Shooting on a small income: how to shoot and the management of small shootings.
by WALKER, Charles Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ND
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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1900* Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green cloth, gilt title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some slight marks with age to end papers & to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams to frontis & within text throughout.* Pages: 310 pp. text. xv pp., index, & blank pages at rear.* Description: ?How to Shoot and the Management of Small Shootings?. Chapters on The Gun, The well-fitted Gun and How to Get it, Ammunition, How to shoot straight, The General Management of a Shoot in two chapters, Four footed and Winged enemies, Pheasant Shooting, Partridge Shooting, Rabbits, How to Obtain a good supply of eggs, Rearing Pheasants & Partridges, Woodcock and Snip, Wild Fowl Shooting, How and Where to Introduce Wild Duck, Miscellaneous Shooting, and General Hints. (This volume is considered to be an important title and is now available elsewhere as a classic reprint.)* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults but no dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3011
- Title
- Shooting on a small income: how to shoot and the management of small shootings.
- Author
- WALKER, Charles Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, London Uk. 325
- Date Published
- 1900-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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