Osbaldeston Squire (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a VG hardcover first edition copy in tan buckram, no DJ, 260 pages with index, untrimmed edges, 16 color & 75 black and white plates. Please note: some modest foxing of the text, not the plates. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd printing (1926); cream c w/black titles; owner's lovely insc.; some toning of end papers; 260 clean, unmarked pages w/16 color plates (mostly of fox hunting scenes), 75 black & white plates (portraits, horses, hounds, etc), and a large folding map of Combe's Leicestershire and the surrounding country. Squire George Osbaldeston was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer.VERY Heavy item1. Cook (sir) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 11 inches, lv + 260 pages plus ads, reprint July 1926, introduction by Sir Theodore Cook, sixteen color plates--largely of foxhunting scenes, 75 in black and white with many of horses and hounds, large folding map is Combe's Leicestershire and surrounding country, index, tan cloth over boards with brown title and illustration on lower portion of backstrip. Boards are damptstained and puckered, inner dampstains are scattered and confined to upper, lower and spine margins. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xlix + 331pp, well-illustrated, hardcover, 8vo, bound in red cloth, black lettered, good condition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1927. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book measures 30x24cm, 260pp. Bound in original publishers cloth, with brown title lettering on spine and top board. Cloth with wear, Cloth rubbed on head and tail of spine, light wear to corners. Binding in good firm condition. Internally, some spotting to free front end pages, otherwise pages clean. A very good clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fairly good condition for year.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. 'Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography' edited by E. D. Cuming. John Lane Bodley Head 1926 third edition. A little foxing. Very good in dust jacket with a number of tears, creasing and some internal strengthening. Minor loss to the top and base of the spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The third impression of the first edition. Original oatmeal cloth hard covers. Mild soiling to covers. Toning to edges, old inscription inside front cover, and some slight scattered foxing. Internally, otherwise, near fine -- clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated, fold-out map, index. lviii,260+4[ads.]pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Condition: Good. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 3rd printing. 4to. lv,260pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate and gifter's inscription on pastedown. (horsemen, hunters, fox hunting, horse racing, autobiographies) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.…

Lane, London, 1926, first printing. Illustrated with 16 color plates, 75 b&w plates and a large foldout map. 9.25" x 11.5". 260 pp. Brown cloth, spine darkened, some foxing in text, bookplate and owner inscription on the front endpapers. 260 pp + 26 page introduction and an 11 page "Note on the illustrations", both by Cook. The autobiography of a man obsessed with sport, Master of the Quorn, the Pytchley, etc., including foxhunting, breeding hounds, game bird shooting, steeplechasing, driving, racing, etc. Very good.…

First edition, third printing and just a few months after the first. With 16 fine colourplates from paintings and 75 illustrations on black and white plates and with a map. 4to, in the publisher's original wheat buckram lettered on the upper cover and spine in brown and with decoration of man on horseback in black and blue at the spine foot. lv, 260pp., 4pp. ads. A very good and handsome copy, the text fine, the cloth very mildly mellowed by time but still quite attractive. A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED CLASSIC OF SEVERAL SPORTING GENRES. Osbaldeston was a first-rate shot, a master of the hounds and horses, fox hunter, world-class cricketer, and famous for his racing abilities, in flat, steeplechase, endurance and carriage races. He was equally well known for his romantic escapades.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Good Jacket. First Edition. Book. 4to - over 9¾. 259 pages; 16 color plates, 75 black and white illustrations, plus map. Foxhunting classic of early Victorian sportsman, with illustrations featuring some of the best known masters of equestrian and sporting art such as Henry Alken, Ferneley, Pollard, et. al. Dust jacket has some tears and chips; protected with mylar. Book itself in excellent condition, with heavy stock paper. One black and white plate has slight bubbling in upper center. Alken, Pollard, Ferneley, Others (illustrator).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. This is a handsomely bound example of this 1927 edition of the autobiography of Squire Osbaldeston, who was a fine cricketer, rower and sportsman, especially fox hunting, rowing for Eton and Oxford, as well as being a politician and member of parliament, and high Sheriff of Yorkshire. The book is bound in half red leather with raised bands and hunting devices of a shooter and pointer, top edge gilded, fitted with decorative marbled endpapers, the binding is in nice condition, internally some occasional foxing, some wrinkling to the paper on the plates, there are a couple of neat paper repairs ( see pictures) else in good general condition.…

Half Morocco, Cloth Boards. Condition: Fine. Good Jacket. First Edition. Beautiful Bayntun, Riviere half brown morocco binding! 4to. 29 by 22 cm. 259 pages; 16 color plates, 75 black and white illustrations, plus map. Foxhunting classic of early Victorian sportsman, with illustrations featuring some of the best known masters of equestrian and sporting art such as Henry Alken, Ferneley, Pollard, et. al. Dust jacket has some tears and chips; protected with mylar. Book itself in excellent condition, with heavy stock pape. Alken, Pollard, Ferneley, Others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edited, with Commentary, by E.D. Cuming. Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour, and Seventy-five in Black and White, and a Map. OSBALDESTON, Squire [260] pp. Charles Scribner's Sons 1926 11 5/8" x 9 5/8" w/ 6-fold Combe's Map of Leicestershire and the surrounding country.…

London: The Bodley Head. 1926. 4to. Original fawn cloth, lettering blocked in brown to front and spine, brown and blue blocked vignette of knight to spine; pp. lv + [v] + 260 + [4, ads.], 16 colour plates, 75 b&w plates by artists including Alken and Ferneley; occasional foxing throughout especially to edges, very good.First edition. 'Squire' George Osbaldeston (1786 - 1866) was a Yorkshire sportsman and politician, though his duties as Whig MP for East Retford came a distant second to his sporting interests. He was an excellent jockey and cricketer, but his abiding passion was fox hunting, and this is the main focus of the book. He was hot-headed, intemperate, trusting, womanising, impecunious, addicted to gambling and probably none too bright; this handsomely produced book, which had not been published before this edition, captures the spirit of a man who was only really happy on a horse.…