Knight Reg (19 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. 1967. First Edition Thus. 125 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has moderate edge wear with noticeable creasing and chipping. Moderate tanning and markings. …

Condition: Fair. 1967. First Edition Thus. 126 pages. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Lettering is clear. …

Condition: New. pp. ii + 34.

Condition: Good. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. Illustrated jacket over 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 sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very nice little Golf instruction book. A Very Good dust cover with a plastic protection. No bad marks or damage just a lovely little book. norman quick (illustrator).

Condition: New. pp. ii + 34.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Fine, Not Price Clipped. First Ediiton. Illustrated. 176 pages. Dust jacket protected by mylar. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Good Plus. First Ediiton. With Sydney Spicer. Illustrated. 125 pages. Name stamp on upper front pastedown. Unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A little reading wear; very good overall. Contains: An Open Examination of the Assessment of English (Dixon), Invitation or Interrogation? A Level questions and the Teaching of Literature (Brown), Trouble at the Gasworks? (Allen), Drama and Examinations (Crompton), Examiner's English (Knight), English Examinations for the Workers (Foden), Experiences of Assessment and Moderation: 1. The JMB/TWYLREB Joint Examination in English (Robinson), 2: The Moderator's Role in Mode 3 Examinations (Jinks), Unitary English: NATE Proposals for a Course Leading to N and F Examinations (Roberts). Book. …

Collins: London 1970. 6 x 4", cloth, 176pp, 46 figures, index, acidic text paper else vg in vg, price-clipped jacket. First edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (no place, but probably): Chico, CA, 2006. Presumed first edition. The Winter, 2006 issue - Issue Number 2 - of ltjar (lonesometowne jubilee and review). Quarto, glossy staple-bound wraps with pages of same glossy paper, 12 pp. Fine, in fact As New condition. A very scarce publication, actually based - who knows where ? - in California; a short piece, but one of high production values, a "self-published review by artists and for artists". California poetry, fiction, photography and art, in this issue by Mike Gullicksen; Supanova; Lee Knight Jr. & Mellisa Rose; C7; Tony Camarota; Reg Smith; Gene Bloom; Alex Camarota; Tazuo Yamaguchi. L-g3.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Learn Golf Backwards (1965) by Reg Knight is exactly the sort of title that makes you pause mid-swing and wonder whether the entire sporting establishment has been doing it wrong all along. Golf, as we are constantly reminded, is a game of tradition, etiquette, and quietly simmering despair. It is played in fresh air, with polite shoes, and a deeply personal relationship with frustration. So when along comes a book in 1965 suggesting that perhaps the best way to master this ancient torment is to learn it backwards , one can only admire the audacity. What does it mean to learn golf backwards? Does one begin on the 18th green and work one?s way toward the clubhouse? Does one perfect the putt before daring to look at a driver? Does one approach the tee already apologising for the shot one hasn?t yet mis-hit? Whatever Reg Knight?s exact pedagogical gymnastics, the title alone promises a refreshing departure from the usual solemn diagrams of grip, stance, and moral fortitude. This is mid-1960s golf instruction: calm, sensible, and delivered with that confident British tone which suggests that improvement is simply a matter of discipline and a mildly adjusted wrist. No slow-motion drone footage. No sports psychologists. No biomechanical analysis. Just reasoned explanation and the reassuring belief that if you understand the logic of the game from the hole backwards, everything else will obediently fall into place. There is something beautifully ironic about it. Most golfers spend their lives replaying their mistakes in reverse anyway. Knight simply formalises the habit. Condition (Good, and clearly not used as a sand wedge) This copy is in Good condition , which is impressive considering how many golf manuals spend their twilight years in the boot of a car or under a pile of scorecards. The binding is sound, the pages clean, and it carries itself with the steady confidence of a book that has survived decades without being hurled into a bunker in despair. It presents nicely ? a tidy survivor from a time when instruction manuals assumed you were capable of improvement without motivational slogans. Why you want it Because it?s a charming relic of sporting optimism. A moment when golf could still be solved by rearranging the order of learning, rather than purchasing three new clubs and blaming the wind. Perfect for: vintage golf enthusiasts collectors of mid-century sporting books anyone who enjoys the idea of intellectualising a fundamentally irrational pastime golfers who suspect they have, in fact, been playing backwards all along Crappy Old Books offers it with quiet pride: a 1965 guide to mastering the most politely infuriating game ever invented ? by simply starting at the end and working your way back to dignity.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1 pages. 7.13x4.61x4.53 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Photographs by Norman Quicke. Pp, 26, 16 plates, text figures; post 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, worn, with several tears and chips; a little light foxing; Collins, London, 1965. First edition. Donovan & Murdoch 59390.

Photographs by Norman Quicke. Pp. 126, 16 plates, text figures; paper wrappers with printed title label on upper wrapper, the backstrip titled by hand, lightly creased, edges a trifle worn; half-title page slightly offset, a little light foxing; Collins, London, 1965. Uncorrected advance proof copy. [Donovan & Murdoch 59390]. …