[HUNTING ABC] 'THE WAG', pseud. [Charles Walter SIMPSON] (author and illustrator). The Olympian Alphabet. London; Country Life Ltd. [1928].
Tall 8vo. Original cream card covers, stitched, with fawn pictorial wrappers lithographed in red and green to both covers and flaps and priced 1/- to upper panel; pp. [28]; with illustrations throughout on alternate pale green and beige grounds; an attractive copy with a few short closed edge tears and small loss to head of spine fold; internally generally clean with light spotting to first 3 leaves and a few gutters; scarce.
First edition. A delightful equestrian alphabet, printed at the Curwen Press, being collection of cartoons on the subject of the Olympia Horse Show, arranged as an humorous ABC: 'M for the Mezzanine - some call it floor - where those who come late are a horrible bore'. Only 4 copies on Copac: Univ. of Oxford; Univ. of Manchester; Nat. Lib. of Scotland; BL.
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