Search Results: the complete wildfowler ashore and afloat by duncan stanley thorne

Herbert Jenkins, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. Revised Edition. 319 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic and illustrated plates throughout with colour illustrated frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

NY: Outing Publishing Company, 1912 Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Hinge paper cracked, but webbing good. Spine ends very lightly frayed. Text clean, binding sound.

New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1912. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Thomas Blinks. An excellent copy, clean and unmarked, solid binding. Tan basket weave cloth covers with titles stamped in a cream color with ducks in flight motif, very attractive. Top edge gilt, foredge of pages rough cut, color frontispiece with tissue guard by Thomas Blinks, fully illustrated with practical drawings and diagrams and with many illustrations in half-tone, 360 pages. Text in two parts, Shore Shooting part one, Punt Shooting part two. Chapters on guns, the gun room, the law, dogs, shore shooting-hutting, working longshore, calling, decoys, migration and movements, Punt Shooting as a sport, punt-guns, accessories, dangers, muzzle-loading and breach-loading punt guns, punt carriages, wagons and houses, sailing craft and motor-punts. Large section at rear on the birds with illustrations.