Shooting ways and shooting days
by Nichols, J.C.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London, Herbert Jenkins, no date). Pictorial dustwrapper, frayed, original cloth, pp. 144, text-illustrations, colour frontispiece, a few plates. Book-plate of Jack Vincent on the front pastedown endpaper, text lightly-browned (war economy paper-stock), edges a little foxed. 'This book deals with the subject of small-game shooting in this country. Walking, driving, shore shooting are all discussed seriatim; the author combining his precepts with anecdotes and incidents collected from the experiences of many years sport with the gun. Of the seventeen chapters, seven are devoted to game shooting and kindred matters, and the same number to wildfowl and shore-shooting. Learning to shoot, the care of guns, and bird-collecting claim a chapter each.' .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2917
- Title
- Shooting ways and shooting days
- Author
- Nichols, J.C.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London, Herbert Jenkins, no date)
- Keywords
- Field sports. Hunting. Shooting. Hunting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Hunting;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
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