Virgoe Norma Editors (6 results)

1st edition. Small 4to. [224pp.] B/w. portrait frontispiece, colour and b/w. illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial black d/w. with cream lettering to spine, some minor wear. ISBN 0002176343 US$11.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 170pp. Illus. An excellent clean copy. (bs46).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986). 1986 1st edition. Large 8vo (179 x 250mm). Pp224. Colour and b/w plates, illustrations. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Owner's address label / bookplate to preliminaries else good-plus in slightly used / clipped dust-wrapper. Larry Banville was gamekeeper to Lord Buxton between 1823 and 1869. At his death he left four volumes of diaries with the express wish that they be published. This finally happened a century later. "The diaries are not only about shooting and gamekeeping. They are primarily about people, in Banville's native Ireland as well as Scotland, Sweden and England. There are pungent comments on the local Norfolk gentry - and on other gamekeepers - and vivid records of the true distress caused to ordinary villagers by the Corn Laws and Game Laws." Banville's diaries reveal that he had a remarkably fraught relationship with his master, and it is quite remarkable that he remained in the same post for forty-six years. A fascinating account of an independently minded man successfully making his way in tough era. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1986). 1986 1st edition. Large 8vo (179 x 250mm). Pp224. Colour and b/w plates, illustrations. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight marks to edges but very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. Larry Banville was gamekeeper to Lord Buxton between 1823 and 1869. At his death he left four volumes of diaries with the express wish that they be published. This finally happened a century later. "The diaries are not only about shooting and gamekeeping. They are primarily about people, in Banville's native Ireland as well as Scotland, Sweden and England. There are pungent comments on the local Norfolk gentry - and on other gamekeepers - and vivid records of the true distress caused to ordinary villagers by the Corn Laws and Game Laws." Banville's diaries reveal that he had a remarkably fraught relationship with his master, and it is quite remarkable that he remained in the same post for forty-six years. A fascinating account of an independently minded man successfully making his way in tough era. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 2nd Printing. Near Fine in VG+ price-clipped dust jacket. The journals of the gamekeeper to Lord Buxton's gret-great grandfather that provide a picture of the people & events in his native Ireland as well as Scotland, Sweden & England. Illustrated with landscapes from the Norfolk School & portraits by George Richmond as well as fine bird pictures by Archibald Thorburn. With a foreword by Lord Buxton. Journals, Memoir, Engish History. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in very good condition. Board corners and spine ends are a little bumped. Spine is slightly cocked. Small blemish on page block foot. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.