GAME SHOOTING: A TEXTBOOK ON THE SUCCESSFUL USE OF THE MODERN SHOTGUN. By Robert Churchill.

1955 1st edition. Large 8vo (155 x 260mm). Pp250. B/w photographs, illustrations. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt.

First edition of this famous and useful book. The author was a noted London gunsmith who ran a very successful shooting school in Kent, experience from which forms the basis of this book. In this book, Churchill gives the keen reader the benefit of his thirty years' new experience and thinking acquired between 1955 and his 1925 text book, How to Shoot: Some Lessons in the Science of Shotgun Shooting. Regarded by many as the definitive work on the subject.