Working pointers par knowles derek (3 résultats)

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.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1998). 1998 1st edition. 8vo (179 x 240mm). Ppix,116. Colour and b/w photographs. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine. Fine in dust-wrapper. "This book is a step forward from the traditional training manual: part memoir, part critique, it describes the use of classic pointers on the wide-open moorlands in the role they were originally bred for." Chapters include: My introduction to retrieving pointers; Pointing dogs and field trials; Choosing a pointer, initial training, hard mouth; Using a pointer and competing in field trials; Hunting, scent and body language; Sheep, cats and foxes; Cartridges, labradors and spaniels; August grouse, air and ground scent; More about scent, barometric pressure, conditions of no wind; Retrieving; English and German pointers working as separate teams; Birds and ground scent; The sporting week; Woodcock; Snipe, partridge, pheasant and roe; Ducks and pigeons; Three controversial subjects. .…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 116pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. In white and colour pictorial dust wrapper. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Overall a Near Fine copy.