[DIXON, William Scarth.]

The Cheshire Hunt.

London: Hunt Clubs Association, 1923. 19cm. 32pp, full-page text illustrations, adverts. Original decorated printed grey card wraps, stapled. Wraps very lightly rubbed; light isolated soiling to title page margins.

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Book number: 45718

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Cheshire Hunt History. Fox hunting England Cheshire History.

[ATKINSON, Herbert.]

Cock-fighting and game fowl: from the note-books of Herbert Atkinson of Ewelme; together with, The life and letters of John Harris, the Cornish cocker. Edited and with an introductory memoir by Game Cock.

Bath: George Bayntun, 1938. 4to in eights. viii, 253[1]pp, 10 colour plates, 12 b/w plates. Original red cloth gilt, teg, glassine-protected lightly soiled and browned d/w. Very light spotting to prelims.

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Book number: 44480

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES

How to organise and manage a hunt point-to-point meeting.

London: Vinton & Company, Ltd, Office, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, N.D. 13cm. 37[1]pp, plate. Original red grained-cloth gilt. Endpapers lightly browned o/w an excellent copy. Part of a series published in the mid-1920's. Not in DISCOVER.

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Book number: 45860

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES FOX-HUNTING Point-to-point

[BEST, M. G. S.]

Mountain and moorland ponies of Great Britain.

London: [printed at the Abbey Press, Hexham for] The National Pony Society, N.D. (c.1945). 22cm. vii[i], 39[1]pp, frontis, double-sided plates. Original blue cloth lettered in black. As new.

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Book number: 46170

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Horse Riding Ponies

No. 3.] The gambling house at Monte-Carlo. Petition to the Reichstag, by the Berlin committee of the International association for the suppression of the gaming tables of Monte-Carlo. Opinion of the Russian press : 'Le Golos'.

London: International association for the suppression of the gaming tables of Monte-Carlo, April, 1883. 8vo. 17pp. Disbound from disparate collection. Light vertical crease. COPAC: Oxford. OCLC adds University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

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Book number: 43351

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes Gambling

GALWAY George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell Viscount 1844-1931.

A pack of foxhounds. By Viscount Galway.

London: Vinton & Company, Ltd, Office, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, [1925]. 13cm. 29[1]pp. Original red grained-cloth gilt. Near fine.

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Book number: 45859

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES FOX-HUNTING

The Sporting Magazine; or, Monthly Calendar for October, 1798 Number LXXIII.

London: printed for the proprietors, 1798. 22cm. 60pp, 4pp Racing Calendar at rear. Original pictorial printed blue paper wraps, stab-sewn. Stitching partly lost. Lacks the etching and engraving called for on the title page, o/w just as issued. Two pieces of interest are: 'Calculation of the odds and chances of cocking' and 'Account of the game of Billiards'.

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Book number: 46246

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Periodical Publication Billiards Cock Fighting

BARTRAM, Sam.

Sam Bartram. His autobiography.

London: Burke, 1956 1st edition. 8vo. 159[1]pp, illustrated Original green cloth, lettered in black, pictorial d/w. Text heavily age-browned.

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Book number: 41937

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Football

BENTINCK, Henry Cavendish, Lord 1804-1870.

The late Lord Henry Bentinck on foxhounds. Goodall's practice.

London: Vinton & Company, Ltd, Office, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, [1925?] 13cm. 22pp, terminal plate. Original red grained-cloth gilt. Binding lightly soiled; isolated ink stain to lower margins throughout - not affecting text. DISCOVER: National Trust [1925?]. Cummins 623.

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Book number: 45858

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES FOX-HUNTING

CARTER, Raich.

Footballer's progress. Edited by Edward Lanchbery.

London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd., 1950 1st edition. 8vo. 237[1]pp, portrait frontis, illustrated. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black, stained and repaired d/w. Endpapers age-browned.

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Book number: 41933

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Football

COLLIER, Jeremy.

An essay upon gaming, in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolemedes. Edited. by Edmund.Goldsmid. 'Collectanea adamantaea.-VIII.'

Edinburgh: privately printed, 1885 limited edition of 75 L.P. copies[ 1713]. 8vo. 40pp, head and tail-piece, ht and title-page printed in red and black. Modern linen-backed paper boards, printed paper spine label, teg.

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Book number: 40341

Catalogue: Games & Pastimes

Keywords: Games & pastimes

COPPARD, A. E.; Robert GIBBINGS.

Rummy: that noble game expounded in prose, poetry, diagram and engraving, by A. E. Coppard and Robert Gibbings. With an account of certain diversions into the mountain fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. [Text by A. E. Coppard, illustrations by R. Gibbings.]

Waltham Saint Lawrence: printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1932 limited edition of 1000 copies. 8vo. 49[6]pp, text illustrations and figures. Later good unlettered quarter green morocco gilt, matching grained cloth sides. Occasional very light spotting. Fine presentation inscription by Gibbings to free front endpaper: 'To Admiral Robert Young of Coatsworth Castle, hoping this will larn him how Rummy should be played. From Robert Gibbings, Oct. 1933.'

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Book number: 44763

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Cards Golden Cockerel Press

CORBET, Reginald.

Notes on managing foxhounds.

London: Vinton & Company, [1928]. 13cm. 23[1]pp. Original red grained-cloth gilt. Cloth to board edges fraying o/w a very good copy. DISCOVER: NLS, NLW.

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Book number: 45861

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES FOX-HUNTING

FINN, Ralph L.

My greatest game.

London: The Saturn Press, 1951. 8vo. 144pp, portrait frontis. Original green cloth gilt, stained and repaired d/w. Text lightly age-browned.

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Book number: 41944

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES Football

HOBSON, E. C. S.

An introduction to fox-hunting. With notes on hunting terms and point-to-point races.

London: Vinton & Company, 1911. 12cm. vi, 48[2]pp. Contemporary maroon diced-calf gilt, teg, marbled endpapers. Extremes rubbed with very light wear

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Book number: 45862

Catalogue: Sports, Games & Pastimes

Keywords: SPORTS, GAMES & PASTIMES FOX-HUNTING