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Hardback. Etat : 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.

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

Etat : 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.

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

Paperback. Etat : 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. Etat : 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. Etat : 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.

Etat : very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

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

hardcover. Etat : Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Minor shelf wear. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Bookplate removed front fep. One corner bumped.

hardcover. Etat : 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. Etat : 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. .…

Etat : new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). (1964) 1976 2nd edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp93. B/w cartoon illustrations by John Tickner. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight browning, good-plus. Paint spots / marks to dust-wrapper. Humorous essays on shooting, accompanied by the author's cartoons. This 1976 second edition includes a new chapter on training gundogs. "Since the publication of To Hounds! with John Tickner in 1962, the famous artist-author has been unnaturally silent, licking the wounds inflicted by Horses, Hounds, Horse people, and people who look like horses. Now, sallying forth again, courageous and unrepentant (but carefully eschewing all Horse-flesh), Tickner brandishes his pen in the face of the fowler, gamekeeper, poacher, gundog, feather quarry and rough shooter, with a particular thrust at the Big Shots of the Big Game World. It is sufficient to say that in Tickner's Rough Shooting the reader will find numerous helpful and practical suggestions on a wide range of ticklish points, from how to get rid of unwanted guests at shoots, to how to behave when drowning in marsh mud in pursuit of wild duck." .…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+ in Good- DJ. 8 1/2 x 12, pages unnumbered, about 120, b&w illustrations. 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.

Cloth. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : VG-. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Light-hearted look at game shooting. Revised and enlarged edition illustrated by the author. Green covers with gilt lettering to spine, 93pp with b/w illustrations. Book has just very light signs of use and previous owner's name on ffep. Price-clipped DJ has general light wear. Overall a very decent copy. Ref:093009. John Tickner (illustrateur).…

hardcover. Etat : Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : 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 (illustrateur). Book.…

Cloth. Etat : Good +. Etat de la jaquette : 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. .…

Etat : 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.