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Title: The Old Sport and Other Verses - Privately Printed - Signed by Author
Description: Privately Pinted for the Author By Oliver and Boyd, 1934. Hardcover. The author was a well known Obstetrician and Gynaecologistr in Edinburgh who died in retirement in 1941. Outside his profession Dr. Fordyce had many interests. He was a keen fisherman and golfer, and enjoyed curling. His turn for the writing of light verse was well known to a wide circle of friends, and he often sang or recited his own compositions at medical and other dinners. Of these he was persuaded to publish privately a selection in a small volume entitled The Old Sport and Other Verses (B.M.J. Obituary). A mightyt fish, I said, is this, 'Twas perfect rapture, perfect bliss; with knocking knees I held him tight. The book was privately published and most copies seem to have been signed bu the author - this copy to Aesculapian Struthers from W. Fordyce 'Xmas/34. This copy is clean and tight in oroginal prusssian blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. See scans . Very Good +

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