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Sale 336: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#336) 07/13/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #32 The Official Chart of the New California Jockey Club

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(California Jockey Club – Horse Racing)

Title:

The Official Chart of the New California Jockey Club

Author:

Skinner, F. St. D., editor

Place Published:

San Francisco

Publisher:

F. St. D. Skinner

Date Published:

[1910]

Description:

[328] pp. 7x4¾, limp black calf, bound with metal pins inside. 1910 Edition.

Contains a rare 4-page printed and folding leaflet: “How I Played the Races: A Statement of Facts Covering 30 Years” signed in ink at end after printed “Yours truly” by G. Millen, P.O. Box 632, S.F. [San Francisco]”; extra folded and laid in (splits and tears). Title page in book starts: The “Daily Racing News” from Charts and lists: Mexican Jockey Club (Juarez); Butte Montana Jockey Club; Anaconda Racing Assoc. (MT); Utah Jockey Club; Cheyenne Racing Assoc.; and Ogden Racing Assoc. (Utah).

Condition:

Light rubbing and edge wear, bottom front joint split; short frays to page edges, mild foxing to contents and laid-in leaflet, last leaf laid in loose; about very good. Scarce and early Western United States horse racing schedule chart / ephemera.

Item#:

171972
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