Shaws ted (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. 1st Edition, undated circa 1953, hardcover in blue cloth covered boards with a blind stamped title, extremities and spine sunned. Ends brushed but tips still fairly sharp. Page-block is foxed. 196pp text is tight and crisp. B/W frontispiece. Previous owner affixed and laid in newspaper clippings of race horses of the day, and some statistics written on inside covers, none throughout the text. Spine is starting to crack but all pages holding tightly. Original unclipped dj is chipping with some loss, but lined with matching paper, some surface soil on white background of rear panel and flaps, displays okay in new mylar. The fascinating story of one of South Africa's leading trainers, a man who has had a full life in many parts of the world. Here, is told, for the first time, the inside story of the famous doping case, when Mr. Shaw's horses were involved. The attraction of the turf is almost world-wide and many inside stories of famous races, and fortunes, won- and lost- make this book one which will interest even those readers who have never backed a horse, or seen the inside of a racecourse. …