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Chapman, Abel.
Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two 1851 - 1929.
Publisher: Gurney and Jackson, London;
Date of Publication: 1930
Stock Code: 7019
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxvii, [1], 257, [3] catalogue. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of the Author; 24 full-page coloured plates with captioned tissue guards and 3 full-page monochrome plates, all by W.H. Riddell; numerous illustrations within text, many by the Author. Publishers’ reeded bottle green cloth with gilt titles to spine and top edge gilt, others uncut, in unclipped cream dust-jacket. Cloth a little creased at tail of spine but bright. Scattered foxing, mainly to edges and prelims; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly creased, soiled and toned with small loss head of spine. A Very Good copy in Good jacket. Chapman’s final authobiographical sporting memoir, published posthumously. Scarce in the original fragile dust-jacket. £85.00