1949 Hunting by Ear: The Sound of Fox Hunting
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon, With Dustwrapper
'Hunting by Ear' describes itself as a sound-book, with the records going hand-in-hand to accompany the text. Here, the music and lyricism of the various sounds of fox-hunting are presented, in amongst them the call of humans, the horn, barking hounds and birds.
With recordings by D. W. E. Brock and Ludwig Koch.
Presented in a box along with two gramophone records.
Illustrated throughout with full plates and vignettes, as well as with a full colour frontispiece illustration.
Condition
In the publisher's original full cloth binding, in a box with two gramophone records in a sleeve each. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition, with minor chips to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Box is externally a trifle worn, with corners rubbed away and flaps unattached; records are pristine. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound, pages are bright and clean.
Near Fine
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