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1st edition, 1926. Blue cloth gilt aged. Spine hinge split, rubbed at the edges & corners bumped. Gift inscription on the front pastedown. Pages age-browned at the uncut edges. Colour frontisplate. Illustrated with photographic plates, some of which are loose, or crudely taped in. 192 pages.An uncommon book we rarely see.

London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1926. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, sunning and light shelf wear to boards but otherwise neat.. Hard. Very Good. 8vo.

Pages clean and bright, binding firm, sunning and light shelf wear to boards but otherwise neat.

First edition. Illustrated. With a Foreword by The Right Hon. Viscount Ullswater, G.C.B. - Master of the Blencathra Foxhounds, 1903-1919. A biography of John Peel - famous in foxhunting circles in his county of Cumberland in england and as the subject of John Woodcock Graves' song 'John Peel'. 192 pp. Colour frontispiece, & 30 b/w photographic illustrations (two fold-out). One map and two family trees. Some light foxing on prelims and occasionally in text. Spots of foxing on edges. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Spine and front board faded. Top and bottom of spine and corners rubbed. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.