The Ladbroke’s Story

304pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine head. Bottom edge sun faded. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear; especially on rear. Chipping to edges, price unclipped. 8vo. Among the most comprehensive racing books ever written as the author traces the story of betting from the days of Tattersall’s Newmarket Rooms, through the riotous villainy of the betting booths in Hyde Park, the first ticker-tape racing machine, birth of the Blower, the leisurely Victorian era to the battle for the right to call themselves ‘the world’s greatest bookmakers’.