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 Author Name: Girtin, Tom
Title: The Abominable Clubman
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Hutchinson 1964
Seller ID: 000029
'In The Abominable Clubman Tom Girtin has investigated the anatomy of Clubs (and also of some of their members). The sometimes curious circumstances in which they were founded; their successful, and occasionally unscrupulous endeavours to blackball 'unsuitable' candidates; their fascinatingly characteristic architecture; their defence against the attacks of Victorian moralists; their richly varied examples of eccentricity; their rearguard action against the incursion of Women; the Jeevian characters among the staffs - all these are entertainingly discussed in this most readable and goodhumoured book.' 224pp. Index. Dust jacket not price clipped, with some slight wear to top/bottom spine area, some light soiling. Book has small inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper; spine bumped top/bottom, some foxing to top page edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Box 208
History; Hobbies and Leisure; Athenaeum; Decimus Burton; Brook; Beefsteak; Carlton; Garrick; Reform; Almarck's; Boodle's; Travellers'; United University; Black Ball; Pelican Club; White's club;
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