Author: Stephen Donoghue
Title: Just My Story
Description: London, Hutchinson and Co, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated autobiography from English flat-race jockey, Stephen Donoghue. The first edition of this work. Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library. Rebound in very smart blue cloth. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three further colour plates and thirty-two half tone plates. Collated, complete. This autobiographical works details the life and career of Stephen Donoghue, a leading English flat-race jockey of the 1910s and 1920s. One of the most celebrated sportsmen of horse racing, he was Champion Jockey ten times between 1914 and 1923.  Rebound in full blue cloth. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the occasional spot. Bookplate of Richard Green to the front free endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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