Two Sporting Titles from The Derrydale Press

(2) titles, (3) total volumes, to include:

J. Blan Van Urk. The Story of American Foxhunting: From Challenge to Full Cry, Volume I (1650-1861) [and] Volume II (1865-1906). (2) volumes (complete). New York: The Derrydale Press, [1940-1941]. One of 950 copies. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped maroon paper label on the front cover and spine, with top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed, and fox patterned endpapers. Large 4to; xxxi, [3], 283pp.; xx, [2], 435pp. Each volume with frontispiece and numerous illustrations; volume I with an introduction by Gordon Grand. (Mild wear to boards, spines darkened and ends lightly rubbed; interiors with rare grime or minor handling wear, and the free endpapers with small areas of tape residue; volume I with area of gutter wear after free endpaper; volume II with foxing concentrated on frontispiece and title page, in a protective jacket with wear; some leaves still unopened. Very good.)

Gordon Grand. The Southborough Fox and Other Colonel Weatherford Stories. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. One of 1450 copies. Signed by Gordon Grand on the half-title. Red pebbled cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt. 8vo; [14], 239, [1]pp. Illustrated with drawings by Eleanor Iselin Mason. (Light toning and grime to interior; small sticker to rear paste-down; gift inscription from Hugh Chatham. Very good.)

Largest 12 3/4 x 10 in.