J E F Rawlins (8 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Rather spotted and browned, bookplate/ bookseller's label/ name on end-paper. Good only in faded & used dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in poor dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). 1973 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 228mm). Pp130. B/w photographs, vignette illustrations. Brown boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Slight use but very good in faded and used dust-wrapper. Autobiographical essays by one who was keen on riding to hounds and shooting. Includes a certain amount of wartime reminiscence. Chapters include: A goose without toil; Eight as they ran; Red-legs and red wine; Dawn Wigeon; Three mornings; Purple letter day; Shots remembered; Ten times; A morning on the moor; Rhoda; After the frost; Hunting or shooting; A day in Strath Avon; Three mornings with decoys; A greylag at midnight; Morning flight on an evening pond; Whose geese?; Uncertainty - the spice of sport; Three and a half hours; Season's ending; Pigeon peculiarities; Rights and lefts; Memories of grouse; A November hind; Forty minutes fast; A costly pheasant; A driving day; A tough bag; Black-letter day; Retrieves; On crouching - and wigeon; Partridges in Easter Ross; The best bird of all; More retrieves; Two cock pheasants; One partridge; Magnanimity rewarded; Hand signals; Four days driving. . …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1973, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket generally rubbed and faded to spine and edges (now protected); brown cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 130ppBound in brown cloth gilt to upper cover and spine in an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with one mark to the upper cover and a couple of chips and faded to the spine. Internally very clean save for a previous owner's rubber stamp of his name to the front paste-down and half-title.…

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Hardcover, 2020). 2020 1st edition. Small 8vo (130 x 212mm). Pp257. B&w photographs. Untitled grey cloth. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Written in 1973, this manuscript has at last been published. Good stories of shooting days. "Jack Rawlins .has also been able to capture the actual atmosphere of shooting and more especially shooting with a good dog. The exploits related were experienced over the period between 1957 and 1973 and in different places although mainly in the Somerset - Wiltshire borders and the highlands of Scotland. .the last chapter tells of his experiences whilst hunting in the U.S.A. in 1940 which strictly speaking might have been better if included in Bridle and Gun, his other book published in 1973. The stories tell of his love of shooting but more particularly of his love of working his labradors." .…

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Good pc DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Price clipped DW has little loss BUT is heavily sunned.

Wildfowl Publications, Old Buckenham, 1973, signed by the author. Illustrated with drawings. 5.75" x 9". 130 pp. Brown paper covered boards, ink owner name on endpaper. Stories of sport in Scotland: shooting goose, duck, grouse, partridge, pigeon, pheasant, one chapter on deer stalking, another on fox hunting, others on gun dogs and retrievers. Very good in very good wrapper.…