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LIFE AND SPORT IN AIKEN AND THOSE WHO MADE IT
by SMITH, Harry Worcester ;
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BUDERIM, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
The Derrydale Press, New York,1935. 8vo.pp.xii+ 237.profusely illustrated.original green cloth gilt,map endpapers. One of 950 copies.This is a unique copy with two of Harry Worcester Smiths bookplates one dedicated to ken Austin and signed by HWS.and dated 1935.The second variant bookplate is free of marks. This copy has loosely inserted several letters of correspondence between HWS and Ken Austin and a prospectus for A Sprting Family of The Old South.pp.12.with a small tear. The correspondence varies from discussion about the HWS bookplates,to HWS inventions to KA breaking a record .HWS wrote to an American journal to report the Ken Austin New Zealand recond run. There is a post envelope from HWS and a couple of the sheets are typwritten duplicates to let Ken Austin have a copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24709
- Title
- LIFE AND SPORT IN AIKEN AND THOSE WHO MADE IT
- Author
- SMITH, Harry Worcester ;
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Derrydale Press, New York,1935
- Keywords
- HORSES HORSERACING AND HUNTING
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About A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS
Alan and Fiona McIlreavy been Antiquarian Booksellers for over 40 years, in St Andrews in Scotland and in Melbourne Australia. Buderim Rare Books was established in 2000 when we returned to Australia. Buderim is on Queensland's Sunshine Coast ten minutes from the Pacific Ocean. We have a shop and an online catalogue. Shop hours 9.15- 2.00 pm until further notice
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