tideline books (204 resultados)

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1947) 1979 new edition. 12mo (122 x 188mm). Pp141. B/w illustrations by Michael Bignold. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly stained but a clean copy without dust-wrapper. "The rabbit is on the increase in most areas [1979] and whilst myxamatosis still makes inroads into the population it is not the dreadfully decimating disease it once was. In the wake of [this] comes a re-awakening of interest in the sport of rabbiting with gun, rifle, snare, net and of course the ferret, itself having again become an accepted part of the roughshooter's equipment. It is for these thousands of ferreting sportsmen that this minor classic is republished." Chapters include: Ferreting hold ups - why blame the ferret?; More about hold ups - housing and feeding; Notes on purchasing stock; Ferret training; Entering young ferrets; Muzzling and coping; Trouble-free transportation; Rabbit 'signs' and their meaning; The successful ferreting of rabbits; The ferret as part of the rough-shooter's everyday equipment; Working kit and the essentials of field-craft; The unseen observer; Rabbit-shooting at corn harvest, stalking, field-craft, rifles, guns, etc; Old warrens, a warning!; A specimen rough-shoot and planned rabbit control; An imaginary walk around; Preparing and executing a rabbit drive; How rabbit control operates to the advantage of the shooter. Appendices on the art of snaring, traps and purse nets, long netting. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1980) 1989 reprint. Small 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp144. B/w photographs, illustrations, burgundy end-papers. Burgundy cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight use else very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. "This book is an up-to-date guide to pigeon shooting. If the reader learns to 'think like a pigeon' and can employ the right equipment at the right time, there is no doubt that, apart from greater pleasure and satisfaction, bigger bags will result." Chapters include: The gun and cartridge; Static decoys; Wing flappers; Lofters; Deployment of decoys; Tactics; Hides and clothing; Sundry equipment; Various; Roost shooting; Conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986). (1888) 1986 3rd edition. 8vo (147 x 206mm). Ppxii,202,ads. B/w line drawings, Greener's catalogue to rear, pictorial end-papers. Blue boards, gilt hammer-gun motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Sight use/ lean to spine but clean. Very good in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. A reprint of the revised second edition of 1891, including the catalogue of Greener's shotguns and equipment at the rear. William Wellington Greener lived through the era which saw the development of the bolt-action rifle and the breech-loading shotgun in their modern forms. Greener "devoted himself completely to the development and improvement of the modern breech loading gun. He was quick to recognise, adopt and promote the most up-to-date gunmaking practices. Bold, resourceful, self-opinionated to the point of arrogance in all his writings, W.W. Greener left an indelible imprint on the British gun trade. Guns bearing his firm's name are strong, stylish, well made and distinctive. His literary career outstripped that of his father and such was the popularity of his books most, it must be said, unashamedly advertising Greener wares, that more than one was produced in nine editions." Chapters include: The gun: Historical; Descriptive; Analytical; Technical; Specifical; Critical; Practical. Ammunition and accessories: Gunpowders; Shot; Cartridge cases and wadding; Gun cases and implements. Trap shooting: Live bird shooting; Inanimate targets. Appendix: 'Sterling' steel gun barrels; The shot counting trowel; The 'Giffard' gun. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1986). (1888) 1986 3rd edition. 8vo (147 x 206mm). Ppxii,202,ads. B/w line drawings, Greener's catalogue to rear, pictorial end-papers. Hammer-gun motif to light blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A reprint of the revised second edition of 1891, including the catalogue of Greener's shotguns and equipment at the rear. William Wellington Greener lived through the era which saw the development of the bolt-action rifle and the breech-loading shotgun in their modern forms. Greener "devoted himself completely to the development and improvement of the modern breech loading gun. He was quick to recognise, adopt and promote the most up-to-date gunmaking practices. Bold, resourceful, self-opinionated to the point of arrogance in all his writings, W.W. Greener left an indelible imprint on the British gun trade. Guns bearing his firm's name are strong, stylish, well made and distinctive. His literary career outstripped that of his father and such was the popularity of his books, most it must be said, unashamedly advertising Greener wares, that more than one was produced in nine editions." Chapters include: The gun: Historical; Descriptive; Analytical; Technical; Specifical; Critical; Practical. Ammunition and accessories: Gunpowders; Shot; Cartridge cases and wadding; Gun cases and implements. Trap shooting: Live bird shooting; Inanimate targets. Appendix: 'Sterling' steel gun barrels; the shot counting trowel; The 'Giffard' gun. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 19.95.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1989). (1980) 1989 reprint. Small 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp144. B/w photographs, illustrations. Burgundy cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. May have bookseller's label on front end-paper. "If the reader learns to 'think like a pigeon' and can employ the right equipment at the right time, there is no doubt that, apart from greater pleasure and satisfaction, bigger bags will result." Chapters include: The gun and cartridge; Static decoys; Wing flappers; Lofters; Deployment of decoys; Tactics; Hides and clothing; Sundry equipment; Various; Roost shooting; Conclusion. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 17.95.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1979). (1947) 1979 new edition. 12mo (122 x 188mm). Pp141. B/w illustrations by Michael Bignold. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. "The rabbit is on the increase in most areas [1979] and whilst myxamatosis still makes inroads into the population it is not the dreadfully decimating disease it once was. In the wake of [this] comes a re-awakening of interest in the sport of rabbiting with gun, rifle, snare, net and of course the ferret, itself having again become an accepted part of the roughshooter's equipment. It is for these thousands of ferreting sportsmen that this minor classic is republished." Chapters include: Ferreting hold ups - why blame the ferret?; More about hold ups - housing and feeding; Notes on purchasing stock; Ferret training; Entering young ferrets; Muzzling and coping; Trouble-free transportation; Rabbit 'signs' and their meaning; The successful ferreting of rabbits; The ferret as part of the rough-shooter's everyday equipment; Working kit and the essentials of field-craft; The unseen observer; Rabbit-shooting at corn harvest, stalking, field-craft, rifles, guns, etc; Old warrens, a warning!; A specimen rough-shoot and planned rabbit control; An imaginary walk around; Preparing and executing a rabbit drive; How rabbit control operates to the advantage of the shooter. Appendices on the art of snaring, traps and purse nets, long netting. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 12.95.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp144. B/w photographs and illustrations. Light blue boards, spine titled in black. A fine unread copy but lacking the dust-wrapper. From a stock of new books which has been in store for over 30 years and may smell slightly musty. "This book is an up-to-date guide to pigeon shooting. If the reader learns to 'think like a pigeon' and can employ the right equipment at the right time, there is no doubt that, apart from greater pleasure and satisfaction, bigger bags will result." Chapters include: The gun and cartridge; Static decoys; Wing flappers; Lofters; Deployment of decoys; Tactics; Hides and clothing; Sundry equipment; Various; Roost shooting; Conclusion. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp138. B/w photographs, line illustrations. Orange boards, spine titled in black. Slight soiling to edges and one or two pages, smells slightly musty but good-plus in repaired dust-wrapper. A good introduction to all the main methods used in taxidermy. Chapters include: Bird taxidermy; Mounting and modelling birds; Mammal taxidermy; Mounting small mammals; Skinning medium-sized mammals; Modelling large mammals; Direct casting of a carcass; Trophy heads; Fish taxidermy; Reptiles and amphibians; Reproduction of habitat; show cases; Tools, materials and preparations. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). (1901) 1983 Tideline Books new edition. Small 8vo (175 x 188). Pp267,ads. B/w illustrations by S.T. Dadd. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used / stained / faded dust-wrapper. First published in 1901 under the title 'Confessions of a Poacher.' In 1889 Jim Connell wrote 'The Red Flag', which became the anthem of the international Labour movement. He was born near Kilskyre, County Meath, and in his teens moved with his family to Birr, County Offaly, where he worked as a groom for the Earl of Rosse. He became involved with land agitation and was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood, moving to Dublin in 1869; failing to unionize the docks, he went to London in 1875. There he worked as a navvy, railwayman and poacher, and was a popular figure in Fleet Street and a friend of Keir Hardie, with whom he produced the Socialist Journal. From his journalism grew his books, the most popular of them, Confessions of a Poacher (1901). This book is a vivid series of autobiographical sketches that describe Connell's early life among the Slieve Blooms and his move to London's East End. At weekends he sallies forth with his companions and beloved lurcher Nellie in quest of game: hare, pheasant, rabbit, partridge and salmon - most of it illegally trapped, snared and shot. He encounters magistrates and landlords, evoking a hierarchical late-Victorian world in which town and country merge, and peasant and gentry find common cause in a love of sport and the call of the wild. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1982). (1904) 1982 new edition. 12mo (130 x 193mm). Pp164. B/w illustrations. Tan boards, gilt titles to spine. A fine copy but lacks dust-wrapper. "This epitaph to a breed of men, long since departed, is not merely concerned with the taking of the lowland rabbit or hare, partridge or pheasant, by stealthy means under the blanket of darkness; it concerns primarily, the poaching of the princely grouse and the majestic stag in broad daylight on open hillside without the aids available to the modern poacher." Chapters include: John Farquharson; Lonavey; Lost on the Grampians; A glorious twalt' o' August!; A Dundonian's lesson in deerstalking; Two days with John Farquharson; Athole gamekeepers cleverly outwitted; How they carried off the deer; An English sportsman's initiation; Sportsmen sold - gamekeepers made game of; Seven deer shot within a minute; Stalking the stalkers; Running the blockade; A wonderful dream; Minor incidents - bamboozled Glenshee gamekeepers, deer attacked by an eagle, two close shaves; Ranter's famous fox chase; All about 'Nell,' Farquharson's pointer; Alexander Davidson. A classic of nineteenth century deer poaching in the Scottish Highlands. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1985). (1914) 1985 Tideline facsimile edition. Large 4to stapled paperback (211 x 287mm). Ppi,vi,33. B/w engravings throughout. Minor faults, slight creases / stains / small abrasion to card covers else good, clean, stapled paperback. "Webley & Scott, Ltd. is the outcome of an amalgamation [1897] of the two old established businesses of P. WEBLEY & SON, of Weaman Street, and W. & C. SCOTT & SON, of Premier Gun Works, Lancaster Street, Birmingham, the two largest Wholesale Manufacturers of High-class Sporting Guns and Rifles in the United Kingdom." "Webley & Scott, Limited, Manufacturers of Guns, Rifles, Revolvers and Automatic Pistols. Contractors to H.M.'s War Department, The Admiralty, India, The Colonies, Imperial Chinese Navy, French Government, Argentine Republic, London Police, Metropolitan Police, Cape Mounted Police, Lisbon Police, Egyptian Police, Royal Irish Constabulary, etc. etc. Patentees and manufacturers of the Webley .445 Automatic Pistol adopted for the exclusive use of His Majesty's Navy." This catalogue is dated 1st July, 1914, and is restricted entirely to sporting weaponry. It was presumably the last catalogue issued by the firm before the outbreak of the Great War. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). (1975) ND Tideline Books re-issue. 8vo (141 x 223mm). Pp88. B/w illustrations by Toby Buchan. Pictorial laminated boards, b/w photograph of men examining shotgun. Slight tanning to slightly used boards. Good-plus. This title was first published in 1975 by Seeley, Service & Co. This Tideline Books re-issue uses the Seeley Service text-block, in a new binding stating 'Tideline Books', it is not dated. The first edition's boards have a photograph of a child with a shotgun, the re-issue's a b/w photograph of two men examining a shotgun. A basic beginner's guide to shooting. "Roderick Willett. pays particular attention to the purchase of the right kind of gun and the correct way to handle it. As he rightly says 'Perfection may come with practice but practice is likely to be limited if one is not a welcome shot!'" Chapters include: A plan for a shooting career; Selecting your first gun; Gun fitting for young shots; Elementary gun know-how; Safe gun handling; How to shoot your best; Shooting in the field. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2017). (1914) 1985 Tideline facsimile edition. Large 4to stapled paperback (211 x 287mm). Ppi,vi,33. B/w engravings throughout. Fine, new, unread stapled paperback. "Webley & Scott, Ltd. is the outcome of an amalgamation [1897] of the two old established businesses of P. WEBLEY & SON, of Weaman Street, and W. & C. SCOTT & SON, of Premier Gun Works, Lancaster Street, Birmingham, the two largest Wholesale Manufacturers of High-class Sporting Guns and Rifles in the United Kingdom." "Webley & Scott, Limited, Manufacturers of Guns, Rifles, Revolvers and Automatic Pistols. Contractors to H.M.'s War Department, The Admiralty, India, The Colonies, Imperial Chinese Navy, French Government, Argentine Republic, London Police, Metropolitan Police, Cape Mounted Police, Lisbon Police, Egyptian Police, Royal Irish Constabulary, etc. etc. Patentees and manufacturers of the Webley .445 Automatic Pistol adopted for the exclusive use of His Majesty's Navy." This catalogue is dated 1st July, 1914, and is restricted entirely to sporting weaponry. It was presumably the last catalogue issued by the firm before the outbreak of the Great War. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Pp138. B/w photographs, line illustrations. Orange boards, spine titled in black. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. A good introduction to all the main methods used in taxidermy. Chapters include: Bird taxidermy; Mounting and modelling birds; Mammal taxidermy; Mounting small mammals; Skinning medium-sized mammals; Modelling large mammals; Direct casting of a carcass; Trophy heads; Fish taxidermy; Reptiles and amphibians; Reproduction of habitat; show cases; Tools, materials and preparations. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 19.95.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 1983). (1901) 1983 Tideline Books new edition. Small 8vo (175 x 188). Pp267,ads. B/w illustrations by S.T. Dadd. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. First published in 1901 under the title 'Confessions of a Poacher.' In 1889 Jim Connell wrote 'The Red Flag', which became the anthem of the international Labour movement. He was born near Kilskyre, County Meath, and in his teens moved with his family to Birr, County Offaly, where he worked as a groom for the Earl of Rosse. He became involved with land agitation and was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood, moving to Dublin in 1869; failing to unionize the docks, he went to London in 1875. There he worked as a navvy, railwayman and poacher, and was a popular figure in Fleet Street and a friend of Keir Hardie, with whom he produced the Socialist Journal. From his journalism grew his books, the most popular of them, Confessions of a Poacher (1901). This book is a vivid series of autobiographical sketches that describe Connell's early life among the Slieve Blooms and his move to London's East End. At weekends he sallies forth with his companions and beloved lurcher Nellie in quest of game: hare, pheasant, rabbit, partridge and salmon - most of it illegally trapped, snared and shot. He encounters magistrates and landlords, evoking a hierarchical late-Victorian world in which town and country merge, and peasant and gentry find common cause in a love of sport and the call of the wild. PREVIOUS PRICE GBP 20.00.

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). (1920) 1989 new edition. 8vo (142 x 224mm). Pp113. B/w photographs. New foreword by Neil Dewhurst. Black boards, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults, slight lean to spine / owner's name / spotting to edges. Good-plus in slightly spine-faded dust-wrapper. The best known work on fell hounds and foot-packs. Chapters include: The country; The fell fox; The fell hounds; Hunting on the fells; Reminiscences. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1890) 1973 facsimile rep. 12mo (124 x 190mm). Pp160. B/w plates by T.E. Grainger. Blue boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Boards slightly bowed, slight use and browning. Good-plus, lacks dust-wrapper. "Almost every young rustic who develops into a poacher has some such outdoor education as that sketched [here]. He has about him much ready animal ingenuity, and is capable of almost infinite resource." This classic of nineteenth century poaching includes one lengthy chapter on salmon and trout poaching. A great read for every young rustic of infinite resource. This edition, edited by Geoff R. Worrall, makes no reference to John Watson and omits his short Editorial Note. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). (1894) 1983 new edition. Small 8vo (120 x 188mm). Ppviii,89. Orange-brown boards, spines titled in gilt. Slight tanning to end-papers and edges but very good. Water stains to rear of dust-wrapper. "Following on our 'Pheasant Rearer's Manual,' we herewith offer to our customers a second volume of the series. Our present work contains a fund of interesting information, collected by our firm during the many years we have been engaged in the business of supplying the gamekeeper with the requirements of his profession. Our remarks are principally confined to that poaching directed against pheasants, partridges, hares, and rabbits, judging other as outside our province; however, we venture to assert that wherever the gamekeeper may be situated, and whatever may be the nature of his charge, he will find something within especially applicable to his duties. The many interesting anecdotes related, concerning both keeper and poacher, should prove amusing and instructive; We do not exaggerate the reality of the dangers accompanying the keeper's daily path, rather erring in a contrary direction; recent events have amply proved that to thoroughly fulfil the duties of his calling he must be a man of nerve, therefore, to those sportsmen who imagine his life an easy one, and free from care and worry, we earnestly commend a perusal of the following pages, confident they will afterwards agree with us - that no labourer is more worthy of his hire. (The reception which the first and second editions of this work received has induced us to issue to issue a third edition.)" .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1972). (1869) 1972 new edition. 8vo paperback (128 x 195mm). Ppviii,89. B/w frontispiece. Some use but a solidly intact, second-hand paperback. An excellent early reference for the gentleman sportsman falconer, including some "trifling anecdotes." "This little book, written from personal experience of the author, has done much to keep alive the traditions of falconry and encourage its modern revival." (Harting). Bibliotheca Accipitraria. 1891. Swift states that 1,000 copies of this paperback edition were produced. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (144 x 222mm). Pp144. B/w photographs and illustrations, blue end-papers. Light blue boards, spine titled in black. Very good in dust-wrapper. Minimal relevant pencil notations. Tideline bookmark and stocklist from 1985 loosely laid in. "This book is an up-to-date guide to pigeon shooting. If the reader learns to 'think like a pigeon' and can employ the right equipment at the right time, there is no doubt that, apart from greater pleasure and satisfaction, bigger bags will result." Chapters include: The gun and cartridge; Static decoys; Wing flappers; Lofters; Deployment of decoys; Tactics; Hides and clothing; Sundry equipment; Various; Roost shooting; Conclusion. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1982). (1904) 1982 new edition. 12mo (130 x 193mm). Pp164. B/w illustrations. Tan boards, gilt titles to spine. Slight tanning o/w a fine copy in slightly marked dust-wrapper. "This epitaph to a breed of men, long since departed, is not merely concerned with the taking of the lowland rabbit or hare, partridge or pheasant, by stealthy means under the blanket of darkness; it concerns primarily, the poaching of the princely grouse and the majestic stag in broad daylight on open hillside without the aids available to the modern poacher." Chapters include: John Farquharson; Lonavey; Lost on the Grampians; A glorious twalt' o' August!; A Dundonian's lesson in deerstalking; Two days with John Farquharson; Athole gamekeepers cleverly outwitted; How they carried off the deer; An English sportsman's initiation; Sportsmen sold - gamekeepers made game of; Seven deer shot within a minute; Stalking the stalkers; Running the blockade; A wonderful dream; Minor incidents - bamboozled Glenshee gamekeepers, deer attacked by an eagle, two close shaves; Ranter's famous fox chase; All about 'Nell,' Farquharson's pointer; Alexander Davidson. A classic of nineteenth century deer poaching in the Scottish Highlands. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1978). (1963) 1978 2nd edition. Small 8vo (125 x 192mm). Ppii[ad],ii,100. B/w photographs, bibliography. Yellow boards, spine titled in black. Smells slightly musty due to long storage else very good in very slightly faded dust-wrapper. This book was first published as No. 11 in The Shooting Times Library series. Chapters include: Rabbits; Hares; Myxomatosis; The law; The background; Shooting; Ferrets and ferreting; Nets, netting, gassing; Snares and snaring, traps and trapping; Predators; The pot. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1879) 1985 new illustrated Tideline edition. Small 8vo (142 x 206mm). Ppviii,240. B/w illustrations by Derick Bown, fawn end-papers. Sand-coloured boards, spine titled in black. Slight shelf-wear but very good in dust-wrapper. A reprint of the 1879 first edition with a new foreword by Geoff R. Worrall. Nineteenth century boyhood adventures with rod and gun. Chapters include: The first gun; The old punt - a curious turnpike; Tree-shooting - a fishing expedition; Egg-time - a "Gip"-trap; Woodland twighlight - traitors on the gibbet; Lurcher-Land - "The Park"; Oby, and his system - the moucher's calendar; Churchyard pheasants - before the bench; Luke, the rabbit-contractor - the brook path; Farmer Willum's Place - snipe-shooting; Ferreting - a rabbit-hunter; A Winter Night; Old tricks; Pheasant-stalking; Matchlock versus breechloader; Conclusion. .

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condición: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1924, 1979) 1986 reprint. Small 8vo (128 x 193mm). Pp115. B/w photographs. New foreword by Peter Moxon. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped and used. Good-plus in like dust-wrapper. First published by Country Life in 1924 as "Dog training by amateurs", this is still widely recognised as one of the best and most valuable gundog training books ever written. "Although first published over thirty years ago [1924], there has always been a steady and continuous demand for [this book]. This new edition comes in response to many requests from all over the world. The book has stood the test of time because the principles of instruction perfected by this pioneer of modern dog training have remained basically the same. Mr. Sharpe's system of training is extremely simple and attains the most satisfactory results without in any way lessening the dog's capacity for using its own intelligence." Chapters include: The first lesson - obedience; Teaching to drop at a distance; First lesson in retrieving; Exceptions among dogs, and sundry hints; Finding promiscuously hidden dummies; First lesson with the spring thrower; The report of the gun, and further lessons in steadiness; Introduction to fur and teaching to point; Teaching to get through a fence; Teaching to jump fences and gates, together with seasonable hints; Teaching to find game and follow a runner; Teaching to follow a laid line; Teaching to retrieve from or across water; Teaching spaniels to hunt their game; The first shooting expedition; Mainly about spaniels. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition. 8vo (162 x 240mm). Ppix,110,ads. B/w photographs, line illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Bumped but clean, good-plus copy in like dust-wrapper. How to make purse nets, long nets and gate nets. "In the pages which follow, the techniques are explained as clearly as possible. I learned from written instructions, and believe me it is much simpler than it first appears to be. You will make some frustrating mistakes in your first few attempts, but by the time you are making your ninth or tenth net, all will be well." Chapters include: Purse nets; Variations on the purse net theme; Purse nets in the field; Long nets and gate nets; Long nets and gate nets in the field; Dealing with the bag; A miscellany of nets; Conclusion. A good, practical manual by an exponent of the art. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). (1957) 1983 2nd edition. 8vo (142 x 220mm). Pp192. B/w illustrations by Peter Scott. Red boards, gilt goose motif to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Slightly bumped, smells musty from former exposure to damp. Good copy in like dust-wrapper. Arthur Cadman's account of his long career in wildfowling, with a new one-page foreword by the author. Chapters include: Whispering wings; The call of the gun; The end of the journey; Luck; Greenland whitefronts; Odd flights; Shooting dogs; The best dog in the world; Picking wounded birds; Fox and goose; Letters to Fred Clay; Curious incidents; Some hints; On keeping wildfowl. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). (ND 1922) 1990 new edition. Small 8vo (128 x 191mm). Pp112. B/w photographs, advertisements. Light brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used/ creased dust-wrapper. This is a reprint of The Sealyham Terrier: With Six chapters on Breeding and Eight on Sport. By Captain Jocelyn Lucas, M.C. "A Sportsman's Book. The first book ever written on the breed. A feature of the book are the eight chapters on sport with the terriers - badger digging, badger hunting by night, otter hunting, rabbiting, ratting, stoat hunting, "squirling," etc., etc. There are 84 illustrations in all, including champions of other days, as well as many noted dogs whose names figure largely in modern pedigrees, a feature of great value to breeders. The sporting side is exceptionally well illustrated. A book that every healthy boy adores. .A limited number only available", from the advertisement in the rear of The New Book of the Sealyham, also by Captain Lucas. This latter book was published in 1929, and was based on The Sealyham Terrier: Its Working for Sport. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1982). (1966) 1982 2nd edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Ppvi,153. B/w illustrations by John Roberts, end-paper maps. Orange boards, spine titled in black. Very good copy in creased & faded dust-wrapper. Tales of the wild sports of the Lake District. Of wildfowling and poaching, trail hounds and tamed pine martens, and above all, of the Lakeland game fowl and the men who bred and fought them. Chapters include:- Initiation; A sporting magistrate; Two Lakeland sportsmen; Village characters; Wildfowling; Grit and steel; Tom Medcalf - cockfighter; Two eccentric celebrities; Lakeland sports and events; Irish interlude; Game to the end; Spirit of the game; Last hunt with Joe Wear. .

Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1878) 1985 reprint of 1973 Tideline edition. 8vo (142 x 206mm). Ppxviii,219,ill. B/w engravings by Charles Whymper. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Minor faults but a good unread copy in dust-wrapper. From a stock of new books which has been in store for over 30 years and may smell slightly musty. A nice reprint of this popular first-hand account of gamekeeping and poaching in nineteenth century England. Facsimile reprint of the 1880 illustrated edition, the first edition appearing in 1878 when the author was thirty. A classic of country life in the nineteenth century. Delightful tales of gamekeeping, poaching, rabbiting, fishing and natural history. Chapters include: The man himself - his house, and tools; His family and caste; In the fields; His dominions - the woods, meadows and water; Some of his subjects - dogs, rabbits, 'mice and such small deer'; His enemies - birds and beasts of prey, trespassers; Professional poachers - the art of wiring game; Guerilla warfare - gun accidents, black sheep. .