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Published by H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 305 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains colour plates throughout. Rough cut textblock edges. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible bumping to corners. Noticeable crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine and edges.
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby, 1927
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1927. 306 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this charming work containing all the mentions of hunting, guns and shooting in the work of English novelist Robert Smith Surtees. Illustrated throughout, and featuring bright colour plates. A beautifully illustrated first edition of this delightful compilation of the work of Robert Smith Surtees, produced with the aim of featuring every mention of shooting in Surtees' work, edited by Hugh S. Gladstone.Subtitled 'a collection of extracts relating to the gun', and of course featuring excerpts from Surtees's Jorrocks stories, a cockney grocer dedicated to fox hunting.Illustrated with four colour plates, and numerous further illustrations. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Light fading to back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Boards exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by H.F. & G. Witherby 326 High Holborn, W.C., London, 1927
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First Edition. With four color plates and other illustrations. 307pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Surtees, Behind the Gun. Bound in three quarter red polished calf and marbled board,t.e.g. for Chas. J. Sawyer, London With four color plates and other illustrations. 307pp. 1 vols. 8vo.