plates and ninety-three plates in black-and-white. Collated and complete.Also including a folding plate of the Alken Family Tree bound in opposite page 128, not usually included in this work.A Book of Sporting Painters acts as a companion work to Sparrow's earlier works British Sporting Artists From Barlow to Herring and Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries. This work also includes references to a variety of artists, including the noted artist George Stubbs, best known for his work on horses.Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper.Also containing a tipped-in, detached plate from a previous owner, with the name 'Mr William Molyneux Cohan' on it. In the publisher's original green cloth pictorial binding. Externally, very smart, with just some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and a small mark to the front board. Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper. Internally, front hinge is just slightly tender, but remaining firm. Remainder of binding is firm throughout. A small closed tear to page 240. Besides the odd spot throughout, pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

SPARROW, Walter Shaw.. A Book Of Sporting Painters.A Companion Volume Of New Research To "British Sporting Artists" And "Angling In British Art".. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited & New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1931]., 1931.

Price: US$166.50 + shipping

Description: 4to. pp. xv, 240. 15 colour plates & numerous double-sided b/w plates. index. cloth. A very good partly unopened copy. First Edition.

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

Walter Shaw Sparrow. A Book of Sporting Painters. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd./Charles Scribner's Sons, London and New York, 1931.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: The 1931 limited edition, "printed on a specially made rag paper, with two extra plates in hand-coloured photogravure, limited to 125 copies for sale in Great Britain and the USA, of which this is No. 80". Tight and VG- in its light-brown cloth, with soiling to the panels and a bit of darkening along the spine. Quarto, 240 pgs., top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom edges. "A Companion Volume of New Research to 'British Sporting Artists' and 'Angling in British Art'. 138 Illustrations complementing the text.

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.

Walter Shaw Sparrow. A Book of Sporting Painters A Companion Volume of New Research to British Sporting Artists and "Angling in British Art". John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931.

Price: US$201.43 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A scarce first limited edition copy of this profusely illustrated work on sporting painters by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. This edition, printed on 'specially made rag paper, with two extra plates in hand-coloured photogravure' is limited to one hundred and twenty five copies, of which this is no. 21. Copiously illustrated throughout with seventeen coloured plates (including two extra illustrated plates to the introduction) and numerous monochromatic plates. This copy also features a folding plate of the 'Alken Family Tree'. 'A Book of Sporting Painters' acts as a companion work to Sparrow's earlier works 'British Sporting Artists From Barlow to Herring' and 'Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries'. This work also includes references to a variety of artists, including the noted artist George Stubbs, best known for his work on horses. In a full cloth binding with gilt detail to the spine. Externally slightly bumped to extremities and head and tail of spine. Red ink marking to front board. Tidemark to boards, more severe to rear. Rear hinge partially split and strained, but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout, very slight age toned to edges. Small ink mark to gutter of printed dedication page, offset to facing page. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A Book of Sporting Painters: A Companion Volume of New Research to British Sporting Artists and Angling in British Art. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: In good condition. Boards are lightly worn with scuffing along edges and corners. Slight soiling to cloth. Spine is slightly darkened. Text block in very nice shape with minimal toning. Free of foxing or marginalia. Binding tight and intact. A nice, presentable copy. Please see photos. A scarce first limited edition copy of this profusely illustrated work on sporting painters by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Walter Shaw Sparrow was a notable Welsh writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists. This edition, printed on 'specially made rag paper, with two extra plates in hand-coloured photogravure' is limited to one hundred and twenty five copies, of which this is no. 7. Copiously illustrated throughout with seventeen coloured plates (including two extra illustrated plates to the introduction) and numerous monochromatic plates. This copy also features a folding plate of the 'Alken Family Tree'. 'A Book of Sporting Painters' acts as a companion work to Sparrow's earlier works 'British Sporting Artists From Barlow to Herring' and 'Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries'. This work also includes references to a variety of artists, including the noted artist George Stubbs, best known for his work on horses. COLS931DHIK-variant

Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.