David Grayling Books

LYDEKKER, R. : Wild Oxen Sheep & Goats Of All Lands.

With 27 fine hand-coloured plates and numerous photogravure illustrations throughout the text. Original green cloth lightly faded on covers and a bit more on the spine. The contents are excellent. Large 4to. (240mm x 300mm) Limited edition of 500 copies, signed by Rowland Ward.

HOOK, Hilary. : Home From The Hill.

Illustrated. Fine in dw. Service, work and sport in India and Africa. Interesting and delightful account by a great character; excellent reading.

APOLLONIO, ANDERSEN AND PUTMAN. (editors) : European Ungulates And Their Management In The 21st Century.

Maps, diagrams, tables etc.
Coloured pictorial boards. An important academic work, published by C.U.P..
604 pages.
Essential reading for all serious conservationists.

APOLLONIO, ANDERSEN AND PUTMAN. (editors) : European Ungulates And Their Management In The 21st Century.

Maps, diagrams, tables etc.
Coloured pictorial boards. An important academic work, published by C.U.P..
604 pages.
Essential reading for all serious conservationists.

LYELL, D.D. : Wild Life In Central Africa.

Many photographic plates, plates depicting spoor etc. A very clean and tight copy, finely bound in half maroon moroocco, with gilt big game motifs on the spine. Hunting in Nyasaland and Rhodesia over a ten year period - a wide range of game pursued and accounted for.
295pp, plus advert leaves.

LYELL, D.D. : The African Elephant And It's Hunters.

Illustrated.
Prelims lightly foxed, and also the occasional sporadic foxing on other pages. A finely bound copy in maroon half morocco, gilt African sporting emblems etc. A lovely copy of this scarce first English edition.

VOWLES, A. : The Wild Deer Of Exmoor.

Illustrated. A fine copy in the original printed boards. Scarce.

RIBBLESDALE, Lord. : The Queen's Hounds And Staghunting Recollections.

Illustrated, folding map.
Very good copy in the original cloth. 320 pages. The pack hunted a large area encircling Windsor.

PAGE, J.L.W. : Ann Exploration Of Exmoor And The Hill Country Of West Somerset.

Illustrated, folding map. A very good copy in the original pictorial gilt cloth, with stag & hind on upper cover. First edition. 18 pages on "The Wild Red Deer"

ORWIN, C.S. : The Reclamation Of Exmoor Forest.

Illustrated, folding maps. A fine copy in the original buckram.

LLOYD, E.R. : The Wild Red Deer Of Exmoor.

Illustrated. Very good copy in the original stiff wraps.

HUGHES, Trevor. : The Oxenholme Hounds. When, Where And How They Hunted. With Season 1934-5.

Illustrated with many sepia photos, coloured illustrations etc. Imperial 8vo. An interesting new work about the only staghounds - to my knowledge - hunting in Westmorland before WW2.

HAMILTON, A. : The Red Deer Of Exmoor, With Notes On Those Who Hunted Them. 1070 To 1906

Illustrated.
Original cloth; slightly rubbed and faded.

FORTESCUE, J.W. : The Story Of A Red Deer.

Frp. Very finely bound in full scarlet calf, gilt rules, all edges gilt. An unusual copy of this common title in a very fine binding by Bumpus, Oxford. It has pasted on verso title an original (I think) pen & sepia ink sketch of red deer watering by a lake, measuring 8.5" x 5.5" (folding). Exmoor red deer.

FORTESCUE, Hon J. : Stag-hunting On Exmoor.

Folding map, 14 plates.
Spine and corners lightly rubbed. Very good copy.

COLLYNS, Charles P. : The Chase Of The Wild Red Deer In The Counties Of Devon And Somerset. With An Appendix Descriptive Of Remarkable Runs & Incidents Connected With The Chase From 1780 To 1860.

Illustrated with tinted plates and many text engravings. Original pictorial gilt cloth. A near fine copy of the scarce fiirst edition. Rarely found in this excellent condition.

COLLYNS, Charles P. : The Chase Of The Wild Red Deer In The Counties Of Devon And Somerset. With An Appendix Descriptive Of Remarkable Runs & Incidents Connected With The Chase From 1780 To 1860.

Illustrated. A very good copy in the original buckram gilt, with light sporadic foxing. 4to. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

WILLIAMSON, Henry. : Tarka The Otter.

Delightful Tunnicliffe illustrations; A mint copy in the original illustrated slip-case. A high quality and attractive edition from the Folio Society, bound in a quality buckram cloth, with design on upper cover.

TREGARTHEN, J.C. : The Life Story Of An Otter.

Illustrated. Top of spine lightly chipped.

CLAPHAM, R. : The Book Of The Otter.

Photo illustrations. Original otter-hunting blue & red cloth; foxing to the first few pages. Very scarce.