including Tennis, Origins and Mysteries by Malcom D. Whitman, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932, quarter cloth over paper covered boards, numbered 17/400 at limitation page; Yacht Navigation and Voyaging by Claud Worth, New York: Yachting Inc., 1929, second edition; A Decade of American Sporting Books and Prints, with an introduction by Eugene V. Connett, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937, inscription from Connett to previous owner at front free fly; with 17 other titles, cloth bindings, most without jackets, many with previous owner's bookplate to front free fly papers, some with gift inscriptions, 22-1/2 x 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 in. overall
Provenance: Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia
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Private Collection, Richmond, Virginia
overall good condition, some fading to spines, areas of discoloration to boards, corners bumped, tearing and losses to jackets, some scattered foxing throughout; one of three copies (not inscribed copy) of <em>A Decade of Sporting</em> with moisture mark at foot of spine with some bleeding into interior; George Stubbs and Ben Marshall with moisture marks to boards and into interior
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