Racing for Gold or, Incidents in the Life of a Turf Commissioner. With Examples of the Most Successful Systems of Speculating on the Turf and in Games of Chance
- London: Messrs. Fores, 1891
London: Messrs. Fores, 1891. Good +. London: Messrs. Fores, 1891. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial paper-covered boards; x,[2],308,[4](ads)pp.; frontispiece, ten leaves of plates (collated complete), pictorial advertisements on paste-ons.
Ex-The Racing Library in Manchester with their contemporary markings including shelf number in red ink on upper cover, faded spine label, and rubber-stamps to two early leaves, boards bumped and scuffed at corners and spine ends, upper joint starting to crack but holding, title page and half title page excised and reinserted out of sequence but still present; overall a Good or better example in the original, advertisement-bedecked binding. Forms part of the Horseshoe Series and issued as Vol. I in Fores's Sporting Library.
Ex-The Racing Library in Manchester with their contemporary markings including shelf number in red ink on upper cover, faded spine label, and rubber-stamps to two early leaves, boards bumped and scuffed at corners and spine ends, upper joint starting to crack but holding, title page and half title page excised and reinserted out of sequence but still present; overall a Good or better example in the original, advertisement-bedecked binding. Forms part of the Horseshoe Series and issued as Vol. I in Fores's Sporting Library.