Author: John Fairfax-Blakeborough
Title: Country Life and Sport
Description: London, Philip Allan & Co. 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of J. Fairfax-Blakeborough's delightful discussion of rural life and field sports in the early twentieth century, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated, complete.A wonderful discussion of 1920s English country life, including an account of game birds, cock-fighting, farming, foxhunting, horsemanship, and village flower shows.The work of English writer and folklorist Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough, who authored 112 books on the history of horse racing, Yorkshire folklore and the Cleveland Bay. Bookplate of Robert Lionel Foster to front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedowns. Significant handling marks to dust wrappers, with chipping to back strip head, small closed tear to rear wrap tail, and significant closed tear to head of fold over front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting or light foxing to page perimeters. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Country life and sport yorkshire Days and Yorkshire Ways The Spirit of Yorkshire Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough yorkshire Days and Yorkshire Ways Not Stated
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Title: Country Life and Sport
Description: London, Philip Allan & Co. 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of J. Fairfax-Blakeborough's delightful discussion of rural life and field sports in the early twentieth century, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression.In the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated, complete.A wonderful discussion of 1920s English country life, including an account of game birds, cock-fighting, farming, foxhunting, horsemanship, and village flower shows.The work of English writer and folklorist Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough, who authored 112 books on the history of horse racing, Yorkshire folklore and the Cleveland Bay. Bookplate of Robert Lionel Foster to front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front pastedowns. Significant handling marks to dust wrappers, with chipping to back strip head, small closed tear to rear wrap tail, and significant closed tear to head of fold over front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd instance of spotting or light foxing to page perimeters. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.
Keywords: Country life and sport yorkshire Days and Yorkshire Ways The Spirit of Yorkshire Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough yorkshire Days and Yorkshire Ways Not Stated
Price: GBP 125.00 = appr. US$ 178.50 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 955F59
- Book number: 955F59
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