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MEMORIES OF RACING AND HUNTING.
by Portland, Duke of. Signed
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. 364 pp, 11 1/4" H. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and monogram on spine and front cover, top edge gilt. Some pages as yet unopened. Signed in pencil on front free endpaper: "From / Portland / August 11 36". Many b&w photographs, reproductions, including double-page drawing of "The Quorn Hunt, Meet at Baggrave, 1882. The Duke's memories of horses, horsemen, horse racing and 'riding to hounds'. Appendices - I: Lord George Bentinck in the House of Commons and on the Turf; II. Lord George Bentinck's Duels; III. Thirteen Winners and Fourteen Placed Horses in Classic Races and The Ascot Gold Cup, The Property of the Duke of Portland / Racing Statistics 1881-1933; IV. Trials, 1883-1918; V. Stud Records: St. Simon; VI. Great Mares and Their Influence; VII. (Celebrated Mares and Foals at Hunciecroft); VIII. Pedigrees of St. Simon, Ormonde, Carbine and Other Great Winners; IX. Principal Owners and Breeders of Classic Winners; X. Forty-One Classic Winners Trained by the late John Scott, the Wizard of the North at Malton, Yorks., between 1827 and 1863; XI. Thoroughbreds and the Ascot Gold Cup; Index. One or two tiny foxing marks on endpapers, browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, browning and darkening to spine and edges of boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine with a few tiny areas of cloth loss, small bump and tiny tear at to edge of front board, light rub marks on boards, minor wear at one corner, small slight bump at corners.. Signed by Author. Second Impression.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29999
- Title
- MEMORIES OF RACING AND HUNTING.
- Author
- Portland, Duke of. Signed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Second Impression.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Duke of Portland, Horses, Horse Racing, Thoroughbred Horses, Cambridgeshire, Jockeys, Tom Cannon, Carbine, Pedigree, Henry Chaplin, Viscount Chaplin, Hounds, Coaching, Four-In-hand Club, Coldstream Guards, Cottesmore Hounds, John Coupland, Master of Quorn
- Bookseller catalogs
- BRITISH HISTORY; Sports; Horses & Horsemanship;
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