The Game's Afoot!: An Anthology of Sports, Games, & the Open Air

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Sale 274: The Golf Library of a Gentleman (#274) 11/06/2003 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #36The Game's Afoot!: An Anthology of Sports, Games, & the Open Air

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Sale 274: The Golf Library of a Gentleman (#274) 11/06/2003 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Title:

The Game's Afoot!: An Anthology of Sports, Games, & the Open Air

Author:

Darwin, Bernard, ed.

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Sidgwick and Jackson

Date Published:

[1926]

Description:

xv, 331 pp. 7¾x5¼, green cloth, lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition.

Contributions by the game's best, including Hutchinson, Simpson, Low, and Darwin.

Condition:

Jacket somewhat worn and chipped including a 2" chip missing to lower spine, tears to edges, 3" split top rear joint, 2½" curved tear to lower rear panel, spine darkened, a few light stains; volume spine ends and corners a bit bumped, soiling; offsetting to endpapers, ink signature of John R. Tunis dated February 1927; a very good to near fine copy with a fair to good jacket.

Item#:

135593
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