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Bantams as a Hobby
by P.Proud.
3rd Edition. nd.
63pp plus adverts.
No plates in this issue.
Cover detached.

$60

Bantams as a Hobby
by P.Proud.
4th Edition. 1912.
63pp plus adverts.
2 plates of
Old English Game
and Modern Game.
Hard cover.
Foxing and toning.

$60

The Malay 
Gamefowl
by John Palmer
2007
14pp.
Colour pages
Soft cover.

$20

Incubation at Home
by Michael Roberts
4th Edition.
1996
64pp.
Colour section
Soft cover

$25

The New Duck Handbook
by M.M.Vriends
1989
96pp
Colour and B/W

$20

RARE POULTRY & PIGEON BOOKS

Ian Selby

P.O.Box 254, Waitara, 4346, Taranaki, New Zealand

selbyprint@xtra.co.nz:

 

This is a Private Book Sale and of Poultry Books, Pigeon Books, Prints on Poultry, Pigeons and Cagebirds,

Old Magazines and Newspapers, Books on Cagebirds, Forgeon Books on Poultry and Poultry & Pigeon Memoriabilia.

ORDERING:

Orders are made by email only. Prices are in New Zealand Dollars.

TERMS:It is advisable to enquire first to ensure the items you require are still available. 

All sales are final. There is no minimum order.

NEW ZEALAND INLAND POSTAGE:

Postage & insurance is extra on all items.

Goods sent without track and trace and/or insurance at your own risk.

OVERSEAS POSTAGE, PACKING & INSURANCE:

Postage & insurance is extra.

I will endeavour to keep the costs as low as possible.

Goods sent without track and trace and/or insurance at your own risk.

METHODS OF PAYMENT:Inland: Payment can be made by Internet Banking.

Overseas: Please ask your bank to make sure you pay all charges otherwise there may be charges at this end.

So if the amount is $100nz ask the bank to make sure  $100nz is received in my account. Optional - Paypal.

 

ABBREVIATIONS: 

n.d.; no date; - pp; pages;  - o/w; otherwise;  - plts; plates;  - gt; gilt;  - dw; dustwrapper;  - b/w; black & white;

clth; cloth;  - ppbk; paperback;  - hdbk; hardback; 

GRADINGS:

Mint; Excellent condition - VG; very good  - G; good but with faults - F; Fair - RE; Reading copy only

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Feathered World Yearbook
1912.
703pp.
2 coloured plates. Original Pictorial Boards cover.

$175

Feathered World Yearbook
1925.
511pp.
Presentation
cover.
Toned

$80

Feathered World Yearbook
1926.
559pp.
Presentation
cover.
Toned.

$80

Feathered World Yearbook
1927.
623pp.
Original Pictorial Boards cover.
Toned.

$80

Feathered World Yearbook
1930.
727pp.
Original Pictorial Boards cover.
Toned

$60

Feathered World Yearbook
1931.
519pp.
Original Pictorial Boards cover.

$60

Bantams
Down to Date
by
Joseph Shakespear. 1925.
256pp.

$60

Feathered World Yearbook
1932.
643pp.
Original Pictorial Boards cover. 

$60

British Poultry Standards
pre 1960.
Dust Jacket
256pp. .

$80

American Poultry Journal
1913 Yearbook. 296pp
11 coloured plates. Toned

$60

Twenty Lessons
on Poultry
by C.T.Patterson 1916.
92pp.
Hard cover. Few marks on cover.
$50

Piper's Poultry
by Hugh Piper
1872.
152pp plus adverts.
8 colour plates.
1st few pages loose

$60

A.P.A.
The American Standard of Excellence.
1883.
256pp. 
Ninth Edition.

$100

The National Geographic Magazine
March 1930.
Fowls of Forest and Stream.
8 pages in colour.
$30

A.P.A.
Standard of Perfection.
Pre-1910
but could be 1904.
300pp. Somef front pages missing.
Tatty cover and a few marks on pages.

$30

A.P.A. 
Standard of Perfection.
1910.
332pp.
5 coloured
plates of feathers.

$60

A.P.A.
Standard of Perfection.
1915.
368pp.
Couple of front pages missing. Starts at page 3. 
$60

A.P.A.
Supplement to
the American Standard of Perfection
1930.
12pp. Small paperback.

$20

A.P.A.
Standard of Perfection.
1974.
586pp. + suppement of 64pp.
100th Anniversary Edition.

$75

A.P.A.
Standard of Perfection.
1980.
Looks the
same as 1974.

$75

A.B.A.
Bantam Standard 1965.
260pp.
Spiral bound.
Few marks on cover.

$20

A.B.A.
Annual Book
of Bantams
1967
Sixth printing of 1967
104pp.

$20

Bantams and Miniature Fowl
by W.H.Silk.
1951.
171pp.
Hard cover.
No dust jacket. 
$30

A.B.A.
Bantam Standard 1969.
264pp.
Hardcover Red. Used on outside

$30

Poultry Farming
in the East
by Mrs.A.K.Fawkes 1923.
164pp plus adverts.
B/W plates. Cover tatty and marks on inside cover
$75

Bantams
by
David Kay.
1983.
111pp.
Hard cover.

$20

The Fairest Fowl
by Staples and Glass 2001.
108pp.
Full Colour.
Soft cover. 

$25

The Campine Fowl by Rev. & Mrs J.Harvey
Reprinted 2006. 48pp plus
2 in colour.
Soft cover

$30

A.B.A.
Bantam Standard 2011.
300pp.
As new.
67 Coloured plates.

$60

The Chandtecler
& Other Rare Poultry Breeds
by
Linda M.Gryner 1996.
272pp.
Signed by author.
$80

Poultry Eggs
by
Malcolm Thompson. 2024.
162pp.
Soft cover.
Near new

$30

Poultry
A Guide to Management
by Carol Twinch 2004.
122pp.
Soft cover.

$20

A.B.A.
Annual Book
of Bantams
1958.
4th Edition.
80pp.

. $20

Bantams For Everyone
by H.Easom Smith 1979
184 pages plus one in colour.
Dust cover.

$25

Indoor Poultry Keeping to Combat Disease by J.Batty
2009.
160pp.
Hard cover. 

$15

The Barnevelder
by W.Powell-Owen
1932
Modern reprint
58pp plus
1 in colour
Soft cover

$25

A.B.A.
Annual Book
of Bantams
1972.
Third printing of 1967.
Some pen marks on back cover. 
$20

Incubation
and
Hatchery Practice Bulletin 148
1954.
64pp.
Hard cover.

$25

Pure Bred Poultry Keeping
by Rick Kemp
1985.
80pp.
Soft cover.
Pen marks inside covers.

$30

Bantam Chickens
by Fred Jeffrey
Seventh printing 1999
308pp plus
Hard Cover

$120
 

Reliable Poultry Journal
Chick Book.
1910.
80pp.
Defect on spine
o/w good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Use of Artificial Light
by Grant M.Curtis.
1920. 112pp.
Good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Bound in Hard Cover
Successful Backyard
Poultry Keeping
by Homer W.Jackson.
1929.
104pp.
Good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Bound in one book:
Artificial Incubation
and Brooding
by Homer Jackson.
1919
112pp. Fourth Edition.
PLUS
Poultry Houses and Fixtures. 1919.
112pp. Eighth Edition.  Good.

$150

Reliable Poultry Journal
Success with Poultry.
1900
by Grant M.Curtis.
112pp. Fourth Edition.
Few nicks on cover
o/w good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Electrotypes of Poultry.
1913.
48pp.
Pages on "line drawings"

used in RPJ publications.
Soft cover. Good.
VERY RARE

$100

Reliable Poultry Journal
Rebound in Hard Cover
Profitable Culling and
Selective Flock Breeding
by Jackson and Curtis.
1920.
120pp.
Good.

$75

KERLIN’S
GRAND VIEW
POULTRY FARM. White Leghorns.
1928.
36pp.
Catalogue of White Leghorns and Poultry Farm equipment. Interesting.
Good.

$25

Bantams
by W.F.Entwhisle
1972
. Set of 12 b/w plates printed from
1894 original
printing blocks.
In folder.
Rare.

$75

De Nederlandse
Hoenders in Perspectief.
nd.
Beautiful Dutch book
with many photos
174pp.

$75

Bantams
by W.F.Entwhisle
Reprint by Saiga Publishing. 1894,
this printing 1981.
116pp.
Hard cover with
dust jacket.
VG.

$75

Great Canadian
Poultry & Pigeon Fanciers
by J.M.Gryner
1995.
581pp. First Edition.
A Feather Fancier 50th Anniversary Chronicle, Canada.

$150

Reliable Poultry Journal
How to Feed Poultry
by John H.Robinson.
1920.
112pp.
Soft cover.
Good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Soft Cover
Successful Poultry Keeping
1907. 176pp.
One coloured plate.
Good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Bound in Hard Cover
High Egg Production
by Jackson and Curtis.
1922.
176pp.
Good.

$75

Thoughts on Breeding White Leghorns
by D.J.Honour
2010
68pp plus
2 in colour.
Soft cover

$30

How to Make Poultry Pay 1906.
Inland Poultry Journal.
48pp. 9 coloured plates. (Barred Plymouth Rock
plate missing but replaced)
Soft front cover,
back cover missing
o/w good.

$300

The
American Standard
of Perfection.
1989.
336pp with b/w text
and plenty of full
page colour pages.
VG.

$100

Reliable Poultry Journal
Artificial Incubation
and Brooding.
1902
86pp. Second Edition.
Tatty front cover, back cover missing o/w good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Bound in Hard Cover
Successful Poultry Keeping.
1907.
176pp.
Good.

$75

Reliable Poultry Journal
Bound in Hard Cover
Eggs and Egg Farms.
1900.
80pp. 
Good.

$75

“Wright’s Book of Poultry” weekly parts. Part 26.
Pages 521 to 544
with one coloured plate of Silver Wyandottes.
Covers spine detached.
Very Rare.
Lot also with seperate
pages of book 315 to 330 covers section on
Wyandottes.
2 B/W plates.

$100

The Stringman's
Scrap Book
by Marion R.Nash
398pp
Soft cover
Extremely Rare.
Great on American history
Very Good order

$500

The
American Standard
of Perfection.
1993.
345pp. with b/w text
and plenty of full
page colour pages.
VG.

$100

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