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Philip Emery Professional seller. GBP 3. Hardcover, 14 to 17 cm tall 16mo. Posted within 1 working day. Godding Ltd. Professional seller. GBP 8. London, Ward, Lock, Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth with gilt. Probably a reprint, c. Cotswold Internet Books Professional seller.
Leipzig , Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, Very Good. A nice copy of Whyte-Melville's thoughts on horse riding, dating from the mid nineteenth century. Copyright Edition. With a bookseller's label for D. Nutt, London, to the rear pastedown. With a bookbinder's stamp for Laufmann to the verso of the front free endpaper. George John Whyte-Melville was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet.
He achieved immediate success as a writer of fox-hunting stories with his first novel Digby Grand in Having served as a captain in the Coldstream Guards between and , he volunteered as a major of irregular Turkish cavalry when the Crimean War began.
Bones and I, or The Skeleton at Home is an anomaly to the corpus of his work, since it is far from the worlds of the hunting field or the historical romance. Instead Bones and I centres upon an urban recluse who lives in a small, modern villa situated in a London cul de sac looking out upon "the dead wall at the back of an hospital.
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