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Buckland, Harry A Master Of Hounds Being The Life Story of Harry Buckland of Ashford By One Who Knows Him. NF 1st ED/HB/DJ
London Faber and Faber 1931 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good + Book Illustrated
Gift quality book in red cloth hardcover boards soiled spine showing two fade marks where there were small holes in the dj. Gilt spine title dulled but legible. Inner hinges fine, edge of pg block shows some foxing, text clean and clear, no writing, tears or soil. Colorfully illust (and uncommon) dj is a professional reproduction that displays beautifully in new mylar. 256 tight, bright pp, illust with 31 b/w photos & line drawings. Readers of Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man will remember Sherston's description of Harry Buckland - under the pseudonym of Harry Buckman - at the meet of the Coshford Vale Hunt. 'Dixon had talked to me about Harry Buckman, who acted as amateur huntsman and was well known as a rider at hunt races all over the country. That was about all I'd got to go on, and I gazed at Buckman with interest and admiration when he tip-tupped stylishly past me at the meet with his velvet cap cocked slightly over one ear.... In the summer he rode jumpers in the show ring. His father had hunted a pack of harriers, and it was said that when times were bad he would go without his dinner himself rather than stint his hounds of their oatmeal.' A Master of Hounds tells the life story of the original of this engaging sketch, and to some extent also that of his father, John Buckland; of their adventures with horses and hounds - stag-hounds, harriers, and foxhounds. It is a bright portrait of the best type of English sportsman, simple, racy, humorous, lovable, and it is more than that: a record (as the last chapter dramatically indicates) of the disappearance under modernizing influences of a fine phase of the old English tradition. Our books are cleaned, gift wrapped, and dust wrappers placed in new mylar whenever possible. FREE delivery confirmation included on books sent within the USA. Offered from a five star, full-time, professional bookseller and proud member of the Virginia Antiquarian Booksellers Association. Your satisfaction is our #1 priority.
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65.00 USD
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