This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to falconry, complete with anecdotes, information on breeds, instructions for training, and more. Containing a wealth of invaluable information and useful tips, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern enthusiasts, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Fact and Legend", "In Quest of the Peregrine", "Training the Eyass", "Into Battle", "The Merlin and the Hobby", "The Short-Winged Hawks", "East and West", ...
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This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to falconry, complete with anecdotes, information on breeds, instructions for training, and more. Containing a wealth of invaluable information and useful tips, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern enthusiasts, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Fact and Legend", "In Quest of the Peregrine", "Training the Eyass", "Into Battle", "The Merlin and the Hobby", "The Short-Winged Hawks", "East and West", "Hunting the Gyr in Lapland", and "The Quest Fulfilled". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on falconry.
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Seller's Description:
Used-Acceptable. Good hardback (no dust jacket) 2nd revised edition, 1964. Internally VG; clean and tidy. Light brown cloth damp affected with large splotchy colour loss to boards; faint damp odour. Gilt lettering on slightly faded spine.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New Revised Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, 126 pp, b&w photo illustrations, minimal edgewear to jacket with clear tape on top & bottom edges of DJ spine, several soil spots to a few pages of book & light age toning to pages, else a clean and very good copy.
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Seller's Description:
Good. No Jacket. No edition stated. Publication of 111 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There are old tape residue marks on the first and last pages. The text is bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK.