New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First American edition (no statement as is correct for this publisher at that time). Hardcover in red cloth lettered and decorated in black. 215 pp. Illustrated with small drawings and diagrams. A tight, generally fine example in the orignal dust jacket, very good, price clipped and with a bit of shallow wear to the spine extremities and upper edges and a horzontal crease acrosss the lower rear panel. One of White's scarcest tuitles, the story of his training of a goshawk, a short-winged, powerful hawk considered by many falconers (both modern and medieval) as perhaps the finest and most courageous of hunters. This fascinating book is a day-to-day record of White's attempts to establish himself "Gos"'s eyes as an equal, a long, painful and emotionally wearing experience that sometimes involved the author's staying up night after night, talking to the bird, crooning to him, even reciting Shakespeare.

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E18440
Title: The Goshawk (in original dust jacket)
Author: T.H. White
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American edition
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1951
Keywords: nature, wildlife, hawks, falcons, falconry, hunting, hunters, ornithology
Bookseller catalogs: Nature;

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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