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Sport In War. Illustrated By Lionel Edwards. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
by Capt. DAWSON, LIONEL: EDWARDS, LIONEL:
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Collins, 1936 (1st.) Ltd Ed. 14/75.. Tall hardback, approx 12.5 x 10 inches. Half bound with green calf leather to spine lettered in gilt and green cloth to boards. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Rubbing to leather on ends of spine, some minor light handling marks to cloth. Endpapers clean. Signed by both Author and Illustrator. Inside pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 98pp. Illustrated with 6 coloured and 6 monochrome plates, and B&W chapter heading vigettes and tailpieces by Lionel Edwards. Chapters include: Front Line Polo / Crimean Racing/ Nimrod Militant (pick-sticking) etc., etc.; It includes an account of the pack of hounds that Wellington brought from England and hunted throughout the Peninsular campaign. Lionel Dawson was hunting correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. Scarce Signed Limited Numbered Edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88504
- Title
- Sport In War. Illustrated By Lionel Edwards. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION.
- Author
- Capt. DAWSON, LIONEL: EDWARDS, LIONEL:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Collins, 1936 (1st.) Ltd Ed. 14/75.
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books EDWARDS, LIONEL, DAWSON, LIONEL, Sports & Pastimes, Military, Illustrated Books, illustrated, colour plates, Collins, 1936, 1st, limited, ltd ed, signed, hunting, foxhunting, polo, riding, horses, equestrian, pig-sticking, coursing,
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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