MARSH and MUDFLAT. By Major Kenneth Dawson.

1931 1st edition*. Large 4to (220 x 285mm). Ppvx,100. Illustrated from original dry-points and etchings by Winifred Austen, decorative marbled end-papers. Polished green cloth spine to decorative cloth boards, upper board titled in light green to green tipped-on rounded-edged label, spine titled in light green.

An account of a lifetime's wildfowling: ducks, geese, snipe and woodcock, gundogs. Includes a chapter on wildfowling in Greek Macedonia, in the marshes adjacent to Salonika. Excellent etchings by Winifred Austin. Chapters include: The lure of wildfowling; Wildfowl and weather; Fowling pieces; Autumn wildfowling; Flighting on the coast; Flighting inland; Little oases; The grey geese; The black geese; Hen-footed fowl; Snipe and woodcok; The fowler's dog; A wildfowler's paradise; Wild goose driving; An evening in Macedonia. *This is probably the version produced for America, as the British editions we have seen have noticably different bindings.