Smith Guy Newman B 1939 (7 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1983). (1976) 1983 3rd edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppviii,211. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations. Blue-green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use, slight browning to edges, smells slightly musty from long storage. Working copy, lacks dust-wrapper. The author was an amateur gamekeeper who eventually went to live on his shoot, to devote himself more fully to it. Chapters include: Buying and using guns; Working dogs; Cartridges; Rough shooting; The role of the gamekeeper; Organising a shoot; Rabbits and hares; Pigeons; Stoats and weasels; The crow family; Hawks; Fox control; The starling menace; Badgers; Stocking with pheasants; Stocking with partridge; Woodcock and snipe; Wildfowling; Deer; Grouse and blackgame; Poachers; Experiments in conservation. Appendix: The Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). (1976) 1989 revised Boydell Press edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,232. B/w photographs and illustrations. Binding A - Light brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Good-plus in slightly torn dust-wrapper. Guy Smith was an amateur gamekeeper who eventually went to live on his shoot, to devote himself more fully to it. Chapters include: Buying and using guns; Working dogs; Cartridges; Rough shooting; The role of the gamekeeper; Organising a shoot; Rabbits and hares; Pigeons; Stoats and weasels; The crow family; Hawks; Fox control; The starling menace; Badgers; Stocking with pheasants; Stocking with partridge; Woodcock and snipe; Wildfowling; Grouse and blackgame; Poachers; Experiments in conservation. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1976). 1976 1st Edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,166. B/w photographs and illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Edges slightly browned, slight lean to spine. Very good in tanned dust-wrapper. Guy Smith was an amateur gamekeeper who eventually went to live on his shoot, to devote himself more fully to it. Chapters include: Buying and using guns; Working dogs; Cartridges; Rough shooting; The role of the gamekeeper; Organising a shoot; Rabbits and hares; Pigeons; Stoats and weasels; The crow family; Hawks; Fox control; The starling menace; Badgers; Stocking with pheasants; Stocking with partridge; Woodcock and snipe; Wildfowling; Grouse and blackgame; Poachers; Experiments in conservation. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1978). 1978 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxiv,199, + 1pp ad. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations by Bob Sanders & Anthea Hadley. Orange-red boards, spine titled in gilt. Browning and slight soiling to edges, smells slightly musty but good-plus. Tear to used and browned dust-wrapper. "Modern trends .make gamekeeping and shooting for the amateur a very difficult and expensive sport. Often the shoot is many miiles away and the cost of participating is extremely expensive". Guy N. Smith addresses these problems and explains how he overcame them to put together his own shoot. A practical book of great use to anyone setting out to follow the author's example. Chapters include: Establishing a shoot; Corvines and birds of prey; Which species are vermin; The hill people and the seasons; Overall fitness and gamekeeping; Trespassers, poachers and sheep rustlers; Pheasants in the hills; Ducks and woodcock; Pigeons, the nucleus of the hill-shooter's sport; Fox control; Badgers and deer; Legends and folklore; The unexpected, the lure of the hills. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1985). (1979) 1985 2nd edition. 8vo (138 x 222mm). Ppxvi,172. B/w photographs, illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Guy N. Smith discusses the the history of ratting and rabbiting, both historically and from the practical point of a view of a contemporary gamekeeper. Chapters include: The quarry; Traps and trapping; Snaring and ferreting; Poison; Other methods of rat control; Intensive rat warfare; Rabbiting for a living; Ferreting; Teamwork and driven rabbits; Poaching; Gamekeepers of yesterday and today; Gamekeepers on the small shoot; Pigeons, and other ways to supplement an income. This second edition contains extra illustrations. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). 1980 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppxii,109. B/w photographs, illustrations by Pamela Blaxland. Maroon faux leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt with red stamped mole motif to upper board. Browning to edges and end-papers. Good-plus. This is a detailed account of mole catching, with material on the natural history of the species as it relates to their capture. Includes a family history of the Weales of Shropshire. Chapters include: - Frank Weale - professional mole-catcher; The natural history of the mole; Mole-catching in olden times; Mole-catching today; A professional mole-catcher. . …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Ppxii,142. Colour plates of fish from paintings by Jim Dunford, b/w photographs and line illustrations. Mottled red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly used, price-clipped dust-wrapper. "This book sets out to show how the amateur or semi-professional .can rear and manage such fish as carp, pike, trout, salmon, bleak, tench, rudd and various other fresh-water fish". Includes chapters on fish culture, pond construction, general fish management, trout, salmon, carp, pike, goldfish, various freshwater fish. .…