Author: Lt. Col. P. Hawker; Eric Parker [ed.]
Title: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting
Description: London, Herbert Jenkins , c1922. Cloth. A later impression of this guide to guns and shooting by Hawker, complete with the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. A later impression of this work, dated from the new edition on Copac. A complete and comprehensive guide to guns and shooting for amateur sportsmen by celebrated shooting sportsman and author Colonel Peter Hawker, whose sporting exploits were sometimes reported in The Times. Edited with an introduction by Eric Parker. A complete guide to guns and shooting with chapters on the changes in the gun trade, gunpowder, tips on shooting and advice on health and comfort. Illustrated with numerous plates in colour and in black and white reprinted from the ninth edition. With the vanishingly scarce unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear and some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is rather worn with shelf wear and and few losses to the head and tail of the spine and extremities of the wraps, the rear fly leaf loose but present, with light spotting affecting the internals of the dust wrapper, lightly marked to the externals. Internally, firmly bound. Some spotting to the edges, affecting only the occasional leaf, although, generally, the pages are very clean throughout. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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