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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1970). (1965) 1970 revised edition. 8vo (139 x 216mm). Pp208. B/w photograph plates, pedigrees bibliography. Revised by the author. Olive drab boards, orange and gilt titles to spine. Foxed and rather used. Good only in like dust-wrapper. H. Edwards Clarke "deals with the Greyhound from its three angles - coursing, racing and showing. Mr. Clarke brings to his subject not only a practical experience but also an infectious enthusiasm." Our Dogs. The author details the revisions to this edition in the introduction. Chapters include: Origins of the breed; The history of coursing; Stars of the leash; Pillars of the breed (coursing\0; Origins of greyhound racing; Stars of the track; Pillars of the breed (racing); Points of a good greyhound; The exhibition greyhound; First steps to ownership - choosing a dog; The formalities of ownership; Practical breeding; Feeding and rearing; Training and kennel management; The greyhound in the USA; The greyhound overseas. Appendices include: Standard of the breed; Registration totals; Coursing clubs and breed clubs; Tracks approved by the National Greyhound Racing Club; Post-war champions under the Kennel Club Rules; Principles of judging a course - National Coursing Club Rules; Rules of Racing (selected) - National greyhound Racing Club; Winners of The Greyhound Derby, The Waterloo Cup; The Irish Cup. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1973). (1965) 1973 4th revised edition. Pp208. B/w photographs, diagrams, bibliography. Black boards. Good only in poor dust-wrapper. H. Edwards Clarke "deals with the Greyhound from its three angles - coursing, racing and showing. Mr. Clarke brings to his subject not only a practical experience but also an infectious enthusiasm." Our Dogs. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1980). (1965) 1980 7th edition. Pp222. B/w photographs, diagrams, bibliography, appendices. Revised by Charles Blanning. Small bookseller's stamp but very good in dust-wrapper. H. Edwards Clarke was a breeder, owner and trainer of some note. In this book he covers coursing, racing and showing. Chapters include; origins of the breed; history of coursing; stars of the leash; pillars of the breed (coursing); origins of greyhound racing; stars of the track; pillars of the breed (racing); points of a good greyhound; the exhibition greyhound; first steps to ownership - choosing a dog; the formalities of ownership; practical breeding; feeding and rearing; training and kennel management; the greyhound in the USA; the greyhound overseas; the modern show greyhound (by Kay Douglas-Todd). Appendices include; standard of the breed; coursing clubs and breed clubs; post-war champions under Kennel Club Rules; principles of judging a course - National Coursing Club Rules; Rules of Racing (Selected) - National Greyhound Racing Club; winners of the Greyhound Derby, the Waterloo Cup, the Irish Cup. This seventh edition was revised and updated by Charles Blanning. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1963). ND (c1963) 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 221mm). Pp264. B/w photographs, diagrams. Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some use, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. Chapters include:- The importance of pedigree; Rebel light; Bella's Prince; Shaggy Lad; Selyom; Mad Tanist; Irish Sire families: a comparative analysis; The choice of a stud dog; Great brood bitches; The all important dam line; Danielli; Dee Rock; Rotten Row; Hamilton Tighe; Just Reason; English Sire families - a comparative analysis; Practical breeding; Rearing; Training; The ideal greyhound. Appendices include:- Irish coursing records, 1950-1963; English coursing records, 1950-1963. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). ND (1949) 1st edition. Large 4to. Ppii,222. B/w photographs, pedigrees, introduction by Captain A.E. Brice. Pictorial gilt embossed green cloth. Slight spotting to edges but very good in chipped dust-wrapper. This is an "interesting and well-written book, .The history of coursing and [greyhound] racing over the past twenty years - both in this country and in Ireland - is carefully traced, and for the first time both sports are brought together and dealt with exhaustively as complementary phases of the breed's unique gift of speed and stamina. Particularly interesting features are the family charts which afford easy-at-a-glance reference to the breeding of all the winners of major coursing and track events of the past twenty-five years". (The tables in the book run from 1924 to 1948). The introduction is by Captain A.E. Brice who was the Director of Racing at Wembley Stadium at the time of publication. The British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books confirms the date of publication as 1949. Chapters include; the appeal of the greyhound; the evolution of the track greyhound; the Irish invasion; Mutton Cutlet; Glorious Event; Red Robin; Inler; white Collar; Creamery Border; matrons of the leash - Burletta, S.O.S., Famous Flight, Grille; principles of scientific breeding; the paddock parade; the qualities of a good greyhound; thumbnail sketches of the stars - Tanist, Lights o' London, Swinging Light, Train, Ballynennan Moon, Disputed Rattler, Model Dasher, Ballyhennessy Seal, Monday's News, the shape of things to come. Appendices give English and Irish coursing andtrack records. .