Isbn: 9780900323966 - countryman's cog (5 Ergebnisse)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition. 8vo (149 x 215mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs, fold-out plate, foreword by Lord Grimond. Green boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled. Price in marker pen to front of slightly torn and used dust-wrapper. Inner hinges slightly damp-stained but a good reading copy in dust-wrapper. Autobiography of a fisherman, sportsman and local politician, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the east of Scotland and an inside account of the EEC-induced upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's. Chapters on salmon management, deer stalking, grouse moors, shooting and hunting. Chapters include: Setting the scene; Going to war; Local affairs - planning, the reorganisation of Local Government; The land, the landscape and the people - early days, settle ownership, practical management, power from the glens, livestock auctioneering, Hill Farming Research Organisation, the Scottish Landowners' Federation; Field sports - the grouse moor, deer, pheasants, hunting; The salmon and other fish; 'Forward, though I cannot see.' .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition. 8vo (149 x 215mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs, fold-out plate, foreword by Lord Grimond. Green boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled. Erasure abrasion to front end-paper else very good in slightly used, slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. Autobiography of a fisherman, sportsman and local politician, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the east of Scotland and an inside account of the EEC-induced upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's. Chapters on salmon management, deer stalking, grouse moors, shooting and hunting. Chapters include: Setting the scene; Going to war; Local affairs - planning, the reorganisation of Local Government; The land, the landscape and the people - early days, settle ownership, practical management, power from the glens, livestock auctioneering, Hill Farming Research Organisation, the Scottish Landowners' Federation; Field sports - the grouse moor, deer, pheasants, hunting; The salmon and other fish; 'Forward, though I cannot see.' .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition. 8vo (149 x 215mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs, fold-out plate, foreword by Lord Grimond. Green boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Autobiography of a fisherman, sportsman and local politician, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the east of Scotland and an inside account of the EEC-induced upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's. Chapters on salmon management, deer stalking, grouse moors, shooting and hunting. Chapters include: Setting the scene; Going to war; Local affairs - planning, the reorganisation of Local Government; The land, the landscape and the people - early days, settle ownership, practical management, power from the glens, livestock auctioneering, Hill Farming Research Organisation, the Scottish Landowners' Federation; Field sports - the grouse moor, deer, pheasants, hunting; The salmon and other fish; 'Forward, though I cannot see.' .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1990). 1990 1st edition. 8vo (149 x 215mm). Ppviii,190. B/w photographs, fold-out plate, foreword by Lord Grimond. Green boards, upper board titled in gilt, spine untitled. Fine in dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author. Autobiography of a fisherman, sportsman and local politician, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the east of Scotland and an inside account of the EEC-induced upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's. Chapters on salmon management, deer stalking, grouse moors, shooting and hunting. Chapters include: Setting the scene; Going to war; Local affairs - planning, the reorganisation of Local Government; The land, the landscape and the people - early days, settle ownership, practical management, power from the glens, livestock auctioneering, Hill Farming Research Organisation, the Scottish Landowners' Federation; Field sports - the grouse moor, deer, pheasants, hunting; The salmon and other fish; 'Forward, though I cannot see.' .…

Original Dark Green Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1990. viii, 190pp. B&W images. Signed by author to ffep, "John & Sheila Shaw, with good wishes, Alastair Duncan Millar July 1991". "Autobiography of a fisherman and sportsman, his war memoirs, much on the natural history of the East of Scotland and an account of the upheavals in local government in the 1970's and '80's." Minor wear to edges of unclipped jacket and previous owner's bookplate to ffep, otherwise book and jacket are in excellent condition with no inscriptions. Signed by Author(s). …