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Very Good. First edition, 1951. Quarto, cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine, 443 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling or discoloration to some pages and to the page-edges, some rubbing and light wear to the covers, a touch of discoloration to the cloth covers, no dust jacket.
Add this copy of British and American Sporting Authors Their Writings to cart. $28.00, very good condition, Sold by HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Boston, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1951 by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Size: 4to-over 9.75"-12" tall; Lovely 1st British edition green cloth hardcover with dull but legible gilt titles on backstrip. Very light color loss at lightly bumped tips. No fraying. Name, two small bits of cello tape glue remnants and vintage bookstore sticker on frt pastedown from Sydney R. Smith Sporting Books Canaan, NY (Sydney Smith composed the Bibliography). Illustrated with b/w photos and art reproductions. A few check marks and some tidy marginalia in Bibliography in rear of book. An important reference that covers the subject and history of sporting books from 1373 through 1950. 443 pp. This book give biographical essays describing the lives and work of the most significant sporting authors of the British Isles and North America. The essays are arranged chronologically beginning with Edward, Duke of York (The Master of Game) and George Turbervile. The bulk of entries concern the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and all but a handful of the then extant authors were born in the nineteenth century. Notables include William Somerville, Peter Beckford, Charles Apperley ("Nimrod"), R.S. Surtees, Thomas Smith, F.P. Delme Radcliffe, William Henry Herbert ("Frank Forester"), Lord North, E. OE. Somerville, et al.
Add this copy of British and American Sporting Authors: Their Writings to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1949 by Blue Ridge Press,.
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Very Good+, No Dust Jacket. 4TO, 443 pgs., B/W Illus, Hardcover. Hardcover: Clean and crisp green cloth binding with insignia on front board. Title in gold on spine. Green paste-downs and endpapers are spotless. Frontispiece and text pages are crisp and clean. Original glassine wrapper is intact, with minor chipping. Very nice plain green slipcase with title tipped in on spine has minor edgewear. Sportsman who read and enjoy sports, seldom know much about the authors who write them. Interesting facts in the lives of these men and women. Illustrated. Nice tight binding.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 4to-over 9.75"-12" tall; 1st edition green hardcover with Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier in double gilt circle on frt cover, bright gilt title and fox mask on spine. As new, 443 pp unread copy in original glassine wrapper and mint condition green board slipcase. With a bibliography by Sydney R. Smith and a foreword by Ernest R. Gee. First edition. Illustrated biographical sketches. This book give biographical essays describing the lives and work of the most significant sporting authors of the British Isles and North America. The essays are arranged chronologically beginning with Edward, Duke of York (The Master of Game) and George Turbervile. The bulk of entries concern the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and all but a handful of the then extant authors were born in the nineteenth century. Notables include William Somerville, Peter Beckford, Charles Apperley ("Nimrod"), R.S. Surtees, Thomas Smith, F.P. Delme Radcliffe, William Henry Herbert ("Frank Forester"), Lord North, E. OE. Somerville, et al.
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