T B Marson (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edinburgh, The Scottish Shorthorn Breeders' Association, 1946. 19 x 24,5 x 3 cm, 254 pp. Whole cloth boards, spine darkened. Pages lightly browned, no reading marks. A good copy. The Book Cellar & Henschel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover in red cloth with bright gilt titles, tips remain fairly sharp, bit of fade on rear cover, text tight bright and unmarked. 138 pp without soil, writing or tears. The true account of one man's search for Charles James and country pursuits of the day sprinkled with snippets of clever prose and four hunt maps. The book opens with this simple but earnest prayer "The choice of their Heart's Desire, a short life in the saddle, Lord, Not long life by the fire". The chapter titles are: When Millionaires Fall Out Poor Men Come Into Their Own/ Frank Freeman and the Pytchley, The Badby Wood Hunt/ Tact/ Arthur Thatcher's Last Great Hunt/ The Spirit of Odin/ Great Hunts and Huntsmen - Pytchley - Heythrop - Buccleuch/ A Touch of the Sun/ The C.-In-C./ Two Fair Ladies From the West/ How "He" Returned Home/ The Cotswold Hunt Puppy Show/ Lower Dean Manor/ Scent. Four hunt maps are of 1. The Badby Wood Hunt, 11th March 1911/ South Atherstone Hunt, 3rd February 1931/ Heythrop Hunt, 26th January 1923/ A Historic Hunt in the Border Country. The chapter of The Cotswold Puppy Show has a wonderful poem.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover in red cloth with bright gilt titles, front board a bit bowed, text tight bright and unmarked. 138 pp. A solid, well bound book. The true account of one man's search for Charles James and country pursuits of the day sprinkled with snippets of clever prose and four hunt maps. The book opens with this simple but earnest prayer "The choice of their Heart's Desire, a short life in the saddle, Lord, Not long life by the fire". The chapter titles are: When Millionaires Fall Out Poor Men Come Into Their Own/ Frank Freeman and the Pytchley, The Badby Wood Hunt/ Tact/ Arthur Thatcher's Last Great Hunt/ The Spirit of Odin/ Great Hunts and Huntsmen - Pytchley - Heythrop - Buccleuch/ A Touch of the Sun/ The C.-In-C./ Two Fair Ladies From the West/ How "He" Returned Home/ The Cotswold Hunt Puppy Show/ Lower Dean Manor/ Scent. Four hunt maps are of 1. The Badby Wood Hunt, 11th March 1911/ South Atherstone Hunt, 3rd February 1931/ Heythrop Hunt, 26th January 1923/ A Historic Hunt in the Border Country. The chapter of The Cotswold Puppy Show has a wonderful poem.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. pp.255, illustrated with photographs and maps with a list of owners of herds, addresses, herd names, page and map numbers. together with detailed lists of prize-winners etc., Perth, 11th, 12th and 13th February, 1946. blue cloth, gilt. Very good. Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping.…

Hb Original Blue Cloth Boards 254pp Illustrations, Maps The Herds Of Scotland England and Wales 1945-1946 A Vg Copy.

Original cloth dark blue boards with gilt lettering, 185 x 245mm., 255pp., 3 maps and 19 photos b/w. Factual presentation of the salient features ans characteristics of the existing individual herds of pedigreed Scotch Shorthorns. Good condition. 1300 g.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1930 hardcover 1st edition mylar covered.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in dull orange cloth stamped in gilt at spine, in a Near Fine plain paper dustwrapper printed in black, not price-clipped, with slight toning to spine panel, and a little rubbing to points, spine-ends. 226pp. London Times clipping of the book review(ed) tipped onto the rear pastedown, else text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Scarce in jacket. Q05242.…