Webber Byron Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition. Handsome hardcover in green cloth covered boards with the Kingsclere red/black jockey racing silks on cover. Spine ends bumped, tips rubbed, no names or tears in the 369pp text. Photographic illustrations throughout. Hinge papers fine, some foxing on title page and photo frontis, light finger soil in margins and edge of page block. A substantial addition to the history of the British turf.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography from English Thoroughbred flat racing trainer John Porter. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eighteen plates, and twelve in-text images. Collated complete. The biography of John Porter, an English Thoroughbred flat racing trainer whose horses won the English Triple Crown three times. He has been described by the National Horseracing Museum as "undoubtedly the most successful trainer of the Victorian era." Edited by Byron Webber, a British sportswriter. In the original full cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription and previous owner's bookplate to the front endpapers. Very Good. book.