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Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NOTE: Oversize, will require additional charges for Priority and international shipping; please inquire prior to ordering. Folio. 195 pages; green cloth boards with gilt titles; top edge gilt; fore and bottom edges uncut; black & white line drawings with16 full color plates throughout; titled tissue papers protecting each color plate; corners bumped; extremities rubbed/scraped with fraying/discoloration at top and bottom of spine, spine edges, and at two of the corners; covers with some blemishes, including a few dark smudges and a small, very light water glass ring to the front cover; page margins uniformly age-toned/foxed; contents are generally clean and bright, although with a few minor smudges here and there, and a few page gutters with some minor discoloration (not affecting images); binding tight and sound. A very good minus copy.
Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Large thick quarto. 16 full colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Mottling to cloth, mainly to rear cover with a few rubbed tears, otherwise a solid, very good copy. Bookplate to pastedown. Please be aware that this volume is very heavy and therefore extra postage will be requested.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$188.55 + shipping
Description: 370mm x 180mm (15" x 7"). xiv, 195pp + plates. 16 colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked along lower edge and spine. Internally VG. Torn previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. Pages untrimmed Green/gilt hardback cloth cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Sabretache" (Albert Steward Barrow). Shires and Provinces. Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1926.
Price: US$205.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy of this lavish volume celebrating some of the Hunts in England. Chapters on: The Quorn Hounds, Duke of Rutland's Hounds (The Belvoir), The Pytchley, The Warwickshire & The North Warwickshire, The Cheshire Hounds, The Berkeley & The Old Berkeley, The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds, The Cottesmore Hounds, The Whaddon Chase, The Old Surrey & Burstow, The Grafton Hounds, The Atherstone Hounds, The South Notts Hounds and The Devon & Somerset Staghounds. 16 tissue-protected colour plates by Lionel Edwards plus many line drawings by the same artist. Green bevelled board covers. Teg. Armorial bookplate of Mark Everard Pepys, Sixth Earl of Cottenham on front pastedown. Condition would be very good, but for some abrasions on the covers and spine. These have removed the green colour in small areas - but these could easily be touched up.
Seller: Pricewisebooks, MARLBOROUGH, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 195 pages. Text by Albert Stewart Barrow. Includes 16 color plates by Lionel Edwards. A clean and tight near fine copy in green cloth boards with some minor wear but internally a clean copy. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. A nicely printed book.This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.12 + shipping
Description: Large 4to. Uniformly bound in green cloth over bevelled boards with gilt titles and decoration to covers and gilt titles to spines. t.e.g. and other edges uncut. Spine, edges and corners very lightly rubbed and knocked, but a handsome First Edition set in near fine order. pp. xiv, 195; xii, 188. Each volume has 16 laid-down coloured illustrations behind captioned tissue-guards, and line drawings to the text.
Seller: Grove Rare Books PBFA, Skipton, United Kingdom
Sabretache (Albert Stewart Barrow). Shires & Provinces. Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, London, 1926.
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this beautifully illustrated work on fox hunting by 'Sabretache', with full colour plates by the painter Lionel Edwards. The first trade edition. Published the same year as a signed limited edition by the same publishers.Illustrated by Lionel Edwards with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and 15 colour plates. Collated complete. Lionel Edwards was British painter who specialised in painting hunting scenes and British country life. His work was frequently featured in books on hunting, such as this one, and in popular magazines such as 'Country Life' and 'The Sphere'.This work on fox hunting was written by 'Sabretache' (a pseudonym for Albert Stewart Barrow). Sabretache wrote many works on the subject of hunting including 'Hunting the Fox' and 'A Gentleman and his Hounds'. This work focuses on the subject of hunting hounds, discussing various hunting parties and hound breeds from different areas across Britain, including the deerhound.In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Original plate tissue guards retained. Externally very smart with bumping and light rubbing to the extremities, slight fading to the spine, the odd minor mark to the boards and very small closed tears to the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Bookplate belonging to a 'Robert Clayton Swan' to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound with generally clean and lightly age toned pages with the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: xiv, 195 pp. Illustrated in color and black and white by Lionel Edwards. Folio, publisher's green gilt cloth, t.e.g. First edition. Lacking the blank leaf just after the front free endpaper; light rubbing at corners and extremities; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$484.85 + shipping
Description: 370mm x 180mm (15" x 7"). xiv, 195pp + plates. 16 colour plates. Signed by author and illustrator on limitation page. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. G: in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Boards slightly bellied. Page edges browning
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Folio (14 x 10 inches). Title-page printed in red and black, occasional initials in red. 16 fine mounted coloured plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations, all after Edwards. Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (covers a bit bowed and lightly soiled). Limited issue, one of 100 copies signed by the author and artist, this is number 81. Including plates of the Duke of Beaufort's Hounds, the Quorn Hounds, the Duke of Rutland's Hounds (the Belvoir), the Prychley, the Warwickshire, the North Warwickshire, the Cheshire Hounds, the Berkeley, the Duke of Beaufort's Hounds, the Cottesmore Hounds, the Whaddon Chase, the Old Surrey and Burstow, the Grafton Hounds, the Atherstone Hounds, the South Notts Hounds, and the Devon and Somerset Stag-Hounds. Catalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$543.97 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv,195, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm. Notes; Includes index. With a half-title. "Sabretache" is the pseudonym of Albert Stewart Barrow. The plates are mounted. Subjects; Quorn Hunt. Hunting - Great Britain. Fox hunting - England. Foxhounds. Hounds. Quorn Hunt, England. Genre; text. 5 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$577.20 + shipping
Description: pp. (ii), xiv, 195, (i). Frontispiece and 15 plates [all coloured, with titled guards]; xii, 188. Frontispiece and 15 plates [all coloured, with titled guards]. Both volumes with text line drawings and decorated initials. Publisher's green cloth gilt, heavy bevelled boards, top edges gilt, uncut, some rubbing of the edges and the rear board of the first title with some scuffs, overall a very nice pair.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Sabretache - Albert Stuart Burrow. Shires and Provinces - Sabretache. Eyre and Spottiswood, 1926.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Shires and Provinces. By Sabretache, the pen name of Albert Stuart Barrow, and illustrated by Lionel Edwards. Published in London by Eyre and Spottiswood. 1926, 195 pp, 14.25 x 10.75, vellum binding. In good condition, with minor superficial wear to boards, as well as very minor tears to binding between the spine and front board at the top and bottom. Remnants of bookseller stickers on back pastedown. Hinges are intact and text block is secure. Pencil inscriptions on second flyleaf page. Signed and numbered by the author prior to the title page. Includes several color illustrations and numerous black-and-white sketches throughout. Slight toning and foxing throughout pages, as well as minor tears and edge wear. Book is protected in a large box with light padding. Slight superficial scuffing and wear to edges of box. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A very scarce and beautifully bound book by Albert Stuart Barrow (1878-1966), with illustrations by Lionel Edwards. Documents the history of foxhunting in certain parts of Britain.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$604.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xiv,195, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 36 cm. Notes; Includes index. With a half-title. "Sabretache" is the pseudonym of Albert Stewart Barrow. The plates are mounted. Subjects; Quorn Hunt. Hunting - Great Britain. Fox hunting - England. Foxhounds. Hounds. Quorn Hunt, England. Genre; text. 5 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$737.54 + shipping
Description: First edition, folio (360 x 270 mm), xiv, 195, [1]pp., de-luxe edition printed on thick paper, one of 100 numbered copies (this being no. 61) signed by both the author and illustrator, coloured frontispiece and a further 15 coloured plates, illustrs., within the text, marbled endpapers, orig. full vellum, decorated in gilt, a blemish to head of upper board otherwise a very good copy, uncut, t.e.g.
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.25 + shipping
Description: Gr. 4°, XIV, 195 Seiten (unbeschnitten); XII, 188 Seiten (unbeschnitten jeweils mit Textillustrationen und 16 (inklusive Titelbild) montierten farbigen Abbildungen auf Tafeln von Lionel Edwards. Titel - und im 1. Band auch die Initialen - im Zweifarbendruck (schwarz/rot). Rote Halblederbände auf 5 - bei Band 1 unechten - Bünden mit Goldprägung, Kopfgoldschnitt und marmorierten Vorsätzen. Erste Ausgaben im schönen breitrandigen Druck. Der zweite Band (Halbmaroquin) ist in einem anderen Farbton (rotbräunlich) im Meistereinband gebunden, auf dem vorderen Vorsatz unten signiert: Morrell. Binder. London. - Einbände leicht berieben. 2. Band: Ecken etwas bestoßen, Einband leicht fleckig. Vorsätze und Schnitt leicht stockfleckig. Schöne Exemplare.
Seller: Antiquariat carpe diem, Monika Grevers, Bocholt, Germany
Price: US$1661.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bevel-edged boards, full cream velum binding, gilt decorations and titles, marbled end-papers. Boards are very good but generally dulled with age and handling. Binding very good. Top page edges are gilt; outer and lower page edges are untrimmed and browned with age. Matching two volume set in contemporary binding. Shires & Provinces was published in 1926 and is number 68 of 100 copies. More Shires & Provinces was published in 1928 and is number 142 of 200 copies. Therefore, it is safe to assume that there were only 100 of these special two volume sets produced.Both are signed by Lionel Edwards and "Sabretache", in pencil, on the 'limited edition' page. Each volume has 16 colour plates. Shires & Provinces covers The Quorn Hounds, Duke of Rutland Hounds (The Belvoir), The Pytchley, The Warwickshire & The North Warwickshire, The Cheshire Hounds, The Berkeley & The Old Berkeley, The Duke of Beauforts Hounds, The Cottesmore Hounds, The Whaddon Chase, The Old Surrey & Burstow, The Grafton Hounds, The Atherstone Hounds, The South Notts Hounds and The Devon & Somerset Staghounds. More Shires & Provinces covers Fernie's, The Meynell, The Heythrop, The V.W.H. (Vale of the White Horse), The Bicester & Warden Hill, The Old Berkshire, The Bramham Moor, The Middleton, The Holderness, The York & Ainsty, The Blackmore Vale, The South Staffordshire, The Cotswold, The Essex, and The Hertfordshire. Both volumes weigh over 4kg each so please contact us about postage charges. This is a rare opportunity to acquire these beautiful books. Photos available on request. PLEASE EMAIL, BEFORE PURCHASING, FOR POSTAGE COST.
Seller: Paragon Books BA FSB, Sidmouth, United Kingdom