Search Results: Handley Cross Or, Mr Jorrocks's Hunt

New York: Viking Press, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Binding rubbed, outer edges of covers little damp stained. Front inner hinge weak, long inked inscription on fly leaf. Top of pages little wrinkled. This edition limited to 1000 copies for America. Reprint. Size: 8vo. 667 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Fishing & Hunting; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

GB: Surtees Society, 1983. Not dated but perhaps about 1983. Red cloth, gilt. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Top edge slightly spotted. In loose polythene protector. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1400g. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback. nrFine/No DW.

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good-. 1930. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Leech. 667 pages, illustrated with bright, nice color plates. 9" x 5 1/4", red-orange cloth with black and gilt stamping to the spine. Spine is sunned with rubbed ends, covers are scuffed and just slightly soiled with rubbed corners. The hinges are a bit tender but the contents are bright, clean and complete. A Near Very Good copy. .

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., (1930).. (1930).. Very good. - Octavo, red cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is very lightly rubbed & bumped & the spine is sunned. 667 pages. Illustrated by John Leech with 17 color plates, including a frontispiece, & with profuse black-and-white textual illustrations. Very good. <p>Number 447 of a limited edition of 1,050 copies for England. The introduction is by Siegfried Sassoon.

Bradbury, Agnew & co. Used - Very Good. 1892. First edition in this format. Dec. cloth, 578 pp., illus. Col. frontispiece. Spine sun-darkened; some foxing to fore-edge; rubbing to extremities of binding. (Subject: Sports & Games.)

Printed for Subscribers. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Subscription edition. The red boards are a bit marked and worn. A little tanning. Soundly bound. Inscribed to the South African author Sarah Gertrude Millin - possibly by the author.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd, nd. (c.1899).. A great comic character, on a par with the creations of Dickens, Jorrocks is a self made Cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting. This Rabelaisian novel recounts his muddling adventures as an amateur huntsman who comes to the up and coming spa town of Handley Cross to take over its pack of hounds for a season, having been pinpointed for the task on account of his wealth and the fame of his exploits out hunting with 'the Surrey'. 22.5cms x 15cms x 5cms. Pp.xvi/578, coloured illustration to title page, 17 coloured plates + many full page steel engravings and more engravings on wood by John Leech, gift message to front free endpaper, endpapers tanned. Brightred gilt decorated cloth, gilt illustrated title to front and spine, small chip to base of spine. VG.