Reprints
by Smith-Turberville, H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
No place (Warwick?): No Publisher (self-published) No date (circa 1928). Presumed first and only edition. Four essays by the author, written between 1914 and 1928, and a reprinting of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. Smith-Turberville, a former Mayor of Warwick, was a keen golfer and archer and this book contains a long essay entitled "When Golf Came South" and a short essay entitled "Archery", both written at Hove. The author's heraldic bookplate adorns the front pastedown and pencilled writing on the front free endpaper states: "R.G. Modera, complimentary from Smith-Turberville." With a b.& w. frontispiece plate of the author. A VG+ copy, sound and tight, in original printed paper-covered boards and grey cloth spine. Without dustwrapper, but almost certainly never had one originally. A highly unusual item and very scarce..
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- Bookseller
- NEXUS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2443
- Title
- Reprints
- Author
- Smith-Turberville, H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- No Publisher (self-published)
- Place of Publication
- No place (Warwick?)
- Keywords
- Golf, Golfing, Archery, Sportler
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports, Sporting, Game & Recreation Books;
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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