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Libros antiguos y modernos

Osbaldeston

SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY Edited With Commentary, by E. D. Cuming Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook

John Lane the Bodley Head [and] Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926

93,50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, Estados Unidos)

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Año de publicación
1926
Lugar de impresión
London and New York
Autor
Osbaldeston
Editores
John Lane the Bodley Head [and] Charles Scribner's Sons
Edición
First edition, third printing and just a few months after the
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

First edition, third printing and just a few months after the first. With 16 fine colourplates from paintings and 75 illustrations on black and white plates and with a map. 4to, in the publisher's original wheat buckram lettered on the upper cover and spine in brown and with decoration of man on horseback in black and blue at the spine foot. lv, 260pp., 4pp. ads. A very good and handsome copy, the text fine, the cloth very mildly mellowed by time but still quite attractive.

Edizione: a beautifully produced classic of several sporting genres. osbaldeston was a first-rate shot, a master of the hounds and horses, fox hunter, world-class cricketer, and famous for his racing abilities, in flat, steeplechase, endurance and carriage races. he was equally well known for his romantic escapades.