Dunalley Lord (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Military autobiography, the author born in Dublin in 1877 and the 5th Baron Dunally. Includes b/w frontis. photographs of the author. 255pp. Green buckram boards with light rubbing and spotting. Gift inscription to free endpaper, dated 1943. Light foxing to endpapers.

First Edition. Youngman Carter dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories with some crime elements, and a man committed to becoming a sporting gentleman. Very scarce. The front flap reads: "This is a surprisingly good collection of stories by Lord Dunalley a new writer in the field of fiction and it may safely be said that Lord Dunalley will quickly establish himself as a popular novelist. In A Sporting Education, which is the main story in Saddle and Steel, Mr. Keldon, an American who has " made his bit," thinks it time to give up commerce and learn how to become a sportsman and a gentleman. He places himself under the able tuition of Captain Hugh Darley. Though Keldon finds his newly proposed vocation rather more difficult than " hot air merchandising," he tries to learn with an earnest zest, supported by a disarming urbanity, which makes him as lovable a character as Hugh Darley is. This is a sporting novel without a villain. A kindly good humour pervades it from the first to the last chapter and the whole book will appeal to all readers who like a good, clean sporting story told in a pleasant, light vein. Very Good, some discoloration to cloth, soiling to page edges, in rather soiled dustjacket, but otherwise Good, quarter sized chip at upper rear panel.