Gilfrid W. Hartley — Wild Sport and Some Stories

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a collection of angling and hunting stories from the great outdoors, taking readers to Norway and Ireland. The first edition of Wild Sport and Some Stories, a collection of stories relating to hunting and angling in the great outdoors, written by Gilfrid Hartley. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Contains a colour frontispiece, two other colour plates, and all forty-five other monochrome plates. Collated complete. Having previously written Wild Sport, with Gun, Rifle and Salmon-Rod, Hartley has a talent for telling stories of sport, and this particular collection contains stories relating to Norwegian fishing and snipe shooting in Ireland. Illustrations and photographs bring the episodes to life, including those taken by his sisters. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, smart, with minimal marks. Slight fading to board extremities, heavier to spine. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Offsetting to free end papers. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free end paper and stamp to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with the odd spot to leaf extremities. Very Good . Ill.: G.D. Armour; Guy Speir; I.M. Hartley, C.R. Hartley, Fred Noel Paton, Stanley Cursiter. Very Good .