Buy this book on-line de CRESPIGNY, Sir CLAUDE CHAMPION: : FORTY YEARS OF A SPORTSMAN'S LIFELONDON.MILLS & BOON,1910. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,3rd edn.[1st edn believed 1896,with a 2nd edn in 1910.This 3rd edn,a revision of the earlier 1st edn,with an added 14 years of reminiscences of sport and adventures by land, sea and air.] VG++. No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, original blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, non-oxidised,black ink blocked letters to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,and bright,clean,plain white endpapers.Inevitable but minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip; similar to all corners.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - contents though,bright,tight and clean - appears an unread copy - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,but a small,closed tear to top edge of pp15/6.UK,8vo HB,3rd edn,v-viiipp+1-318pp [paginated] includes author preface,contents list/table,12 chapters,12 contemporary b/w illus/photographs and 1 coloured ballooning-scene illustration.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with publisher's advert to reverse of same,photogravure subject's portrait frntis with some off-setting from it,to title page,and a further 2pp publisher's advert to rear.
Autobiographical account of a Victorian sportsman's life and military service,covering steeplechasing,ballooning and the Boer war.
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