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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner (Amphora Press) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 130 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1947 edition. Spine of dust jacket is discoloured/ stained. Wear to edges of dust jacket. Boards in good condition. Endpapers discoloured. Pages clean; no inscriptions.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition Of The 1936 Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 133. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Neat name on front pastedown with slight rubbing to covers, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition. 1947 Revised edition of the 1936 First Edition. Blue cloth on boards with gilt titles on spine. Jacket (very scarce) is slightly discoloured and has a small piece missing at the bottom of the spine. Contents are clean and flat. Previous owner's signature on the FFE. B/w inset tables throughout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second revised edition. A clean unmarked copy in dust wrapper, not price clipped or inscribed. Dust wrapper a bit browned with a couple of shallow splits, but very good overall.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original taupe cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 132 printed pages of text. Softened lower spine end, foxing to the free end papers and closed upper edge and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Horse Racing].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. An uncommon copy of Michael Oakeshott's (1901-1990) only non-academic published work, which offers a studied analysis on-of all things-how to successfully bet on horse racing. Co-authored with Oakeshott's Cambridge colleague, Guy T. Griffith, A Guide to the Classics, or How to Pick the Derby Winner analyzes how to successfully evaluate and reduce the field to a handful of likely contenders. The dust jacket to this interesting work provides that "[t]his is not just a joke but a serious study of an enthralling problem. The authors explain how to draw commonsense conclusions from the facts of Breeding and Form, and so reduce the list of possible winners to three or four." The book's final chapter "brings together all the considerations which must be taken into account in picking the winner, and ends with two fully worked out examples-1933 and 1936." Oakeshott, the influential conservative scholar and author of Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, here marshals his towering intellect to help horse racing enthusiasts realize their dreams at the track. A quirky and interesting work by one of the twentieth century's greatest political thinkers-and a work that is uncommon in this condition. Octavo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped). One-inch closed tear to top of front dust jacket, one-inch chip to top of rear dust jacket and head of spine, and chip to bottom spine, else minor edgewear and smudging to dust jacket. Minor spotting to pastedowns and free endpapers. Near-fine in very good dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo: 136 pp., occasional pencilled notes, some spotting mainly to first and last few leaves. Original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed. First edition. Rare. 'In this book we propose to review again the problem involved in picking the winner of the Derby and to reconsider the principles upon which this problem may at the present time be solved successfully. . The Derby winner cannot be picked often without the use of intelligence, and we can provide no ready-made substitute for an intelligent consideration of the race and the field. Nevertheless, we do not suggest that our way of dealing with the subject is scientific. Our method is that of commonsense .' - from the introduction. '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 [entitled 'A New Guide to the Derby'] of this light-hearted work in 1947.' From the obituary by Nevil Johnson. Oakeshott (1901-1990), Professor of Political Science, was educated at and was later a fellow at Cambridge, was Professor at the LSE from 1951-68, also a member of the Fabian Society; he published numerous books and articles, and this work is his only non-academic publication.…