Collison Thomas F (8 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding, clean and bright interior. Wrappers are yellow and white with picture of a Kenya leopard. Lightly shelf worn overall. Contents: Fisher and Nebbia, African Wildlife: Man's Threatened Legacy. Jones and Madden, Maryland on the Half Shell. Weaver, Apollo 15 Explores the Mountains fo the Moon. Kunstadter, Spirits of Change Capture the Karens. Hawkes and Collison, Happy Birthday, Otto Lilienthal!; 10.0" tall; 185 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brown boards lettered in black & red, frontispiece & in-text illustrations, 61 pp. Fifth edition. Spine professionally restored, a 1963 clipping about Chow tipped in to rear endpapers. Gin Chow is an oddity, and I'd love to see a modern biography of him. Right during the yellow peril, he becomes famous as a fortune teller--specifically about rain forecasting. He additionally was the plaintiff in one of California's seminal water rights lawsuits.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 336 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Gold On Spine And In Blind On Front Cover, Illustrated Endpapers, Plates. First Printing In Original Cloth. Signed By Jim Thorpe On Page Facing His Photograph; Stamp Of Olympic Village 1932 Los Angeles, U.S.A. On Title Page; Signatures Of 45 Olympic Athletes. Thorpe, One Of The Greatest Of All American Athletes, Once Had Taken $2 For A Sports Performance, And Was Consequently Stripped Of His Own Olympic Medals, Those Being Reinstated Only In 1978, And Never Made A Living From Sports. Book Is Clean, Yellow Lettering Is Strong, Slight Fraying Along Top Edge Of Spine And At Bottom Front Tip, Some Browning To Front Endpapers And Preliminary Pages To Contents Page, Bookplate On Front Free Endpaper. Identifiable Signatures Appear To Us As Sharkey Graham / Usa Water Polo; Charlie Kieffer, Usa Crew; Frank Cooper Usa 1500 M; Luis Sardella, Boxing, Argentina; Chris Saunders, Rowing, New Zealand; Dunc --Ay, Australia; Eddie Pierce, South Africa; H. Daum (?), India; P. Sullivan; ---Gaitolouie, Philippine Islands; Shichi Yoshida, Japan; N. J. Percy, New Zealand; Shigeo Homma, Japan, Gymnastics Captain; Roop Singh, India; Nano Manoni, Italy; Franconetti; S. Lee Shah; Pete Chlentzis, Pole Vault, Greece; Louis Vavoie, 160 Lbs Boxing; E. Merogardo, Greece; Basil Geamci, Swimming Usa; E. Burchan, Argentina, Millard Lang, Usa Lacrosse; R. -----, Japanese Boxing; J---- Ilamera, Philippines; Miguel A. Dicapieli (?), Usa Fencing; Francisco P-----, Pole Vault, Philippines; Dick Degener, Usa Diving; Cal Strong; Gelba Nissen (?); Elias Frim (?), Usa Water Polo; Darius Padilla, Philippines Boxing; M. Padilla, Philippines; --- Peltonen, Finland; Ron Dunbarton, New Zealand; Poilne, Wrestling, France; Benno --- Thispary; --- ---- Yhungarian, Water Polo; Fernando Chasault, Argentina, Xerb Phildranon (???). [Apologies, About Half Of These Identifications Are Unclear.] A Book For Adolescents, With History Of The Games From Ancient Greece To 1932, Conversational And Promotional In Tone, No Scholarly History, With A Few Plates. Plates (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. 61pp. Foreword by Harry Carr. Illustrated by Elizabeth E. Mason. Cover design by Vanna Peters. Pictorial papercovered boards. Glue residue left on pastedowns, spine ends nicked, still a very good copy.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 61 pages; Description: v. Fronts. , illus. 19 cm. Subjects: Weather - Prophecy - Almanac. Current Frequency: Annual. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original color printed boards. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 61 pages; Description: v. Fronts. , illus. 19 cm. Subjects: Weather - Prophecy - Almanac. Current Frequency: Annual. 1 Kg.

Octavo. 154 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Like the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Rancheros Visitadores was a club that catered to the movers and shakers of Southern California, who were among the most affluent or the well recognized artists (such as Ed Borein (page 27) and Frank Tenney Johnson (page 71) or the actor Leo Carillo (page 33). It allowed its members who loved the West to go out and live the life of the cowboy, whether executives at the Bank of America or those who had sizeable cattle ranches. Also, it had those well-known from the rodeo world such as Tex Austin, Vern Elliot, and with 183 short biographies with pictures of those who were part of this club: bankers, cinematographers, doctors, and a variety of business leaders all who loved the "treks" where they rode into the desert, camped, and lived a life apart from their everyday life in the exciting growth of Santa Barbara. Profusely illustrated with full-page pictures identified only by their "cowboy" names. One of the rarest items on their activities though other years were issued, they were all much smaller and less ambitious in their content. Some damp staining in lower edge of pages, verso of title page once stuck together at some point, spiral binding with the RV brand on the front cover. Added to this item is a collection of nine Rancheros Visitadores dated 1951, 53, 53, 55 and 57 with one compiled from 1930-1950. A very nice collection. See pictures.…

A personal account of the development of the Olympic Games by the legendary Native American sportsman, who won two athletics golds at Stockholm in 1912 and was a professional American football and baseball player for the New York Giants, with photographic and other illustrations. 8vo. 336pp. Cloth-covered boards. Boards rubbed to edges and corners bumped. Rear gutter exposed and coming loose. Contents are very good. Previous owner's bookplate to inside cover. A good copy. First edition. Scarce. …