Original green cloth lettered in dark green, sunned overall, particularly on spine; spine ends frivolously creased. Original inexperienced cloth lettered in darkish green, sunned overall, especially on spine; spine ends evenly creased. Denim blue cloth, ruled with gilt on boards, lettered on spine; cloth a touch bubbled at prime; corners and spine ends evenly rubbed; institutional library bookplate and spine label; ink name and notation on front pastedown. Ink possession identify and date on front pastedown crossed out with one other title added beneath; nook of half title creased in binding, and mis-cut in consequence; high and fore edges a bit foxed; textual content block split at pp. Contents a bit thumbed, but nonetheless clear and tight; promoting endpapers frivolously age-toned, hinges good. Pages flippantly age-toned, but clear and tight. Ink identify on front endpaper; pages clear and tight. Neat ink name and date on front endpaper; pages very flippantly age-toned. Ink ownership identify and date on entrance free endpaper; contents nice and clear; 8 pp. Neat ink possession inscription on entrance free endpaper; minor toning to first and last leaves; contents glorious. Ink inscription on entrance endpaper; pages foxed and "thumbed"; professional repair to long tear at pp. Original ¾ mustard-orange cloth and dark-blue calf; gilt titling and decoration nonetheless good and sharp, however rules at tail of now somewhat sunned spine rubbed; front cover lightly sunned around edges; cloth a bit dusty; calf rubbed at extremities.
Original crimson textured boards, lettered in black; extremities rubbed, covers a bit dusty. Dark inexperienced cloth elaborately decorated (crossed cues with balls) in black, crimson and white, and lettered in white, all now a bit rubbed; rear cover flippantly creased down centre; front at upper nook; faint and minor spotting; corners and spine ends a bit worn. Original grass-green cloth with red and black decoration (crossed cues and balls); covers much spotted, with evidence of label removed from entrance panel; endpapers and textual content a touch toned; surface scuff from pp.Forty two adhered to pp. Bookseller's label on entrance pastedown; marks on pp. Introduction by S.A. Mussabini." "With 45 specifically drawn diagrams" depicting stances, strokes or shots. Original green buckram, lettered in black; corners a contact frayed, spine ends a bit rubbed; narrow ¾" shallow scrape to entrance cover. Bookplate; ink names and date on front fly; ribbon marker intact; contents a bit foxed, yet clear and tight.
Bookplate; ink names and date on front fly; ribbon marker intact; contents a bit foxed, yet clean and tight. This one lightly sunned on spine; entrance cover a bit splayed. Original inexperienced and black photopictorial (Smith enjoying) heavy card boards, with blue-inexperienced cloth spine; boards now rubbed and a bit dusty; corners bumped. Photopictorial (Collie) mud jacket, now a lot creased and torn, and missing a pair items at top edge. Photopictorial (Collie) mud jacket, now much creased and torn, and lacking a pair items at high edge. From The Illustrated London News, September 27, 1873. Approx 16" x 11" wooden engraving of males playing the sport surrounded by amputees with crutches, males in wheelchairs or with bandages; signed "M.F." and "W.B. Gardner Sr." alongside backside edge. Well illustrated with over forty shot diagrams; 2 pp. Extensively illustrated with dozens of shot diagrams; two page sample rating sheet at rear. With a frontispiece and two hundred and forty-eight diagrams". Original inexperienced cloth, now a bit tanned on spine and calmly sunned at edges; blind-stamped on front, gilt on spine nice and brilliant; corners rubbed; small abrasion at entrance fore edge; spine ends worn with very minor loss; 1.5" reddish-brown mark alongside rear joint.
43, affecting diagrams. Excellent. 53/4. An excellent copy of one in all a very powerful early works on billiards and related games, by the man who reigned as "first participant on the earth" for more than twenty years. Initially, its location: HQ is situated in the town middle on one of the vital expensive and fanciest streets in Eixample. A close to nice copy, in superb mud jacket, of this tale of certainly one of the first nice climbers and his ascents of among the toughest peaks within the Canadian Rockies. Toronto; Montreal: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973. First edition. Toronto; Montreal: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973. First edition. London: Herbert Jenkins, Billiards Club Design 1930. First version. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. First version. Herbert Praed. "The Philanthropist". Tents within the Clouds: The primary Women's Himalayan Expedition. Forbes, William Cameron. As to Polo. Forbes, William Cameron. As to Polo. Taylor, William C. The Snows of Yesteryear: J. Norman Collie, Mountaineer. Stevenson, William Spiller, W. Osborne and F. Bateman. Sinclair, Archibald and Henry, William. Sinclair, Archibald and Henry, William.