This rich social history of polo traces the great international sport that Winston Churchill called "the emperor of games" through 2,000 years--from its origins in Tibet to the royal courts of Persia to India, where it was eventually taken up by the British, to the present. 40 illustrations.
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This rich social history of polo traces the great international sport that Winston Churchill called "the emperor of games" through 2,000 years--from its origins in Tibet to the royal courts of Persia to India, where it was eventually taken up by the British, to the present. 40 illustrations.
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Very good jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Fine; near fine dust jacket with flap clipped. Tall 8 vo. 184 pp. Acknowledgments, index, b/w photos, green boards/cloth.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. 184pp, b/w ills, appendix, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. A rich and informal social history of polo, tracing the sport through 2, 000 years--from its origin in ancient Tibet to the royal courts of Persia, to India, where it was taken up by the British, down to the 1990s.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; As new hardcover in quarter-bound green cloth over green paper on square, straight board covers. 184pp text printed on glossy, quality stock well illustrated with b/w photos. Much sought, more than presentable and a perfect gift book for any polo lover.
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