DAY (W).: Turf Celebrities I have known , F V White, 1891

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper verso, half-title very lightly spotted; original red pictorial cloth, upper board blocked with racehorse in gilt, gilt back, uncut, and very numerous monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, backstrip mildly age-faded, and chafed without material loss at extreme head and tail, else a very good, clean copy. With separate 2pp and 18pp catalogues of the author's works bound in at end. Valuable series of personal recollections vividly portrayed by the well-known author of the turf. Subjects include Lord Anglesey, Sir William Codrington, Lord Ribblesdale, Henry Robinson, Fitz Oldaker and - notably - 'Types of Foreigners'. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. (Book ref. 19491)  £130.00

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