The Hunting If ... Courtesy of Kathrina Cooley.
[New York]: Compliments of Ernest L. Woodward, M.F.H. [privately printed by the Derrydale Press], 1932.
Price: $1,250.00
About the item
First edition. “One Hundred Copies of the Hunting If have been printed by Eugene V. Connettt at the Derrydale Press in the Month of April 1932.”. Printed in red and black on folded leaves. Sketches throughout text. Unpaginated. [12] leaves. 1 vols. Square 12mo. Original red straight grained morocco, with gilt stamp of the Genessee Valley Hunt on upper cover. Slightest rubbing, some foxing to pastedowns and occasionally in text. Near fine. Siegel 61; Frazier S-6-a; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 325.
Item #367352
Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated poem for the hunting field.
The upper board is stamped in gilt with Genessee Valley Hunt logo, a fox’s mask flanked by the club initials.
RARE.
