SELECTION FROM THE FANCY; or True Sportsman's Guide. By an Operator
by Anonymous; George Plimpton, Jonathan Badcock, John Bee, George Smeeton, Randy Jones Pierce Egan
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/issued without dj
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Barre, Massachusetts: The Imprint Society, 1972. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without dj. Quarto, xv, 136 pages, quarter brown leather, patterned paper over boards; lacks publisher's slipcase (this unnumbered copy may not have had one to begin with).
This is an unnumbered copy from the edition of 1950 copies. Illustrations by Randy Jones - with one laid in loosely. Introduction by George Plimpton (who tried to unravel the authorship of these seven pieces). " Nothing like thie publication on Fancy Sports has ever before been printed: in some particularpoint or other it differes from every one of its predecessors, and in nothing so much as the manner of execution, its faithfulness and variety being as yet unequalled ... in all the varied sports connected with Pugilism, ...." - Introduction.
This is an unnumbered copy from the edition of 1950 copies. Illustrations by Randy Jones - with one laid in loosely. Introduction by George Plimpton (who tried to unravel the authorship of these seven pieces). " Nothing like thie publication on Fancy Sports has ever before been printed: in some particularpoint or other it differes from every one of its predecessors, and in nothing so much as the manner of execution, its faithfulness and variety being as yet unequalled ... in all the varied sports connected with Pugilism, ...." - Introduction.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20220274
- Title
- SELECTION FROM THE FANCY; or True Sportsman's Guide. By an Operator
- Author
- Anonymous; George Plimpton, Jonathan Badcock, John Bee, George Smeeton, Randy Jones Pierce Egan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- issued without dj
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- The Imprint Society
- Place of Publication
- Barre, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- boxing pugilism fine press imprint society george plimpton jonathan badcock John Bee, George Smeeton, Randy Jones press of A. Colish Pierce Egan
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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