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SNOW AND ICE SPORTS: A WINTER MANUAL

SNOW AND ICE SPORTS: A WINTER MANUAL

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The complete winter sports compendium, covering curling, camping in the snow, ice-creepers, skiing, ski jumping, snow photography, ice boat sailing, scootering, sailing on skates, walking on snowshoes, skating & skates, tobogganing, mountaineering, ice fishing, and more.

First UK Edition. 8vo. x + 293pp. Photographic frontis, 8 plates. 3 additional colour plates tipped-in, numerous textual drawings, diags, plans, etc. Dust-wrapper, sl chipped at head and tail of spine with some creasing around the top section of back panel. The front free endpaper has the impressed book-stamp of Taylor & Colbridge Booksellers, Doncaster, and the ownership label of W. Malin Jarvis, Tickhill, Yorks.

Date
1923
Publisher
London & Toronto: Dent
Author
Elon JESSUP

£95.00 (Code: 21322)

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