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Just Arrived
A fantastic selection of the American Jazz/Blues/Rock magazines from the 1960s
& 1970s called Down Beat. Just click on the photograph of the rare Beatles issue to see some of the wonderful retro magazines
we have for sale.They include such great artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, and many
more.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Published in 1930 and still in its very scarce unclipped
dust jacket.
SOLD
The Whitefriars' Chronicles
Incredibly scarce book which gives a fascinating glimpse into the
world of the literary greats that were members of the Whitefriars Club in London. Signed by the author.
Superb early children's book illustrated by Frank Adams
Rio Renegade by Leslie Ernenwein 1947 1st Edition
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All these superb books are in very good or better condition. If you search our Book Inventory but
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Some of the authors featured: Robert Lory, James H. Schmitz, Peter Saxon, Stefan Elg, Errol Lecale, A.E.W. Mason, Brian
W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison, Leslie Watkins, Peter Haining, Saki (H.H. Munro), Hans Holzer, William Peter Blatty, Thomas Page,
Ramsey Campbell, J.H. Brennan, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, James Herbert, and many more.
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The
Decay of Falconry
This is a short extract from a very amusing original piece written by the wonderful
P.G. Wodehouse in the
John O'London's Weekly issue dated December 6th, 1924. It would be idle to deny that the sport of Hawking - or, as the scurvy knaves
and varlets used to call it, Jerking The Jer-Falcon is not what it was in the brave old days. The motto of the present century
is: Golf and the world golfs with you; hawk and you hawk alone. A brief explanation of how this change of taste has come
about should, I think - when treated, as here, by a masterhand - prove fascinating Christmas reading for the citizenry.
According to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, to which I occasionally turn in order to polish up my information on the
few things I do not already know all about, the decay of Falconry was due to the enclosure of waste lands, agricultural improvements,
and the introduction of fire-arms into the sporting field. Of these, it was the last that hit the pastime hardest. Thinking
men saw in a flash what had always been the flaw in Falconry - viz., that the hawk got all the cheers and limelight, while
the human being in the background was merely a super, supporting the star. Faced with the alternative of watching a bird amuse
itself or having the time of their lives peppering game-keepers with small shot, British sportsmen did not hesitate. Tired
of playing second fiddle to a mere bird, they grabbed eagerly at their guns: and from that moment Falconry was doomed.
Another reason why the sport waned in favour was because it was essentially undemocratic. It failed to cater for the
man of small means who is the backbone of every national game. "Falcons and Hawks," says one writer, "were
alloted to degrees and orders of men according to rank and station - for instance, to the emporer the eagle or vulture,
to royalty the jer-falcon, to an earl the peregrine, to a yeoman the goshawk, to a priest the sparrow-hawk, and to the knave
or servant the useless kestrel." One can readily imagine the chagrin of the knave or servant who was compelled to listen
to the earl boasting how Percy, his peregrine, had gone round that morning in two under bogey, conscious as he was all the
time that the handicap of Kenneth, his own kestrel, still stuck steadily in the upper twenties and, in spite of tuition from
the local pro, showed absolutely no signs of improvement, .....
The short extract from "The Decay
of Falconry" by P.G. Wodehouse was taken from one of the issues of
the John O'London's Weekly we have in stock right now.
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