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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Nice condition overall.

Zustand: New. In.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. This copy inscribed by John Drinkwater on the first leaf: "Jeff from John D 1929". 4to. Paginated 109-152pp. Wrappers. A shade of discolouration to the wrapper margins, and a tiny nick to the fore edge of the rear wrapper. A very good copy. This third of a total of just four issues of the quarterly periodical produced to promote the work of the Dymock poets includes the poems 'Tiare Tahiti', 'Retrospect', 'The Great Lover', 'Waikiki' and 'Hauntings' by Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater's verse-play 'The Storm', W. W. Gibson's poem 'Wheels' and his play 'Hoops', and Abercrombie's poem 'The Innocents'. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First editions. 4to. Paginated 1pp - 203pp across the four issues, plus [ii] index closing the final issue. Wrappers. The first issue has a little chipping to the spine ends, some quite light soiling and creasing to the wrappers, and some spotting to five or six preliminary and concluding leaves. The third issue exhibits some marginal spotting, and the fourth issue has a ring stain blemish to the upper wrapper. In all, a nice bright set of this short-lived periodical produced to promote the work of the Dymock poets. Includes the first printing of Rupert Brooke's celebrated 'War Sonnets' in the fourth issue, printed just a few months before his death (in total Brooke contributes sixteen poems across the full run, Drinkwater contributes seven poems and a play, Abercrombie contributes three plays and a poem, and Gibson contributes twelve poems and two verse-plays).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. G. D. Giles; A. Thorburn; C. Whymper (illustrator). The third impression of this comprehensive guide to hunting and cooking hares, with illustrations throughout by Horburn, Whymper and Giles, and a letter from A. B. Simpson, the owner of a shooting enterprise. The third impression.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, a vignette to the title page and seven monochrome plates. Collated complete.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth.Part of the Fur, Feather and Fin Series.This work provides a comprehensive guide to the hare, covering topics such as its natural history, shooting and hunting, and cooking the hare. This copy includes a letter from A. B. Simpson, a champion dog breeder, pump manufacturer and operator of a local shooting enterprise in Lockeridge, gifting the book to his two friends. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with slight fading to the spine and bumping and very slight rubbing to the extremities. Paperclip rusted to the front endpapers. Internally firmly bound with clean and lightly age toned pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

1st edn. 12 vols. 8vo (7¾ x 5¼ ins). Original uniformly bound gilt and red lettered pictorial cloth (light wear at edges commensurate with age - otherwise a VG set). Pp. various, illus with b&w frontispieces mostly with tissue-guards and b&w plates (some plates loose; previous owner's neat inscription on front prelims of each volume). The Partridge (1893), The Grouse (1894), The Pheasant (1895), The Hare (1896), The Red Deer (1896), The Rabbit (1898), The Salmon (1898; ring marks on upper board), The Trout (1898), Pike and Perch (1900; book review clipping stuck to front paste-down), Snipe and Woodcock (1903; neat 1903 inscription on upper board), Wildfowl (1905), The Fox (1906).