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220 Sporting Anecdotes, by ‘an amateur sportsman, original and select, including characteristic sketches of eminent persons who have appeared on the Turf, with an interesting section of the most extraordinary events which have transpired in the sporting world, a correct description of the animals of the chase, and of every other subject connected with the various diversions of the field, 8vo, brown calf, 2nd edition, Albion Press Limited, London, 1807 £100 - 150


221 The General Stud Book from vol.1, 46 volumes in total, in reasonable condition, published by Weatherbys £300 - 400


222 The Greyhound Stud Book, established by authority of the National Coursing Club in 1882, a near-complete run from vol 2 in 1883 to vol 93 in 1974, the set lacking vols 1, 4, 7, 8, 63, 72 & 78, green linen with tooled gilt greyhound portrait to front cover, gilt titling to spine £200 - 300


223 A collection of books relating to greyhounds,


including the following volumes of the Greyhound Stud Book, 12-16, 18, 22-23, 25-29, 33-35, 39-41, 43, 47-50, 60-61, 67, 69-71, 73-74, 79, 85-86 & 90, with occasional duplicates of these volume numbers; sold together with Ellis & Dunn’s Complete List of Greyhounds which have bred winners from 1880-1911, binding poor; 19 Irish Greyhound Stud Books in paperback, plus 1 in green cloth for 1966- 67 and the 1979 Irish Greyhound Racing Annual in paperback; 31 volumes of the National Coursing Club Official Calendar dating between 1927 and 1978; 3 Rules of Racing 1933, 1934 & 1970; 2 National Racing Club 1972 & 1977; a programme for the very first greyhound meeting at Liverpool’s White City Stadium 20.8.1932, plus a Wembley programme 15.10.49; other titles comprising Volume 1 of the GRA Register 1927, A Croxton Smith’s About our Dogs, Frank Townend Barton’s The Kennel Encyclopaedia, Major Dawson’s Things Every Dog Owner Should Know, a centenary volume of The Field 1953, R W Richardson’s Systems and Chances 1929, and the two volume Encyclopaedia of Sport 1897 (a qty.) £100 - 200


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224 A collection of racing books, comprising: John Kent’s Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck 1892; a part set (3 of 6) of Theodore Cook’s History of the English Turf; Keylocks Dams of Winners 1967-1978; Pedigrees of Leading Winners 1912-1959, and the follow-on volume 1960-1978; John Betts’ Winners for 1953 to 1957 inclusive, The Irish Horse for 1947, 1949-1952, 1957-1960; Dams of Winners, 4 vols, 1915 to 1947, 1948 to 1956, 1957 to 1966 & 1967 to 1974; Directory of the Turf for 1961, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1908, 1982 & 1986; and Prof. Wortley’s The Horse, Its Treatment in Health & Disease, in 9 vols £200 - 300


225 The Irish Racing Calendar, a complete record of horse races in Ireland from 1910 to 1974, in 63 vols, generally in good condition £300 - 400


226 British Sports & Sportsmen: Racing and Coursing,


Parts I & II, limited edition, numbered 197 of 1,000, edited by ‘The Sportsman’, published 1911; sold together with Reeves & Robinson’s Classic Lines, six modern GSB’s and four Weatherby’s Stallion Books, 1990s (13 vols) £120 - 150


227 A collection of 36 Timeform Best Horses of ... and Racehorses of ..., edited by Phil Bull, Best Horses Of ... for 1943 to 1947 with original dust jackets (1943 was never issued with a d/j), Racehorses of ... for 1948, 1952-1960, 1962, 1964-1971, 1974-1975, 1977, 1980-1988, all vols from 1971 onwards with dust jackets, overall condition very good


£700 - 1,100


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