Ainslie, Kathleen. Sammy Goes a'Hunting. London: Castell Brothers, n.d. [ca. 1906]. [24]p., many sprightly chromolithographs by the author. Orig. pict. bds. Overall fair. ** Clothes-pin doll Sammy and his friends go hunting. Sammy tumbles into the brook and is run down by a primitive motor car but still manages to... More
Andrews, Duncan. Tally Ho!: 400 Years of Foxhunting. NY: The Grolier Club 1975. 40p, no ills. Near fine paperbound. One of 1000 copies. ** Annotated exhibition catalogue of 100 books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings from the renowed fox hunting collection of the late Mr. Andrews. Can be sent outside the... More
![The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm [1880s]. Anonymous, Laura Valentine.](/pictures/thumb/14144.jpg?v=1539198007)
Anonymous [Laura Valentine]. The Field the Fox Hunt and the Farm. London: Frederick Warne, n.d. [early 1880s]. N.p., many color ills. on 36 pls. Pict. cloth, gilt stamped. Rebacked; overall fair (condition details on request). Torn blank leaf within the last poem, but this is a binding error; nothing is... More
1810. Beckford, Peter. Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. [London] Albion Press 1810 (1st pub. 1781). 312p + 10 engraved pls. by John Scott after paintings by J. Barenger (including frontispiece and folding plate of a kennel layout); engraved title page. Very good hardcover... More
2017. Biscotti, M.L. Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2017. 498p, several photos. New hardcover in d.j. Fwd. by Norman Fine. ** Lists and describes over 2,000 books and ephemera on foxhunting, published in the U.S. and Britain up to the year 2000. The... More
1890. Blue Grass Kennels, Serena, La Salle County, IL. Illustrated and Descriptive Circular of Pure Bred Fox Hounds of the Blue Grass Kennels. R.H. Pooler, proprietor. No publishing data, ca. 1890-91. 25p, 9 ills. + 2 ills. on the covers. Very good stapled paperbound. ** Small catalogue describing and illustrating... More
Bowers, G[eorgina]. Hunting in Hard Times. London: Chapman & Hall, n.d. [1889]. N.p.; many ills. on 20 color pls. with captions by the author. Good hardcover (covers stained, rubbed); a few small internal flaws (ask for details). No d.j. (as issued?). ** "Brother John being a bachelor and myself a.... More
Bradley, Cuthbert ('Whipster' of The Field). The Foxhound of the Twentieth Century: The Breeding and Work of the Kennels of England. London: Routledge 1914. 308p, over 100 ills. by the author, 16 plates in color. Very good hardcover (half leather, cloth). ** "Should be in every hunting library"--A.H. Higginson. The... More
![Outfoxed [first edition]. Rita Mae Brown.](/pictures/thumb/10966.jpg?v=1543620720)
2000. Brown, Rita Mae. Outfoxed. NY: Ballantine 2000. 409p. Very good hardcover in d.j. ** The first edition, first printing, of the first title in the Sister Jane MFH murder mystery series. A prestigious Virginia hunt needs a new master--but murder interferes. More
Clapham, Richard. The Book of the Fox. NY: Derrydale Press 1931. 103p + many photos, 1 plate by Marguerite Kirmse and 1 plate by Lionel Edwards. Very good hardcover (covers sunned around spine, a little dusty). No d.j. One of 750 copies. ** Chapters on the red and grey fox... More
1986. Colnaghi & Guy Nevill Pictures. Pastimes, Pleasures and Pursuits: A Survey of British Sporting Life. London, 1986. 93p, many ills., many in color. Very good paperbound (corners slightly bumped). ** Exhibition catalogue of 100 paintings and drawings of racing, hunting, some coaching and shooting, etc., of the 18th-20th centuries... More
![Gone Away" [decorative binding]. Frederick Cotton.](/pictures/thumb/14384.jpg?v=1539198009)
Cotton, Frederick. "Gone Away." London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1888. 279p. Good hardcover, with printed pictorial binding of a hunting scene. The title appears to be coming out of the huntsman's mouth. Presentation from "the Author's Daughter," 1900. ** Romantic hunting novel, by a Master and sporting novelist. A.H. Higginson (British and... More
Edwards, Lionel. Huntsmen Past and Present. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1929. xv, 91p + 21 pls. (including 10 mounted color pls. by Edwards, with tissue guardsheets). Very good hardcover; no d.j. Occasional foxing, but the plates are very clean and crisp. ** Profiles of famous British huntsmen from the 18th... More
Everhart, James Bowen. The Fox Chase. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1874. 30p + 5 line pls. Pictorial cloth, gilt stamped (quite rubbed, part of backstrip missing). Pages smudged, foxed; some guardsheets missing. ** Long poem set in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by a Chester County author. Illustrated by H[armon] Faber, engraved... More
Forbes, Allan. Sport in Norfolk County: With a chapter on polo by W. Cameron Forbes and a preface on hunting by Henry G. Vaughan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1938. xv + 274p + many photos. Fine hardcover in good glassine jacket (chipped, pieces torn away from top) and rubbed slipcase. One... More
Fountain, Robert, and Alfred Gates. Stubbs' Dogs. London: Ackermann 1984. 117p, 70 ills + 14 color pls. Very good hardcover (top fore-edge foxed) in good d.j. (dents, small rubbed spots on front). ** "The hounds and domestic dogs of the eighteenth century as seen through the paintings of George Stubbs." More
1929. Gray, David. Gallops 1, Gallops 2, Mr. Carteret (The Hitchcock Edition). NY: Derrydale Press 1929 (1st pub. 1897-1910 in other formats). 3 vols.: variously paged, many ills. by Paul Brown. Very good hardcover: without the slipcase, but otherwise a fine, bright, crisp set, including the spine labels. One of... More
Higginson, A. Henry, ed. As Hounds Ran: Four Centuries of Foxhunting. NY: Huntington Press 1930. xxviii, 240p + many "contemporary prints and with new drawings by Cecil Aldin & Lionel Edwards," 1 in color. Fwds. by John Masefield and Edgar Astley Milne. Very good hardcover, unopened. Covers faded, as often;... More
Lanier, Charles D. We Go Foxhunting Abroad: A First Venture with Irish Banks and English Downs. Privately Printed, 1924. x, 204p, no ills. Good hardcover (covers lightly shelf-soiled, tiny snag to bottom of spine). Without the scarce glassine d.j. Presentation copy from the author. ** Hunting with the Duhallow, Cattistock... More
Longrigg, Roger. The History of Foxhunting. NY: Clarkson N. Potter 1975. 272p, 137 ills., 16 in color. Very good hardcover in very good d.j. ** Large, well-illustrated history of foxhunting in Britain, Ireland, and America; also Europe and elsewhere. Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering. More
Mackay-Smith, Alexander. The American Foxhound 1747-1967. Millwood, VA: American Foxhound Club, 1968. xxxi, 416p + many photos and other ills., 1 in color. Very good hardcover (full leather); no d.j., as issued. No. 681 of 1000 signed and numbered copies; errata sheet taped to last page. This copy belonged to... More
![Association Year Book 1928]. Masters of Foxhounds Association, Henry Vaughan.](/pictures/thumb/15562.jpg?v=1539198018)
Masters of Foxhounds Association of America [Henry G. Vaughan]. [Association Year Book 1928]. Boston: Henry G. Vaughan 1929. N.p., many photos of hunt buttons and a few hounds + 5 folding maps showing the hunts of the U.S. and Canada (slightly torn at a few creases). Good hardcover (leatherette); covers... More
1966. McIlvaine, Jane. To Win the Hunt: A Virginia Foxhunter in Ireland. Barre, MA.: Barre 1966. 100p, several ills. by Nelson McClary. Very good hardcover in original glassine d.j. and slipcase. ** Lively account of hunting with Thady Ryan's pack and others; a good read. Nice for a little gift... More
National Sporting Library & Museum (various authors). Munnings: Out in the Open. Middleburg, VA: National Sporting Library & Museum 2013. 136p, ca. 70 color ills. (many of them large). New paperbound. ** Catalogue of this important large exhibition of the open-air paintings of Sir Alfred Munnings--racing, hunting, portraits, etc. Short... More
No named author. Fox Chasing at Brandywine Meadow Farms. No publishing data, 2004 or later. [26]p, many vintage photos. Very good hardcover (plasticized boards) in very good d.j. ** A photographic commemoration of the "by-gone era of Fox Chasing at Brandywine Meadow Farms, now Radley Run Country Club." The estate... More
