R V Garton (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Owner name to end paper. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Condition: Fair. 1964. First Edition. 150 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tape marks, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1964). 1964 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppx,150. B/w photographs, diagrams. Green boards, gilt dog's head motif to spine, gilt spine titles to tan panel. Some use and foxing, good in poor dust-wrapper. Gundog training and deployment for the inquiring shooting man. Chapters include: Early history of the gundog, the retriever, the pointer and setter; Notes on gundog trianing - obedience, dummy work, field work, pointers and setters, steadiness to fur; Gundog management; Shooting over dogs - pointers and setters, teams of spaniels; The management of a shoot; Organising a day's shoot; The use of a kite - "grouse, when flushed within the target area of what they think is a falcon, will fly at their maximum speed (probably twice that of their normal pace) as soon as they leave the ground and keep as claose as possible to the contours, usually about 3 feet high, going in every direction except under the kite."; Falconry over dogs. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. dust jacket is in very good condition, light rubbing to edges, price unclipped, 150pp, pages clean and very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DW trifle rubbed to edges.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. VG- DW. 1st Edition. One plate loose. Clean and tight but a bit out of shape.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Foxing to page edges, light wear to dustjacket, unmarked, 150pp, VG/VG. Book.