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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1904). 1904 1st edition. Large 8vo (146 x 255mm). Ppx,256. B/w photographs plates and illustrations. Red cloth, black border to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Spine bumped and faded. Some fading to cloth. Some browning. One loose plate. Stain to rear end-paper. Slight slug damage to top edge. Good. "The graphic stories of the hunting-field told me by my father, the Rev. H. Digby Serrell, are among my earliest recollections. Being a Dorsetshire man, my father hunted all the early part of his life with the Dorset packs, and the names of Mr Farquharson, the Rev. Harry Farr Yeatman, Mr Tudway, Mr Hall, and Mr Drax were household words with the members of his family. As we listened to the tales of those early days, we learned to love the sport so dear to the heart of the narrator, and gained our own first knowledge of hunting from his lips." Hunting history from the generation immediately before photography. Chapters include: Early hunting reminiscences; First days in Hants and Berks; Terriers at work - I; Terriers at work - II; The Blackmore Vale; Over bank and timber; The otter in the Lyd; The bloodhound in the Vale; Good sport; The old black-and-tan terrier; The end of a long reign; The Blackmore Vale Hounds; Echoes of the chase. Appendices are: Masters and huntsmen of the Blackmore Vale Hunt; The Lame Old Huntsman, by his friends. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1904). 1904 1st edition. Large 8vo (146 x 255mm). Ppx,256. B/w photographs plates and illustrations. Re-bound in red half-leather over grey cloth, four raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Re-bound in red half-leather over cloth. Some browning and foxing but good-plus. Leather on boards rubbed and discoloured. "The graphic stories of the hunting-field told me by my father, the Rev. H. Digby Serrell, are among my earliest recollections. Being a Dorsetshire man, my father hunted all the early part of his life with the Dorset packs, and the names of Mr Farquharson, the Rev. Harry Farr Yeatman, Mr Tudway, Mr Hall, and Mr Drax were household words with the members of his family. As we listened to the tales of those early days, we learned to love the sport so dear to the heart of the narrator, and gained our own first knowledge of hunting from his lips." Hunting history from the generation immediately before photography. Chapters include: Early hunting reminiscences; First days in Hants and Berks; Terriers at work - I; Terriers at work - II; The Blackmore Vale; Over bank and timber; The otter in the Lyd; The bloodhound in the Vale; Good sport; The old black-and-tan terrier; The end of a long reign; The Blackmore Vale Hounds; Echoes of the chase. Appendices are: Masters and huntsmen of the Blackmore Vale Hunt; The Lame Old Huntsman, by his friends. .…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. vii, 378 pp., illustrations, index.Original blue clothlettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Faint rubbing at extremities, endpapers slightly tanned, prize label on front pastedown from 1922. Very good indeed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 378 pp., illustrations, index. ex-library, rebound as hardcover, cover is soiled with edge wear, card pocket inside front cover label residue on 1st blank page, embossing stamp on title page 0.0.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are shelf rubbed, lightly scuffed and edge worn. Internally, tanned pages. The front hinge is cracked. Otherwise clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*07/05/2025. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.