Derrydale Press
Pages: 250
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Trim: 7¼ x 10¼
978-1-58667-100-6 • Hardback • October 2003 • $40.00 • (£24.95)
978-1-4617-1268-8 • eBook • October 2003 • $38.00 • (£24.95)
Norman Fine is the former editor of Covertside, a publication of the Masters of Foxhounds Association of America. He lives in Millwood, Virginia.
Treasury of Foxhunting is a collection of essays, stories, fiction and hunting humor meant to inform and educate the reader.
— Karl Hille; Winchester Star
Norman Fine dishes up a feast of hunting tales, fact, history, and humor. Within the pages of this goldmine collection, readers will delight to the nonpariel prose from such story-telling legends as David Gray, Gordon Grand, and Somerville & Ross - all-time favorites in terms of hunting and riding tales.
— Lauren Giannini; In and Around Horse Country
The selections, written by the foremost sporting writers of their day, hark back to the original sources of classic, rare, and mostly out-of-print works that established The Derrydale Press as the preeminent sporting publisher of the first half of the twentieth century.
— Masters Of Foxhounds Association and Equine Journal
A work of considerable importance in that editor Norm Fine has collected for eternity what must be one of the most impressive collection of foxhunting tales there is.
— John Strassburger; The Chronicle Of The Horse
The editor's introduction, the results of his skillful research of Derrydale's early work, is quite remarkable...The stories, written by experienced sporting people, should be espeically enjoyed during the hunting season... fun, informative and full of life and energy for those of us who cherish our horses, hounds, countryside and the characters we call good friends.
— Paul Cronin; The Nsl Newsletter
This is an eponymous Treasury filled with a pack of stories that will offer all hunting people excellent sport.
— Hunting Book Reviews