At The Sign Of The Stockyard Inn

ALVIN HOWARD SANDERS

Publication: Breeder's Gazette Print, 1915, Chicago

First Edition. Three-quarter Leather. 322 pp. Numerous illustrations, including color Frontispiece. Sub-titled: "The Same Being a True Account of How Certain Great Achievements of the Past Have Been Commemorated and Cleverly Linked With the Present; Together With Sundry Recollections Inspired by the Portraits at The Saddle And Sirloin Club." A blend of history, biography, and memoir centered on the famous Saddle and Sirloin Club in Chicago's Union Stock Yards. Six Score 966 says, "Numerous tales of cattle and cattle-breeders in America and England. The book is a series of historical sketches. Sanders recounts the lives and achievements of influential breeders, agricultural reformers, and livestock pioneers from Britain and North America. Sanders was the Editor of 'The Breeders Gazette,' and he knew the men he talked of." He was also the author of SHORTHORN CATTLE and THE STORY OF THE HEREFORDS. An interesting and informative work. Leather corners lightly rubbed inner front hinge has been professionally repaired, endpapers show usual off-setting to corners and top & bottom edges of spine from leather, else a very good tight copy.