HAIG-BROWN, ALAN R.
My Game-Book. [London]: Witherby and Co., 1913. First edition. Publisher's green cloth gilt. 6 x 4 1/2 inches; xvi, 239 pp.; half-title, frontispiece and plates after photographs. Extremities bumped and worn, a few stray marks to covers, a bit overopened.
With charming printed dedication: "Dedicated to my five year old Roddy in the hope that he will be a better sportsman than his father though he will never be keener" -- though Roderick would go on to become a more prolific writer than his father. Not in Bruns.
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HAIG-BROWN, ALAN R.
My Game-Book. [London]: Witherby and Co., 1913. First edition. Publisher's green cloth gilt. 6 x 4 1/2 inches; xvi, 239 pp.; half-title, frontispiece and plates after photographs. Extremities bumped and worn, a few stray marks to covers, a bit overopened.
With charming printed dedication: "Dedicated to my five year old Roddy in the hope that he will be a better sportsman than his father though he will never be keener" -- though Roderick would go on to become a more prolific writer than his father. Not in Bruns.
Auction: Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson, Dec 18, 2018