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RACING AND STEEPLE-CHASING
by COVENTRY, ARTHUR AND WATSON, ALFRED E.T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Company, 1900. Covers with gilt floral bordersPanelled spine with red spine leather label, gilt designs. Marbled endpapers and free edges. Front hing weakened but intact. Spine extremities worn. Color frontispiece and many text drawings in black and white. From the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes". A comprehensive look at both horse sports. 440pp.. Fifth Edition. Full Emerald Green Morocco. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014155
- Title
- RACING AND STEEPLE-CHASING
- Author
- COVENTRY, ARTHUR AND WATSON, ALFRED E.T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Fifth Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- London and Bombay
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Horses, Horse Racing, Steeple-Chase
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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