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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. An Irish Sporting Life This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

paperback. Condizione: Good. No Highlighting or underlining. Some Wear but overall good condition. Foxing on one or more of the fore-edges. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An Irish Sporting Life combines the authors previous best-sellers Irish Sporting Sketches and Telling Tales. Part social history, part record of country life, this sparkling memoir warmly conveys the humour and sorrows, and above all, the unfailing celebration that has been Eric Craigies lot as an industrialist, farmer, inventor and former Master of the Ward Union Hunt. In this lovingly assembled scrapbook the author looks back across seventy years vividly recreating a fast-vanishing milieu stag-hunting with the Ward Union, duck shooting on Wexfords sloblands, salmon-fishing on the Owenduff, Boyne and Blackwater rivers. With candour and wry humour he evokes the places and people of the Irish countryside; Count John McCormack, George V. Malcolmson, Queen Mary and Charles J. Haughey are among a memorable cast. Anecdote follows anecdote about fishing, coursing and shooting; about farming and fish farming; about hunting and horse-racing; about every aspect of his long life as a dairy businessman and farmer, bird-watcher and rugby player, and above all, as a man with enormous gusto for living. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. An Irish Sporting Life combines the authors previous best-sellers Irish Sporting Sketches and Telling Tales. Part social history, part record of country life, this sparkling memoir warmly conveys the humour and sorrows, and above all, the unfailing celebration that has been Eric Craigies lot as an industrialist, farmer, inventor and former Master of the Ward Union Hunt. In this lovingly assembled scrapbook the author looks back across seventy years vividly recreating a fast-vanishing milieu stag-hunting with the Ward Union, duck shooting on Wexfords sloblands, salmon-fishing on the Owenduff, Boyne and Blackwater rivers. With candour and wry humour he evokes the places and people of the Irish countryside; Count John McCormack, George V. Malcolmson, Queen Mary and Charles J. Haughey are among a memorable cast. Anecdote follows anecdote about fishing, coursing and shooting; about farming and fish farming; about hunting and horse-racing; about every aspect of his long life as a dairy businessman and farmer, bird-watcher and rugby player, and above all, as a man with enormous gusto for living. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1984). 1984 1st edition. 8vo paperback (138 x 214mm). Pp108. B/w illustrations by Ciaran Lennon. First edition in brown limp cloth. Covers slightly faded but a very good copy of the first edition. Reminiscences of Irish hunting, shooting and fishing. Stag-hunting with the Ward Union, duck shooting on the Wexford Slobs, salmon fishing on the Owenduff, Boyne and Blackwater. .

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. AN IRISH SPORTING LIFE. Eric Craigie. Lilliput Press, 1994 First Thus. ISBN 1874675406 192pp Illustrated Paperback. This copy is in fine condition in illustrated card covers as issued. This edition combines the bestselling 'Irish Sporting Sketches' with 'Telling Tales', these sparkling memoirs by Eric Craigie, part social history and part record of country life, warmly convey the humour and sorrows, and, above all, the unfailing celebration that have constituted his life as a sportsman. Ref X1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Published 1994 Soft Cover near fine book. No inscription. Map. 192 pages. Illustrations.