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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1930). 1930 1st edition thus. Large 8vo (186 x 2498mm). Ppvi,591. B/w photographs, full-page maps of British hunt countries, colour illustrations, tipped-in colour portraits of notable personalities, numerous advertisements for the better sort of merchandise. Spine badly shaken, use to cloth and book block A useful and interesting directory of hunt clubs and fixtures. Full details of all British and Irish hunts, including tables of principal meets of each and a full-page but photographically reduced Ordnance Survey map of each hunt's country. Listings of hunts in the colonies, America, Germany and other countries. Includes full-page colour portraits of numerous MFHs and lots of adverts for sporting tailors, boot-makers, dog-related paraphernalia, and in greatest profusion, port and spirits. Full page advert in colour for Lalique Galleries ("The Artist & The Hunting Man"), Sloane Street, p102, and a full-page b/w advert, p33, for the De Havilland Puss Moth, "built to make flying as comfortable as motoring." The Foxhunter's Yearbook was what Baily's would have been, had they had the money. . …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First. 8vo. some fading to spine ridged spine slightly shaken some marks to cover 415pp. Book.