David Grayling Fine Sporting Books: specialist in fine, rare, antiquarian and secondhand books - particularly books on fishing, hunting, shooting, and big game hunting in africa and india. Also falconry, wildfowling and gundogs.

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Thirty years ago, having lost my job as an agricultural adviser for a national company, I was forced to turn one of my hobbies – book collecting - into a business.

My first purchase of two old hunting books, about forty-five years ago in a small market town in northern England, triggered my interest in scarce works on country sports and natural history which continues to this day.

In my early collecting days, I scoured the numerous antique and junk shops in Northern England. They often had boxes of old books tucked in a dusty corner. In time I acquired considerable knowledge and a degree of instinct for the better and scarcer works. One memorable purchase in the late 1960's was a copy of the 'Douai' bible of 1582 - the first English translation of the Roman Catholic New Testament - which I sold for £100, a lot of money in those days.

However, as a regular participant in most fieldsports and a keen conservationist, my stock gradually evolved until I specialised solely in volumes related to country sports and natural history, this includes big game hunting throughout the world.

David A.H. Grayling, Verdun House, Shap, Penrith, Westmorland CA10 3NG England tel/fax: 01931-716746