Colin Davy (55 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Top edge foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. 221 pp.This 14-story collection of horseracing stories by British and American writers will provide pleasant reading for fans of the ``sport of kings.'' Represented here are such familiar names as Arthur Conan Doyle (``Silver Blaze,'' the story in which Sherlock Holmes makes his famous pronouncement about ``the curious incident of the dog in the night-time''), Edgar Wallace (``The Coop,'' in which the prolific mystery writer's series character, race track tout Educated Evans, turns a surprise profit) and Sherwood Anderson (``I'm a Fool,'' the first-person narrative of a young man trapped in his own deceit, entertaining despite its outdated racial attitudes). Francis, as might be expected, has a bit of crime at the heart of his ``Carrot for a Chestnut,'' a story of the fixing of a race with an O. Henryish twist. Welcome ( Grand National ) spins a tale of the unlikely racing triumph of an Oxford student over his untrustworthy best friend in ``A Glass of Port with the Proctor.'' The volume opens with Richard Findlay's ``The Dream,'' a nicely done tale of premonition and disaster, and closes with E. de Somerville and Martin Ross's ``The Bagman's Pony,'' an offbeat, amusing story of a race against the clock in Colonial India.

Condition: Fair. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 287 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining and small tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Previous owner's inscriptions to front pastedown, half-title page and title page. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First US edition hardcover in light blue cloth covered boards with bumped spine ends, fairly sharp tips and light sunning/soil. Red stamp on both endpapers states: American Lending Library, Dallas, TX but there is no card pocket, no evidence of ever having had one, and all pages are present. Tight copy with light soil at head of 282 page block. Price-clipped, original dust wrapper is cut 1/4" shorter than the book and is glued to book by half the rear flap, but is complete and displays well in new mylar. The danger and excitement of horse racing comes alive between the pages of Colin Davy's novel. This is a character study of a successful jockey so faithfully drawn, that it matters not if you like horseracing, you'll love Shrimp Harris.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Mottling to front board. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Stain on outer cover .pen marking 1st page and book coming away from spine see photos.

Condition: Good. 1948. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Condition: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound with light handling wear, some dust marks on the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, foxing to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Second Impression. 288 pages. Pale green binding which is marked. Spine has black titles - spine colour-faded. Light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Contents very clean.

Condition: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild dents to board edges. Moderate water stains to rear board. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Notable foxing. Moderate rubbing and marking all over. Ring mark to front panel.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Boards stained. Physical description; 159 p : illus ; 26 cm. Subject; Horse racing. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 4TH IMP. NO DJ, CLOTH DISCOLOURED WITH VARIOUS MARKS AND STAINS, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, SOME PLAY IN FRONT HINGE, FOXING AND OTHER MARKS ON SIDES, PAGE CORNER WEAR AT ENDS, PAGES TANNED, OTHERWISE GOOD. 500 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Burgundy cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and square, foxing in the edges and just into the prelim pages. Dust jacket is intact and bright.

Condition: Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality 1950 hardcover in clean green cloth covered boards showing sharp tips and bumped spine ends. No writing, tears or soil and it is not a former library book. 255pp is foxed on fore-edge and darkened at head of page block. Un-clipped, original color illustrated dust wrapper has light soil on rear panel, but is complete and displays beautifully. The characters in Mixed Double make it more than a racing story; Pug Farston, the crippled steeplechase jockey, and his rich wife: Willie Winn, six stone of worsted, whalebone and freckles; and, above all, Colonel Tony Blundell, a retired cavalry officer, spendthrift and professional punter.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Gift quality 1946 solid hardcover in clean red cloth covered boards showing sharp tips and bumped spine ends. Tidy Xmas gift ded on fep, else, no writing, no tears or soil and it is not a former library book. 288pp. Un-clipped (and un-priced) color illustrated dust wrapper is a professional reproduction that has two short closed tears at foot of frt panel, else is complete and displays beautifully. The action packed tale of the life of a young red haired boy who begins with ponies, then foxhunting and ends up a jockey.

Condition: Good. 4th impression. Little wear to boards with gift message to front paste down. Light toning to pages with spotting. DJ has tears and loss to edges with sticker to rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition 1954 hardcover in burgundy paper covered boards with bright spine title. Lightly bumped (not rubbed) tips and spine ends. Large, loopy gift dedication on fep, else the 192pp text is crisp, tight, unmarked and printed in a small font. Original color illustrated dust wrapper has some chips but displays well in new mylar. Sim Liddell, a jockey club steward, exasperated by domestic difficulties, decides to break the regulations and indulge in one big gamble. It comes off, and brings him a welcome change of fortune. But a former owner, the rich and formidable Mrs. Grimskick, knowing of the indiscretion, forces Sim to make enquiries, only to find that the horse, "The Twister," has been switched. Unfortunately, "The Twister's" trainer is Sim's good friend Wency Nunn, and "The Twister" is to run in the International Stakes at Ascot, for which Wency wants to back him to win a fortune. The problem for Sim is how to prevent the redoubtable Mrs. Grimsdick from claiming the horse before the gamble takes place.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very nice 1948 hardcover in green cloth covered boards showing bumped tips and spine ends, small soil mark on rear board and a small 'ding' on the foot of the front cover. No names, tears or soil in the tight, crisp 256pp text, only some light foxing on the edge of page block. Not ex-library. Professionally reproduced dust jacket is complete and shows wrap-around art to the spine edge. DJ art by Peter Biegel, no other illustrations within. This is the exciting story of Scatts Gascoyne, who felt that the war had cheated him out of his birthright of sport and enjoyment. He dashed almost literally from the battlefield to buy a French racehorse He rushed Due Cordery into marriage he plunged into steeplechasing then set up as an owner on the flat. This is how he trained 'Piracy' for the Derby and backed it to win a fortune.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Boards stained. Physical description; 159 p : illus ; 26 cm. Subject; Horse racing. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, owners signature inside, age spotting to preliminary pages & page edges, dust wrapper is frayed at edges with small tears & some loss esp at spine area.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback book in fair condition , outer spine faded and minor splits and split on inner but pages all intact , previous owners name on inner.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. boards are worn, rubbed and chipped. foxing and markings. loose binding and visible netting. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Gift quality First Edition in blue cloth covered boards showing sharp upper tips and bumped lower ones. No names, tears or soil in the 252pp text, only a bit of light foxing on the edge of the page block. Unclipped, original color illustrated dust jacket shows light color loss at periphery, small rubs at foot of spine, lightly soiled white background rear dj panel. Hinges fine, no smells. Very readable story of a steeplechase jockey's life. As a youngster "Rip" Applin had been spoiled by friends richer than himself. On coming down from Oxford he was happy to accept an ideal job looking after the estates, and more particularly the horses, of Ted Bonnamy, who had a score of hunters, a salmon reach on the Dee, a grouse moor and - a lovely young wife. It was a pleasant prelude to a more dramatic turn of fortune's wheel which was to bring Rip dazzling success as a steeplechase jockey and then to a disaster which for a time wrecked his life. His regeneration and subsequent change of fortune both on the Turf and in the hazards of love a related by a writer who is inimitable in recreating the authentic atmosphere of the racing world.

Condition: Used - Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression, 1949. Text clean in firm binding; gilt lettering on spine worn & dull. Dust jacket (by Peter Biegel) tatty, with creasing, loss & tears, with stains from ancient sellotape repairs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Dust Jacket: Yes. Unclipped. External Condition: Chipping and creasing to edges, but 95% complete and still bright. Internal Condition: Excellent and clean. Author/Editor: Davy, Colin. Publisher: Collins. Year: 1948. Edition: 1st. Binding: Hardcover. Illustrated: No. Language: English. Page Count: 256. Keywords: Horse Racing, Fiction, Flat Racing, Derby. The book for sale is the one in the photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Fully illustrated throughout with black & white photos of horses doing polo, point-to-point, show jumping, etc. Red boards, black titles, spine & board edges faded, child's name & inscription inside front board, otherwise clean with tight binding, good.

288 pp. Cloth gilt, dust wrapper, glassine cover, 20 cm x 13.5 cm. Dust wrapper slightly soiled, repairs made to dust wrapper, pages age browned with some occassional light foxing, binding slightly loose to rear.

1954 1st edition, tightly bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped; small tears and losses to edges and corners. Slight foxing to page edges, particularly top edges. Endpapers yellowed; Strip from top of front free endpaper has been removed with scissors; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.