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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has light fading to page ends. Gift message to front pastedown. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor tears.

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has light toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Anniversary. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 4to (198 x 257mm). Ppxii,81. B/w illustrations by Michael Lyne and Brian Rawling. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Good in slightly used & faded dust-wrapper. Collection of original short pieces on horses and hunting by Tim Bishop of The Field. Chapters include: The pride of the morning; The opening meet; Going out on a green one; Dangerous dodges out hunting; A question of soundness; Christmas and hunting; Field Master; The travelling foxhunter; Waiting for the frost; Taking out a young hunter; Meets and their merits; Ridden by the huntsman; 'As hounds ran'; Prepared to mount; Hunters, made and otherwise; Unwritten rules at the gate; Giving the horse a square deal; Strangers within the gates; Handsome is as does; Point-to-points again; First point-to-point ride; Summer hack; The Young Ones; A beautiful ride for a cob; Up-to-date at Pony Club camps; Unsporting terms; Privately sold; Show business; 'Comparisons are odious'; Stalking for a change; A stalker on the hill; 'The Yellow Stage'. NB. The half-title page verso is printed with an incorrect ISBN, 0904602133. This is actually the ISBN for Lurchers and Longdogs by E.G. Walsh published a year earlier. The correct ISBN for this book, 0904602117, is printed on the rear dust-wrapper flap. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with some edge wear, slight fading to spine.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 4to (198 x 257mm). Ppxii,81. B/w illustrations by Michael Lyne and Brian Rawling. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Browning to edges and end-papers. Good-plus in slightly used dust-wrapper. Collection of original short pieces on horses and hunting by Tim Bishop of The Field. Chapters include: The pride of the morning; The opening meet; Going out on a green one; Dangerous dodges out hunting; A question of soundness; Christmas and hunting; Field Master; The travelling foxhunter; Waiting for the frost; Taking out a young hunter; Meets and their merits; Ridden by the huntsman; 'As hounds ran'; Prepared to mount; Hunters, made and otherwise; Unwritten rules at the gate; Giving the horse a square deal; Strangers within the gates; Handsome is as does; Point-to-points again; First point-to-point ride; Summer hack; The Young Ones; A beautiful ride for a cob; Up-to-date at Pony Club camps; Unsporting terms; Privately sold; Show business; 'Comparisons are odious'; Stalking for a change; A stalker on the hill; 'The Yellow Stage'. NB. The half-title page verso is printed with an incorrect ISBN, 0904602133. This is actually the ISBN for Lurchers and Longdogs by E.G. Walsh published a year earlier. The correct ISBN for this book, 0904602117, is printed on the rear dust-wrapper flap. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

1st ed. Gift inscription on dedication page. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dustjacket.

1st ed. 1st edition, 1975, illustrated by Val Biro. Binding tight; dust jacket spine slightly faded. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1961) 1973 revised 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp240. Colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, map, brief bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Browning to edges but good-plus in slightly frayed and used dust-wrapper. This is a revised and updated edition of "Soho for the Colonel" (1961). Colonel Thomas Thornton's classic, "A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland", took place in 1784. Michael Brander attempts to follow in his footsteps, making a comparison between Colonel Thornton's journey and the same route in 1959. The resulting hunt provides a book full of descriptions of sport, travel, inns, architecture and people, as seen both through Thornton's eyes in the 1780s and those of the author in the twentieth century. A little history, a little description, and many shooting and fishing stories. Chapters include: A stirrup cup; Drawing the home covert, Boroughbridge to Darlington; Tally O, Darlington to Lauder; Gone away, Lauder via Edinburgh and Glasgow to Tarbet; Tarbet to Dunkeld; Dunkeld to Speyside; Speyside; Grantown to Forres and back to Speyside; Sohowe, Inverness to Fort William; A gallop, Fort William to Inverary; View Holloa, Inverary to Hamilton, via Glasgow; In full cry again, Hamilton, via Edinburgh and Kelso to Wigton; Gone to ground, Wigton, via Kendal to Boroughbridge; Whoo whoop. Appendices are: Extract from Edinburgh Review; Chronological life of Colonel Thomas Thornton; Numbered notes on text. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

First edition. Nice bright copy; green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; pages appear clean overall; dust jacket price clipped; colour faded on spine, though lettering remains bold. Binding tight. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1961) 1973 revised 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp240. Colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, map, brief bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning to fore-edge but very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. This is a revised and updated edition of "Soho for the Colonel" (1961). Colonel Thomas Thornton's classic, "A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland", took place in 1784. Michael Brander attempts to follow in his footsteps, making a comparison between Colonel Thornton's journey and the same route in 1959. The resulting hunt provides a book full of descriptions of sport, travel, inns, architecture and people, as seen both through Thornton's eyes in the 1780s and those of the author in the twentieth century. A little history, a little description, and many shooting and fishing stories. Chapters include: A stirrup cup; Drawing the home covert, Boroughbridge to Darlington; Tally O, Darlington to Lauder; Gone away, Lauder via Edinburgh and Glasgow to Tarbet; Tarbet to Dunkeld; Dunkeld to Speyside; Speyside; Grantown to Forres and back to Speyside; Sohowe, Inverness to Fort William; A gallop, Fort William to Inverary; View Holloa, Inverary to Hamilton, via Glasgow; In full cry again, Hamilton, via Edinburgh and Kelso to Wigton; Gone to ground, Wigton, via Kendal to Boroughbridge; Whoo whoop. Appendices are: Extract from Edinburgh Review; Chronological life of Colonel Thomas Thornton; Numbered notes on text. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1974). 1974 1st edition. Small 8vo (128 x 190mm). Ppvi,102. B/w illustrations by Michael Lyne. Dog illustration printed in black to red boards, spine titled in black. Slightly browned and used but good-plus in slightly soiled dust-wrapper. The adventures of a lost Jack Russell terrier. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine bright copy. Size: 12mo. Lyne, Michael (illustrator). Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Unpaginated (approx. 88p.) Back cover dented on top and bottom, jacket corners worn with small tears and scrapes to edges. B&w illustrations. (12-3/8"x8-3/4").

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1961) 1973 revised 2nd edition. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp240. Colour frontispiece, b/w illustrations, map, brief bibliography, pictorial end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in dust-wrapper. Bookplate of falconry book collector Count Umbert Caproni di Taliedo. This is a revised and updated edition of "Soho for the Colonel" (1961). Colonel Thomas Thornton's classic, "A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland", took place in 1784. Michael Brander attempts to follow in his footsteps, making a comparison between Colonel Thornton's journey and the same route in 1959. The resulting hunt provides a book full of descriptions of sport, travel, inns, architecture and people, as seen both through Thornton's eyes in the 1780s and those of the author in the twentieth century. A little history, a little description, and many shooting and fishing stories. Chapters include: A stirrup cup; Drawing the home covert, Boroughbridge to Darlington; Tally O, Darlington to Lauder; Gone away, Lauder via Edinburgh and Glasgow to Tarbet; Tarbet to Dunkeld; Dunkeld to Speyside; Speyside; Grantown to Forres and back to Speyside; Sohowe, Inverness to Fort William; A gallop, Fort William to Inverary; View Holloa, Inverary to Hamilton, via Glasgow; In full cry again, Hamilton, via Edinburgh and Kelso to Wigton; Gone to ground, Wigton, via Kendal to Boroughbridge; Whoo whoop. Appendices are: Extract from Edinburgh Review; Chronological life of Colonel Thomas Thornton; Numbered notes on text. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. Folio (218 x 313mm). Pages unnumbered. 2 coloured plates by the author, b/w pencil and chalk sketches throughout. Green cloth upper board and spine titled in gilt. Damp-stained boards and end-papers but pages clean. Good reading copy in slightly frayed, spine-faded dust-wrapper. The true story of the progress of a litter of beagle x sealyham puppies intentionally half-bred and reared during the post war days of austerity. Numerous good illustrations. .…

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Spotting to end papers and page ends. DJ with some edge wear and fading to spine.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Revised Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 240p., [12]p. of plates, [2] leaves of plates (1 fold) : ill. (incl 1 col.), 1 map, 1 port ; 23cm. Subjects: Highlands (Scotland) -- Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protectve cover, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 81, illus with b&w drawings in text by Michael Lyne and Brian Rawling (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xii, 42pp, numerous in-text black and white photographs and illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. Folio. Sun-faded bottom edges, mottled edges; rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan. Free endpapers just starting to tan; pages just starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has light shelf wear. King, John (illustrator).…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: [94] p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Subjects: Dogs ; Pictorial works. Puppies ; Pictorial works. 1 Kg.…