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HAPPY DAYS WITH ROD, GUN AND BAT

HAPPY DAYS WITH ROD, GUN AND BAT
HAPPY DAYS WITH ROD, GUN AND BAT
HAPPY DAYS WITH ROD, GUN AND BAT

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Printed for private circulation only, the author of this scarce volume was a keen cricketer, being a joint-founder of the Hampstead Nondescripts, and enjoyed shooting in England and Scotland; but fishing was his main passion, and the major part of this book describes his experiences on the Isle of Lewis and elsewhere and recounts A Tale of The Hebrides Salmon (in a contribution by W.A. Everington).

Small 8vo. 127pp. Portrait frontispiece. Orig. cloth gilt. Foxing to early pages and edges of others. A good copy. Scarce. Signed by the author to front free-endpaper. [Cox, 38]

Date
[1945]
Publisher
Home Words Printing & Publishing
Author
Cecil BRAITHWAITE

£295.00 (Code: 2040B)

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