9780851151182 - Complete Lurcher von Plummer, D. Brian (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor tears.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Martin Knowelden (illustrator). Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Martin Knowelden (illustrator). First published 1979, reprinted 1982. Un-clipped brown illustrated d/w,.edges rubbrd, 5cm closed tear rear lower edge. Further titles by the author on the back.Book brown boards, silver lettering to spine,light reading wear,page edges and contents clean and bright. Scarce.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 238mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Top edge dusty, slightly browned, slight use to boards but a good copy in rather used and frayed dust-wrapper. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include: The legendary Norfolk lurcher; The modern lurcher; The greyhound; The sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets/greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; The pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; The terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; Sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; The arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; Lamping and net work; The quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; The breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; Disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczema, wounds, ear canker, worms. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 238mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Corners unobtrusively bumped, slight foxing, but good-plus in dust-wrapper. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include: The legendary Norfolk lurcher; The modern lurcher; The greyhound; The sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets/greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; The pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; The terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; Sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; The arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; Lamping and net work; The quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; The breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; Disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczema, wounds, ear canker, worms. .

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Type: Book.