Rex Coley (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. 1978, Limited Edition, v. scarce. Number 140/1,000 copies. Volume 3 of a 6-volume set of books compiled and published to celebrate the cycling art of George Moore (d.1914). (Particularly rare to see a Volume 3 available). This volume covers the year 1887-1888 and contains a selection of Moore's cartoons and illustrations from 'Bicycling News' magazine from that year. Moore had a long association with 'Bicycling News', and the later magazine 'Cycling'. He was a well known, respected cyclist and cycling artist alongside the redoubtable Frank Patterson and others such as Percy Kemp. Moore was a proponent of the woodcut and lithograph before advances in printing allowed the reproduction of pen and ink drawings. 104 pages printed on thick, matt, cream paper and bound in cream boards. Gold, gilt titles to spine boards. Pink colour 'blotches' faintly visible through front & rear cream boards and light fox-marks to page ends but otherwise in VGC throughout - contents are very clean, tidy and tightly bound. B. & w. illustrations to r.h.s of pages. Non-clipped dust-jacket with dark brown/cream inset titles to front jacket which has signs of wear and tear - rubs & bumps, fox-marks to outer, creases and 3 (repaired) tears. In overall Fair+ condition. Large 8vo. [A heavy book to post, but well within Royal Mail's 2kg small parcel limit for UK destinations. Additional postage will be requested for international destinations]. Volumes 1, 2, 4, and 5 are also available - see listings no. 21889, 240210, 240208, 240206 respectively. A reduction will be applied when more than one volume is purchased - please contact us via ABE for information.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dustwrapper has some wear to the edges and corners, with some small rips to the edges, the cover is discoloured. The brown boards are clean with mild wear to the edges, with clear lettering to the spine. Stain to top page edge and tanning. Name penned to inside cover. The binding is firm. The pages are clean and appears crease free. This book has 174 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Flexible hardback with dust jacket in overall fair to good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book in good condition some slight staining to dw but good for year of this rare book, 95 pages. Rex Coley aka 'Ragged Staff' was a regular columnist in the magazine 'Cycling'. Rex had a wealth of humorous anecdotes to tell. And like Rex had a vast knowledge of cycle touring in the UK and abroad. Many benefited from their vast experience of cycle touring. As a one time editor of the former Bicycle magazine, the late Rex Coley also has the distinction of being including in the list of cycling icons recorded by the Pedal Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The clipped dw is shelfworn and rubbed along the edges with a small chip at the bottom outer corner front and a 6cm split at the front fold. The boards are clean and undamaged. Two small bookseller labels to front pastedown. 95pp. + b/w plates. Binding tight. No prev ownership marks or o/w. Very scarce.