FOUR CENTURIES OF SPORT IN AMERICA: 1490-1890
by Herbert Manchester / Introduction by Harry Worcester Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
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Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Derrydale Press / Eugene V. Connett, printer, 1931. One of 850 unnumbered copies printed. Hardcover. VG+. Oversize brown cloth gilt stamping to front cover with paste-on illustration, and gilt stamping to spine -- all bright and clean; else, tiny tear to head of spine with light edge and surface wear, tightly bound; internally fine, clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. xxiv, 2 unnumbered pages, 245 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations, facsimiles, plates, portraits.
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- Bookseller
- North Country Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22801
- Title
- FOUR CENTURIES OF SPORT IN AMERICA: 1490-1890
- Author
- Herbert Manchester / Introduction by Harry Worcester Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- One of 850 unnumbered copies printed
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press / Eugene V. Connett, printer
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1931
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North Country Books
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Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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