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MILLS, JOHN. Stable Secrets; or Puffy Doddles. His Saying and Doings.. Ward Lock London, 1863.
Price: US$15.40 + shipping
Description: First edtion. Frontispiece and 2 plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 112-pages. Original red pebblegrain cloth blocked in gilt. A poor copy, boards rubbed and marked, backstrip lifting, some marginal soiling. A sporting novel.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
John Mills.. STABLE SECRETS; OR, PUFFY DODDLES. HIS SAYINGS AND SYMPATHIES.. , 1863.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: 1863, London, Ward and Lock, pp1112, three plates, red cloth gilt. Wolff 4806. A horse-racing novel. Cloth rubbed and worn, top of spine frayed.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
MILLS John. Stable Secrets; or Puffy Doddles. His Sayings and Sympathies. Ward & Lock 1863, 1863.
Price: US$48.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original pictorial cloth, spine chipped, corners a trifle rubbed, two nicks upper cover and head and base of lower hinge, illustrated, advertisement leaf, good. from the library of Douglas Peter Crossman with his armorial bookplate front pastedown; first edition; 112 pages; keywords: fiction; Wolff 4806
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 112pp + 2 full page black and white illustrations + 1p publisher's advertisements. Cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering. Covers scuffed and little marked, spine rubbed. Spine ends and corners frayed. Bookplate inside front cover. contents fingered, little soiled and foxed. Inner hinges strained. 15x13cms.
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Ward and Lock, 1863. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards by Little Brown & Co., gilt spine in six compartments, expertly recased with spine laid down, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original brown pictorial cloth spine and upper cover bound in rear; 112pp.; frontispiece and two leaves of plates with printed signatures in image by both E. Evans and Phiz. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure along margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 112 pages, frontispiece and two plates. Leather over marbled boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt. Original front cover and spine bound in at rear. A handsome copy.
Seller: The Odd Book (ABAC, ILAB), Wolfville, NS, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, calf with gilt ruled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, illustrated, 112, [1] pp. Spine and joints rubbed and slightly worn, extremities with a bit of wear too, binding still attractive, normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This work contains three color plates, including frontispiece, by Phiz and Evans. This copy also contains and ad page at the back listing the author's other works. A humorous look at horse racing is the theme of this book.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books, ABAA, Florham Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 3 hand colored steel engravings. Small, slim 12mo, 112 pages. Rebound in red polished calf, black leather spine labels (spine chipped; joints repaired); original pictorial cloth binding bound in at rear. London: Ward and Lock, 1863. First Edition. A very good(-) copy, internally clean.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Mills' humorous work on horse racing. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignette to the front panel, frontispiece and two additional plates by Phiz, publishers advertisements. In very good condition.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
MILLS, John. Stable Secrets; Or, Puffy Doddles His Sayings & Sympathies. Ward And Lock, 1863.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: MILLS, John 1st Edition Ward And Lock 1863 7.5" x 5.25" [105] pp. Bound in three quarters blue morocco Bookplate of Sherman Flint Illustrated by Phiz
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.