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London : Sands & Co., 1903. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed (to Arthur Weston), signed and dated (1903) by the author - racing and other lively reminiscences from the sporting journalist, high life and low life, with sidelights on the leading jockeys and horses of the day, some Phil May stories, etc. A book regarded by E. V. Lucas as the most authentic of all guides to the Bohemian life of the late nineteenth century - a mixture of Juvenal, Rabelais and Pierce Egan.
Crown 8vo. [ii],(10),292pp. Original pictorial cloth, gilt and enamelled; top edge gilt; a few marks; slight crease to lower cover; some mild spotting, mainly to edges, but a very good, sound and still bright copy.

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London : Rogerson & Tuxford, 1864. First edition. Entertaining stories, essays and occasional pieces, including extracts from the diary of A. Softun Esq. - mainly on horse racing and the racing fraternity. Corbet was both editor of "The Steeple Chase Calendar" and secretary of the Central Farmers' Club.
Foolscap 8vo. [vi],202pp. Colour frontispiece and extra pictorial title, chromolithographed by Leighton Brothers from designs by the author's brother, the sporting artist Edward Corbet. Bound in a slightly later nondescript binder's cloth, lightly worn; frontispiece laid down; some discolouration to first and last leaves; a little shaken, but a good and serviceable copy with a fine racing provenance - bearing the blind-stamps of the Rosebery Library at The Durdans, the house near Epsom purchased by the Fifth Earl of Rosebery (later to win the Derby three times) in 1872. Also with the later armorial bookplate of Francis Bailey.

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London : Chapman & Hall, 1892. First edition. A sequel to Bertram's history of the Derby, giving an overview of late nineteenth-century horse racing - especially its finances, gambling, administration, the Jockey Club, etc. - with a particular journalistic emphasis on the "frauds and chicaneries" and "practices that will not bear the light of day". The mercurial Bertram, Scottish newspaperman and variously bookseller, novelist and strolling player, was the author of several books of personal memoir, and also wrote on subjects as diverse as fishing, fisheries, flagellation, and the language of flowers.
Demy 8vo. (viii),372pp. Original cloth; interesting contemporary yellow library label of the Guille-Allès Library of Guernsey on rear cover ("books must not be entrusted to children; nor must they be exposed to rain ..."); similar labels partially removed and partially covered by a later bookplate on front endpapers; neat shelfmark on spine; small mark on upper cover; rear endpaper just starting to crack; a few slight spots, but overall a very good and little used copy.

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London : Sportsman's Press, (1990). First edition. Combines a history of racing with material on publishers and engravers, details of engraving methods, and a full-scale artist catalogue of racing prints.
Demy 4to. 200pp. Illustrations throughout, many in colour. Original boards; lightly bruised at two corners, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : Putnam, (1934). First edition. The life history of the famous race-horse, with illustrations by Lionel Edwards, etc.
Demy 8vo. (220)pp. Twelve monochrome plates and coloured frontispiece by Lionel Edwards. Thirteen full-page photographs - Steve Donoghue up, etc. Original brown cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in gilt; some spotting; neat contemporary inscription, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : Putnam & Co., (1945). First edition : in what would appear to be a secondary dust-jacket, with reviews on the inner flap. A handsomely produced history of Newmarket and horse racing, illustrated by Lionel Edwards (1878-1966).
Demy 4to. xvi,(110),[ii]pp. Ten colour plates and numerous text illustrations by Edwards. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - lightly soiled and with a few short repaired tears.

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London : J. A. Allen & Co., (1974). First edition : limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by Michael Lyne. Jottings, reminiscences and a feast of illustrations from the sporting artist.
Long demy 4to. [iv],150,[vi]pp. Plates, twelve in colour. Numerous illustrations. Original rexine; all edges gilt; a fine copy in the original acetate jacket and numbered box - box staples a little rusted.

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