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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. First edition. Blake's article runs on pp. 97-103 and Nimrod's on pp. 108-120. The magazine comprises pp. 73-144 + The Racing Calendar and ads. Two engraved plates from paintings by A. Cooper: "Rabbit Shooting" and "Carp," which are lightly dampstained. Part of the first advertising page (for R. Ackermann's books and prints) has been torn out; one marginal tear; else complete. Covers chipped, part of backstrip missing. Blake's article covers "English and Irish Coaching--Captain O'Shaughnessy and his large Wardrobe." Other texts include a book review of The Young Groom's Guide, racing at Newmarket "with a glance a the present state of the turf," and other articles on field sports. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Hardcover. Condizione: Original red cloth, gilt. First Printing of the First Edition. Westport, Connecticut:: Meckler, 1991. As New condition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Illustrated with a few photos. Compiled from interviews the author conducted in the 1970s with 20 professional ballplayers, including Paddy Livingston, Stan Coveleski, Bob Shawkey, Bob O'Farrell, Bucky Crouse, Eddie Sicking, Andy High, Joe and Luke Sewell, George Uhle, Glenn Wright, Bob Smith, Joe Hauser, Eddie Moore, Fred Blake, Nick Cullop, Ted Lyons, Woody English, Tony Piet, etc. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth, gilt/No Dust Jacket, as issued. 8vo. (iv), 356pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and marbled paper covering boards worn at edges. Binding is sound, pages are clean. Contains 14 plates but no title page is present. Plates are clean. Some but not all are foxed to varying degrees. Contents Includes: January; Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire: A Tale of Country Life (chapters in each month from XV to XXII), First Meet of Season at Hopwas Earths, Christmas at Willowford Village, India Pickles, Sports of the West, List of Stag and Fox-Hounds for the Ensuing Season, Upcoming Coursing Mettings, Racing Calendar. February; The Friars of Old, Pittites - Though No Tories, Flapper Shooting on the Cornish Moors, Switzerland and its Sports, Scenes in Texas - A Walk Among the Wild Turkeys, Shooting A La Francaise, Thames Regatta, Royal Western Yacht Squadron AGM. March; India Jungle Tiger Hunting, A Slick Run Down Hill, Steeple-Chases to Come, Coaching and Coach Men, List of Stallions for 1844, Sporting Law, Tattersall's. April; Woodcock Shooting in Cornwall, Newmarket, Fishing in Ireland, The National Steeple-Chase, Bencraft's Patent Saddle, Rail v Road or Ancient and Modern Travel by Whiskaway, Hours in the Himalayas, Training Race Horse, Remarks on Kennel Lameness. May; Nimrod's Analysis of "The Diary of a Huntsman" by Thomas Smith, Sporting Peregrinations by Robin Hood, Irish Hounds and the Men who Ride Them, Increase of Dog Stealing, State of the Odds. June; Epsom Races, Steeple-Chase Winners in 1843-44, A Spanish Bull-Fight, Chester Cup Race, Public Amusements in the Metropolis. The Coursing Calendar 1843-44. Index to the Racing Calendar 1843. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57020014002. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Half-leather with marbled boards and end-papers, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, light wear at joint ends, sound binding, clean pages, end-papers and plates. All plates are present, these are: Title vignette showing a Fox-Hound with puppies; Hunting - Throwing Off; The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Rabbit Shooting; The Carp; Vespa, a horse; William Crockford; Hunting - The Find!' Beauty and General, celebrated trotting pony and setter; Hunting - Gone Away!; The Farquharson Vase; Pincher and Shivers, two dogs; The Bittern Contents include (some topics noted in earlier numbers also feature in later numbers but are not listed again here): November 1833 No. 31: List Of Fox-Hounds in Great Britain, for the Present Season, with the names of the Masters and the Countries they Hunt; Miss Sheridan's Comic Offering; Ackermann's Pictures of Count Sandor's Exploits in Leicestershire; Scenes in South America - Guanaco Hunting in the Pampas; October; Hunting Reminiscences - The Crack Riders of England; The Surrey; A Fishing Question; Baron D'Haussez and English Field Sports; Hunting in India, The Calcutta Hunt; Gallery of Celebrated Sporting Characters - The Right Ho. Earl of Chesterfield; Racing - Newmarket First and Second Meetings; Lord Marrowbones and His Man; The Classical Fox-Hounds; General Monthly Miscellany - The Chase - The Turf etc.; Racing Calendar (bound at rear. December 1833 No. 32: Reviews; Steeple-Chaises; My Sporting Box; The Cheshire Hunt; A Trip to Brighton; Hints on Pheasant Shooting; A Man of the World's Confession; Lord Segrave; Lines on the Fuschia; The Benighted Sportsman; Racing - Newmarket Houghton Meeting with a Glance at the Present State of The Turf; Miscellany - Hunting and Steeple-Chasing in Oxfordshire - Bettings at Tattersall's etc.; Coursing Calendar (bound at rear). January 1834 No. 33: Review of the Last Number of the Old Sporting Magazine; Turfiana; Racing In India - The Madras Spring Meeting 1833; Parody on the Classical Fox-Hounds; A Day Near Limerick; The Woore Country; Stanzas on seeing a Steamboat Leave Dieppe in a Storm; On Equestrianism; My Coal Black Steed; William Crockford; Real Wild Sports of the West or the Wanderings of Ernest Fitzfulke; Fine Arts; Miscellany - The French Turf - Gambling Match for 50,000 Napoleons - Mr Osbaldeston's etc. February 1834 No. 34: Swell and the Surrey; Fatal Duel at Hamburgh Nominations for the Docaster St Leger 1834; Pomponius Ego; Dick Hyperbole; The Wet Sunday; The Sorrows of a Sportsman; The Rambler; The Chase - the cause of the scarcity of foxes - Oldham, the Miller, and hostile Farmers - The Farquharson Vase etc. March 1834 No. 35: List of Stallions for 1834; The Hampton Court Stud; The Race for the Belfast Cup and a few Remarks on Breeding Hunters; On Betting; The Swiss Hunter's Address to his Rifle; Anacreontic; Road Accidents; Death of Mr Berkeley's Old Horse Jack O'Lantern; Nimrod; The Chase - Doings in Dorset - The New Forest Hounds - His Majesty's Stag hounds etc. April 1834 No. 36: Winners of Two-Year-Old Stakes; Engagements at Newmarket of the Derby and Oaks Favourites; Steeple Chases; On Vehicles; The Omnibus; The Marquess of Lansdowne, a character; Rinaldo's Horse; On Falls; The Horrors of Horsemanship; James's Horse Blister; On Private Training; The Alnwick Hounds; The Surrey Hunt - Jorrocks in Reply to Rasper; Jorrock's Address to the Members of the Surrey Hunt; Mr Farquharson's Country; Who is the Rambler in Green?; The Chase; The Oxford Hack; A Sporting Tour Through Munster; The Duke of Nassau's Hunting Seat; How to Shoe a Vicious Horse; Coach Accident; A Sailor's Description of a Hunt etc. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57018101098. All our books are sent by tracked mail.