back huntsmans reminiscences de henry higginson (18 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 1st Edition. A large 1932 first edition hardback signed by the author the spine of the book has a number of splits and the corners of the boards are bashed however the pages are intact. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Shows minor wear.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Etat : Very Good Condition. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Reprint. Frontispiece of A. Henry Higginson. 16 Illustrations. Dust jacket worn, torn, pieces missing. Book plate inside, some light foxing. Size: Thick 4to 11" - 13". 237 pages. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Contgents are FINE and pristine no marks and no wear, bright and tight except two pages with old taped tears. Some fading to cloth covers and repaired small split at spine end. NICE and WAY underpriced.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. First regular edition. Fading to green cloth spine and part of perimeter of boards. Otherwise, fine.

"First Regular Edition" (as stated upon copyright page). 228 pages. Hardcover: H 27.25cm x L 19.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Green cloth, usual sunning to spine cloth, some fading along edges of boards. Light toning to edges and endpapers; some leaves remain uncut at their fore-edges. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds (1.36 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain (illustrateur). First Edition. Folio size; color plates. Designed by William A. Kittredge and printed at The Lakeside Press. Illustrated by Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain. Binding is cloth boards.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrateur). 1st Edition. #57/401, signed by the author. Slight staining from old pressed flowers at the back board, otherwise in excellent condition in the slightly worn slipcase. Foreword by Henry Goodwin Vaughn. Recollections about fox hunting in England and America. Designed by William A. Kittredge and printed at The Lakeside Press. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain and black-and-white photographic reproductions. Extra Postage for all but Media, Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Used - Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. NY: Huntington Press, 1931. Signed by Author. Sm 4to, 241 pp, VG+ in cloth. Illustrated with 20 photographs, color frontis. #267/401 copies, signed by the author. Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Quarter green cloth, large octavo, 241 pp., illustrated. This book is number 390 from a limited edition of 401 copies that was printed at the Lakeside Press in Chicago. Signed by the author at the end of the introduction., fine copy without its slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Very Good. 1931. First Edition. Quarter green cloth, large octavo, 241 pp., illustrated. This book is number 295 from a limited edition of 401 copies that was printed at the Lakeside Press in Chicago. Signed by the author at the end of the introduction., fine copy in its original slipcase. bookplate, Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. First Limited Numbered Signed Ed. 1st edition Limited, Numbered Signed hardcover in red cloth boards quarter bound in green with sharp tips and spine ends. Burgundy & gilt lettered paper spine label has a one micro chip at the right upper corner. This gift quality book was designed by William A. Kittredge and printed at The Lakeside Press, Chicago. This edition consists of 401 numbered copies, each signed by the author: A. Henry Higgonson M.F.H. This is Number 381. There is no slipcase and it was not issued with a jacket. A hefty and handsome volume of 242 pages printed on heavy gauge, cream colored deckle edged stock with a lovely tissue guarded color frontis by Gordon Ross and twenty black and white photographic plates. The Foreword is by by Henry Goodwin Vaughan, M.F.H. and partially capsulized here: We are invited to 'ride along' and enjoy 37 years of the best of fox hunting reminiscences. Whether the reader is the field thrice weekly or in the armchair by the fire, they cannot help but be impressed by the truth which stands out after a perusal of the pages of this book that they portray the story of a man who "made good"; who, with no previous training or tradition in hunting, by his own application and ability has become our greatest American Master of Hounds and is one of our leading sportsmen, having filled high positions in the sporting world, with benefit to sport and distinction to himself. The words "cast" by the pen of Alex Higginson are like his life and his hounds - they run straight and true, and their "cry" is music to all lovers of the Chase. A must own volume for any serious sporting library, it opens with A Huntsman's Prayer: An easterly wind and a lowering sky, A straight-necked fox, with a scent breast high, I pray for no more, unless a good start At the tail of my hounds on the horse of my heart. By T. Scott Anderson. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Limited 1st Edition. 241p. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in fine condition with slipcase. A tiny bit of edgewear to the spine label; otherwise unmarked and tight. The slipcase is tanned but sturdy. A foxhunting memoir illustrated with black and white plates and a color frontispiece. Limited edition; #178 of 401 copies. Signed by the author on the last page of the introduction.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 10.75 inches. 237, [3] pages. 16 Illustrations, including Frontis. Cover worn, soiled, rubbed with bumped corners. Three inches at top of spine gone. Minor foxing on some pages--one may need to hunt for it. Decoration on front cover (image of entwined hunt whip/thong and horn). Illustrated endpaper. Inscribed by Henry Higginson on the fep verso. Inscription reads "To Constance Greenaugh Fuller who in the 'old days' knew many of the people mentioned & who remembers the Friars ____ old "Marquis" & travelled many miles to Try Back from A Henry Higginson. Forewords by Henry Goodwin Vaughan MFH and Isaac Bell, MFH. A. Henry Higginson, fox hunter and sportsman, author of several books, including Foxhunting, Theory and Practice, and the autobiographical Try Back was the son of Henry Lee Higginson, Boston banker and philanthropist. He entered Harvard in 1894. During World War I, Higginson had served in the United States Army's remount Service. He was stationed in North Carolina and Illinois. When World War II erupted, Higginson was in England, but, being too old for regular military duty, he served his new country by organizing an outfit of Local Defense Volunteers and by continuing to maintain hunts in Dorset to help alleviate the oppression of war on the countryside. Higginson returned to Massachusetts and settled into the life of a country gentleman at his farm in Lincoln. His ability to do so was due wholly to the efforts of his father, who recognized in the young man an ardor for the sporting life of leisure and little inclination for business. As such, it was Henry Lee Higginson who purchased the farm in Lincoln and provided his son with enough funds to begin his own kennels and stables; this level of support would continue even after the elder man's death, when Higginson's mother supplemented his income. Having been given the opportunity to pursue his penchant for foxhunting on a full-time basis, Higginson established his Middlesex Hounds in 1899; the hunt was named for the hunt country traversed by the hounds, Middlesex Meadows, acreage which Higginson would later own by 1906. He served as MFH of Middlesex for nearly twenty years, ending his service only when he dissolved the hunt in 1919. During this tenure, the Middlesex Hunt developed a reputation as one of the best in the country, although this was not uncontested. In 1905, after having taken up an argument in favor of English foxhounds with fellow MFH Harry Worcester Smith, Higginson and the Middlesex Hounds competed against Smith's Grafton Hounds in the Great Hound Match. The match, a two-week trial of hunting in the Piedmont Valley of Virginia, ultimately ended in defeat for Higginson and his English hounds, but it served to establish the Piedmont as the hunting capital of the United States. Although defeated in the match, the Middlesex Hounds were still regarded as one of the best groups in the country, and as such received several invitations to visit other hunts for another fourteen years. Higginson disbanded the kennels and sold off his hounds at the close of the First World War due to lack of funds and interest from a war-weary public. Despite no longer having a pack of his own, Higginson continued to be active in hunting. From 1919 to 1921 he served as a huntsman of the Millbrook (New York) Hunt during cubbing, to which a fair portion of the Middlesex Hounds had been sold. Around 1923, Higginson accepted an invitation to act as Joint MFH of the Harford Hunt in Maryland. Meanwhile, since 1912 he had been venturing to England on several occasions to hunt with several renowned sportsmen, including the Duke of Beaufort. After an extended stay in Dorchester, Dorset, England in 1928, Higginson moved to Dorset on a more permanent basis, and served as MFH (sometimes jointly) of the Cattistock Hounds (Dorchester) from 1930 to 1939. He was Joint MFH of the South Dorset Hunt from 1942 to 1945. He retired from mastership but not from hun.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Reproduction. First UK Edition. SIGNED 1st edition hardcover in burgundy cloth boards with bright gilt spine title and image of entwined hunt whip/thong and horn on frt board. Board tips and spine ends bumped but no rub through or split cloth. Dust wrapper is a complete and displays well. It is a professional reproduction in new mylar and will keep this book in very good stead going forward. This book is TRIPLE SIGNED by Alex Higginson. Once on the lovely tan endpapers that feature a spread illustration hunt scene on both fore and aft: (With best wishes from A. Henry Higginson). Again on his b/w profile photograph frontis (a. Henry Higginson), and again at the end of his intro: (A. Henry Higginson). Not dedicated to anyone in particular, so perfect for a gift offering. A hefty & handsome volume of 238 pages with 16 b/w full page photographic plates. This volume has two forewords, Foreword 2 is by Isaac Bell, Foreword 1 is by Henry Goodwin Vaughan, M.F.H. and partially capsulized here: We are invited to 'ride along' and enjoy 37 years of the best of fox hunting reminiscences. Whether the reader is the field thrice weekly or in the armchair by the fire, they cannot help but be impressed by the truth which stands out after a perusal of the pages of this book that they portray the story of a man who "made good"; who, with no previous training or tradition in hunting, by his own application and ability has become our greatest American Master of Hounds and is one of our leading sportsmen, having filled high positions in the sporting world, with benefit to sport and distinction to himself. The words "cast" by the pen of Alex Higginson are like his life and his hounds - they run straight and true, and their "cry" is music to all lovers of the Chase. A must own volume for any serious sporting library, it opens with A Huntsman's Prayer: An easterly wind and a lowering sky, A straight-necked fox, with a scent breast high, I pray for no more, unless a good start At the tail of my hounds on the horse of my heart. By T. Scott Anderson. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. HIGGINSON, A. Henry, M.F.H. Inscribed on FFEP for Sydney R. Smith January 1949 Signed on frontispiece & title page [227] pp. Huntington Press 1931 10 7/8" x 8" The story of forty years' foxhunting in America and England. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 237 pp. A. Henry Higginson M. F. H.Collins 1932 10.75" x 7.75".

photo's, engrv's. some color (illustrateur). 401 numbered copies, signed by the author, this is No. 307 signed by Higginson, very good condition.