Sporting Novels

Smart, Hawley. Bound to Win – A Tale of the Turf. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877, 8vo (188 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and with design in black on upper cover, collector’s green cloth slipcase, [Sadlier 3067], some browning and spotting, extremities slightly rubbed, lower hinge of volume two split--[Carleton, John William]. Hyde Marston; or, a Sportsman’s Life. London: Henry Colburn, 1844, 8vo (204 x 116mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, original brown cloth-backed boards with paper labels on spine, some spotting and browning, extremities worn--[Wilson, John, "Christopher North"]. The Recreations of Christopher North. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1842, 8vo (199 x 123mm.), 3 volumes, first edition, advertisements at the end of volume 2, original green cloth, covers decorated in blind, covers lettered and decorated in gilt, [not in Sadleir or Wolff], a fine copy (9)

[The Recreations of Christopher North:] William Macmath FSA, ownership signature dated 1888 on front endpaper of volume 1, bookplates;  I. J. Whitefoord Mackenzie, bookplate

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