SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Edited With Commentary, by E. D. Cuming Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook

Published by London and New York John Lane the Bodley Head [and] Charles Scribner's Sons 1926

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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.

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Title
SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Edited With Commentary, by E. D. Cuming Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook
Author
Osbaldeston Squire
Publisher
London and New York John Lane the Bodley Head [and] Charles Scribner's Sons 1926
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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Buddenbrooks has one of the finest selections of fine and rare books in several fields and we invite you to visit us at our new premises in Newburyport, Massachusetts where have an open "brick and mortar" bookshop. We are also available to meet with clients in Boston by appointment only, where we have maintained a presence for over 40 years. We offer a search service for any books, old or new, which you may have been unable to find. Please call for further information, we look forward to hearing from you.…

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