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Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1889
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition, Revised. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Crown octavo. 452pp. Illustrated. Bound in 3/4 brown leather. Marble boards and endpapers. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page. Some rubbing to the boards. Spotting to the first few pages.
Published by Boston. Little, Brown, and Company, 1887
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Hardcover. Brown decorative cloth with "The Badminton Library" on the front cover in blue. Decorative endpapers. Front cover and spine are detached but present. Rear cover also detached but present. Text block split into 4 pieces. All the pieces are here, for a re-bind, but until they're re-bound, it must be handled with care. Bookplate on the inside front page with the name Albert A Schaaf, noting that it is a gift to the Smithsonian. Rubberstamp on the title page from Smithsonian, dated 1934. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. 459 pages. Illustrated. Pages toned from age, but still clean and square cornered. Please email with questions or to request photos.
Published by London, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1887, 1887
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hardback. approx 8 x 5.5 inches. In Deluxe quarter bound navy blue leather and orange cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine and crest to front. Top page edges gilt. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Spine rubbed, chipped at ends, corners bumped with chips to top ends. Slight darkening and handling marks to cloth. Bookplate to front endpaper ?Hon. John Wayland Leslie, Kinninvie, Banffshire.? Small label to corner of endpaper ?Gordon Castle.? Some minor handling marks and a couple of minor light foxing spots, Else a very clean and tight copy. A scarce copy of the Badminton Library Series. Includes a chapter: Tricycling for Ladies. 459pp + 4pp cat. With numerous illustrations by Viscount Bury and Joseph Pennell.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., London, 1891
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Numerous Illustrations By Viscount Bury & Joseph Pennell (illustrator). 3rd Edition, Revised. Part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.Inner joints repaired.
Published by Little, Brown, and Company Boston, 1887
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo hardcover volume in brown cloth. Spine and boards tight with chip to spine top and spine coated with shiny material. This is a ex library copy with bookplate perfs and name stamps. Chip on top of half title else 459 pages are tight and unstained. Not printed on the best paper.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1891
Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom
Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition Revised. Finely bound in half leather by Hatchards of Picadilly. Dark blue morocco spine and corners, with gilt ruled borders.Five raised bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, and date, with sporting emblems decorating four compartments.Top edge gilt.Ochre cloth boards, and marbled endpapers.xiii[ix],495 pages. With numerous illustrations by Viscount Bury and Joseph Pennell. 5.5 X 7.5 inches.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather here and there. Browning to fore edge, and some spotting to first and final pages with offsetting to endpapers. Original owner's ex libris leather gilt lettered label on the front pastedown.Very good copy, pages mostly very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1889, London, 1891
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Pictorial Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Pennell, Joseph (illustrator). Second Edition, Revised. xiii, 452 pp. Original pictorial cloth. Minimal rubbing to extremities, boards clean with slight fading to spine. Ink name dated 1890 to ffep., occasional minor spots within. Illustrated throughout in black & white. 8vo.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co. (London), 1887
Seller: Le Plessis Books, LISKEARD, CORNW, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1887. Collectable book on cycling from the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes by William Coutts Keppel, otherwise Viscount Bury, 7th Earl of Albemarle - a noted artist and cycling enthusiast. 459 pages printed and bound on dark brown, illustrated boards with blue lettering detail. B. & w. plates/illustrations by G. Pearson and Ford & Wall and attractive woodcut engravings by Bury and artist Joseph Pennell. Illustrated/printed end papers in Badminton's distinctive 'swan and ship' papers. Former owner's name and address in pen written on first free end-paper. Deemed to be in overall 'Good' condition - tidy and tightly bound, light fraying to top and bottom of spine boards, rubs and bumps elsewhere to boards. A nice copy. 8vo.
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896, London, 1891
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Half Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Pennell, Joseph (illustrator). New and Revised Edition. xvii, 400 pp. Deluxe binding in half navy morocco with orange boards and top edge gilt. Slight marks to the boards, with rubbing to the gilt coat of arms on the front board. Some wear to the extremities particularly the spine, with loss to the tail, 2.5 cm. No ownership marks and internally clean and bright save for minor staining to the rear leaves' top edge. Numerous illustrations in black and white. 8vo. Illustrated.
Published by Longmans Green and Co, London, 1887
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. PEARSON G and FORD & WALL (illustrator). (vi) 459pp including index. Orange cloth oards halfbound navy blue morocco. teg. Gilt armorial to front cover. Gilt titles to spine. Attractive engraved bookplate of H Lewis Hammond pasted to fep. No other inscriptions. Boards bumped scuffed and worn with small loss to base of spine panel. Some light foxing to prelims and closed edges. Otherwise textblock and illustrations clean tight and bright.
Published by London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Book
Second Edition, Revised. 14 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XIII, 452 pages. Hardcover [publisher's original brown cloth] with lettering and ornament on spine. Large pictorial on front board. Illustrated pastedowns and enpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor tear at valley between rear endpage and pastedown. Binding still firm and strong with the original, decorative endpapers in excellent condition. Tissue guard and throughout the book with occasional foxing. Some untrimmed pages at front. Armorial Bookplate / Exlibris of Arthur John Thornhill Esq. with his Motto: "Be Fast" on pastedown. [The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes] The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes was edited by the Duke of Beaufort K.G., assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson. The volume is dedicated to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales by Beaufort. [The Prince of Wales was the future King Edward VII] Includes, for example, the following chapters: Riding / Racing / Touring / Training / Dress / Clubs / Tricycling for Ladies / The Press and Cycling Literature etc. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, was a sporting and publishing project conceived and founded by Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899). Between 1885 and 1902 it developed into a series of sporting books which aimed to cover comprehensively all major sports and pastimes. (wikipedia) Sprache: english.