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AKERS, DWIGHT. Drivers Up: The Story of American Harness Racing.New York: G P Putnam's Sons 1947. Revised Edition. Hardbound 8vo (8.75 inches tall) 392 pages. Index. Description: Includes a section of b&w plates. This was originally published in 1938; the author has written a new preface for this revised edition. The celebrity headliners are here -- Lady Suffolk, Flora Temple, Dexter, Maude S, Lou Dillon, Nancy Hanks, Greyhound, Topgallant, Boston Blue, Dean Hanover, and Dan Patch. And the understudies and the general utility actors are covered. Light-harness racing, in its developed form, is a native American sport. The village speedway and county fair tracks, the men and the horses all come alive here. BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy cloth with gilt spine text; light rubbing to the spine ends, otherwise a Very Good book; the dust jacket is faded at the spine, otherwise Good. ISBN: B001NWRJK8
Offered for US$ 22.50 by: The Bookworm - Book number: 057173
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