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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1948). 1948 1st edition. 8vo (148 x 227mm). Pp246. B/w photograph plates, brief bibliography. Tan cloth, upper board and spine titled in dark red. Stains to cloth, inscription. Slightly foxed and used, good copy, lacks dust-wrapper. This is an interesting manual which aims to provide all-round information for the practical do it yourself shooter. Chapters include; A word to beginners; Safety, and some other things; Shots and shooters; Hits and misses; Rough shooting; Choosing a shoot; Shooting management; Farming and foods of game; Game habits and habitations; Vermin; The ways of the partridge; Partridge rearing; Woods and wild pheasants; Snapshots from the rearing fields; Gun-dogs and their work; Shoots in preparation; Grouse shooting; Partridge shooting; Pheasant shooting; Birds of the marshes; Woodcock; Wildfowl; Pigeon shooting; odds and ends; The costs of shooting. .

Zustand: Good. 1937. First Edition. 159 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Unclipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavier foxing to front panel.

Zustand: Good. 1936. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers, pastedowns and text block edges. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked sunning to spine.

Hard. Zustand: Good. First printing. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Covers marked and sunned. Leaves foxed.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1937). 1937 1st edition. 8vo (126 x 160mm). Ppvii,159. Unillustrated. Black titles and ruled border to green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning else very good in frayed but un-price clipped dust-wrapper. This is a detailed guide to all aspects of game shooting aimed at the beginner, originally published as a series of articles in Game & Gun under the pen-name "Errigal." Chapters include: The ethics of shooting; The novice and his gun; Safety first; Game birds and their enemies; In the spring; Choosing a shoot; Rough shooting; The moors in August; September days; Driving game; Autumn leaves; The shooter in the marshes; Snipe and woodcock; On salting and shore; Hits and misses; The compleat shot. .

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 155pp. 1st edition 1937. Very small spot to front board. A very pleasing copy. (bs26).

Hard. Zustand: Good. Illustrated with woodcuts by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. (illustrator). First printing thus [1949]. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Endpapers toned and minor foxing to outermost leaves. Neatly penned ownership inscription to free front endpaper. 143pp. 0.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In green cloth covers with black lettering to spine and front cover. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with dustwrapper. (DW. Tanning and shelving marks to covers. Rubbed along edges, large chips from corners, ends of spine, and edges of covers. Not price clipped. In protective cellophane wrapper.). Ends of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Light tanning to endpapers. Inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 159pp.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding A. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt vignette on upper board. Slight stains to cloth, slightly browned. Good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good/very Good. BB (Denys James Watkins-Pitchford) (illustrator). 1st Edition.

8vo., 144pp., 12 full-page and chapter head & tail-piece woodcut illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB', orig. green cloth gilt with gilt embossed fishing motif to centre of upper cover. A fine clean bright copy. An interesting account of trout and salmon fishing, wildfowling, shooting together with a chapter on bog shooting in Ireland.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding B. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt. Browned and used but good-plus in chipped and browned dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Binding B. Maroon boards, spine titled in gilt. Some browning but very good in chipped dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 218mm). Pp144. B/w scraperboard illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt vignette on upper board. Very good in frayed dust-wrapper. Delightful remiscences of trout and salmon fishing, snipe and woodcock shooting, bog shooting and wildfowling in the West of Ireland, with evocative woodcut illustrations by "BB." .

D. J. Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback The dust jackeet with an illustrated front cover presents well although lightly foxed Chipping to the corners and to the top and base of the spine Not price clipped Underneath lie the publishers original rich green cloth with small gilt pictorial to the front In good condition despite a little bumping to the corners Large inscription as well as foxing to the front free endpaper The rest of the pages are clean throughout and beautifully illustrated by BB pp 143 Overall a good copynbsp. book.