Description:
London: Agenda Editions / Poets and Printers Press, 1971. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 78pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Laid in is a typed letter Signed by Willam Cookson and addressed to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. Contributions by Michael Hamburger, Jonathan Griffin, Gerhard Beckmann, David Harsent, Peter Dent, Thomas Vandenberg, Cal Clothier, Keith Bosley, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Eileen Labrom, Wallace Kaufman, K. Crowhurst, Peter Dale, Ian Haig, Peter Murphy, and J. Hayles.
I Leap Before I Look - Sport at Home and Abroad by Haig-Thomas, David:
by Haig-Thomas, David:
I Leap Before I Look - Sport at Home and Abroad
by Haig-Thomas, David:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
First edition. A biographical account of the author's hunting and shooting adventures including hunts for Spanish Ibex, wild geese, the Solway, boat racing at Oxford & Henley, the Olympic Games at Los Angeles, hunting in Canada, Winnipeg & Ottawa, Iceland, Abyssinia & Sardinia, and accounts of bird photography. Frontispiece & 39 other b/w photographic plates. 1 plate loose. Some patches of very light foxing on prelims and edges. Text clean. Binding sound. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Overall condition VG.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (IE)
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher London: Putman, 1936.
- Keywords Wild Fowling, Shooting, Ibex, Geese, Solway, Peter Scott, Rowing