Captain Duff Taylor (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. No DJ.

Condition: Fair. 1930. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, exposing netting. Binding is slightly loose however pages and plates remains firmly attached. Faint pencil markings to front endpaper. Plates are lightly tanned. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Heavy markings and staining to front board and spine. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slim octavo in yellow cloth. No date, circa 1935-37. 70 pp. plus 10 pp. publisher's catalog and an illusrated ad for Spalding winter sports equipment. Eight phtographic plates. Guide to ice skating in its various forms with sections on its history, training and equipment, English and international schools of skating, figure skating, free skating, pairs skating, dancing, waltzing and acrobatic skating and even a chapter on ice hockey. Very good, even soiling to the cloth. No jacket.

Condition: Good. 1930. No edition stated. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Part of The Lonsdale Library series. Volume VIII. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white plates. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are noticeably tanned with minor foxing throughout. Heavier tanning to towards start and end of the book. Pencil mark to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters with exposed netting in few places. Plates are moderately tanned with some foxing. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surface. Small scratches and stain to both boards. Moderate sunning to spine with visible crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Believed First Edition. Hardback lacks dustwrapper, yellow cloth cloth boards are slightly rubbed and soiled but titles are undamaged. Spine is slightly dulled. Foyles sticker to front pastedown, no other inscriptions noted. Illustrated, slight spotting to end papers and edge of text block, no loose pages. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a Good Copy of this book in original brown cloth boards with leather spine lettered in gilt.No Dust-Jacket.This copy is ex library with one stamp to the blank endpaper and with tape remnant marks to the front board and rear endpapers.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Complete with 67 illustrations.8vo 254pp [1951].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated. c. 1930s. Boards mottled.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition with tatty dust jacket top part of jacket missing but main book very good on yellow cloth - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 70pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. External cloth has some marks. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **Relates to ICE skating. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.

First separate edition. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton and published in 1930." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. Original bright yellow cloth, lettered in black, now a touch dusty at edges; small spot on front, another on rear; internally excellent. White photo-pictorial (Diana Kingsmill free skating) dust jacket, lettered in red and black; publisher's "4/6" sticker overlaying original "2/6" price on front; minor wear at corners, with short closed tear at top front; lightly dusty, especially along front fore edge. A near fine copy.

Later printing. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton, in the Lonsdale Library." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. A fine copy in original bright yellow cloth lettered in black; corners bumped. Two unused Spanish stamps on front endpaper; contents otherwise bright, tight and clean. Near fine white photo-pictorial (the author?) dust jacket lettered in red and black, now tanned at spine but with none of the usual dusting; top edge of rear faintly creased, a few tiny closed tears; some wear to top of spine, with no loss; publisher's "12s/60p" sticker over original price of "6/-".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with 9 illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated. 70,11ads, (1)pp. Modest soiling to the boards, some scattered foxing, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

Comprehensive illustrated ice skating primer, covering figure skating, free-skating, racing etc. 8vo. 68pp. including diagrams in-text throughout. Plus 8 pages of photos and 6 pages of publishers' adverts to rear. Internally very good, clean and bright. Small, ink, previous owner's inscription to front free end paper. Yellow cloth covered boards in the original pictorial dustwrapper, a little foxed, rubbed and with a few chips to the extremities, else very good condition.

First edition. With instructional photographs of the author, sans skates. Original blue card covers with photopictorial (the author in motion) onlay (with two small abrasions thereon); covers spotted and soiled, with minor fading to top edge and spine; head of spine creased. Contents a bit thumbed, but tight in binding. A very good copy of an unusual 16 pp. booklet.

Card. Condition: Fair/good. First Edition. First Edition. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Approx. the rare 1st. with a great glued photographic image to front of a skater in action,+17 action photographs within this 16 page book. a little suning to edges of the thin paper binding, light staining to 1st & last pages all other pages only small amonts around edges, All text is easly readable. This book looks better than the discription.

1930, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp254, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper. With a birthday message in pen on front endpaper. Top and bottom of spine of dustwrapper pulled, brown marks on back cover of dustwrapper, otherwise very good.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo. 70pp., b/w pls., index,

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1933. Signed by the author Captain Duff-Taylor to th title page. Uncommon early skating book. Book is very good++ and with bright boards. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18707. Signed by Author(s).