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1924 How to Ski and how not to
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Description
Decorative Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon
This work details the equipment, management of skis, jumping and running across country.
First published in 1911, this is the sixth impression of this popular work.
Presented in the original delightful decorative boards.
Illustrated throughout.
Lacking the front endpaper.
Written by Vivian Caulfeild, the author of numerous works on skiing.
With the ownership bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst, a member of the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica led by Ernest Shackleton. He was awarded the Silver Polar Medal in 1909, and was due to join Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, but was deployed to Flanders instead.
An uncommon example of this work on skiing.
Condition
In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; boards are a touch worn and bumped to the head and tail of the spine. Ownership bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Lacking the front endpaper.
Very Good
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