Lester Big (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy. The author writes: 'Funny, isn't it, how the hardships of the bush are dismissed by time and only the fondest memories survive. Gone are all thoughts of life in a cold, damp tent, constantly wet boots and clothing, blisters, blowflies, chafed thighs, sore backs, sandflies, hook grass, bush lawyer and dehydrated food. Supplejack, rainstorms, snow and aching legs don't feature either, dismissed as insignificant and not worth remembering. As always, my face breaks into a grin when I recall some incident or disaster that made one hunting trip more memorable than another. When a man is armed with a hard-case bunch of mates, a sense of humour and a rifle, he's likely to run into a bit of mischief and encounter a few interesting situations while in the mountains.'.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Feels unread with a gift inscription. The author writes: 'Funny, isn't it, how the hardships of the bush are dismissed by time and only the fondest memories survive. Gone are all thoughts of life in a cold, damp tent, constantly wet boots and clothing, blisters, blowflies, chafed thighs, sore backs, sandflies, hook grass, bush lawyer and dehydrated food. Supplejack, rainstorms, snow and aching legs don't feature either, dismissed as insignificant and not worth remembering. As always, my face breaks into a grin when I recall some incident or disaster that made one hunting trip more memorable than another. When a man is armed with a hard-case bunch of mates, a sense of humour and a rifle, he's likely to run into a bit of mischief and encounter a few interesting situations while in the mountains.'.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good clean copy which feels unread. Another collection of outrageous hunting yarns from the master of the genre,'Big Al' Lester. A jetboat trip gone disastrously wrong, kamikaze deer, the Hermit of Fiordland, a pigeon called Tegal, the sacred eel - these are just some of the rollicking stories told by 'Big Al' and his mates. Plenty of laughs for the hunting mad, hard case and hare-brained among us!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. A tidy copy. The author writes: 'Funny, isn't it, how the hardships of the bush are dismissed by time and only the fondest memories survive. Gone are all thoughts of life in a cold, damp tent, constantly wet boots and clothing, blisters, blowflies, chafed thighs, sore backs, sandflies, hook grass, bush lawyer and dehydrated food. Supplejack, rainstorms, snow and aching legs don't feature either, dismissed as insignificant and not worth remembering. As always, my face breaks into a grin when I recall some incident or disaster that made one hunting trip more memorable than another. When a man is armed with a hard-case bunch of mates, a sense of humour and a rifle, he's likely to run into a bit of mischief and encounter a few interesting situations while in the mountains.'.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 416 pages. tidy ex library -card covers plastic protected.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy. Feels unread. Al Lester gathers his most popular hunting yarns ? along with several new ones ? into a single volume that roams the length of New Zealand's back country. The stories mix close calls, wayward animals, off?track adventures, and the good?natured chaos that follows "Big Al" and his mates wherever they go. Told with Lester's trademark humour and self?deprecating style, the book sits comfortably within the modern New Zealand hunting?memoir tradition: lively, informal, and full of the camaraderie and mishaps that make bush stories worth retelling.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. A fine reprint copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. spine faded, cover worn,

Paperback. Condition: Good. clean tidy copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NZ's great outdoors are recorded here in their raw glory, with little embellishment, lots of humour and loads of lessons learned. Excellent condition, just missing FEP, possibly due to an inscription.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good. This is the 2009 reprint of a book published in 2004. The cover has minor wear. The edges of the book and page margins both have minor tanning. 229 pages with a few coloured photographic pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft Covers. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. 23 cm, 235 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads for author's other titles, pen & ink illus, colour photo plates, soft covers. As new.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. ; 222 pages + plates. Illustrated card wrappers. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 230mm x 151mm. Hunting stories - "Kamikaze deer, Marvin the nosey morepork [ . . .] blood-thirsty crocs, city slickers gone bush [. . .]" - from blurb on rear cover. "Another collection of outrageous hunting yarns from the master of the genre,'Big Al' Lester. A jetboat trip gone disastrously wrong, kamikaze deer, the Hermit of Fiordland, a pigeon called Tegal, the sacred eel - these are just some of the rollicking stories told by 'Big Al' and his mates. Plenty of laughs for the hunting mad, hard case and hare-brained among us!".

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. 220p (3p catalogue) With illustrations, further tales of hunting, and hunters, including on Stewart Island.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. No signatures.; 233, [7 (advertisements)] pages + 4 plate leaves. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 235 x 152mm. Colour and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Hunting, New Zealand. "Many times I have sat by a campfire with its coarse smoke etching into my eyes and tears streaming down my face. The tears not caused by the smoke, though, but by laughing so hard at the oddball, strange, hilarious or simply outright bizarre yarns told by my hunting mates. It never ceases to amaze me how readily my hunting colleagues and others dob in their mates to disclose their mishaps, balls-ups, cunning plans and frequent disasters. Each story is told with great relish, and often, I suspect, with liberal helpings of embellishment. For every story recounted, the often embarrassed subject gets a right of reply, and in turn dobs in his cobber with an equally or more embarrassing yarn, and so it goes. As the evenings pass and the tide-line in the whisky bottle drops, the yarns get increasingly more hilarious. This book contains a number of yarns gleaned from these fireside sessions, and a few from other interesting characters I have had the good fortune to encounter." - 'Big Al' Lester.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 224 pages.