HARVEY, Isabel Maud. HUNTING ON FOOT WITH SOME YORKSHIRE PACKS: Bring the Cross-Country Experiece of Three Girls in the Wake of the Hunt. privately published by the The Authoress The Priory Nun Monkton York and printed in Middleborough, 1908.

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Description: AUTHOR PRESENTATION COPY WITH A DELIGHTFULLY INTIMATE INK ASSOCIATION INSCRIPTION TO THE FRONT END-PAPER: 'To Number Three, with whom I have spent these happy days out in the hunting field. With the best love of the Authoress, Number Two'. 8vo. Half-title. xvii, 80 pp. Publisher's red cloth, slightly sun faded, especially to the spine which is very faded, though gilt title lettering remains bright. Orig floral endpapers in green. The 2 pp printed publisher's advertisement booklet is loosely inserted.

Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom

Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood SIGNED. An Original Commander in Chief in India embossed stationery Written and Signed by Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood. UK, 1908.

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Condition: Good

Description: An Original Commander in Chief in India embossed stationery Written and Signed by Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood. Dated 1908. The letter to Colonel Walton, sending the Chief’s thanks for sending the sports programme and the detail behind it. Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, 1865-1951 was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Lord Kitchener. He saw action again in the First World War as Commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, leading the landings on the peninsula and then the evacuation later in the year, before becoming commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army on the Western Front during the closing stages of the war. He went on to be general officer commanding the Northern Army in India in 1920 and Commander-in-Chief, India, in 1925 Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859. Size is 178m x 115mm. Condition is good. Folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17164

Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom

Elliot, George Francis Scott. The Romance of Savage Life. Describing Life of Primitive Man, His Customs, Occupations, Language, Beliefs, Arts, Crafts, Adventures, Games, Sports, &c. [The Library of Romance Series]. Seeley and Co. Limited, London, 1908.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo (tall). Blue cloth binding. Title in gilt on spine. 384 p.p., plus 16 p.p. ads. [26] plates incl. frontispiece. SIGNED by author on half-title page to his wife, "Annie Scott Elliot." Her name is also inscribed and underlined on front board. Spine and edges heavily sunned, with wear spine and extremities. Spine loosened from Headband. Foxing throughout. Some pages and plates creased and bumped at corners. Some dark stains to front and rear board and small chips to spine along joints of rear board but otherwise in very good condition. George Francis Scott Elliot [1862-1934] was a botanist, author, and Fellow at Royal Society of Edinburgh. He wrote extensively on Botany and Natural History, and published two other books under The Library of Romance Series. The Romance of Plant Life (1907) and the Romance of Early British Life (1909).

Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada