Reeve, J. Stanley; Vaughan, Henry G. [introduction]. Foxhunting Recollections : A Journal of the Radnor Hounds and other Packs. Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928. First Trade Edition. [12068]
Dark red cloth with bright gilt titles, slight shelf-wear, no dust jacket, 9 x 6 inches, tight. Illustration of a hunting scene as end papers; some little worming in the end paper hinges. "Frontispiece in color and 16 Illustrations in Doubletone." 320 clean pp. Good. Hardcover.
Descriptions of fox hunting in Pennsylvania during the 1920's. Describes the yearly events chronologically.
Josiah Stanley Reeve (1878-1960), b. Medford, New Jersey; a resident of Haverstown, Pennsylvania. He was an insurance broker by trade, recognized as "an authority on fox hunting who served as a judge at many leading horse shows...He was known as the Boswell to W. Plunket Stewart's Cheshire Fox Hounds at Unionville, Chester County, where he was a member of the field. He had officiated at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, and was a former president of the Bryn Mawr Hound Show and a former judge of the New York Hound Show." - obituary at The New York Times, Dec. 18, 1960.
He was married to Miss Katherine Roosevelt, a cousin to President Theodore Roosevelt.
Reeve "hunted with The Radnor Hounds for twenty-two years. In 1931, he began to hunt with the pack which his friend, W. Plunket Stewart, who for ten years was President of The M.F.H. Association of America, established to hunt the country around Unionville, in Chester County...In his youth, Mr. Reeve was a breeder of Greyhounds, and was well known as a judge of events connected with the breed. He also judged Hounds and Harriers in New York and elsewhere, and has done much for hunting and sport around Philadelphia...Mr. Reeve's books about hunting are well known, and his experiences, which are written in an intimate, racy style, have made them popular with hunting men - and women - throughout America." - Higginson, British and American Sporting Authors, pp. 231-2.
