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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bell, Ernest, ed.; Woodgate, W.B., M. & J.R. Cobbett, et al. |
| Title: |
Handbook of Athletic Sports...Volume I: Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Tennis, Rackets, Fives, Golf, Hockey |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
George Bell & Sons |
| Date: |
1890 |
| Item # : |
126715 |
| Offered by: |
PBA Galleries
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01/27/2003 19:00:00 CST |
| Price realized |
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$ 90 |
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Item was sold in an online auction !
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| Description: |
| Vol. I only. vi, [6], 104, [4], 78, [2], 104, [4], 54, 20 + [31] ad pp. Edited by Ernest Bell. Illustrated with photographs and figure drawings. 7x4½, original red cloth rebacked with original gilt-stamped and lettered red cloth spine laid on, housed in a custom clamshell cardboard box. First Collected Edition. |
| Includes: Cricket by Rev. E. Lyttelton; Lawn Tennis by H.W.W. Wilberforce; Tennis and Rackets by Julian Marshall; Fives by Rev. J.A. Arnan Tait; Golf by W.T. Linskill (Hon. Sec. and late Capt. of the Cambridge University Golf Club); and Hockey by Frank S. Creswell. Signature of collector O.M. Leland on the front pastedown. See Donovan & Murdoch 3400 for the same title which was published separately in 54 pages one year eariler. |
| Condition: |
| Spine darkened, some cracks and light chipping to portions of spine and along joints, light soiling and shelf wear, white discoloration marks to lower cover edges towards spine area; occasional faint foxing and aging to contents, still good to very good in a fine modern clamshell. |
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