Aintree: Grand Nationals -- Past and Present. Illustrated by the author. Introduction by Henry G. Vaughan.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1930. First edition, from the large paper issue, 1/50 copies (this #9), this copy with a signed double-page pen-and-ink drawing by the author bound in. 4to. 191 pp. Illustrated from line drawings and photographs, plates, in-text vignettes, diagrams, facsimiles, etc.; title page printed in red and black. Several scuff marks on the boards, joints and corners a little rubbed, but an attractive copy with a signed double-page drawing featuring a spill at a jump. Publisher's scarlet morocco, boards framed by gilt rules with horseheads in the corners, spine with gilt rules enclosing sporting devices and title between raised bands, turn-ins with gilt riles and corners devices, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. (9777). Item #63088
Price: $4,000.00