Old Sporting Characters and Occasions From Sporting and Road History

Batchworth Press,, [1948]. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 monochrome plates on 12 and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

The Batchworth Press, London, 1948. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black gilt stamped cloth over boards, 172 pages, illustrated, color frontis and 15 b &… Read more about this item

Batchworth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 172 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with… Read more about this item

London: Batchworth Press, 1948. Gilt title on black cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A near Fine copy. 15 plate illustrations and numerous vignette illustrations. Comprises a Sporting Portrait Gallery, Horse and Highway and Stable and Studio. C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Published by The Batchworth Press, London, 1948, 1st edition. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 8.75ins x 5.75ins, 172pp plus colour frontis and 12pp b&w plates (15 images). Dw has two short tears to top of rear cover. VG / G+.

London: Batchworth Press, 1948. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Bound in black cloth, with unclipped protected dw, coloured frontis, "John Wards on Blue Ruin", 15 b/w plates, 172pp. Book text is in 3 parts, 1. A Sporting Portrait Gallery, 2. Horse and Highway, and, 3. Stableand Studio

London: The Batchworth Press, 1948. Hardcover book, 5 3/4" x 8 3/4", dust wrapper is very good with light soiling and wear; book has a very light skew, light spotting to preliminaries and back endpaper; 172 pages with XV black-and-white illustrations; index and biblliography