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| | de Freitas Books-Sports & Games |
 | | For booksellers as sedentary as we are, it might seem surprising that books on sports and games would appeal to us. |
 | | A remarkable survey of American sports, covering both individual and team events, amateur and professional, competitions and championships, male and female; extensively illustrated with period drawings, engravings and photograps, as well as pictorial endpapers; includes such unusual sports as gander pulling, female boxing, long-distance swimming and walking. |
 | | Original 3/4 dark blue leather, with ocre cloth cover; gilt ruled, with decoration (Beaufort crest on front), and lettering on spine; leather lightly rubbed along bottom edges, joints and corners, and small scuff on spine; top edge gilt, others uncut. |
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