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Somerville E.OE.:. Slipper's ABC Of Fox Hunting. 1st Edition, Longmans Green, London, 1903, 1903.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: 20 colour plates by the author; Hardback: grey cloth elaborately decorated in black, red, brown and white, illustrated title-page, folio; Top board somewhat scraped and with 2 small stains, 1 page of text torn (no loss), 1 plate and 2 pages of text frayed at front edge (no loss), a little fingering to the plates, vg.

Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom

Somerville, E Œ; Ross, Martin. Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$368.43 + shipping

Description: 390mm x 320mm (15" x 13"). 85pp. 20 colour plates engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed with some edgewear. Minor chips to spine. Inner hinge a little weak. Some browning to prelims. Occasional light marking within but overall a good clean bright copy Fawn/black/red illustrated hardback cloth cover

Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom

Somerville, E.OE.. Slipper's ABC of Fox-hunting. Fox Hunting. London: Longmans Green, 1903.

Price: US$415.85 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Large 4to. 20 full size colour plates by Edith with letterpress opposite. Original lovat pictorial cloth, lettered red, black and white. The usual scratches on the areas of colour on the upper cover, lightly frayed at the head and tail of the backstrip, small pluck in the middle of the upper joint, fore-corners just peeping otherwise a VG copy with clean plates and sound hinges. An uncommon book due to breaking for the splendid plates. First edition.

Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom

Somerville, E. OE. Slipper’s A B C of Fox Hunting. Longmans. Green & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$439.92 + shipping

Description: Folio. Fine pictorial boards. p.p. 42 with 20 large coloured plates.

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

Somerville, E.OE. Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$439.92 + shipping

Description: pp. 41. 20 full page colour plates. Folio. Original pictorial cloth

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

Somerville, E. OE. Slipper’s A B C of Fox Hunting. Longmans. Green & Co, London, 1903.

Price: US$584.70 + shipping

Description: Folio. Fine pictorial boards. p.p. 42 with 20 large coloured plates.

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

Somerville, E.O.. Slipper’s ABC of Fox Hunting. Longmans. Green & Co., London, 1903.

Price: US$584.70 + shipping

Description: Folio. Fine pictorial boards. p.p. 42 with 20 large coloured plates.

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

Somerville, E.OE.. Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting. Fox-Hunting. London: Longmans Green, 1903.

Price: US$584.80 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Large 4to. 20 full size colour plates by Edith with letterpress opposite. Original lovat pictorial cloth, lettered red, black and white. Light staining around Henry Sotheran's ticket on the front pastedown, two small brown marks on the lower cover otherwise a VG superior copy with clean plates and sound hinges. An uncommon book due to breaking for the splendid plates. First edition.

Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom

Somerville, E. OE. SLIPPER'S ABC OF FOX HUNTING (SIGNED). Longmans, Green, and Co, London, England, 1903.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

Description: Folio, 15.25 in. x 12.25 in., pp. 85. Signed and inscribed to Denis Martin by the author on front free endpaper. Illustrated with twenty full-page chromolithograph plates, by the author; printed one side only. Grey-green pictorial cloth of huntsman with three foxhounds on front ,in black, red, white, and brown. Black title to spine. Rubbing to extremiities. Scratches, small stains, and light bubbling to boards. Corners bumped. Light age-toning to pages. Hinges recently reinforced by our conservator. Drawings sharp and clean. Newer gray slipcase. Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was anIrish novelistwho habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend,County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attendedAlexandra CollegeinDublin. In 1884, she went toParisfor the first of several trips to study art at theAcadémie ColarossiandAcadémie Delécluse, and then spent a term at theWestminster School of ArtinDean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year.In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at theEtaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered inSome Experiences of an Irish R. M., completed the following year.By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. (Could Denis Martin, to whom this book is inscribed, be related to Violet Martin?) Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. That year she also published Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting, an irreverent and colorful children's ABC Book with a fox-hunting theme.

Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.

Somerville, E.OE.. Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting. Signed and dated by Edith Somerville.. London: Longmans Green, 1903.

Price: US$1104.61 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Large 4to. 20 full size colour plates by Edith with letterpress opposite. Original lovat pictorial cloth, lettered red, black and white. otherwise a near fine copy with clean plates, sound hinges and minimal cover marks. Signed on the front free endpaper with Edith's characteristic signature and dated Oct. 14 1903. In 42 years specialising in books of Irish interest this is the only signed copy of this title we have had. A rare book in any condition due to breaking for the splendid plates. First edition.

Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom