Robert H K Browning (67 results)

Condition: Good. reprint. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. reprint. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. reprint. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good. Vol. 24, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Ultimate Peril" (short novel) by Robert Abernathy. Includes "The Man from Arbutus" by H. B. Hickey; "All Esle Is Dust" (novelette) by E. K. Jarvis [Robert Bloch]; "For Each Man Kills" (novelette) by William F. Temple; "You Only Live Twice" by H. B. Hickey; "Sword of Peace" (novelette) by Ward Moore; "Two Against Venus" (novelette) by Craig Browning [Rog Phillips]. Features: "The Observatory"; "Presenting the Author" by Robert Abernathy; "Cybernetics - In Reverse!" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Sun-Stuff" by H. R. Stanton; "Stick and Stones. . ." by Jon Barry; "Impossible Problem?" by L. A. Burt; "Space-Jalopies" by William Karney; "Malignant Mentor" by Leslie Phelps; "Chance" by June Lurie; "The Wager" by A. T. Kedzie; "Refuge!" by Sandy Miller; "Smoothie" by Ramsey Sinclair; "Mercurian Madness" by John Weston; "The Readers Forum"; "Conqueror!" by Lynn Standish; "Going Home" by Charles Recour; "The Club House" by Rog Phillips; "Facts of the Future" by Lee Owens. Illustrated by Rod Ruth, Julian S.Krupa, Leo Ramon Summers, and Edmond Swiatek. Heavy wear with edge losses; tape ghosts to edges; a few short tears; marks in pen on front.tanning. Solid and readable. Book. …

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. original wraps show heavy wear, tear, chipping. pages tanned.

Condition: Fair. 1932. First Edition. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 24, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Ultimate Peril" (short novel) by Robert Abernathy. Includes "The Man from Arbutus" by H. B. Hickey; "All Esle Is Dust" (novelette) by E. K. Jarvis [Robert Bloch]; "For Each Man Kills" (novelette) by William F. Temple; "You Only Live Twice" by H. B. Hickey; "Sword of Peace" (novelette) by Ward Moore; "Two Against Venus" (novelette) by Craig Browning [Rog Phillips]. Features: "The Observatory"; "Presenting the Author" by Robert Abernathy; "Cybernetics - In Reverse!" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Sun-Stuff" by H. R. Stanton; "Stick and Stones. . ." by Jon Barry; "Impossible Problem?" by L. A. Burt; "Space-Jalopies" by William Karney; "Malignant Mentor" by Leslie Phelps; "Chance" by June Lurie; "The Wager" by A. T. Kedzie; "Refuge!" by Sandy Miller; "Smoothie" by Ramsey Sinclair; "Mercurian Madness" by John Weston; "The Readers Forum"; "Conqueror!" by Lynn Standish; "Going Home" by Charles Recour; "The Club House" by Rog Phillips; "Facts of the Future" by Lee Owens. Illustrated by Rod Ruth, Julian S.Krupa, Leo Ramon Summers, and Edmond Swiatek. Standard wear and tear at overlaps; creasing; rubbing; lean; tanning; bumps and dings. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. UK edition. A reduced version of the March 1950 US edition with 164 pages rather than 196. It excludes some stories that were in the US edition and also loses some of the features. Contains 'The Ultimate Peril' by Abernathy, 'The Man from Arbutus' by Hickey, 'Sun-Stuff' by Stanton, 'All Else is Dust' by Jarvis (Bloch), 'For Each Man Kills' by Temple, 'Space-Jaloppies' by Karney, 'Malignant Mentor' by Phelps, 'Refuge' by Miller, 'Sword of Peace' by Moore, 'Two Against Venus' by Browning (Phillips) and very short essays by Wainwright, Barry, Burt, Kedzie and Sinclair. The front cover has a few small edge tears and some chipping and creasing. The back cover has a ragged two inch tear with a little loss to the bottom right corner. There is a quarter inch piece missing at the base of the spine which also has a some chipping and tearing along the edges and a small chip at the top. Pages browned with creases to the bottom corners of a numbet of pages. Cover illustration by Robert Gibson Jones and interior illustrations by Ruth, Summers, Krupa and Swiatek. Jones, Robert Gibson; Ruth, Rod; Summers, Leo Ramon; Krupa, Julian S.; Swiatek, Edmond (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. 1932. First Edition. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and staining to gutters and rear hinge but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd edition . Edited by Peter Lawless. Dark Grey top page edges. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. 2nd edition, 1938. Frontispiece in color. Publication of 498 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete the text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 6 x 4 inch. 88pp. Stain to front cover (see pic), interior good and clean, wear to top of spine and extremities of cover. 117 questions with clear page opposite to write your answers. Correct answers at rear. A good reading example.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Good With Light Handling Wear, Over Opened In Places , Owners Name Blacked Out On The Half Title Page Pp 42 Frontis, 3 Plates. Beartice Parsons (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pp.88. Undated, but 1935. Left hand pages have questions relating to the rules of golf and their interpretation and the opposite pages have spaces for answers. A number of pages have some answers neatly written in pencil and there are some marginal annotations also in pencil. These can easily be erased, but in our opinion they enhance this little volume.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 44 Pages Illus., Ads Etc. Singed By Steward Of The Club. Spine And Edges Rubbed O/W Sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 17x10.5cm. First edition. 144pp with 6 monochrome plates including frontispiece. Original green cloth, backstrip title and front cover title & ruled border in dark blue. Front cover with diagonal crease from lower inner to upper outer corner; cover not bent, and pastedown on the inside unaffected. Edges of text-block a little toned, top edge also dust-marked. Single light creases of lengths up to 4cm at upper outer corners of front flyleaf, half-title, frontispiece and title-page; no print affected. Front flyleaf also patchily toned, with owner's name and date Sept.1924 at upper edge. Contents faintly toned, otherwise clean and tight. GOOD copy.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Undated UK edition, circa 1950. 98 pages. Contains 'Spy-Maker's Masquerade' by Deming; 'Death Carries the Mail' by Holden; 'G-Skinned' by Cassiday and 'Heir Unapparent' by Thomey. Each story has an uncredited illustration at the beginning. There is a small nick to the bottom edge of the front cover but the covers are otherwise bright and unmarked. Pages slightly browned but unmarked. Jones, Robert Gibson; Ruth, Rod; Summers, Leo Ramon; Krupa, Julian S.; Swiatek, Edmond (illustrator). …

123[1] pp, profusely illustrated with black & white photo's, local adverts, folding map to rear. The contents cover numerous golf clubs in the region with a full page description. Original printed card wraps, stapled. 19 cm x 12.5 cm. Wraps soiled with some random marks, minor wear to wrap edges, faint marginal age browning to contents. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light wear, mainly to edges. Small spots of soiling to covers. Fold out map intact. Gift inscription inside cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Illustrated throughout. With folding map. Circa 1950s. Original pictorial card cover. Slightly worn at edges and soiled. A fair copy of a stylish vintage item. All books outside the UK are sent airmail and those over £30 are tracked; those inside the UK are signed for. Paypal accepted.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Black and White illustrations. Very Good, without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 88 pages, largely of questions posed to the reader on the Rules of Golf. Not dated but online searches indicate it was published in 1935. Written by Robert Browning who has other golf titles to his credit. Several advertisements. As can be seen from an accompanying illustration, this copy was presented "With the compliments of B W Francis Ltd . . .". (B W Francis was evidently "a prominent historic silversmiths and jewellers" in Reading, and was "well-known for creating solid silver sports and golf trophies". In fair (arguably fair+) condition - a little bumping to corners; small mark towards bottom right corner on front cover; some foxing on end papers; a previous owner has asterisked some questions, fortunately in pencil; a few odd marks internally; a little binding weakness showing at a couple of places; a few light marks on rear cover. PLEASE NOTE that the shipping charge automatically generated with an order does not apply for a non-UK sale - because of the relatively high value of the book, I will be requesting an additional charge for an order received from outside UK.…

One of the best modern histories of the rise and development of golf with a useful appendix of a chronological table of leading events. A classic. First Edition. 8vo. xii + 236pp. Colour frontis, 7 colour and 32 b/w plates. Owner's name to fly-leaf. No dust-wrapper. Good condition.

1st Edition. Hb original green cloth c100pp + illustrations by Daniel Browning (Donovan and Murdoch 8630) A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. viii, (102)pp: pages of text alternating with illustrations in line. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of purple cloth, firm, dulled, cloth to lower board slightly ridged, some wear to spine ends. A useful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good; extremities bumped, with cloth torn at front lower forecorner and a small spot on the spine and front cover; scuffs/stains to cloth; spine cocked; tanning to endpapers; gift inscription to flyleaf; else Fine. Hinges sound, pages bright and unmarked except as noted. Seal broken at fore edge of leaves containing "the answers". No dust jacket issued(?). Bound in olive cloth; 4x6 inches; 88 pp including ads. Priced at 1/6 on front cover. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Covers show some darkening, staining, scuffing, fading, rubbing and edge wear including some fraying, browning, rubbing and scuffing. Pages are browned and discolored from age.

Stiff Card Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in green stiff card wraps, this softcover circa 1955 Golf Club Proscpectus is Vg. 36pp with 2 Maps, Introduction/ Description, Hole by Hole Survey of 18 Holes, Plan of Course, B/W Photos, Etiquette of the Game, Local adverts,etc. Condition VG.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. No date. c. 1950. Pp 35. Photographic illustrations. Original printed wraps, wire stapled (staples rusty) . A nice copy. With a 13 line holograph letter, signed by the secretary of the club dated 1st April 1952.

First edition. "Series No.10" of twelve booklets by Browning covering most of southern England; two-sided folder map at rear; well-illustrated with b/w photographs. Full colour pictorial (golfer and caddy at the tee) light card wrappers; a touch creased at corners and yapped edges; just a tad dusty; internally clean and tight. A fine copy of this survey of the 50+ golf courses in Hampshire and Dorset, including the Isle of Wight. [D/M #8260] (Note - D/M gives date as "[ca1955]", but the latest reference is to ".the present .Champion (1952)â¦â). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 144pp with six illustrations. Green buckram boards with black titles to front cover and spine. Ownership inscription to ffep. Covers lightly worn and bumped at extremities with some light indentations and minor stains. Lightly foxed. A nice tight and robust copy.…