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AFTER BIG GAME IN THE UPPER YUKON
Written by Nevill A.D. Armstrong.
Stock no. 818148
Published by John Long. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Covers unevenly faded and browned. Wear to edges. Repaired split to top of spine. Some foxing throughout and to outer page edges.

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HUNTING SONGS
Written by R.E. Egerton-Warburton.
Stock no. 814548
Published by Henry Young & Sons. 1912. Almost very good condition.

Black leather spine, red cloth covers. Gilt title to spine. Limited edition of 350 copies. 29 b/w plates. Top edge gilt. Copy no. 63. SIGNED by publisher. All plates present. Bottom of spine chipped with loss. Spine rubbed at edges with loss of colour. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed.

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THE SPIRIT OF THE POND
Written by Tom O'Reilly. Illustrated by Tom O'Reilly.
Stock no. 629337
Published by The Little Egret Press. 1st thus 2007. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 495 copies. Dark green cloth with gilt titles. B/w illustrations and photographs throughout. SIGNED by author, copy no. 220. There is slightly rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and a little creasing at top of spine.

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THE AFAN FISHERIES
Written by Ivor Lewis.
Stock no. 812027
Published by The Afan Valley Angling Club. 1st 1999. As new condition in a as new dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0953732606.

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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
Written by Izaak Walton. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 738893
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1931. Very good condition.

Bound in publishers deluxe binding of brown leather with embossed decoration at front edges and with gilt titles. Top edge gilt. Two-tone green pictorial endpapers. 12 tissue-guarded colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners very slightly bumped and rubbed. Tiny worn patch to lower edge of rear cover. Some very faint marking to covers. Light foxing throughout. Lower corner of half-title and frontis creased, tiny nick to edge of half-title page. All other plates fine condition.

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WHERE THE BRIGHT WATERS MEET
Written by H. Plunket Greene.
Stock no. 589334
Published by Christophers. 1946. Very good condition.

Revised and enlarged edition. Dark blue cloth, silver title. B/w photos. Book: name in ink to front endpaper, spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Light browning to endpapers.

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SCARLET TO M.F.H.
Written by Cecil Aldin. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 626663
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1933. Very good condition.

A book of fox-hunting with hounds. Written for the novice with information and instruction on some of the things he or she should know before deciding to follow a pack of hounds and some idea of how they are managed in field and kennel. Limited edition of 50 copies. Large format. Vellum spine with gilt title, red cloth covers. B/w illustrations. xii and 151 pages. SIGNED by Cecil Aldin. Limited edition of just 50 copies. This is copy no. 26. All plates present. Modern red covers, original spine retained and a little grubby. Endpapers a little grubby else contents immaculate! A lovely copy.

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THE HUNTING GENE
Written by Robin Page.
Stock no. 578659
Published by Bird's Farm Books. 1st 2000. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Hunting - Its People; Its Wildlife and its Countryside. Colour photos. ISBN: 090523216X. SIGNED by author.

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MR. SPINKS AND HIS HOUNDS
Written by F.M. Lutyens. Illustrated by F.M. Lutyens; C. Lutyens.
Stock no. 578611
Published by Vinton & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1896. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates and illustrations. A hunting story. Covers marked. Corners bumped and rubbed. Contents very good.

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LYRA VENATICA
Written by John Sherard Reeve.
Stock no. 578274
Published by Arthur L. Humphreys. 1st 1906. Very good condition.

A collection of hunting songs. Red cloth, gilt titles. Gilt fox head vignette to front cover. Top edge gilt. 224 pages. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed.

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HANDLEY CROSS OR MR JORROCKS'S HUNT (2 VOLUMES)
Written by R.S. Surtees. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 733782
Published by Edward Arnold. 1st 1911. Almost very good condition.

Some of Aldin's best work went into this, one of his favourite books. Two volumes. Red cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates in each volume plus numerous text illustrations. Top edges gilt. Spines and corners bumped. Spines sunned with gilt dulled. Light foxing to contents else clean copies. All plates present.

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THE SPORTSMAN'S DIRECTORY
Written by John Mayer.
Stock no. 576175
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1838. Good condition.

Small format. Green cloth, gilt title and shooting vignette to front cover. The Sportsman's Directory and Park & Gamekeeper's Companion. Being a Series of Instructions in Ten Parts for The Chase in its Various Classes: Coursing, Shooting, Fishing, The Preservation of Game and Decoys, Selection and Training of the Pointer and Spaniel, Breeding Pheasants, Partridges, Rabbits Etc. With Copious Directions for Trapping and Destroying Vermin and Detecting the Operations of the Poachere. An Appendix Containing Numerous Valuable Receipts and Useful Abstracts of the Game Laws and the Laws of Coursing. 6th edition. viii + 181 pages. B/w illustrations. Rear free endpaper missing. Front joint cracked, rear joint broken. Contemporary name in ink to title page. Covers a little marked. Corners slightly worn. Page 97 has crayon scribble but text still readable.

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