Mobbs Noel (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 223pp. Plates and diagrams. Orig. blue cloth gilt. Spine sl. dull. Author's inscrption on fr.fly. Size: 8vo. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Gilt Titled Boards. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A treatise on the principles of the game and where and how to play it. With 102 photographs and 34 diagrams. Both a history and a treatise on the scientific principles behind playing the game well. The authors also comment on the present state of curling in Europe, but the bulk of the book is instructional. Advice for the newcomer, rules and things not to do, delivering the stone, sweeping, team psychology, skipping, a chapter concerning "when ladies curl". Original blue boards with gilt curler delivering stone on front board. Boards bright and clean burt spine a litlle darkened and worn at top and edges. Some foxing of title page.

8vo. 223, [1] pp. Frontispiece, numerous plates, index. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. "When A Noel Mobbs and F McDermott wrote their book Curling in Switzerland, published by Arrowsmith in 1929, they listed 37 resorts in that country which had facilities for curling. One of these was Villars, which had two clubs. The Villars Curling Club had an average of 33 members, including ten ladies. The Villars Chalateer Club had an average of 13 members, including two ladies. The authors also write, "At any resort where there is curling a lady will usually find little difficulty in getting some instruction in the game, even though the remainder of the players are all men. Some ladies, however, may prefer to go to a resort where they will be fairly certain to find other members of their sex on the rink. Centres which are likely to fulfil this requirement are St Moritz, Davos, Murren, Grindelwald, VILLARS, Celerina, Maloja, and Wengen." â" The women curlers who first took to the ice in Switzerland. (2019). / Sir Arthur Noel Mobbs KCVO OBE was the founder of Slough Estates, one of the United Kingdom's largest property businesses. Mobbs was also keen to establish sporting and social facilities for the people of Slough and in 1928 he bought Stoke Park Golf Club for £30,000 and reformed it.

First edition. "With 102 photographs and 34 diagrams." Publisher's gilt decorated (curler outdoors on front) and lettered (spine) bright blue cloth; lower front corner and fore edge bumped; a few minor dents above decoration; very faint damp mark at lower rear; very faint sunning along top front. Ink name and date on front endpaper; margins of a few pages dusty; short closed tear to fore edge of pp. 19/20. A near fine, nice and bright, copy.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. a treatise on the principles of the game, and where and how to play it. someone who was as taken with curling in the last winter olympics would certainly enjoy this book.

gr. in-8vo, 223 p. With 102 photographs and 34 diagrams. + photogr + some hw. notes in pencil by an connoisseur + an orig. photogr. (1925) & 3 hw. letters (1930 - 1931), publisher?s pictorial cloth, some small traces of use. Among the illustrations : The Glaxo Babies with the Engadine Cup. / Some history: When in 1894, the highest curling club in the world was inaugurated at St. Moritz. a new era began in the old Scottish game.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.