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Sands and Co, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 215 Pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. The boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owners signature on the front end page. Tanned pages, overall clean and complete. Tightly bound.[Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Sands & Co 1901. SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED BY BOTH AUTHORS, PLATES LOOSE, super octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & tooling to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xv + 215pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG- (moderate scuffing with some surface loss to boards & edges, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light tape residue to eps, prev. owner's name stamp to half title page & contents page, moderate cracking to gutters throughout- some plates loose)

London: Sands & Co, 1902. First Edition. Good. Hardcover : pp. [vi] xv [xvi] [2] 215 [216] : frontispiece 'The Earl of Lonsdale' with tissue guard : Dedication : 62 plates : blue cloth boards with gilt etched illustration to front : gilt to spine : book seller's stamp to front past-down : blind embossed stamp to back free-endpaper. Slightly cocked; edges age-toned; head and tail of spine pushed; corners pushed; hinge loose at back; foxed and toned endpapers. A history of Boxing from 1664-1901, although the second half of the nineteenth century is given the lion's share of attention.

Sands & Co. London. 1902. Sands & Co. 1902. First edition. No DW. Original blue cloth, illustrated in gilt. Cloth frayed to extremities with a small tear and chipping to tail of spine. Pages browned, inner hinge visible but sound. Small attractive bookplate. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Generally a clean and sound copy.

London: Sands & Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Rubbing to ends of spine. 3/4" loss of cloth at head of spine. Series of 1/4" tears to cloth along tail of spine. Up to 1/4" loss of cloth at corners of boards. 1/2" split to cloth at head of front spine joint. Gutter broken. ; xv, [1], 215 pages + frontis + plates. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration. Page dimensions: 186mm x 118mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Sands & Co, 1902. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Various. An illustrated history of the National Sporting Club, a fascinating work on the important club that popularized boxing. The second edition of this work.An interesting history of the National Sporting Club, looking at the development of the club since its founding in 1891 to its ten year anniversary in 1901.The National Sporting Club did much to help establish the sport of boxing in Britain.Illustrated with a frontispiece,By A. F. Bettinson and W. Outram Tristram.Ink inscription to Henry Courtney Brocklehurst to the front paste down. Brocklehurst was a Lieutenant-Colonel who was killed in action in Burma during the Second World War. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. A few minor marks to the boards and spine. Stamp and ink inscription to the front paste down. Newspaper clipping to the verso to the rear endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly… Read More