Athletics by The Achilles Club

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. In turquoise-green cloth-covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. Top edge is a (dulled) light green, and the remaining page fore-edges are very lightly 'toned' with some very light 'spotting' (pale small foxing) - fairly negligible and overall clean. In the original dust-jacket which has some surface wear/small chips/scrapes to the head/tail of the spine, and some general light edge-wear with some small losses mainly to the bottom edge. These small faults have been repaired to the rear of the dust jacket with archive tape, and there has been an attempt to colour in where the losses have occured but the d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks pretty good. A former owner's name and address in ink nest to the remains of an old price sticker on the top of the inner front flap of the d/j. Inside the book, however, there are NO Inscriptions or major marks, a little light yellowing/offsetting to the endpapers but generally internally this is a VERY clean, tight and bright copy. (xii) + 308 pages Plus the full page illustrations (unpaginated) = 57 pages of b/w photographs, and 20 b/w diagrams/line drawings in the text. The Achilles Club chose a team of 19 to write this book - each man has written a chapter on his particular event - these athletes include 5 Olympic Champions and 5 Olympic finalists. Also Chapters of General Interest by people like H. M Abrahams and E. A. Hunter, etc. Overall a VG Plus copy in a Good Plus dust jacket. See Images. ; Modern Sports. Edited by Howard Marshall; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .