The Southborough Fox and Other Colonel Weatherford Stories

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition of 1450 (unnumbered). Hardcover. Very good. Eleanor Iselin Mason. [16], 239. [3] pages. Appendix: Fragments From Colonel Weatherford's Notebooks. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Gordon Grand was an author of sports stories, banker, lawyer and president of the American Superpower Corporation. He was a recognized authority on the background and tradition of American fox-hunting. Gordon Grand was the Master of Foxhounds of the Millbrook Hunt in Millbrook, New York. His foxhunting fiction has been widely praised as the best in the genre. Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a "master of foxhounds" ("master of hounds"), who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. Fox hunting with hounds, as a formalized activity, originated in England in the sixteenth century. It continues to be within the law in Northern Ireland and several other countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and the United States. In much of the world, hunting in general is understood to relate to any game animals or weapons (e.g., deer hunting with bow and arrow); in Britain and Ireland, "hunting" without qualification implies fox hunting (or other forms of hunting with hounds-beagling, drag hunting, hunting the clean boot, mink hunting, or stag hunting.