Search Results: My Life & Times by Nimrod

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 341 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 341 pages. No dust jacket. Edited by E. D. Cuming. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Gilt top text block edge. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. moderate cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few small nicks and ink drops along text block edge. Minor dog-eared corners. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with notable corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water drops on spine and rear board.

William Blackwood & Sons Ltd.. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading Copy. Spine label missing. Front and rear hinge cracked. In polypropylene bag. (hunting, hunters, wales, 18th century, autobiography, sportsman, sports writers, sporting writer)

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood/Charles Scribners, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. This autobiography of the British sportsman had appeared only partially in "Fraser's Magazine" till edited by E. D. Cuming ("The extreme volubility of his pen...apropos which last I incur the ire of Nimrod's shade by the drastic curtailment.." but he added other information gathered from original sources. 341 pages, red cloth cover. Owner's name on front inside cover and free endpaper, light pencil marks by significant passages throughout, top and bottom of spine slightly bumped, otherwise in excellent condition. ; 6 1/4 x 9

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1927. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 8". Various. A first limited edition copy of the 'Life and Times' of Charles James Apperley, or as he was more largely known, 'Nimrod'. Charles James Apperley was a Welsh sportsman and sporting writer, widely known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works. Apperley first began publishing his works 'on the chase and on the turf' through his contributions of a series of articles to 'The Sporting Magazine' that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. This copy is 'no.33' of a two hundred and fifty copy limited edition run. Collated complete, copiously illustrated throughout with thirty two tipped-in plates, four of which are coloured. This text was edited 'with additions' by E. D. Cuming. This copy is lacking its original dustwrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Externally very smart. Bumped to… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1927, hardcover with gilt and black stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 341pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked with handsome gilt to top edge of text block. DJ VG with rubbing and general soil, edgewear that includes some small tears, hole in spine, now in archival mylar wrap.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & sons, 1927. Deluxe edition (hardback), limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy number 146). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), xviii, 341pp. 4 colour plates, 29 half-tone plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the endpapers, heraldic bookplate to the front pastedown, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (light rubbing of the spine panel, light chafing of the top edge).

Edinburgh and London. New York.: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. Charles Scribner's Sons., 1927. Limited Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VG+, Ltd ed, 1927, 33 pls. In red cloth, gilt titles, faded lightly at edges, corners & edges lightly rubbed & bumped. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. DW, in mylar jacket, faded to spine, titles in black inks, lovely coloured image to front. Internally, an edition limited to just 250 copies, half title & coloured frontis present, [1], [5], (vi-xviii), [1], 2-341 pp, [1], 33 plates (of which 4 are coloured & 5 reproduced by kind permission of the V&A Museum), teg, remainder uncut, printed by William Blackwood and Sons Ltd, teg, remainder uncut. A Sporting Classic. Apperley, [pseud. Nimrod], writer on sport, wrote at first under various pseudonyms (Acastus, Eques, and A), he published his first article for the Sporting Magazine as Nimrod in January 1822 and he subsequently usually used that nom de plume. See ODNB.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd, 1927. Limited to 250 copies. Bound by Bayntun.Collation, xviii+341pp, 4 tipped in coloured plates, 29 tipped in black & white plates. Bound in half calf, calf corners, cloth boards, raised bands, gilt box tooling, vignettes within compartments, top gilt edge, marble endpapers. A near fine binding. Internally, previous owners bookplate,pages and illustrations in very good clean condition throughout. A very nice clean copy, in a very attractive binding. A1. Limited Edition. Half Calf. Near Fine. Large 8vo.