Taylor Captain Duff (19 results)

Condition: Fair. 1930. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, exposing netting. Binding is slightly loose however pages and plates remains firmly att…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slim octavo in yellow cloth. No date, circa 1935-37. 70 pp. plus 10 pp. publisher's catalog and an illusrated ad for Spalding winter sports equipment. Eight phtographic plates. Guide to ice skating in its various forms with sections on its history, training and equipment, English and internationa…

Condition: Good. 1930. No edition stated. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Part of The Lonsdale Library series. Volume VIII. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white plates. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are noticeably tanned with minor foxing throughout. Heavier tanning to towards start an…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Believed First Edition. Hardback lacks dustwrapper, yellow cloth cloth boards are slightly rubbed and soiled but titles are undamaged. Spine is slightly dulled. Foyles sticker to front pastedown, no other inscriptions noted. Illustrated, slight spotting to end papers and edge of text block, no loose p…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a Good Copy of this book in original brown cloth boards with leather spine lettered in gilt.No Dust-Jacket.This copy is ex library with one stamp to the blank endpaper and with tape remnant marks to the front board and rear endpapers.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakne…

First separate edition. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton and published in 1930." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. Origin…

Later printing. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton, in the Lonsdale Library." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. A fine copy…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Complete with 9 illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped with light edgewear. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABL…

Comprehensive illustrated ice skating primer, covering figure skating, free-skating, racing etc. 8vo. 68pp. including diagrams in-text throughout. Plus 8 pages of photos and 6 pages of publishers' adverts to rear. Internally very good, clean and bright. Small, ink, previous owner's inscription to front free end paper. Yellow clo…

First edition. With instructional photographs of the author, sans skates. Original blue card covers with photopictorial (the author in motion) onlay (with two small abrasions thereon); covers spotted and soiled, with minor fading to top edge and spine; head of spine creased. Contents a bit thumbed, but tight in binding. A very g…

Card. Condition: Fair/good. First Edition. First Edition. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Approx. the rare 1st. with a great glued photographic image to front of a skater in action,+17 action photographs within this 16 page book. a little suning to edges of the thin paper binding, light staining to 1st & last pages all other pages only small am…