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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Rather spotted and browned, bookplate/ bookseller's label/ name on end-paper. Good only in faded & used dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in poor dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in faded and used dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. . …

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1973, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket generally rubbed and faded to spine and edges (now protected); brown cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 130ppBound in brown cloth gilt to upper cover and spine in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with one mark to the upper cover and a couple of chips and faded to the spine. Internally very clean save for a previous owner's rubber stamp of his name to the front paste-down and half-title.…