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THE BADMINTON LIBRARY - ATHLETICS AND FOOTBALL

THE BADMINTON LIBRARY - ATHLETICS AND FOOTBALL

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An essential work of early athletics and football reference. A volume in The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, edited by by The Duke of Beaufort and Alfred ET Watson.

Third edition. 8vo. 408pp. Original pictorial brown cloth, lightly rubbed. Fly-leaf and frontispiece are loose - otherwise contents are very good. Overall good condition. [See Seddon, A17, A35]

Date
1889
Publisher
Longmans, Green
Author
Montague SHEARMAN

£20.00 (Code: 95528)

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