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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.
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby,, London,, 1927
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xv, 307, four colour plates. Original publisher's illustrated green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Colour frontispiece. The whole being a collection of extracts relating to the gun from the works of Robert Smith Surtees; together with a "Who's who" of the characters mentioned therein. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. Spine a little faded and dulled, otherwise about very good.
Published by H. F. & G. Witherby, 1927
Seller: Tintagel, Springfield Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo [ 6 X 9 inches ], lime green cloth with gold and dark green title and decorations, xv + 307 pages with four plates in color plus ten black and white full page plated, five by John Leech, one by "Phiz", all with tissue guards, in very good pictorial dust jacket.
Published by H.F. & G.Witherby, 1927
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Green cloth covers with gilt titles and a few illustrations. Spine a bit faded. Inscription to front end paper looks like "Uncle Harry from Cecil Gladstone, 1927". Foxing to page edges and some pages. 4 colour plates + black and white plates.
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.