1932 The Turf: Who's Who?

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The first edition of this very scarce work. 

In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. With Ackermann Galleries Sporting Pictures & Prints stamped in gilt to the rear board. 

A wonderful selection of small biographies, detailing the backgrounds, successes and other key facts about an array of trainers, owners, jockeys, breeders and others involved in racing. 

Compiled by John Fairfax-Blakeborough, an English writer, folklorist and author of over a hundred books on the history of horse racing, Yorkshire folklore and the Cleveland Bay.

With seven leaves of advertisements to the beginning of the work and a monochrome frontispiece. With a leaf of advertisements to the rear, as well as to the pastedowns.