Complete Lurcher by Brian Plummer (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Seventh printing of this excellent and well illustrated guide to the breed. All in VG+, clean and bright internal order. Light dust spotting to top of block. Minimal wear to smart tan boards with bright silver titling to spine. VG unclipped d/j, showing light wear only and a little minor marking. 8vo. 182pp. Martin Knowelden (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. H/B copy in Very Good condition. The Book is clean & tightly bound Throughout. No Inscriptions. The D/J is in Fair Condition, There is some Scuffing along the edges and a couple of minor nicks but Overall complete and in good condition with the Price Unclipped. Free Postage Within the UK. Martin Knowwelden (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition in this format. Top corners of DW sl. rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). (1979) 1982 reprint. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver gilt. Stained and used reading copy in like dust-wrapper. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include; the legendary Norfolk lurcher; the modern lurcher; the greyhound; the sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets/greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; the pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; the terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; the arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; lamping and net work; the quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; the breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczma, wounds, ear canker, worms. .…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1998). (1979) 1998 1st thus. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp256. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly marked dust-wrapper. Brian Plummer describes "the many confusing types of lurcher, explains their origins and how to acquire, train, breed and enter them into competition". A comprehensive and well-regarded work on lurchers, punctuated with accounts of the author's own experiences. Chapters include: Lurchers; Obtaining a lurcher; A new puppy settles in; Lead and recall training; Teaching a puppy to sit, lie and stay; Teaching a puppy to retrieve; Teaching a lurcher to jump; Stock-breaking; Entering the lurcher and the longdog; Lamping; The lurcher by day; The ferreter's lurcher; The single-handed hare courser; Lurcher shows; Other lurcher events; Catching foxes with lurchers; The pursuit of deer with longdogs and lurchers; Breeding lurchers; In health and sickness; The lurcher and the law. .…

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1998). (1979/1998) later reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp256. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Near fine in dust-wrapper. The New Complete Lurcher was first published in 1979 as The Complete Lurcher: A Manual. Brian Plummer describes "the many confusing types of lurcher, explains their origins and how to acquire, train, breed and enter them into competition". A comprehensive and well-regarded work on lurchers, punctuated with accounts of the author's own experiences. Chapters include: Lurchers; Obtaining a lurcher; A new puppy settles in; Lead and recall training; Teaching a puppy to sit, lie and stay; Teaching a puppy to retrieve; Teaching a lurcher to jump; Stock-breaking; Entering the lurcher and the longdog; Lamping; The lurcher by day; The ferreter's lurcher; The single-handed hare courser; Lurcher shows; Other lurcher events; Catching foxes with lurchers; The pursuit of deer with longdogs and lurchers; Breeding lurchers; In health and sickness; The lurcher and the law. .…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1ST PRINTING of new edition. Lovely copy of great book. Clean, unfoxed, no inscriptions. DJ unclipped , having a tiny amount of rubbing to right-hand corners. Detailed explanations of how to look after and train lurcher pups and how to breed them, with hints on the best crosses (each variety of which being originally intended for a different hunting purpose.).…

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1998). (1979/1998) 2003 reprint. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp256. B/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine copy in dust-wrapper. The New Complete Lurcher was first published in 1979 as The Complete Lurcher: A Manual. Brian Plummer describes "the many confusing types of lurcher, explains their origins and how to acquire, train, breed and enter them into competition". A comprehensive and well-regarded work on lurchers, punctuated with accounts of the author's own experiences. Chapters include: Lurchers; Obtaining a lurcher; A new puppy settles in; Lead and recall training; Teaching a puppy to sit, lie and stay; Teaching a puppy to retrieve; Teaching a lurcher to jump; Stock-breaking; Entering the lurcher and the longdog; Lamping; The lurcher by day; The ferreter's lurcher; The single-handed hare courser; Lurcher shows; Other lurcher events; Catching foxes with lurchers; The pursuit of deer with longdogs and lurchers; Breeding lurchers; In health and sickness; The lurcher and the law. .…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First (thus) Swan Hill edition hardback, 1998, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine condition in a very good dj with only slight signs of handling and storage - light shelfwear. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (s/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 238mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Top edge dusty, slightly browned, slight use to boards but a good copy in rather used and frayed dust-wrapper. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include: The legendary Norfolk lurcher; The modern lurcher; The greyhound; The sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets/greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; The pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; The terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; Sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; The arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; Lamping and net work; The quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; The breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; Disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczema, wounds, ear canker, worms. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Martin Knowelden (illustrator). First published 1979, reprinted 1982. Un-clipped brown illustrated d/w.edges rubbrd, 5cm closed tear rear lower edge. Further titles by the author on the back.Book brown boards, silver lettering to spine,light reading wear,page edges and contents clean and bright. Scarce. Martin Knowelden (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1982 3rd impression of a 1979 title. Pictorial dustjacket chipped and with a light cup-mark on the front. Grey cloth gilt VG. Pages very lightly foxed at the top edge, internally very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 182 pages. Scarce.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1979). 1979 1st edition. 8vo (158 x 238mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Brown boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Corners unobtrusively bumped, slight foxing, but good-plus in dust-wrapper. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include: The legendary Norfolk lurcher; The modern lurcher; The greyhound; The sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets/greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; The pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; The terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; Sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; The arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; Lamping and net work; The quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; The breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; Disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczema, wounds, ear canker, worms. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Red title to spine, some repairs to d/j, b/w illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Knowelden, Martin (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. An excellent hardback copy of this title, both book and complete d / w. showing only the most minor of defects.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Type: Book.

Roy.8vo, (240mm), 256p. Illustrations. A good copy in original green cloth, gilt lettered, dustjacket. Originally published in 1979 as The complete lurcher - a manual.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. 256pp. Illustrated. Green boards in pictorial dust wrapper in protective plastic sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very nice, presentable copy. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Inventory No: 75406. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2008). (1979) 2008 Tideline print-on-demand edition. 8vo paperback (147 x 206mm). Pp182. B/w photographs, illustrations by Martin Knowelden. Very good paperback. This is Brian Plummer's statement of what the old-fashioned working lurcher was and ought to be, as well as how to go about obtaining something of the sort for yourself. Chapters include: The legendary Norfolk lurcher; The modern lurcher; The greyhound; The sight hound crosses - the deerhound, salukis, Irish wolfhounds, borzois, whippets / greyhounds, pharaoh hounds and Ibizan hounds; The pastoral breed crosses - border collies, bearded collies, rough collies, Old English sheepdog, Alsatian; The terrier crosses - Bedlington, bull terriers, Kerry blues and Irish terriers, Airedales; Sundry other crosses - foxhounds and beagles, retrievers, whippet lurchers; The arts of training and entering - basic training, retrieving, jumping, entering to quarry; Lamping and net work; The quarry itself - the rabbit, ferreting for rabbits, the hare, the fox, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer; The breeding of lurchers - first-cross mating, lurcher to greyhound matings the problems, lurcher x lurcher matings, the mating process, care of the bitch in pregnancy, whelping and the care of the litter; Disease - lethal infections, distemper, hard pad, hepatitis or Rhubarth's disease, leprospiral jaundice, carnicola fever - minor common ailments, mange, eczma, wounds, ear canker, worms. .…

Condition: Very Good. Light wear to jacket edges. Boards and spine clean. Gentle tanning to page edges, contents clear and legible. Appears unread.