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FRED ARCHER - HIS LIFE AND TIMES

FRED ARCHER - HIS LIFE AND TIMES

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SIGNED

Illustrated horseracing biography of the great Victorian jockey.

8vo. 208pp. Dust-wrapper. Wear to wrapper at spine-ends and occasional slight splash-marks to pages. Good condition. A handwritten card from the author, under his real name of John Brennan, to his fellow horseracing historian Richard Onslow is slipped in. The card refers to this book, although the card is dated 1993. From the collection of Richard 'Dickie' Onslow.

Date
1967
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Author
John WELCOME

£14.00 (Code: 94070)

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