SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 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
by (Osbaldeston, Squire). Cuming, E.D.; editor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1926).. (1926).. Good. - Quarto, tan cloth titled in brown on the front cover & the spine with a vignette in brown & blue at the bottom of the spine. The covers are rubbed and the corners bumped. lv, [v] & 260 pages, illustrated with color and black & white plates and a folding map. There is some occasional light foxing. An early book seller's label is mounted at the bottom of the rear pastedown and there is a tiny slit to the bottom of the rear hinge. The pages are slightly darkened, there is a small chip to the front edge of a few leaves and the top edges of a few plates are slightly wrinkled. Good. <p>Third printing of this work on the British hunt. Includes depictions of fox hunting, horses and hounds.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17567
- Title
- SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 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
- Author
- (Osbaldeston, Squire). Cuming, E.D.; editor
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1926).
- Date Published
- (1926).
- Keywords
- SPORTING; HUNTING; BRITISH; SQUIRE OSBALDSTON; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; E.D. CUMING; SIR THEODORE COOK; COLOR PLATES; MAP; ILLUSTRATIONS; JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD; HOUNDS; FOX HUNTING; HORSES.
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- Sporting;
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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