Two Impostors And Tinker Conyers, Dorthea Horse Stories - All Others

Ex-lib, Hardcover in green cloth covered boards. Moderate soil on front board, gilt title still visible. Tips and spine ends bumped but not rubbed. Library stamps on page block, top edge dusted. 376pp with ghosting present on fep from erased pencil marks, foxing from the acid in the paper on preliminaries. 2 exlib stamps but no pocket or evidence of ever having one all pages present. Missing jacket. A 20th century sporting novel of the fox hunting field with the Mullenboden Hounds. Deals with the adventures and various mishaps of a young man who, under his cousin's name, takes a pack of hounds, his sister acting as whip Tinker is their mongrel terrier. Chapter headings are- The Beginning of the Plot/ Imposters Undetected/ The Master Sees His Hounds/ Concerning Luncheons/ How the M.F.H. Bought His Horses/ Principally of Major Crehan/ How They Started on Their Fishing Trip/ Connemara/ The End of the Trip/ Cub Hunting/ The Opening Day/ Hunting and Entertainments/ It Was a Fox/ Some Hunting and Some Fears/ A Thief in the Night/ One Mine Explodes and One Finds Gold.