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London: L. Booth. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Viii, 336 pp. Original dark red cloth with blind ruling, elaborately gilt spine with gilt title. Covers are faded and worn, some toeing in at the corners, spine cover is quite faded and starting to lift. Interior front hinge cracking, yellow endpapers, title page is quite browned (as is common) and has a 2" clean tear at the top edge. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Quite scarce, only a few hundred were printed. Fictionalized account of hunting and fishing in many continents. "Contains much on Canadian fishing among the Thousand Islands, including very early fly fishing for bass in the St. Lawrence. Also trout in Ireland, hunting in Africa. The St. Hubert's Club was established in Canada in 1848." Bruns call it "a rare work." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages .

New York: Privately Printed. Good in Good dust jacket. 1941. Hardcover. 41pp + 7 unnumbered pages. Photographs. With original glassine dust jacket. Card from Albert Eugene Gallantin, noted 20th century American writer and collector of modern art. Book has brown paper hardcover with brown text on front cover. Dust jacket has significant wear and tears. Slight wear on covers, corners are slightly bent. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Florence, Kentucky: Routledge. Good with no dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 0415425379 . 1st Thus. xix + 174 pp. Index. Illustrated with some photos and charts. Black cloth covers with silver gilt are clean, some minor shelf wear, old white price sticker at back cover, interior has pencil erasure on first blank, back hinge starting and last blank slightly loose, otherwise clean and unmarked. Priced to reflect minor condition issues. Essays include: The Latin American Olympic Explosion of the 1920s Causes and Consequences; The Modern Olympic Movement, Women's Sport and the Social Order During the Inter-war Period; Conflicts of 1930s Japanese Olympic Diplomacy in Universalizing the Olympic Movement; A Debt Was Paid Off in Tears: Science IOC Politics and the Debate about High Altitude in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics; Expressions of Japanese Cultural and National Identity in the Movement to Include Judo into the Olympic Programme; Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic… Read More

London: Hutchinson. Good with no dust jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 88 pages, wonderful sketches and cartoons of the hunting scene by the author. Limited edition of 250, this is no. 45, signed on the limitation page by the author. No date listed. Original red 3/4 leather with bright red cloth boards with a gilt engraved humourous scene, red ruling at the leather edges. Corners just a little rubbed, ditto spine tips, the DJ is gone excpet for the two flaps which are tucked inside. Beautiful marbled end papers. First blank is quite foxed , same at rear, otherwise minor foxing and age but clean and nice, a very handsome copy of this humourous hunting collection, signed by the author. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 88 pages; Signed by Author .