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DERRYDALE PRESS. [Brown, Paul. Compiler?] Grasslands International Steeplechase. [New York]: Derrydale Press, [1930.] image 1
DERRYDALE PRESS. [Brown, Paul. Compiler?] Grasslands International Steeplechase. [New York]: Derrydale Press, [1930.] image 2
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DERRYDALE PRESS.
[Brown, Paul. Compiler?]
Grasslands International Steeplechase. [New York]: Derrydale Press, [1930.]

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DERRYDALE PRESS.

[Brown, Paul. Compiler?] Grasslands International Steeplechase. [New York]: Derrydale Press, [1930.] 8vo (240 x 160 mm). Two color lithographic illustrations of designs for fences, folding plan of the the race track. Original brown pictorial wrappers.
Provenance: F P Williamson (bookplate).

VERY RARE DERRYDALE PRESS GRASSLANDS PAMPHLET, outlining the design and structure of the Grasslands racetrack in Tennessee. Grasslands was a sixty to eighty acre farm, used by a fox-hunting and steeplechase club, that was located between Gallatin and Hendersonville, near Nashville, Tennessee. International steeplechase events were held there for two years between 1930 and 1931 before the Great Depression ultimately ended the concept. People came from as far as England and Spain for these events. Frazier discusses the rarity of this pamphlet "There is much confusion about this Grasslands material because so little of it exists. The 1930 pamphlet described above...was clearly a prospectus distributed in the steeplechasing community some months prior to the December 6, 1930, day of the race. The copy of this prospectus in my collection is the only copy I know to exist, although there's a possibility of another". Frazier G-11-a; Siegel p 45.

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