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Jackson John - A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net the Birth of a Spare-time Farm

Illustrated by Val Biro.
A very good copy in a good dustwrapper which is faded on spine but with lettering clear. 191pp. Illustrations by Biro. A family from London's country life after moving to Kent.
Published : Collins, London 1979, First Edition
£6.00

Jefferies Richard - Greene Ferne Farm

Hardback. A just about good copy in the original green boards lettered and decorated in black on the upper board and lettered in gilt on the spine. The spine is darkened with tears at the top of the spine and a label has been removed at the foot of the upper board. A decent copy internally.No ownership inscription. A little foxing/marking. Pp.viii,290 + 6 pages of publisher's adverts.
Published : Smith Elder & Co, London 1880, First Edition
£40.00

Jefferies Richard - The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life

Hardback. A good plus copy in the original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black. A little wear at spine ends and spine a little darkened. No ownership inscription. Some edge and end-paper foxing. Pp.vi[2],216. A classic of English country life.
Published : Smith Elder & Co, London 1878, First Edition
£48.00

Jefferies Richard - The Life of the Fields

Hardback. A near very good copy in the original decorated cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. No ownership inscription. A little edge and end-paper foxing. Pp.viii,262 + 32pp publisher's catalogue dated March 1884.
Published : Chatto & Windus, London 1884, First Edition
£30.00

Jefferies Richard - The Open Air

Hardback. A good copy in the original pictorial cloth which is darkened on the spine. No ownership inscription. Moderate foxing. 270 pages + 32pp publisher's catalogue dated October 1885. Contains 21 previously published essays on natural history and country life topics.
Published : Chatto & Windus, London 1885,
£35.00

Jefferies Richard - The Toilers of the Field

Hardback. A good copy in light green cloth with paper title-piece which is slightly chipped at the edges but without affecting the lettering. Spine a little browned. No ownership inscription. Moderate edge foxing. Pp.vi,[2],327 + 24pp publisher's catalogue dated June 1892. Frontispiece. Consists mainly of articles which had previously appeared in magazines together with three letters to "The Times". One piece, "A True Tale of the Wiltshire Labourer" is published for the first time.
Published : Longmans Green & Co, London 1892, First Edition
£25.00

Lockhart Sir Robert Bruce - My Rod My Comfort

Illustrated by J. Gaastra.
Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. No. 473 of 550 copies. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. Bound in quarter white vellum over green buckram lettered and decorated in gold and with gilt top edge. Hand made cream wove paper. A lovely clean copy without foxing or ownership inscription. 75 pages. Frontispiece and four full-page wood engravings. Angling reminiscences.
Published : Dropmore Press, London 1949,
£120.00

Lockyer A.M. - Bubbles

Hardback N.d. Late 19th century? A good copy in publisher's blue cloth with coloured illustration on front board. No inscriptions. Corners and edges rubbed. Pages showing signs of foxing. Many coloured illustrations mainly of cats, mice and frogs. Unpaginated. Protected in a removable cover
Published : Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd., London, First Edition
£25.00

Mac Vine John - Sixty-Three years' Angling From the Mountain Streamlet to the Mighty Tay

Hardback. Just about good in the original red cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a bit darkened with a little wear at ends. Some fading to front board at top. Hinges tender. Bookplate. Pp.x,263 + 16pp adverts. A lifetime's fishing in Scottish rivers. Uncommon in first edition.
Published : Longmans Green & Co, London 1891, First Edition
£40.00

MacDiarmid J.M. - The Deer Forests and How They are Bleeding Scotland White

A good plus pamphlet. Ownership inscription on front cover. One inch tear at foot of spine. 24 pages + one page Appendix. An argument against millions of acres of Scottish land being kept as deer forests.
Published : The Scottish Home Rule Association, Glasgow 1925,
£10.00

MacDonald James and Sinclair James - History of Hereford Cattle

Hardback. A very good copy in the original reddish- brown cloth lettered in gilt. A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription or other marking. Pp.xvi,501. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. This is a facsimile reprint of the revised edition of 1909 which was by James Sinclair.
Published : Hereord Herd Book Society, Hereford 1968,
£25.00

Mackenzie Gregor - Memoirs of a Ghillie

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is slightly faded on spine. Gift inscription on front end-paper. 159pp. Illustrations in text by Jane Weeks.
Published : David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1978, First Edition
£10.00

Marston E. - Thomas Ken and Isaac Walton a Sketch of Their Lives and Family Connection

A near vg copy a little darkened on spine with a little wear at spine ends. Partly unopened. Review slip laid in. Stamped "Presentation Copy" on title page. 220pp. 22 full page illustrations + many illustrations in text.
Published : Longmans Green & Co, London 1908, First Edition
£30.00

Millais John Guille - The Wildfowler in Scotland

4to. A good copy in a half vellum binding lettered in gilt on the spine. Internally very good. Top edge gilt. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Pp.xv,167. Photogravure frontispiece after a drawing by Sir. J.E. Millais, 8 photogravure plates, 2 colour plates and 50 illustrations from the author's drawings and from photographs.
Published : Longmans Green & Co, London 1901, First Edition
£150.00

Mingay G.E. (Editor) - Arthur Young and His Times

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. 264pp. 3 maps. Contains a selection from Young's writings on agriculture and foreign travel in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Young was the most famous agricultural writer of his times.
Published : Macmillan, London 1975, First Edition
£9.00

Moffat A. S. - The Secrets of Angling

Hardback. A near very good copy in green ribbed cloth which is lettered and decorated in gilt. Bookplate. Pp.xii,326. Illustrated.
Published : Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh 1865, First Edition
£30.00

Moon, Nigel - The Windmills of Leicestershire and Rutland

A fine copy in a dark green leatherette binding lettered in gilt on spine and with windmill in gilt on upper board. All edges gilt. Original glassine wrapper is present but chipped. Pencilled gift inscription otherwise a lovely clean copy internally. This is no. 61 of 500 numbered copies. Pp.214,[ii]. Numerous black and white illustrations.
Published : Sycamore Press, Wymondham 1981, First Edition
£45.00

Moritz, L. A. - Grain-mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity

. Nd. c. 2000. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.xxvii,230. 16 plates. 16 text figures. 17 tables.
Published : Oxford University Press for Oxbow Books,
£9.00

Nevill Ralph - Old English Sporting Prints and Their History

Large 4to. A very good copy in a reasonable dustwrapper which is edge-worn, chipped at spine ends and on rear panel and with a few tears. This is number 858 of 1500 copies. Pp.xv, 22, + 103 plates of which 47 are tissue guarded tipped-in colour plates.
Published : The Studio, London 1923, First Edition
£45.00

Niall Ian - A Fowler's World: An Account of Days on the Marsh and Estuary

Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's dark blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Many black and white illustrations with 5 being full page. No inscriptions. A little edge foxing. 163 pages. Very good dustwrapper which is price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover.
Published : Heinemann, London 1968, First Edition
£14.00

Niall Ian - Country Blacksmith

Illustrated by E. Meiron Roberts.
A very good copy in publisher's reddish cloth with gilt title on spine .No inscriptions. 197 pages. Very good illustrated dustjacket which is price-clipped and is protected in a removable cover.
Published : Heinemann, London 1966, First Edition
£12.00

Niall Ian - The Forester the Story of James Lymburn Shaw Forester of Killearn, Tintern and Gwydyr

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Gift inscription on front end-paper. 146pp.
Published : Heinemann, London 1972, First Edition
£9.00

Niall Ian - The Gamekeeper

Illustrated by E. Meiron Roberts.
A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper the red lettering on the spine of which is slightly faded but legible. Previous owner's inscription on f.e.p. 198pp. 5 full-page illustrations.
Published : Heinemann, London 1965, First Edition
£8.00

Parker Eric - Field, River and Hill

Illustrated by Winifred Austin.
A good copy in red cloth lettered in black. A little foxing. Page ends a little browned. Pp.x,280. Eight reproductions of dry-points by Winifred Austin. Sketches of shooting and fishing in England, Scotland and Ireland.
Published : Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., London 1927, First Edition
£9.00

Pattillo, T. R. - Moose-Hunting, Salmon-Fishing and Other Sketches of Sport Being the Record of Personal Experiences of Hunting Wild Game in Canada

Hardback. A good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Some fading to spine and front board. No ownership inscription. Foxing mainly confined to rear end-paper and final page of text. Pp.viii,299. Frontispiece.
Published : Sampson Low Marston & Co, London 1902, First Edition
£15.00

Pawson H. Cecil - Cockle Park Farm: An Account of the Work of the Cockle Park Experimental Station from 1896 to 1956

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. Previous owner's initials on front end-paper. 261pp. 20 illustrations. 13 plans and graphs. The story of the experiments carried out at the research station into the improvement of agriculture generally and the management of grassland in particular.
Published : Oxford University Press 1960, First Edition
£28.00

Phillpotts Eden - A Year with Bisshe-Bantam

A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. 234pp. The thoughts of a countryman presented in diary form.
Published : Blackie & Son, London 1934, First Edition
£17.00

Pryce-Tannatt T E. - Meditations (In an Arm-Chair) of a Middle-Aged Angler

Hardback. A good copy in the original green cloth. Gift inscription. Pp.ix,294.
Published : William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh 1932, First Edition
£15.00

Ransome, Arthur - Mainly About Fishing

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which shows a little edge wear. The wrapper, which is not price-clipped, is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. Pp.xiv,159. Eight illustrations of which six are in colour. Includes much about fishing flies and the old makers of them. By the authore of the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books.
Published : Adam and Charles Black, London 1959, First Edition
£45.00

Ratcliffe Dorothy Una - The Cranesbill Caravan: An Idyll in Upper Wensleydale

Illustrated by Joseph Appleyard.
Hardback. A near very good copy with illustrated front board and blue spine which is slightly faded. Gift inscription SIGNED "Dorothy Una" by author, together with a loose Valentine card (containing a printed lyric by the author and an illustration by Cecile Walton) INSCRIBED and initialled by the author. Black and white illustrations. 127 pages. A nice copy internally and now protected in a removable cover.
Published : Dalesman Publishing Co., Clapham, Yorkshire 1961, First Edition
£18.00

Richardson H.D. - Domestic Pigs: Their Origin and Varieties, Management with a View to Profit and General Treatment in Health and Disease. With Plain Directions for Curing and Preserving Their Flesh

Illustrated by W. Oldham and Harrison Weir.
Hardback. Nd. but ownership inscription is dated 1901. A very good copy which has been rebound in red pebbled cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. 148 pages. Frontispiece and 15 illustrations in text. (This edition does not have the title page vignette).
Published : Wm. S. Orr & Co, London,
£18.00

Rohde Eleanour Sinclair - Garden-Craft in the Bible and Other Essays

A very good copy in original boards. Gift inscription. Some fore-edge foxing. 242pp. 26 illustrations. Essays on gardens together with an essay on "Old Bee Books".
Published : Herbert Jenkins, London 1927, First Edition
£15.00

Sackville-West V - Country Notes

4to. A good copy. Very good internally. Spine is a little darkened with some foxing and a little frayed at head. 219pp. Many photographs by Bryan and Norman Westwood.
Published : Michael Joseph, London 1939, First Edition
£10.00

Salvin Francis Henry and Brodrick William - Falconry in the British Isles

4to. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. A clean copy free of foxing or ownership inscription. 147pp. 24 colour plates. This is a facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1855.
Published : Thames Valley Press 1971,
£24.00

Scrope William - Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed

Hardback. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper. No ownership inscription. A little edge foxing. Pp.xvii,[2],298. 13 lithographs. 9 vignettes. This is a facsimile of the 1843 edition.
Published : James Thin, Edinburgh 1975,
£20.00

Selous Frederick Courteney - A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa

Hardback. A good copy which has been rebound in a red half-leather binding with raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering on a black title-piece. Unfortunately lacks the map and one illustration (at page 226). Other plates and illustrations present although one is mis-placed. Pp.xviii,455. Contains "accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large mammalia".
Published : Richard Bentley & Son, London 1895,
£45.00

Shepherd C.B. - Beagling

Hardback. A very good copy in publishers bright yellow cloth with title in black on front board and spine. 45 black and white photographs. No inscriptions. 85 pages + 11 pages of adverts. A good plus dustwrapper showing minor edge wear and tear. Includes chapters on Basset Hounds by Miss Ena Adams and Harriers by the Earl of Stradbroke. A nice tight clean copy.
Published : Seeley Service & Co. Ltd., London 1938, First Edition
£18.00

Simpson Charles - The Harboro' Country

Hardback. 4to. A good plus copy. Some foxing. No ownership inscription. Pp.xxiii,240 + 8pp adverts. Frontispiece and 24 colour plates. Numerous black and white illustrations. Introduction by Lord Stalbridge. A book about the Fernie Hunt in Leicestershire.
Published : John Lane The Bodley Head, London 1927, First Edition
£16.00

Skea Bessy - Countrywoman's Calendar

A very good copy in orange cloth lettered in black. Some edge and rear end-paper foxing but otherwise clean internally with no ownership inscription or other marking. 60 pages. A collection of month by month essays on country life in Orkney. Introduction by George MacKay Brown.
Published : W.R. Mackintosh "The Kirkwall Press", Kirkwall Orkney 1962, First Edition
£12.00

Somerville E. And Ross Martin - The Sweet Cry of Hounds

A very good copy in blue cloth lettered in gilt. In a good dustwrapper which is a little chipped at top of spine and with some foxing to rear panel. Price on spine of wrapper is 3s 6d and wrapper has reviews of the book on rear panel so later impression. Previous owner's small ex libris label is hidden by inner flap of wrapper. Pp.x,132. Frontispiece and three plates + text illustrations by Somerville. A little edge foxing. A book of Irish hunting stories.
Published : Methuen & Co, London 1936, First Edition
£15.00

St John Charles - Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands

4to. A good copy of an attractive edition of this favourite title in fawn boards with illustration of a stag on the upper board. Page edges uncut. Ppxxx,472 + adverts. 50 illustrations including 30 tipped-in colour plates by G.Denholm Armour and Edwin Alexander. Introduction and Notes by Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Published : T.N. Foulis, London and Edinburgh 1919,
£36.00

St. John Charles - A Tour in Sutherlandshire with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist (2 Vols. Complete)

A very good two volume set in green cloth lettered in gilt. Just a little bubbling to the front board of volume one. Previous owner's smallish ex libris plate on the front fixed endpaper of each volume. Not foxed. Pp.xxvi,296; x,374 + 2pp publisher's adverts. 11 full-page plates + tail-pieces. This second edition has a new Appendix on the Fauna of Sutherland by J.A. Harvie-Brown and T.E. Buckley.
Published : David Douglas, Edinburgh 1884,
£48.00

St. John Charles - Short Sketches of the Wild sports and Natural History of the Highlands

A very good copy in dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription. A new edition with the author's notes and a memoir by the Rev. M.G. Watkins. Pp.xxiii,319. Many illustrations by Harrison Weir, Charles Whymper and others. A nice edition of a classic.
Published : John Murray, London 1893,
£25.00

St. John Charles - Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands

Illustrated by G. Denholm Armour and Edwin Alexander.
Hardback. A near very good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. A little wear and tear at spine ends. A clean copy with little foxing. Pp.xxix,472. Well illustrated including many full-page colour plates. A good edition of this classic work on Highland wild life.
Published : Gurney and Jackson, London 1927,
£12.00

Stockley Lieut-Colonel C.H. - Shikar Being Tales Told By a Sportsman in India

Hardback. A good copy in publisher's green cloth with title in gilt on spine which is faded. Ownership inscription etc. on front endpaper. Some foxing to page ends and half-title. Many black and white photographs. 192 pages. Protected in a removable cover.
Published : Constable & Company Ltd., London 1928, First Edition
£54.00

Stoddart Thomas Todd - Angling Songs with a Memoir By Anna M. Stoddart

Hardback. A good copy in green cloth lettered in gilt. Spine a bit marked. Bookplate. Ownership inscription. Pp.ix,324. + 47 pp adverts. Frontispiece portrait. The memoir of the author comprises more than half the book.
Published : William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London 1889, First Edition
£20.00

Surtees R. S. - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Illustrated by John Leech.
Hardback. Attractively bound in red leather boards lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine which has five raised bands. There is wear and tear at the join of the spine and lower board. Top edge gilt. Dark green endpapers. Bookplate. The original covers have been bound in at the rear. Some, mainly end-paper, foxing. Pp.xii,408. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour stell engravings. Numerous wood engravings.
Published : Bradbury & Evans, London 1853, First Edition
£35.00

Surtees Robert - Hunts with Jorrocks

Illustrated by G.D. Armour.
A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has minor edge wear and tear and a smallish superficial damp stain at the foot of the spine. "T.N. Foulis" has been scored through at the foot of the wrapper and replaced with "Peter Davies".A clean copy internally with no ownership inscription and only a little light fore-edge foxing. Pp.vii,189. 25 colour illustrations by G.D. Armour. Text taken from "Handley Cross". A nice copy and not common in wrapper.
Published : T.N. Foulis, London 1924,
£35.00

Surtees Robert - Mr. Jorrocks' Lectors

Illustrated by G.D. Armour.
A very good copy in a near very good dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has a smallish superficial damp stain at the foot of the spine. The publisher's name has been scored through on the wrapper and replaced with "Peter Davies". A clean copy with no ownership inscription and very little foxing. Pp.vii,145. 25 colour illustrations by G.D. Armour. Text taken from "Handley Cross". A nice copy and uncommon in wrapper.
Published : T. N. Foulis, London 1924,
£35.00

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