At Dawn and Dusk mountaineering Essen : Hirmer

Essen : Hirmer

Pennsylvania

Publisher's original brown-grey cover with the spine lettered in red and most of the publisher's glassine wrapper intact (with a quite large piece missing from the front panel)

44 sonnets each decorated with illuminated initial cap with the first sonnet spread across double page framed with a lovely Art Nouveau interlocking pipe decorations

Thirty-fourth thousand edition of the classic adventure story

At Dawn and Dusk mountaineering Essen : HirmerBeing my record of nearly sixty years of wildfowling London: The Batchworth Press, 1954. First Edition. 194pp. With 18 photographic illustrations and six maps. Hardback in dust jacket. Light foxing to prelims and edges of text block. Dust jacket with some creasing and short tears to edges; creased and marked to upper panel. McLeane's memoirs are a detailed record of men of leisure shooting large numbers of wildfowl, including coot and sandpiper.