Captain England by Billy Wright (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, with fair condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, previous owner signature to inside page, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Fair. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers, pastedowns, first and last page textblock. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Condition: Good. 1950. Reprinted. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight curling to corners. Paper residue to spine and bottom edge of rear board. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning and water staining to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. boards are chipped and edge worn. light foxing. gift inscription. loose binding and visible netting. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with toning, some spotting to end papers. Tatty DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. 192pp with monochrome photo illustrations including frontispiece, and index. Original orange cloth, backstrip titled in black. Head and foot of backstrip a little rubbed, tips of outer corners of covers slightly so. Covers a little darkened towards upper- & fore-edges, rear also with darker narrow-ish streak across width. No dust jacket. Half-title and page192 quite deeply toned. Rear endpapers a little spotted. Top edge of text-block dust-marked; fore- & lower edges toned, fore-edge also a little handling-marked. Contents generally clean and tight. GOOD copy. Inscribed "To Daphne Best wishes Billy Wright" on title-page. (Together with single sheet 28x21cm printed on one side only; with club badge, view of Molineux stadium, lists of past achievements, and some 35 facsimile signatures of players including Billy Wright, Ron Flowers, Dennis Wilshaw, Jim Mullen, Bert Williams, Bill Shorthouse, Peter Broadbent and Norman Deeley, manager Stanley Cullis, trainer, and secretary. With light surface creases, three short closed tears, and two folds - one vertical, the other horizontal. Good condition.).

VG. no dj. Light orange covers are clean and bright with slight sunning to spine.titling is clean and bright to spine. Firm binding. no inscriptions or marginalia. ffeps have shadow of prior insert.( bookmark?) all pages and photographs are tightly bound in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint. Hardback 1950 reprint. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. JACKET IS WORN & TORN WITH A LITTLE LOSS. Jacket is now under clear and removable protective covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref B98.1. Captain of England by Billy Wright (Captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.) The Youngest Footballer Ever to Lead England's International Football Team. Published by Stanley Paul, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The jacket is worn and marked.Internally clean.Well bound.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Early autobiography of the great Billy Wright, Wolves and England captain and the first man to win over 100 international caps for England. Published after he had become the youngest-ever England captain. First reprint. 8vo. 192pp. Frontispiece, 10 pages of photographs. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed and chipped to edges. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HARDBACK - A very good book, signed and inscribed - TO GERALD / BEST WISHES / BILLY WRIGHT to the photo found to the verso of the title page. Toning to the page block, with clean orange boards, in a near very good dust wrapper with some loss to the spine tips, more so to the crown. Not price clipped showing the publisher's printed price of 9s.6d.net to the front flap. Signed by Author(s).