Sporting Anecdotes: being Anecdotal Annals, Descriptions, Tales and Incidents of Horse-Racing, Betting, Card-Playing, Pugilism, Gambling, Cock-Fighting, Pedestrianism, Fox-Hunting, Angling, Shooting, and Other Sports

"Ellangowan" [James Glass Bertram]

Verlag: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1889

Beschreibung

A very scarce copy of this collection of sporting anecdotes by Scottish author James Glass Bertram, the first edition. The first edition of this work, a very scarce copy found in only two institutional libraries. A collection of sporting anecdotes collected and edited by 'Ellangowan', pseudonym of James Glass Bertram, concerning a great variety of sports.James Glass Bertram was a Scottish author, known as apprentice to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, the boards soiled and marked, damp staining to the front board. Minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine, which is lightly darkened. Alan Thornton's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally very clean throughout, only odd marking to the occasional leaf. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 811A28

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sporting Anecdotes: being Anecdotal Annals, ...

Verlag: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1889

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First edition.

Art des Buches: book