A History of the English Turf; With Illustrations; Vol. III.; Division II.
by Cook, Theodore Andrea
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Virtue and Company [no date]. (4to) 582-741pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Green cloth with black and dark blue decorations and gilt lettering to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrations, and plates with tissue guards. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom, the corners are just lightly beginning to fray where they have been worn, and there is a small abrasion on the front free endpaper where a sticker has been removed. "The date at which men first began to jump fences on horseback cannot even be surmised. I find in no book or record whatever any expression of surprise that any horseman of old time had jumped a hedge, a brook, a stile, or anything else. Jumping, like other things, must have been a matter of gradual advance. The earliest war-horses may have been called upon to 'negotiate' some ditch or gully; they may have cleared the body of some fallen steed or a portrion of a broken chariot; and this may have been the first step towards high and broad leaping" - from the text. Book about English Turf. Vol. 3. Locale: England. (Sports, Equestrian Sports, Horse Breeding, Horse Racing, Sportsmen).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153167
- Title
- A History of the English Turf; With Illustrations; Vol. III.; Division II.
- Author
- Cook, Theodore Andrea
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Virtue and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Sports, Equestrian Sports, Horse Breeding, Horse Racing, Sportsmen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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