Book Details
| Author: | Lanier, Charles D.: |
| Title: | We go Fox-Hunting Abroad - A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs. |
| Published: | Privately printed, 1924. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 05a - Country sports |
| Description: | "Privately printed for friends to whom hunting, hounds and horses are what they are to us". x, 204 pp. A very entertaining account of the American author's exploits while fox hunting in Ireland and on the Downs of Southern England, an account of his stay in the Imperial Hotel, Cork and his hunting companions who included the Marquis of Waterford and Murphys from Murphy' Brewery in Ireland. Contents: Outward Bound; London and Hunting Kits; Ireland - and Banks!; Larking in the County Cork; Our First Irish Foxhunt; A South Irish Weekend; Harehunting and Horse Jobbing; With the Duhallow Hounds; Drawing an Irish Demense; The Irish Country Gentleman; A Country Race and Several Falls; The Vales and Downs of Southern England; The Master of the Cattistock; Our Dorset Hunting Box; The Englishman at Covert Side; Dorset from a Hunting Saddle; On to the Grand National; The Great Race and - Home. Inscribed by author to previous owner on ffep, dated December 1924.Some spots of foxing on eps but text clean. Blue hard boards with grey cloth spine. Black lettering on blue pasted on spine label. Some light browning on boards. Corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8291 |
| Price: | € 84.00 |
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