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New York, New York, U.S.A: E.P. Dutton & Company. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/2" x 10. Armour, G.D. VERY GOOD / NO DUST JACKET. [nd] circa 1925 (based on British publication date). xii, 280 pp. Text clean and unmarked. With 20 illustrations, most in b/w, printed separately and tipped in. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt at front and spine, lower corners bumped, otherwise very minor shelfwear only. Binding firm.

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good- with no dust jacket. c. 1925. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles on front and spine. 20 tipped-in plates. Cloth darkened at edges; scrapes on rear board; some foxing on endpapers. .

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. ca. 1920 Clean tight and square. Former owners inscription on ffp. no other markings. Little wear to ruff cut pages and edges of boards. With 20 tipped in illustrations. email for pictures. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus.

GB: Constable, 1921. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Endpapers bit browned and spotted. Few slight cover marks. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1400g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.

E.P. Dutton, 1921. Hbk 4to, 278pp, illustr 19 tipped-in color and b+w plates, red cloth boards with gilt titles, dulled but legible, light staining to front board, otherwise clean and now in custom acetate jacket, prev owner's rather elegant inscription on first front fly, otherwise internally a very good clean tight and unmarked text, becoming harder to find

Constable & Co., 1921. 1st edn. 4to. Original gilt lettered red cloth, top edge gilt (spine rather faded and scuffed at head and tail), no dustwrapper. Pp. xii + 279, illus with 20 coloured and b&w tipped-in plates (endpapers tanned at edges; previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down).

New York: E.P. Dutton and Co, no date. Hard Cover. vg. Quarto. Bound in red cloth. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. 280pp 20 full page color and black and white mounted illustrations. A nice copy.

London: Constable & Co., 1921. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Much sunned at the spine and onto the margins of the boards which carry a few small marks. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Minor age-toning to the lining papers. The pages clean and bright notwithstanding the limited age-toning and with the hinges weakening in a couple of places. . G. D. Armour. Hardback. Physically 10¼” x 7¾” (1.4 kg); (xii) 279pp; Illustrated by G. D. Armour; Includes: Mounted black and white plates; Mounted frontispiece; Top edge gilt; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #194825|| Condition:

London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1921. 280 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine, and gilt decoration on front cover. Spine sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Natural toning to blank endpapers. Rear inner hinge starting. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ 20 tipped-in plates (4 of which are in color).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by G. D. Armour. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1921. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". G. D, Armour. A handsome illustrated work regarding fox hunting, the first edition in the original cloth with gilt motif. The first edition of the work. Bookplate to front pastedown with horse shoe design. With a frontispiece and nineteen tipped in plates, several of which are in colour. Collated complete. An interesting work bringing together different works regarding fox hunting. Edited and with an introduction by Lord Willoughby De Broke and illustrated by G. D. Armour. Includes works from authors such as Anthony Trollope, Bromley-Davenport and Major Whyte Melville. In the original red cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight bumping to the extremities. Slight fading to the spine. The odd mark to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

New York: Dutton. hardcover. good. 20 mounted plates, 4 in color, by G.D. Armour. 280pp. 4to, red cloth, cloth and some bottom margins slightly dampstained, endpapers and first and last blank pages foxed. faded. New York: Dutton, n.d., circa 1921.<br/><br/>

New York: Dutton. hardcover. very good. 20 mounted plates, 4 in color, by G.D. Armour. 280pp. 4to, 3/4 beige morocco, red leather spine label, marbled boards, spine rubbed. New York: Dutton, n.d., circa 1921. Very good.<br/><br/>

London: Constable and Co. LTD. , 1921. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 10" by 7.5". G. D. Armour. A nicely leather-bound work celebrating fox-hunting through verse and prose, with numerous tipped-in plates, some of which are in colour. First Edition. Bound in half-crushed morocco on cloth boards.Illustrations include a frontispiece and nineteen tipped-in illustrated plates, two of which are in colour, by George Denholm Armour (1864-1949). Armour was a British painter and illustrator who contributed hundreds of illustrations to magazine publications. This is a collection of prose and verse dedicated to the sport of fox-hunting, one of the most popular field sports of the aristocratic classes in the twentieth century. Contents include 'An Apology to Mr. Surtees', 'Tar Wood' by Mr. Egerton Warburton, 'Holmby House' by Major Whyte Melville, 'Goarly's Revenge' by Anthony Trollope, and 'The Dream of an Old Meltonian' by Mr. Bromley-Davenport.Edited with an introduction by Lord Willoughby de Broke,… Read More

London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1925. Leather. Near Fine. 9.5" by 7". G. D. Armour. A collection of prose and verse regarding fox-hunting, in a handsome half calf binding. A second impression. In a handsome half calf red binding by Henry Sotheran. With 16 monochrome and 4 colour plates by G. D. Armour. Collated complete. G. D. Armour was a prolific British painter and illustrator who made hundreds of illustrations for publications such as The Graphic, Punch and Country Life. Ex libris blind stamp of 'R. R.'. to front free endpaper. An interesting collection of various works regarding fox hunting. Edited and selected by Lord Willoughby De Broke. From the Ascott House library, owned by the de Rothschild family. The library was created following the conversion of the billiards room in 1936 and was predominantly filled with books collected by Anthony de Rothschild. In half calf signed binding. Externally, very smart with some light shelf wear only. A few marks to the boards and some… Read More

London: Constable, 1921. hardcover. fine. Armour, G.D.. Illustrated with 20 mounted plates, 4 in color, by G.D. Armour. 280pp. Short square 4to, rebound in 3/4 burgundy morocco; gilt-decorated and lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. London: Constable and Co., 1921. Fine.<br/><br/>