Author : J. Wentworth Day Year of publication: 1937 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: Fair Category: Game / fishing Cost of book: £25.00 Price negotiable: Yes
Specifics:
J Wentworth Day Sporting Adventure, London, George G Harrap & Co., 1937. Illustrated by "Fish-Hawk" 288 pages with 13 illustrations on plates, and 50 drawings in the text by 'Fish-hawk', ( name is that of Julius Chenevix-Trench 1885-1948). Reprint. The wild life of the marshes throughout the year. Original Cloth Hard Back, with blind-stamped geese motif to front and has a drawing of a hawk, by the illustrator on the title page verso. Fair, but foxing and ingrained dust-dirt to end papers with inscription, and much rubbing to spine and boards' ends adjacent to spine, gilt title also much rubbed. Top of spine and board slightly loose. Over 9¾" - 10" tall. Reprint of Oct.1937, one mth. after 1st edition. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped fen scene to fnt. 287 pages , incl. 50 line drawings + frontis and 12 other b&w plates, by "Fish-Hawk". £25.00
