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THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN (COMPILED FROM THE OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF REGINALD DRAKE BIFFIN)

THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN (COMPILED FROM THE OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF REGINALD DRAKE BIFFIN)

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The fictional sporting memoirs of Reginald Drake Biffin, including chapters on cricket, golf and many country sports. The author was perhaps best known as a poet and lyricist.

First edition. 8vo. 301pp. Foxing to page edges and endpapers. Dust-wrapper, rubbed and chipped to edges with long closed tear to front. The dust-wrapper seems to be from a different edition of the book (slightly different size) but seemingly from the same year - based on the list of other books published that year by Edward Arnold on the back panel.

Date
1914
Publisher
Edward Arnold
Author
Harry GRAHAM

£50.00 (Code: 72730)

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