A New Guide to the Derby: How to Pick the Winner. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. [1947].

133 pp. Original blue cloth in slightly browned dust jacket. Rare. With various press cuttings concerning the Derby of 1947. Originally published in 1936 as 'A Guide to the Classics, or How to Pick the Derby Winner'. Oakeshott's only non-academic work. 'Perhaps too it called for some courage to publish in 1936 a book written jointly with a colleague, Guy Griffith, entitled A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick a Derby Winner. Though written with dry urbanity, this was a serious effort to offer a brief and businesslike account of the rational principles upon which we believe a winning selection may be based. Fear of raised eyebrows did not deter Oakeshott from agreeing to a second edition of this light-hearted work in 1947.' From the obituary by Nevil Johnson.