Falconry

Good hardcover in chipped dust jacket with several nicks and small tears. 2nd impression 1974. Includes 8 black-and-white photographs, plus several line drawings. Foxing and some staining to top edges as well as pastedowns. Publisher's description: Gilbert Blaine's Falconry has been regarded as a minor classic since it first appeared in 1936. It is essentially a practical treatise from someone who practised the sport for more than forty years and consequently of inestimable value to all modern falconers. From the introduction: Everything worth doing is worth doing well. In falconry there is no middle course. Its charm lies in its hazards, in the beauty and character of the birds themselves, in the marvellous qualities with which Nature has endowed them, and in the art of your control over one of the wildest and proudest of living creatures.