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Price: US$70.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition. 10.5" x 7". xii + 324pp + 12 hand cold plates. Head and tail of spine slightly pulled. Small puncture hole at bottom of front board. Some gatherings a trifle shaken. Very bright, attractive pictorial cloth hardback. Text and plates fine.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard + 11 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations - all present. Original green cloth with bright gilt horses and riders and titles to front, gilt titles (a little dulled) to spine with gilt date to foot. Top edge gilt. Burgundy endpapers. Some damp marking to bottom corners of front and back boards. Binding firm. Previous owner signature and date to front free endpaper. Rough-cut fore-edge with a few spots. Content clean and bright. Not ex-library. 334 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked. NOTE: This is a large heavy book (approx 1.6 kg packed) so postage outside the UK may be higher than the default price - please ask BEFORE ordering.
Seller: Soin2Books, Kidderminster, WORCS, United Kingdom
Blew, William C. A.. A History of Steeple-Chasing. John C. Nimmo, London, 1901.
Price: US$102.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1901, 1st edition. Large Octavo. xii, 334pp. Complete with the 12 hand-coloured plates and numerous head and tail pieces, chiefly drawn by Henry Alken. Original green cloth, gilt titles and decoration. A little shaken. Some light rubbing and wear to extremities. T.E.G. Light spotting to fore-edge. Original maroon end papers. Contents clean and bright. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Blew, William C. A.. A History Of Steeple-chasing. John C. Nimmo, 1901.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. xii, 334 pp Green cloth boards with gilt and black decoration. 28 illustrations 12 of which are hand coloured. The book is in good condition. The bottom 2 corners are faded and rubbed. The front hinge is a little weak, there is a number written on the verso of the half title page and there is some odd foxing. The date has been rubbed off from under the publisher on the title page.
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Price: US$123.32 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIMPLY SUPERB! pp.xii, 334 pages, a near fine hardback. First edition. Coloured frontispiece with tissue-guard + 11 colour plates and 16 b/w illustrations - all present. Original green cloth with bright gilt horses and riders and titles to front, gilt titles to spine with gilt date to foot. Top page edges gilt. Burgundy endpapers. Slightest creasing to the top of the spine, otherwise it would be just as published new over 120 years ago.
Seller: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Description: Quarto. xii, 334 pp. Twelve hand-coloured plates, with tissue-guards (including the frontispiece) nine of which are by Henry Alken, 16 head and tail piece, fourteen by Alken. Original pictorial green cloth in black and gold; top edge gilt; a bit shaken; a handsome copy.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$137.76 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, fine condition. A History of Steeple-chasing Special Collection by William Charles Arlington Blew. Published by John C. Nimmo in 1901. Hardcover. Shortly after horseracing became a popular sport, the steeplechase took the world of horse sports by the reins. Telling the history of the dynamic and rather difficult race, A History of Steeple-Chasing details any rules and background information a steeplechase enthusiast would need to know. The steeplechase got its name from the first courses being unmarked. Where today there are physical start and finish lines, the earlier courses started at a designated spot and ended parallel to a church steepl. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: John C. Nimmo, London. 1901. First edition. Large 8vo. xii, 334pp. Orig. green dec. cloth, gilt. T.e.g. Cold. frontis. + 27 ills. Bds. v. sl. soiled, bd. extremities rubbed and sl. frayed. Some occ. light foxing throughout o/w contents sound.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
BLEW, William C. A.. History of Steeple-Chasing.. John C. Nimmo, London, 1901.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 28 illustrations chiefly drawn by Henry Alken, 12 of which are colored by hand. First edition. Tall octavo, original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations, top edge gilt, 334 pages. Two tiny tears to the cloth at the crown of the spine, some light scratching to the rear board, else very good or better. An attractive, well preserved copy. B001K6KG2A
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: A Superb Collectors Copy of the First Edition rebound in half Morocco by Bernard Middleton, retaining the original pictorial cloth spine & board, bound in at the back."With 28 illustrations chiefly drawn by Henry Alken, twelve of which are coloured by hand "10½"X7¼" xii,334pps. top edge gilt with matching marble sides and endpapers. A spotless copy with no ownership marks.
Seller: John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969, STAITHES, United Kingdom