Alec Morrison (44 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Impossible Art of Golf: Anthology of Golf Writing This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 321 pp.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. An anthology combining writing about golf with fictional descriptions of the game. Alongside accounts of the exploits of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and Ian Woosnam are pieces by John Updike, P.G. Wodehouse, Julian Barnes, and also Bernard Darwin and Henry Longhurst, whose skills were both sporting and literary. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. VG condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Good DJ with light wear.

Condition: New. Collins, Mike; Farmer, Mark; Davis, Alan; Power, Dermot; Bisley, Simon; Elson, Richard; Marshall, Paul; Ezquerra, Carlos; Willsher, Ben; Powell, Eric (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Collins, Mike; Farmer, Mark; Davis, Alan; Power, Dermot; Bisley, Simon; Elson, Richard; Marshall, Paul; Ezquerra, Carlos; Willsher, Ben; Powell, Eric (illustrator). Unread copy in mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. in The Impossible Art of Golf, Alec Morrison has culled together some of the crown jewels of golf writing, from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Virtually all the great writers on golf are here--Bernard Darwin, Charles Price, Herbert Warren Wind, Henry Longhurst, Al Barkow, Dan Jenkins, Michael Murphy, Lorne Rubinstein, and many more. We read of the great players--such as Harry Vardon and J.H. Taylor, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, Babe Zaharias and Joyce Wethered--and the great contests, such as Walter Hagen versus Bobby Jones or Jack Nicklaus's epic battle with Tom Watson in the 1980 British Open, one of the greatest head-to-head duels ever played in major championship golf. Many of the pieces are by the golfers themselves, including excerpts from Gene Sarazen's Thirty Years of Championship Golf and from Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway and Golf is My Game. Morrison, recognizing that one of golf's attractions is its long, rich history, has also included pieces that capture a sense of the game as it was played in the past, ranging chronologically from Tobias Smollett's Humphrey Clinker (written in 1771), to Horace Hutchinson's Westward Ho! (1914), to Francis Ouimet's A Game of Golf (1933). And finally, to round out the collection, there are comic pieces by P.G. Wodehouse and Patrick Campbell (who lists the different types of strokes at a player's disposal, such as the Blacksmith's Convulsive or the Colonel's Up and Down), poetry by Grantland Rice ("Keep Your Eye on the Ball") and Sir John Betjeman ("Seaside Golf"), and contributions by A.A. Milne, Siegfried Sassoon, and Alastair Cooke (who recounts his golfing nirvana when every shot was going right).The Impossible Art of Golf is packed with many rare and marvelous pieces, illuminating the history and allure of this great game. Anyone who loves golf will find this anthology irresistible.

Paperback. Condition: New. Collins, Mike; Farmer, Mark; Davis, Alan; Power, Dermot; Bisley, Simon; Elson, Richard; Marshall, Paul; Ezquerra, Carlos; Willsher, Ben; Powell, Eric (illustrator). HEROES DON'T LAST LONG IN MEGA-CITY ONE!Welcome to Mega-City One, a nightmarish metropolis situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Poverty is rife, crime is rampant, and only the Judges - empowered to dispense instant justice - can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD - he is the Law!There are plenty of law-breaking freaks amongst the citizenship of the 'Big Meg'. From Futsies to Umpty-baggers, the Judges have their hands full. But the worst offenders are those who try and enforce their own brand of justice. Especially that strange strain of vigilante who chooses to hit the streets in brightly-coloured spandex!From super-powered aliens to Cursed Earth mutants, Judge Dredd dishes out justice to all in this action-packed collection of stories from some of comicdom's biggest talents, including John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Ezquerra, Mike Collins, Simon Bisley, Richard Elson, Simon Spurrier and Eric Powell, amongst many others.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. A tidy copy in tight binding Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. BOMC ed. 8vo, 321 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. PRACTIVE; NEW WRITINGS + ART 2 with works by Finlay, Alec; Records, Shawn; Calascione; Fost, Dan; Shimda, Brandon; Morrison, Rusty; Cruse, Aaron; Ginsburg, Emily and others. 186 pages, paper with stiff cover. Color and black and white reproductions. 9" x 7 5/8". Rubbing to edges otherwise very good condition.

soft cover. Condition: G. Ex-library, good condition. No Jacket. 1st edition. 23 cm. 162 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. An anthology combining writing about golf with fictional descriptions of the game. Alongside accounts of the exploits of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, and Ian Woosnam are pieces by John Updike, P.G. Wodehouse, Julian Barnes, and also Bernard Darwin and Henry Longhurst, whose skills were both sporting and literary.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 321 pages. Excellent anthology; news release from Oxford University Press laid in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

soft cover. No Jacket. 1st edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 24 cm. XIV, 287 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, pages a little browned, name on flyleaf.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw drawings. Or card covers. Very light edge wear to covers. Gardiner and his gang pulled off the biggest robbery of colonial times in 1862 making off with $4 million in today's money. He served ten years and on release became a successful businessman in San Francisco before marying a wealthy widow and retiring to a fine ranch. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 162 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids: Over 1100 Species Illustrated and Identified This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paper Back. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This book is light, and postage will be reduced for shipment. Frank Gardiner was a national celebrity in his own time. In 1862 he and his gang pulled off the biggest robbery of colonial times, relieving the Forbes-Sydney gold escort of bullion and banknotes worth around $4 million in today's money. Though a hardened criminal, Gardiner had qualities that set him apart from most of the thuggish misfits and murderers of the bushranging fraternity. He was intelligent, energetic, disciplined and brave, with great physical and mental endurance and outstanding powers of leadership. He was famously lucky too and, unlike many of his peers, he survived more than his three score years and ten. After paying for his crimes with a ten-year stint in Darlinghurst Gaol, he emigrated to California where he began a new life as a prosperous businessman, running a saloon in San Francisco's notorious 'Barbary Coast' district before reputedly marrying a rich widow and retiring to a fine ranch ; 230 x 150mm; 162 pages.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Morrison, Reg (illustrator). Fourth Impression. Hardcover with green boards and pictorial dust jacket, fourth impression, 1430gms, 304 pages, maroon endpapers, includes over 750 photographs in full colour. Contents includes: plant names; habits of growth; plant habitats; text and pictures; index of common names; index of botanical names; cultivation; and much more. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration/spotting throughout. Inside front page has a small pen marking from a previous owner. Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with only mild shelf wear and scuffing, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1kg and may incur additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. v + 321 pages, 1st ed 1st printing copy of this anthology, put together by this one-time advertising executive and a former captain of Rye Golf Club. Book is a little cocked but in general very clean and tidy. Jacket has a little wear and some creasing at top edge, is not price-clipped though the price has been inked through a little untidily, but presents brightly.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: front and back showing light scuffing & signs of handling, crease-line bottom front, only minor wear along edges and at corners, spine is intact and solid. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, no markings, clean throughout. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Paperback small octavo, very good condition, few black & white drawings, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 162 pp. This book is about the bushranger Frank Gardiner. In 1862, his gang pulled off the biggest robbery of colonial times, relieving the Forbes-Sydney gold escort of bullion and banknotes worth $4 million in today's money. He was given ten years in Darlinghurst Gaol, then he emigrated to California where he began a new life as a prosperous businessman, running a saloon in San Francisco's notorious 'Barbary Coast' district, before marrying a rich widow and retiring to a fine ranch. (1 of 2 available copies.).

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