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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). 1977 1st edition. Small 4to (190 x 254mm). Pp71. 4 colour plates by V.R. Balfour-Browne, frontispiece drawing by Raoul Millais. Green cloth, gilt vignette of stag to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Green cloth slipcase. Edition limited to 500 copies, each signed & numbered by the author. Fine copy in very good slipcase. Signed & numbered by the author. This is Cuthbert Fitzherbert's collection of reminiscences of deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands, in the period 1928 to 1948. Chapters include: First impressions; Deer-stalking in the Forest of Achnacarry; Reflections on deer-stalking; Hosts and guests; The season in the deer forest; Deer-stalking, ancient and modern; Amateurs and professionals; October in the deer forest; Wade's lieutenant; The prince and the pedlar; A thief in the night; The Sturgeon; The Big Stag of Coire Mor; A memory of "B.B." (by which the author means V.R. Balfour-Browne, not the more well-known author and illustrator, D.J. Watkins-Pitchford who wrote under the nom de plume of "BB".) .

Zustand: Very Good. Tim Havers (illustrator). Condition Notes: Slip case unevenly, in parts heavily, age-toned and rubbed at the edges. Just a hint of fading to the spine. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback in Slip Case. Quarter-Bound White on Green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 10¼" x 12¼" (1.8 kg); pp 112; Number 624 of a limited printing run of 1500 copies. Includes: Colour plates; Colour frontispiece; Top edge gilt; 2-column text; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204214 || Hardback in Slip Case (No Dust Wrapper.).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). 1977 1st edition. Small 4to (190 x 254mm). Pp71. 4 colour plates by V.R. Balfour-Browne, frontispiece drawing by Raoul Millais. Green cloth, gilt vignette of stag to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Green cloth slipcase. Edition limited to 500 copies, each signed & numbered by the author. Fine copy in very good slipcase. Signed & numbered (#473) by the author. Author's obituary (The Times, 16th August 1986) pasted to title-page. Laid in original publisher's prospectus. This is Cuthbert Fitzherbert's collection of reminiscences of deer stalking in the Scottish Highlands, in the period 1928 to 1948. Chapters include: First impressions; Deer-stalking in the Forest of Achnacarry; Reflections on deer-stalking; Hosts and guests; The season in the deer forest; Deer-stalking, ancient and modern; Amateurs and professionals; October in the deer forest; Wade's lieutenant; The prince and the pedlar; A thief in the night; The Sturgeon; The Big Stag of Coire Mor; A memory of "B.B." (by which the author means V.R. Balfour-Browne, not the more well-known author and illustrator, D.J. Watkins-Pitchford who wrote under the nom de plume of "BB".) The pasted-in obituary gives the date of the author's death as 23rd July 1986 at the age of 87 years, whereas most on-line records give it as 1975. .

1st Edn,. 71 pages, lge 8vo, illustrated in colour from 5 paintings by V.R Balfour Browne (which have not been published before), limited to 500 copies signed by the author, sporting bookplate to front paste down of L. P Unsworth (author and gun collector), a vg+ copy in slipcase.

1st Edn,. 71 pages, lge 8vo, illus by V.Balfour Browne, limited to 500 copies signed by the author, a vg+ copy in slipcase.

Zustand: Quarter calf and boards. 1st Edition. 231 of 500 copies in facsimile of the first edition. Frontispiece, plates. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition not in Schwerdt. OCLC records only the copy at Yale. Reprinted, Rugby, 1980, from a copy owned by F.P. Williamson. First edition not in Schwerdt. OCLC records only the copy at Yale. Reprinted, Rugby, 1980, from a copy owned by F.P. Williamson Frontispiece, plates. 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo 231 of 500 copies in facsimile of the first edition.