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196474 pages. Features: Political candidates and the pro-gun issue; Winchester's new hot-shot, the .225!; Savage Guns Score! - their new line of rifles is a winner; Wads & Patterns; Taking the Kick out of Shooting - reducing the kick of a youngster's shotgun; Bear Rifles and Cartridges; Hunting the Hun - bag more of these game birds by learning their habits; No more 6 O'Clock Holds! - the new and unique air force aiming technique breaks many traditions; The Army's Duplex Load - two bullets from one shot is the army's answer to poor combat marksmen; Nice color photo Remington and Winchester ads on back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
2014Large octavo in illus black and beige jacket; 300 pages ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references. "An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals." || Contents: Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat -- Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth. || Hawks. Grief. Spirituality. Grief. Hawks. Spirituality. Hawks. Falconry. Goshawks. Grief. Spiritual life. Macdonald, Helen, 1970- White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. Nature. Ornithology. Spirituality. Autobiography. Autobiographies. Note(s): Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014./ Includes bibliographical references.
2014"... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and the This book won both the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography Book
1984rif. 813849Nairobi, 1984. M. 3 Abb. 20 S. (Journal of the East Africa Natural Hist. Soc. and National Museum 180).
1996rif. 170032Hartford CT: Wadsworth Atheneum 1996. Vintage brochure for the September 22 to November 24 1996 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Connecticut. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Accordion fold with an extended first/last leaf with a three-hole punch as issued. Near Fine. Wadsworth Atheneum unknown
1996rif. 170032Hartford CT: Wadsworth Atheneum 1996. Vintage brochure for the September 22 to November 24 1996 exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Connecticut. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Accordion fold with an extended first/last leaf with a three-hole punch as issued. Near Fine. Wadsworth Atheneum unknown books
1987rif. 101122Haldensleben, 1987-89.
1873Index. 328 pages. Prize label on front pastedown. Front free endpaper almost loose and missing top corner. 30mm split to top of joint of spine and front cover. Top page edges dusty and greyed. Spine worn and bumped top/base.
1985Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 234 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Laing "was a long lived, widely published, notable Canadian naturalist. His love was birds but his writing and his collecting expeditions ranged further... After living around North America he settled in the bird paradise of Comox, BC. This biography explores a man and a philosophy of conservation that insisted the naturalist be a good man with a gun." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
1822rif. 23414London 1822. Very good overall. A handsome hand colored copper engraving of an Australian falcon perched on a branch from Latham's 'General Synopsis of Birds'. Dr. John Latham 1740 - 1847 the leading British ornithologist of his time was a founding member of the Linnean Society and through his work with the society became acquainted with the leading naturalists and collectors of the day. Many specimens and drawings of Australian birds were arriving in Britain following expeditions to Australia. Latham gave the first published descriptions and scientific names of Australian birds including the emu lyre bird magpie and white cockatoo. A good strong impression on paper with wide margins. Faint smudging in the top margin only not affecting the image. 'Plate XI' upper left corner. Paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" unknown
1968144 pages. Explains how to hand-tame the chickadee, the nuthatch, the pine grosbeak, the purple finch, the redpoll, the catbird, and the wary woodpecker. Filled with lovable bird characters who become people for the reader, as they have for the author. Average wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Average wear and some tears to dust jacket which is missing a chip from bottom edge of back panel. Solid copy. Book
rif. 31769DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1983. THICK QUARTO OVER 700 PAGES AND WITH 113 FULL COLOUR PLATES. VERY GOOD IN A COMPLETE BUT WORN DUSTWRAPPER. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. DELHI, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1983 unknown
rif. 30923DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1983. THICK QUARTO OVER 700 PAGES AND WITH 113 FULL COLOUR PLATES. A VERY GOOD/FINE COPY IN NICE DUSTWRAPPER. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. DELHI, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1983 unknown
rif. 28659DELHI OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1983. THICK QUARTO OVER 700 PAGES AND WITH 113 FULL COLOUR PLATES. SOME SPOTTING TO FRONT PASTEDOWN BUT A VERY GOOD/FINE COPY IN NICE DUSTWRAPPER. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED. DELHI, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1983 unknown
1902rif. 17978Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1902. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. If it wasn't xlib I would rate the book near-fine. A very nice copy with an owner's inscription on the fep dated 1902.; Ex-Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 512 pages . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover
rif. 38102OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1994. FIRST EDITION FINE IN DUSTWRAPPER. THE COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994 unknown
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rif. 31680OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1977-94. A COMPLETE SET OF THIS MAJOR WORK ON ORNITHOLOGY 9 VOLUMES. A VERY FINE SET IN ALL WITH COMPLETE FINE DUSTWRAPPERS. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1977-94 unknown
rif. 30928OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1977-94. A COMPLETE SET OF THIS MAJOR WORK ON ORNITHOLOGY 9 VOLUMES. ALL WITH COMPLETE DUSTWRAPPERS AN IN VERY GOOD/FINE CONDITION. VERY SLIGHT FADING OF THE COLOUR OF THE SPINES TO TWO VOLUMES. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS WILL BE REQUIRED. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1977-94 unknown
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