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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Date 1940

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1. The sportsman's library; being a descriptive list of the most important books on sports. Compiled by Ernest R. Gee.

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Creator:
Gee, Ernest R., 1878–1956
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
xix, 158 p. : front., pl., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Kings and Queens / by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon ; with 40 coloured plates by Rosalind Thornycroft.

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Creator:
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881–1965
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
86 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Good luck and bad / by Paul Brown.

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Creator:
Brown, Paul, 1893–1958
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
[8] p., [50] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Arab war : confidential information for General Headquarters from Gertrude Bell, being despatches from the secret "Arab bulletin" / introduction by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., Director of the Arab Bureau, 1916-1920.

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Creator:
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868–1926
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
50, [2] pages ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Signs / by Brilliant Signs Ltd., Paragon Works.

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Creator:
Brilliant Signs (Firm)
Date:
[1940?]
Physical Description:
56 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Random jottings of a horseman / by Sidney G. Goldschmidt.

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Creator:
Goldschmidt, S. G. (Sidney George), b. 1869
Date:
[1940]
Physical Description:
xi, 163 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Six hundred years of sport : a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, December 12, 1940, through February 4, 1941.

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Creator:
Grolier Club
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 37 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Men in print : essays in literary criticism / by T.E. Lawrence ; introduction by A.W. Lawrence.

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Creator:
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888–1935
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
[6], 9-58, [2] pages, [1] leaf, [3] leaves of plates ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Red coats in Chester County, by J. Stanley Reeve ...

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Creator:
Reeve, J. Stanley, 1878–
Date:
[c1940]
Physical Description:
xiii p., 2 l., 3-392, [1] p. front., illus. (map) plates, ports. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Amsterdam / photographed by Geoffrey Gilbert ; cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer.

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Creator:
Gilbert, George, 1922–
Date:
[194-?]
Physical Description:
[67] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. ... Flat racing, by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood, K. G., & Lt.-Col. P. E. Ricketts ... (editors), A. W. Coaten, C. C. Edmunds, F. Fox ... [and others] With a colour plate & forty-nine illustrations.

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Creator:
Harewood, Henry George Charles Lascelles, Earl of, 1882–1947
Date:
[1940]
Physical Description:
432 p. incl. col. front., illus. (incl. plans) diagrs. plates. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The Bicester and William Hill Hunt / by William Fawcett ; official handbook.

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Creator:
Fawcett, William, 1902–1941
Date:
[ca. 1940s]
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The story of American foxhunting : from challenge to full cry / by J. Blan Van Urk; introduction by Gordon Grand.

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Creator:
Van Urk, John Blan, 1902–
Date:
c1940-
Physical Description:
v. : ill., ports., maps, facsims. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. English bindings, 1490-1940 : in the library of J. R. Abbey / edited by G.D. Hobson.

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Creator:
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896–1969
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
xvi, 201 p. : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Hobby horses, by Amy Freeman Lee.

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Creator:
Lee, Amy Freeman, Mrs
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 56 p. front. plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Hunting, shooting, angling, ornithology, racing, including the sporting works of "Frank Forester"; the renowned library on American sport collected by William Mitchell Van Winkle, author of the bibliography of the writings, 1832-1858, of Henry William Herbert (Frank Forester); sold by his order : public sale December 4 ... December 5 [1940].

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Creator:
Parke-Bernet Galleries
Date:
1940
Physical Description:
137 p. : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Bookmark, W. H. Smith & Son gift voucher].

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Creator:
W.H. Smith & Son
Date:
[approximately 1940?]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark : illustrations ; 15 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Mother Goose, or, The old nursery rhymes / illustrated by Kate Greenaway.

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Date:
[between 1940 and 1950]
Physical Description:
[10], 9-52, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957