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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Damage to the hinges with the cover and pages detaching from one another at spine. General shelfwear to the cover and page edges. Some tanning to the pages and page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Sporting Pilgrimage by Casper W. Whitney. First edition in scarce dust jacket. Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1895. With 144 black and with illustrations on golf, riding the hounds, rowing, university football, club football, cycling, cricket and more. Brown dust jacket with title, author, England and publisher on the spine. Dust jacket is in very good plus condition, some chipping along the top and bottom edges. Binding is in as new condition. Contents clean. 397 pages. 6 ¼ x 9 inches. This is a volume on sports in England as it may pertain to sports that is evolving in America. A wonderful copy. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #18-402. Price: $400.

Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. A wide-ranging late-Victorian survey of English sport by Caspar Whitney, originator of the college football All-American team. First edition with extensive early golf material, historic course plans of St Andrews and St George's, and a Frederic Remington frontispieceaugmented by a laid-in signed presentation letter. Decorated cloth. Octavo, 8.5 inches tall; xii, 397 pages. Illustrated with 144 black-and-white illustrations, some photographic; double-page map; Remington frontispiece. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean with light, even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Mild sun-fading to the spine. First Edition, First Printing. Laid in is a signed typed letter from an acquaintance of the author presenting this volume as a gift, adding minor association interest and period personality to the copy. A substantial and influential late-Victorian survey of English sport by Caspar Whitneyauthor, editor, and the architect of the American college football All-American team. Rather than a single-sport treatment, A Sporting Pilgrimage offers informed, first-hand examinations of hunting, rowing, football, cycling, cricket, and club athletics, reflecting the transatlantic exchange of sporting culture at the end of the nineteenth century. The extended golf section (pp. 331397) is of particular importance, covering early club histories, course design, and instructional commentary. Included are visual and documentary materials foundational to golf history, among them an 1879 plan of St Andrews Golfing Course, an 1888 plan of St George's Golf Club, photographs, and period illustrations, including 'A Hoylake Putting-Green' after painting. A Frederic Remington frontispiece further strengthens the book's appeal to collectors of American sporting art. Subjects: Caspar Whitney, Early Golf History, St Andrews Golf Course, St George's Golf Club, Frederic Remington Illustration, Victorian Sport, University Athletics, Rowing History, Cycling History, English Sporting Culture, Transatlantic Sports Exchange, Sports History, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Victorian Travel & Observation, Cultural History.