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Published by W. Lucas at the Office Fleet Street London. April 6 Vol.1 no. 1. Folio 1892
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United KingdomPatrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB
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pp. 12. Front page with some colour-printing, many illustrations. Disbound, else in excellent condition. *EDITORIAL NOTICE : 'They're Off Is a cry fraught with big meaning to many a man on a racecourse, and no less is this the case when a journalistic owner starts a 'dark horse' as a candidate for the POPULARITY STAKES.' Thus mo…stly concerning the Turf and Horses, with a £20 prize for correctly predicting the three winning jockeys in their order of precedence on the first of every month, biographies of jockeys and owners, a detective story ['It is with the two girls that my story mainly is concerned. We became acquainted with them in the usual way men of our stamp drop in with women of a lower grade.'] and advertisements for hair restorer, Beecham's Pills and gold watches. The Australian edition was available in Sydney and Melbourne, and there is a full-page article by CHARTERS PATON - 'Our Australian Sketch Book'. COPAC records the British Library copy only. It ran until 1894 and was continued by Sporting Sketches till 1907.
