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The Golfer's Manual. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the National Game of Scotland by 'A Keen Hand' and originally Published in 1857 and now Reprinted with an Introduction by Bernard Darwin.
London: The Dropmore Press, 1947. Private Press. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Pps. xi, 84, (1). Publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt, printed paper boards, top edge tinted green, original illustrated dust-jacket and card slip-case with numbered label to spine. Text printed on hand made paper with wood..... More
![The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two. Bernard DARWIN, and Elinor](/pictures/thumb/49527.jpg?v=1510764925)
The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo [and] Tootleoo Two.
London: The Nonesuch Press, n.d. [1925 and 1927]. [Children's Illustrated]. FIRST EDITIONS. In two volumes. Oblong (19 x 26cm), unpaginated. With bright colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin facing every page of text. In publisher's original paper-covered card covers, with red decoration to volume I and blue to volume II. Some..... More
British Clubs.
London: William Collins, 1943. [Social history] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.48. Publisher's blue and white paper covered boards with matching dust-jacket. With eight plates in colour and twenty illustrations in black and white. Ownership to flyleaf, some light spotting throughout. Binding lightly handled. Wrapper a little toned..... More
Mr. Tootleoo One and Two.
London, The Nonesuch Press 1932. FIRST THUS: Quarto. Unpaginated. Publisher's pale blue boards with red fish device. Original scarlet end papers. Contains 40 delightfully comic monochrome illustrations. Exterior is still remarably bright. Some scattered foxing to first and last leaves, otherwise a very good copy indeed. This is a cheaper..... More
Rugger Stories. One the Playing of Football; Scotland Take the Shock; "Rattle 'em Under"; Cock House Match at Haileybury; The Young Man's Game; The Wing Three-Quarter; T'Match; The Springboks Beaten; The Ripon Match; Past Development in Rugby Football; The Rugger Match; Mind Over Matter; The Best Game to Watch; Oxford v. All Blacks; The Great Scrummage; More by Luck—; Ronnie Poulton; R.W.P.P.; A Damn Fine Show; Bernard Darwin Sits Aloof; Behind the Posts; A Fragment of Life; A Famous Victory; A Football Player; Getting a Blue; "He'll Make a Player."
London: Putnam, 1932. [Rugby Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, first state binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 303 [1]. With the errata slip to contents page. Publisher's green cloth with orange titles to spine and upper. Spotting and toning to edges, endpapers and preliminaries. Tobacco-scented. Moderate wear to cloth; spine heavily..... More
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