Librería: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, Reino Unido
Re-issue, 1987. Small bookshop stamp on front free end paper; text clean; binding tight; dust jacket a little foxed & shelf-worn Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dust jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: BOOKS288779I
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Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987). (1979) 1987 reprint. 8vo (138 x 223mm). Pp128. B/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Green boards, spine titled in silver. Slight spotting to edges but very good in frayed and soiled dust-wrapper. Account of Plummer's development as a hunter, from boyhood exploits with lurcher and terrier to adulthood, with many interesting digressions. Includes chapters on cock-fighting and bird-catching, cooking and eating badgers, foxes and rats, hawks and hawking. Although Plummer often comes across as bonkers, many of his apparently eccentric actions, such as badger eating or covering himself with a concoction of badger grease and herbs, were experiments to establish the plausibility of claims made by other writers. Being perpetually surrounded by people incapable of sharing this pioneering spirit of enquiry seems the source of his restlessness and the driving force behind the hundreds of books he wrote in his lifetime. This is not to say that Plummer did not have deep problems, as he himself describes in Hancock's My Life with Lurchers. . Nº de ref. del artículo: 597
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Librería: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Martin Knowelden Ilustrador. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a stamp of the issuing bookseller to the f.e.p. The price clipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In this book the author recounts his exploits as a hunter, from boyhood days as a truant in a Welsh mining valley, ratting and pursuing such game as could be found with a lurcher he also explores such vanished pastimes of the working man such as cockfighting, birdcatching and investigates the edibiity of some rather unlikely game. But the main characters of the book are San his terrier and two hawks Pelaw a buzzard and Kate, a goshawk. David Brian Plummer?was a British writer, teacher, dog breeder, and something of a countryside maverick. Born in Bridgend, Wales, in 1936, he led a colourful and unconventional life that included stints as a gamekeeper in Europe, a professional boxer in America, and a teacher in the UK. He's best known for his books on working dogs, hunting, and rural life, often blending gritty realism with eccentric humour. His most popular works include Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man, Rogues and Running Dogs, and The Complete Jack Russell Terrier. He also developed the Plummer Terrier, a breed named after him. Plummer's writing is steeped in the traditions of British field sports and self-sufficiency, often reflecting his deep connection to the countryside and its characters his books remain cult favourites among enthusiasts of rural lore and working dogs. Ref Q 3. Nº de ref. del artículo: 036305
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Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp126. B/w illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. Slightly bumped, hinges tender, bookseller's stamp to front end-paper. Good-plus in price-clipped dust-wrapper. Plummer's boyhood exploits with lurcher and terrier. Includes chapters on cock-fighting and bird-catching, cooking and eating badgers, foxes and rats, hawks and hawking. . Nº de ref. del artículo: 30437
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Librería: St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Vg slim hardback book, price-clipped, wrapper, some foxing to fore-edges of pages. Illustrated by Martin Knowelden. Nº de ref. del artículo: 044956
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Librería: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Plummer, D. Brian. Adventures of an artisan hunter / illustrated by Martin Knowelden. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1987 reissue of 1979 title. Hardback, VG, in GOOD unclipped dustjacket, tanned and a little grubby to edges, bumped to top corners, with light shelfwear and a couple of small nicks. Green cloth with silver lettering to spine. Binding strong. Frontispiece b/w illustration. 126pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. "Plummer recounts his exploits as a hunter from boyhood days . . . not a book for the faint hearted" (from the cover description). Brian Plummer (11 September 1936 12 September 2003), was a British writer, teacher and dog breeder. Growing up in the austere years around World War II, Plummer based some of his biographical stories in and around the valley in which he grew up. Some of the stories involve friends, members of the village community, and bizarre members of his own family. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1755263944536
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