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Price: US$17.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 11 inches, lv + 260 pages plus ads, reprint July 1926, introduction by Sir Theodore Cook, sixteen color plates--largely of foxhunting scenes, 75 in black and white with many of horses and hounds, large folding map is Combe's Leicestershire and surrounding country, index, tan cloth over boards with brown title and illustration on lower portion of backstrip. Boards are damptstained and puckered, inner dampstains are scattered and confined to upper, lower and spine margins. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!
Seller: Royal Oak Bookshop, Front Royal, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair condition; pages yellowed and binding loose. Everything is intact and it's a great price.
Seller: Kent Memorial Library, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative tan cloth, 16 color and 75 black and white illustrations, map. VERY GOOD covers rubbed, soiled and spotted, scattered foxing, a tight copy. Size: Octavo
Seller: Barrister, Inc., Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: reprint (first published March 1926). Fawn coloured boards with lettering to front & spine. Pictorial image of knight on horse to base of spine.11.5ins x 9.5ins, lv,[iii], 260pp, 4pp book adverts plus folding map, 16pp colour plates and 59pp b&w illustrations(75 images). Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook (editor of the Field). Minor marks/stains to front cover else VG. Nb heavy book (1.7k pre-packing), postage will be more than standard - please check with seller.
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: reprint (first published March 1926). Fawn coloured boards with lettering to front & spine. Pictorial image of knight on horse to base of spine.11.5ins x 9.5ins, lv,[iii], 260pp, 4pp book adverts plus folding map, 16pp colour plates and 59pp b&w illustrations(75 images). Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook (editor of the Field). Scattered light foxing. Armorial bookplate to front paste downdown. Mark to spine else VG. Nb heavy book(1.9k pre-packing), postage will be more than standard - please check with seller.
Seller: Missing Books (PBFA), Great Leighs, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1926). (1926). Good. - Quarto, tan cloth titled in brown on the front cover & the spine with a vignette in brown & blue at the bottom of the spine. The covers are rubbed and the corners bumped. lv, [v] & 260 pages, illustrated with color and black & white plates and a folding map. There is some occasional light foxing. An early book seller's label is mounted at the bottom of the rear pastedown and there is a tiny slit to the bottom of the rear hinge. The pages are slightly darkened, there is a small chip to the front edge of a few leaves and the top edges of a few plates are slightly wrinkled. Good. Third printing of this work on the British hunt. Includes depictions of fox hunting, horses and hounds.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3rd printing (1926); cream c w/black titles; owner's lovely insc.; some toning of end papers; 260 clean, unmarked pages w/16 color plates (mostly of fox hunting scenes), 75 black & white plates (portraits, horses, hounds, etc), and a large folding map of Combe's Leicestershire and the surrounding country. Squire George Osbaldeston was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer.VERY Heavy item1 Size: folio
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The third impression of the first edition. Original oatmeal cloth hard covers. Mild soiling to covers. Toning to edges, old inscription inside front cover, and some slight scattered foxing. Internally, otherwise, near fine -- clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated, fold-out map, index. lviii,260+4[ads.]pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Price: US$45.81 + shipping
Description: 300mm x 230mm (12" x 9"). lv, 260pp, [iv] + plates. 92 plates (16 in colour, 1 fold-out). Signature and date of H. R. Millais, 1926. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Previous owner inscription to fep
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint. Large quarto. Owner name in pencil, some foxing else very good plus lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SQUIRE OSBALDESTON: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Edited, with Commentary, by E.D. Cuming; Introduction by Sir Theodore Cook with sixteen illustrations in colour, and seventy-five in black and white, and a map. George Osbaldeston. First Edition, third printing July 1926. Ex library Hardback NO Dust JAcket. Rebound by Library bright and clean copy.Illustrations with blind stamp. Map at rear in very good condition. U5B37.
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition, third impression of this autobiography of George Osbaldeston, enriched with charming illustrations. George Osbaldeston was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament but is best remembered for his impact as a sportsman and cricketer. Since school days he excelled in flat and steeplechase, endurance, and carriage races. In cricket, he was a fine all-rounder and outstanding Single Wicket player. His passion was fox hunting, with his own pack of hounds from the age of sixteen, and he was regarded as one of the greatest sportsmen of his generation, becoming a fold hero in hunting circles.The present copy is of the first trade edition, third printing of his autobiography, which went through three impressions within the first year, first published in March, second in April, the present in June. Edited by Sir Theodore Cook.Illustrated with sixteen illustrations in colour and numerous in black and white, as well as with a folding map. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, boards and spine lightly bumped and chipped, few spots to the spine. Gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1933. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Illustrated with sixteen illustrations in colour and numerous in black and white, as well as with a folding map to rear, with only a marginal tear now tape repaired. Collated, complete. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 260 pp; Very nice and attractive book; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography' edited by E. D. Cuming. John Lane Bodley Head 1926 third edition. A little foxing. Very good in dust jacket with a number of tears, creasing and some internal strengthening. Minor loss to the top and base of the spine.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
E.d. Cuming (ed). Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Description: Autobiography of George Osbaldeston (1786-1866), the renowned huntsman, cricketer and all-round sportsman. The introduction is by Sir Theodore Cook, the esteemed editor of The Field. Small 4to. liii + 260pp + 4pp of publisher's adverts. Colour frontis., 15 colour plates, 75 b/w, folding map. Original light brown cloth, sl. rubbed. A good copy.
Seller: Sportspages, Farnham, United Kingdom
Price: US$61.98 + shipping
Description: 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). lv, 260pp, [iv] + plates. 92 plates (16 in colour, 1 fold-out). Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in good condition. Title page foxed
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. 250pp +index, illustrated, A very good copy in a very worn and chipped dust jacket which is taped internally. Rear inner hinge starting to crack.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
OSBALDESTON, George. Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited, with commentary, by Cuming. Introduction by Theodore Cook. Color frontis., 16 color illustrations, 75 in b/w, map, 260pp., thick 4to, beige cloth. London: John Lane/The Bodley Head, (1926). Reprint edition, same year as the first. Very good. Master of the Quorn & Pytchley hounds.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. With 16 colored illustrations and 75 in black and white. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 275 With 16 colored illustrations and 75 in black and white. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. 3rd printing. 4to. lv,260pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate and gifter's inscription on pastedown. (horsemen, hunters, fox hunting, horse racing, autobiographies) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Description: First edition. 4to. ( 278mm. ) Pp. [5] vi - lv [1], [2], [1] 2 - 260. With a half-title. Plates [16] colour, [75] black and white, plus a map. Titlepage printed in red and black. Contents occasionally spotted. Half crimson red morocco over cloth backed boards, the spine, sunned, with five raised bands, the panels with gilt field sport designs, title stamped direct. Marbled endpapers. Henry Sotheran Ltd. Booksellers ticket on verso of front free endpaper. Presentation inscription to a previous owner in ink on one of the prelims reads " Peter | Christmas | 1969 | from | Sebastian " this is probably Sebastian Basil Joseph Ziani de Ferranti ( 1927 - 2015 ) he was chairman of the pioneering electronics company founded by his grandfather, and the creator of one of Britains finest 20th-century country houses, the neo-Palladian Henbury Hall in Cheshire. The book was bought from a member of the family.
Seller: Roger J Treglown, ABA., MILNTHORPE, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.50 + shipping
Description: 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. 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.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
OSBALDESTON, George. Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Edited, with commentary, by Cuming. Introduction by Theodore Cook. Color frontispiece, 16 color illustrations, 75 in black and white, map, 260pp., thick 4to, beige cloth. London: John Lane/The Bodley Head, (1926). First edition, very good (+). Master of the Quorn & Pytchley hounds.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$99.19 + shipping
Description: LIII + 260 S. OLwd. In Englisch. - Ecken bestoßen, Ebd. fleckig, stellenw. etwas fleckig, Exlibris a. V. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Weinek, Salzburg, Austria
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light brown cloth covers moderately spotted, discolored; contents unmarked but foxed, w/some pages showing quarter-inch waterstain along edge. Some pages with plates rippled, perhaps due to dampness or humidity. Hinges sound, uncracked. 260 pages, w/tipped-in map, 16 color illustrations, 75 b&w illustrations, index. Edited and with commentary by E. D. Cuming; introduction by Sir Theodore Cook. No DJ. ;
Seller: Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers, Trenton, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.33 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This copy is in near fine, unmarked condition, quarter bound in blue cloth, with a paper title label, to marbled paper covered boards. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is some typical rubs and bumping to the extremities and there is a small damp stain to the foot of the front panel. Tipped in to the rear gutter is spare paper title label. A dust wrapper is not called for. The top page edges are gilt edged the other edges are uncut. This edition is number 35 of a limited edition of 100 copies printed on Arnold and Foster handmade paper. It contains thirteen extra illustrations not included in the open edition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This large book weighs in at 2.25 Kgs. George Osbaldeston (26 December 1786 – 1 August 1866), best known as Squire Osbaldeston, was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a sportsman and first-class cricketer. From 1809 to 1811 he was lieutenant-colonel of the 5th regiment North Riding local militia. In 1812, under pressure from his mother and the local aristocrat and Whig power-broker William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, Osbaldeston stood as a Whig parliamentary candidate for East Retford. He won one of the two seats, despite the machinations of his agent, who, claiming he had not been paid his fees, accused his own candidate of electoral malpractice, resulting in a trial. He had little interest in politics, and rarely attended the House. Osbaldeston excelled at sport, and rowed at his various schools, at Oxford and into middle age. He was particularly famous for his racing abilities, in flat, steeplechase, endurance and carriage races. In 1826, he won a celebrated steeplechase for a purse of 1,000 guineas on his horse, Clasher, against Dick Christian riding Clinker, a horse owned by Horatio Ross. On one occasion, in 1831 at Newmarket, he rode 200 miles (320 km) in 8 hours and 42 minutes, using 28 horses. On another occasion he wagered 100 guineas with Paul Methuen that he could drive a stage-coach from St. Paul's churchyard to Greenwich in an hour with a full complement of passengers. Osbaldeston won his bet, although the coach was loaded with a number of hefty Life-Guardsmen and despite being sent back from the bottom of Ludgate Hill for a false start. His last race was at the age of 69, and he also bred racehorses. Ref CCC 3
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition hardcover personal volume with J. Stanley Reeve's armorial bookplate on frt pastedown. Twice signed by Cumming alongside said bookplate the following- 'With much pleasure, yours sincerely E.D. Cuming 8th April 1926' and below that the following from the author of the introduction - 'Fond wishes from Theodore A. Cook' Corners bumped and rubbed, cloth soiled. Text a tad wavy from past moisture. No musty smell. Hinges fine, 260 pp text is tight w/occasional foxing, 16 color plates, 75 illustrations and a map. Great illustrations of horses, hounds and the sort of people who rode after the fox in Regency England. While Napoleon triumphed in Europe, George Osbaldeston (1787-1866) was master of hounds at Brasenose College, Oxford, itself an institution with a notable sporting reputation. At the dawn of the railway age in 1831 he famously rode 200 miles in less than nine hours. It was a time when men were gentlemen and horses were transportation. The Squire was the best Sportsman of any age or Country.His greatest fame was as a master of hounds. His greatest failure was when he left the chase for the turf and lost more then 200,000 pounds in money of that day on racing. A fascinating story of his life & escapades. Truly a book for the Sportsman with wonderful illustrations.
Seller: HORSE BOOKS PLUS LLC, Boston, VA, U.S.A.
Cuming, E. D.. Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1926.
Price: US$237.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 'Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography' edited with commentary by E. D. Cuming. John Lane The Bodley Head 1926 first edition. Limited edition of 100 copies on handmade paper with extra illustrations. This is No. 16. Some wear to covers. Good tight binding. Good.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom