Sporting Incidents in the Life of Another Tom Smith
by Thomas Smith
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of sporting sketches. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve plates. Collated complete. A collection of notices from the life of the author and his sporting career, with chapters on his school days, farming, sport in the New Forest, marriage, becoming a master of the hunt, and more. Written by Thomas Smith, a British sportsman and Ex-Master of Foxhounds. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with frontispiece loosening. Pages are very bright with the odd spot or handling mark. Minor staining from petals dried between some pages. Light age toning to the endpapers. Booth Bird Museum Brighton bookplate to the front pastedown with their ink stamp to the front endpapers and the odd page. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 903T26
- Title
- Sporting Incidents in the Life of Another Tom Smith
- Author
- Thomas Smith
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1867
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Sporting Incidents Smith Incidents
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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