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Signed copy: Ski - Running.


Book Description
Second edition, Horace Cox, London, 1905. 8vo, vi, 116p, 18p adverts. Endpaper adverts, plates and text illustrations. Slight wear, VG in original pictorial cloth. Inscribed, signed & dated to 'Ward Room library, HMS Cochrane, with the compliments of D M M Crichton Somerville, Christiania, Sept 1909. Not in Neate or Perret. Arnold Lunn in 'The Story of Skiing' p 181, describes this book as 'the first work on skiing in the English Language'.
Author
Somerville, D M M Crichton, Rickmers, W R and Richardson, E C.
Date
1905
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