FROM TERRIER BOY TO FIELD MASTER. Philip Back.

1939 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 222mm). Ppxii,69. B/w photographs plates. Red cloth, upper board and spine titled in black. Edition limited to 500 copies.

"For some time past many of my friends have been trying to persuade me to write the story of my life. Until now I have never kept a diary, and to look back over seventy years and try to marshal facts without a note of any kind appeared to me to be a colossal task; and in the second place, I felt that such an account would not be sufficiently interesting to warrant publication. To these objections my good friends replied: 'Put down some of the experiences you have related to us from time to time, and the rest will come as you write. Above all, do tell us how you have managed to run the South Tetcott Hunt on so small a subscription for the last few years.' Now, it was this last suggestion which decided me to fall in with their wishes." Chapters include: The why and the wherefore; Boyhood days with Mr. Trelawney's Hounds; I leave the West and return; The Modbury Harriers; Racing recollections; Mr. Calmady's and Mr. Scott Browne's Foxhounds; Otter-hunting; The South Tetcott Foxhounds.