Backward Glances Reminiscences of an Old New-Yorker
by Thomas Floyd-Jones
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-171: Privately Printed. Very Good. 1914. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Privately Printed, New York, 1914. 275 pgs. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait and many other illustrations, some with lettered tissue guards , facsimile letters and documents. Not sure if printed with a title page. Bound in grey cloth with gilt titles present. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A personal memoir of the horse racing and trotting sport as it evolved in New York through the 19th century. The author's family and he owned and raced thoroughbreds, and trotting horses, and were key members in the Union Course, Long Island. Of particular interest is the exhaustive 75 page index Floyd-Jones appended to the work which details every name, horse, and event mentioned in the book. E-171; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54318
- Title
- Backward Glances Reminiscences of an Old New-Yorker
- Author
- Thomas Floyd-Jones
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- E-171
- Date Published
- 1914
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