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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2002). ND (2003) 1st edition. Paperback issue. Large 8vo paperback (160 x 234mm). Ppviii,398 + 1pp ad. Colour and b/w photographs by Lea MacNally, illustrations, good deer bibliography. Slight use to cover else good clean paperback copy. A long lifetime's reminiscences of Highland deer stalking, with much on the history and bibliography of stalking. "It is beyond me how so much fascinating reading can be crammed into 400 pages." (Stalking Magazine review). .…

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2002). ND (2003) 1st edition. Paperback issue. Large 8vo paperback (160 x 234mm). Ppviii,398 + 1pp ad. Colour and b/w photographs by Lea MacNally, illustrations, good deer bibliography. Fine new copy. A long lifetime's reminiscences of Highland deer stalking, with much on the history and bibliography of stalking. "It is beyond me how so much fascinating reading can be crammed into 400 pages." (Stalking Magazine review). PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 16.95.…

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2005). ND (2005) 1st edition. 4to (205 x 250mm). Ppx,254. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Orange cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight shelf-wear, but still a fine new copy in dust-wrapper. An autobiographical account of Peter McManus' fifty-year career as a gun collector, punctuated with chapters on important information he has uncovered on the way, and sketches of some of the characters he has met. Chapters include: The nineteenth century; Ernest A. Drury Smith, Derbyshire photographer; Money, money, money; Time; The collecting gene; In the beginning; Glan Clwyd Farm; The eccentric Billy Moore; Cockliffe Hill Farm; The war years and beyond; Peter and Wendy Dyson; Mountains and Mantons; Joseph and John Manton; Robert Held, firearms historian; Biggles - First World War aviation; Hares and Henry Beswick; W. Keith Neal; Purdeys; The collectors; The ones that got away; The art of the engraver and colour hardener; Twelve bore or twenty; Richard Ratner and Kit Ravenshear; Sid Bellamy; Forsyth; Pauly breech loaders; Derek Fearn, master gunsmith; A visit to the Birmingham Gun Quarter; The Joseph Manton pelletlock; Needlefire; Pinfire; J.F. Ewing's Holland and Holland; Shooting at Bisley; Scott motorcycles and gun trade; Peter Gavuzzi, Wilkinsons and the classic Rolls-Royce; Some special Mantons; Manton and Co., London and Calcutta; Exotica; Stalking rifles; The search for black powder express cartridges; Derek Fearn and the four fifty Purdey; Deanich Lodge 2003; Louie Bierman's remarkable MacNab. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 24.95.…

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2005). ND (2005) 1st edition. 4to (205 x 250mm). Ppx,254. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Orange cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. An autobiographical account of Peter McManus' fifty-year career as a gun collector, punctuated with chapters on important information he has uncovered on the way, and sketches of some of the characters he has met. Chapters include: The nineteenth century; Ernest A. Drury Smith, Derbyshire photographer; Money, money, money; Time; The collecting gene; In the beginning; Glan Clwyd Farm; The eccentric Billy Moore; Cockliffe Hill Farm; The war years and beyond; Peter and Wendy Dyson; Mountains and Mantons; Joseph and John Manton; Robert Held, firearms historian; Biggles - First World War aviation; Hares and Henry Beswick; W. Keith Neal; Purdeys; The collectors; The ones that got away; The art of the engraver and colour hardener; Twelve bore or twenty; Richard Ratner and Kit Ravenshear; Sid Bellamy; Forsyth; Pauly breech loaders; Derek Fearn, master gunsmith; A visit to the Birmingham Gun Quarter; The Joseph Manton pelletlock; Needlefire; Pinfire; J.F. Ewing's Holland and Holland; Shooting at Bisley; Scott motorcycles and gun trade; Peter Gavuzzi, Wilkinsons and the classic Rolls-Royce; Some special Mantons; Manton and Co., London and Calcutta; Exotica; Stalking rifles; The search for black powder express cartridges; Derek Fearn and the four fifty Purdey; Deanich Lodge 2003; Louie Bierman's remarkable MacNab. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 25.00.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2005). ND (2005) 1st edition. 4to (205 x 250mm). Ppx,254. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Orange cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. Peter McManus gives an autobiographical account of his fifty-year career as a gun collector, punctuated with chapters on important information he has uncovered on the way, and sketches of some of the characters he has met. Chapters include: The nineteenth century; Ernest A. Drury Smith, Derbyshire photographer; Money, money, money; Time; The collecting gene; In the beginning; Glan Clwyd Farm; The eccentric Billy Moore; Cockliffe Hill Farm; The war years and beyond; Peter and Wendy Dyson; Mountains and Mantons; Joseph and John Manton; Robert Held, firearms historian; Biggles - First World War aviation; Hares and Henry Beswick; W. Keith Neal; Purdeys; The collectors; The ones that got away; The art of the engraver and colour hardener; Twelve bore or twenty; Richard Ratner and Kit Ravenshear; Sid Bellamy; Forsyth; Pauly breech loaders; Derek Fearn, master gunsmith; A visit to the Birmingham Gun Quarter; The Joseph Manton pelletlock; Needlefire; Pinfire; J.F. Ewing's Holland and Holland; Shooting at Bisley; Scott motorcycles and gun trade; Peter Gavuzzi, Wilkinsons and the classic Rolls-Royce; Some special Mantons; Manton and Co., London and Calcutta; Exotica; Stalking rifles; The search for black powder express cartridges; Derek Fearn and the four fifty Purdey; Deanich Lodge 2003; Louie Bierman's remarkable MacNab. .…

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2002). ND (2003) 1st edition. Hardback issue. Ppviii,398. Colour & b/w photographs by Lea MacNally, b/w illustrations, good deer bibliography. Numbered copy from an unstated limited edition (probably of 300 copies only). Slightly cocked / shaken but a very good new unread copy in dust-wrapper. A long lifetime's reminiscences of Highland deer stalking, with much on the history and bibliography of stalking. "It is beyond me how so much fascinating reading can be crammed into 400 pages." (Stalking Magazine review). "An extensive work mainly related to deer and deer stalking - both historical and contemporary. It would have been nice to have more copies available in hard cover." (David Grayling). .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2002). ND (2003) 1st edition. Hardback issue. Ppviii,398. Colour & b/w photographs by Lea MacNally, b/w illustrations, good deer bibliography. Numbered copy from an unstated limited edition (probably of 300 copies only). Fine unread copy in dust-wrapper. A long lifetime's reminiscences of Highland deer stalking, with much on the history and bibliography of stalking. "It is beyond me how so much fascinating reading can be crammed into 400 pages." (Stalking Magazine review). "An extensive work mainly related to deer and deer stalking - both historical and contemporary. It would have been nice to have more copies available in hard cover." (David Grayling). .…