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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DJ. Former library book. xxxvi, 420 pp. Pages are lightly toned, but clean and unmarked except for library treatments, which affect the Dedication page and inside the front cover. Over 30 full page plates plus frontispiece (still complete with tissue paper protector), and numerous in-text illustrations. Front hinge is cracked, causing first section of pages to be somewhat loose, but pages are all still attached to their threads. Frontispiece protrudes the most and its edges have become ragged. Rest of book is solid. Boards covered in brown fabric with elaborate illustration and titling on front cover and spine. Bottom edges are shelfworn, corners and tail of spine are bumped. Top of spine is bumped and has small tears. Some smudges and spots on front, spine, and back, but none of these are significant. Overall, a rather fragile but very special period piece.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. xxxvi / 420 pp bw plates and illustrations. brown cloth with colour title and illustrations, decorative endpapers. Corners a little softened, spine ends scuffed, bookplate to endpapers, scattered foxing to edges and pages - solid copy. A. Thorburn, Lucien Davis, C.E. Brock et al (illustrator). …

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated by A. Thordurn, Lucien Davis, C. E. Brock (golfing print) and others. 420 pages. With a chapter on classical allusions to sport by Andrew Lang, and a special preface to the Babminton Library by A. E. Watson. Slight wear to spine extremities else bright covers. Owner label upper ffep. Light foxing throughout. Notation on title page referencing a stanza checked on page 49. Covers protected by mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. Original pictorial cover and spine. A volume in the Badminton Library Series. Very good copy. Illustrated By A Thorburn, Lucian Davis, C E Brock and Others (illustrator).

Half LEATHER. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION. ORANGE CLOTH BOARDS WITH BLACK LEATHER CORNERS , SPINE & OVERLAP RULED IN GOLD GILT. STUNNING GOLD GILT COAT OF ARMS IN VIVID GOLD GILT ON FRONT BOARD. SOME WEAR TO LEATHER. MOST PROFUSELY AND UNIQUELY ILLUSTRATED.420 PAGES. SOLID & VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. GOLD GILT TOP EDGES. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. A.thorburn, Lucien Davis, C.e. Brock and Others. (illustrator).…

Cloth Bound. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A fine copy, the original pictorial cloth binding still crisp and bright. Text fine, tight and clean, with light age-browning of the tissue-guard to the frontispiece and a few trivial fox speckles elsewhere. Pages XXXV1, 420. Covers hunting, fishing, shooting and cricket, with further account of hawking, bathing, racing, archery etc - an odd combination by today's standards, but one very much in tune with the image of the gentleman of yesteryear. An intriguing text and a lovely copy. (R-18).…