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Parker, G A : South African Sports : Cricket, Football, Athletics, Cycling, Tennis, Racing, Polo, Golf, Gymnastics, Boxing, Shooting, &c. : An Official Handbook with Portraits of Leading Athletes and Officials

Sampson Low, Marston, and Company, London, 1897

234 pages (complete). A hardy, much owned copy. The boards are bold ; they are worn and marked all about. They are steady and congenial. The contents are aged. They still retain a patina of heartiness. The early pages were repaired at some stage with scotch tape. There are rushes of foxing here and there; there is wear from usage and age; they are still keen, clean(ish), clear, very certain. fk. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

PARKER, G.A : South African Sports. Cricket, Football, Athletics, Cycling, Tennis, Racing, Polo, Golf, Gymnastics, Boxing, Shooting Etc

Sampson Low Marston and Company, 1897

First Edition. A very good copy in the original red cloth, light wear to extremities, staining to fore-edge margin rear board, contents clean and tight. The first book devoted to South African sports, and a mine of information relating to late 19th century activity in the sports covered. The breakdown of the contents is as follows: cricket (48pp); football (49pp); athletics (23pp); cycling (14pp); lawn tennis (12pp); golf (21pp); polo (6pp); turf (17pp); shooting 96pp); boxing (4pp); bowls (2pp); skittles (1p); gymnastics (3pp); Rhodesian sports (5pp).

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