ref. 0852243545.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1994ref. DADAX0748605142Edinburgh University Press 1994-07-01. paperback. New. 5.50x1.00x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Edinburgh University Press paperback
1930ref. 184460Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1930. The Hunt started off from Misery Flats; / Some rode in toppers some billycock hats First edition of this celebration of the Shanghai paper hunt the expatriate community's answer to fox hunting. The text is supported by detailed maps of Shanghai's rural environs and photographs from the private collections of members as well as drawings provided by the Shanghai-based artist Edmund Toeg and the cartoonist H. W. G. Hayter. Equestrian pursuits were extremely popular in Republican China's international settlements. Businessmen diplomats military officers and the well-to-do used them to affirm their status and build connections and Shanghai was perpetually gripped by a "mania" Weirather p. 59 for racing. Founded in 1863 the Paper Hunt Club was one of the oldest expatriate groups in the city and by 1930 it included members from 19 different nationalities. This history anthologizes a large amount of information from the club's archives. A special section pays tribute to Ah Pau the head boy responsible for laying the paper trail for riders to follow. Ah Pau was invaluable when dealing with locals who objected to riders careering across their land: "In his dealings with his fellow countrymen he is usually the embodiment of imperturbability and good humour but when their rapacity and obstructiveness pass all reasonable bounds he lashes them with stinging invective and withers them with biting scorn" p. 29. Quarto 280 x 222 mm. Large halftone frontispiece after photograph of Christmas 1929 hunt by Ah Fong Photography Studio; 51 plates 2 colour 1 folding many after drawings by Edmund Toeg and 2 after caricatures by Henry William Goodenough Hayter; 6 folding maps of riding country in and around Shanghai; pen and ink illustrations by Toeg in text; red embossed vignette of horse and rider on title page. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt gilt vignette of horse and rider on front board green pictorial endpapers fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A little worming and marking to cloth spine and head of boards sunned black ink spots on fore edge frontispiece and one map creased where incorrectly refolded: a very good copy. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography p. 105; not in Mellon. Larry Weirather Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China 2015. hardcover
1930ref. 173615Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1930. With six folding maps and many illustrations First edition first printing in a presentation binding inscribed by the master of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club on the first leaf "Major-General Sir Arthur Wardrop C.B.E. From N. L. Sparke. Master S.P.H.C. 1930". Alexander Ernest Wardrop 1872-1961 here called "Arthur" by accident served as Commander-in-Chief North China Command between 1927 and 1929. Equestrian pursuits were extremely popular in the international settlements. Businessmen diplomats military officers and the well-to-do used them to affirm their status and build connections and Shanghai was perpetually gripped by a "mania" Weirather p. 59 for racing. Founded in 1863 the Paper Hunt Club was one of the oldest expatriate groups in the city and by 1930 it included members from 19 different nationalities. Davis's history anthologizes a large amount of information from the club's archives such as the names of stewards past and present the rules of the hunt information on preferred breeds and poems celebrating the club's traditions. A special section pays tribute to Ah Pau the head boy responsible for laying the paper trail for riders to follow. Ah Pau was invaluable when dealing with locals who objected to riders careering across their land: "in his dealings with his fellow countrymen he is usually the embodiment of imperturbability and good humour but when their rapacity and obstructiveness pass all reasonable bounds he lashes them with stinging invective and withers them with biting scorn" p. 29. The text is supported by detailed maps of Shanghai's rural environs and photographs from the private collections of members as well as drawings provided by the Shanghai-based artist Edmund Toeg and the leading cartoonist H. W. G. Hayter. Copies bound in pink cloth include a portrait of the editor bound facing page 36. Here this plate has been replaced by a special leaf bound facing the preface with a tipped-in silver print after a portrait of the author. The verso of the print has adhesive skinning suggesting it was borrowed from another source. Quarto. Large halftone frontispiece after a photograph of the Christmas 1929 hunt by the Ah Fong Photography Studio; tipped-in silver print after photograph of author; 50 plates 2 colour 1 folding many after drawings by Edmund Toeg and 2 after caricatures by Henry William Goodenough Hayter; 6 folding maps of riding country in and around Shanghai; pen and ink illustrations by Toeg in text; red embossed vignette of horse and rider on title page. Original red padded morocco-grain skiver spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt vignette of horse and rider pictorial endpapers edges untrimmed. Binding toned expertly recoloured in places wear at foot of spine fragile maps in excellent condition with just a little creasing: a very good copy. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography p. 105; not in Mellon. Larry Weirather Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China 2015. hardcover
1924ref. 878F18London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford 1924 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 8.5". Not Stated. The two volume first edition of this beautifully and richly illustrated study of the history of tennis. The two volume first edition of this work. While eight-hundred copies of this work were produced it is thought that between three and four hundred copies were destroyed and only around four hundred sets put in general circulation.Illustrated with one-hundred and sixty illustrations across two volumes over one hundred and twenty-six plates. Including a colour frontispiece to volume I. Collated complete.Volume I examines the history of tennis from 1800 onwards alongside tennis in Australia and America and the history of amateur and professional champions while volume II contains sections on the laws and literature of tennis alongside discussion of the construction of courts and handicaps. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip head and tail with fading to spines. Minor light rubbing to boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford hardcover
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1866ref. 058389London: Blackie & Son Limited 1866. Deluxe Reprint . Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 9 7/8" Tall. Illustrated with More Than Two Thousand Figures and Including Color Plates. Vol. I With 568 Pages Uncolored Frontispiece Colored Title 9 Uncolored Plates Of 14 Listed In Index No Trace Of Missing Plates And All 13 Colored Plates. Vol. Ii With 663 Pages Including Directions To The Binder At The Rear Uncolored Frontispiece Colored Title All 21 Uncolored Plates And All 23 Colored Plates. Deluxe Binding Of Quarter Red Calf Spine Adjacent Areas Tips And A Spine With Seven Bands And Six Compartments Elaborate Gilt Designs In Each Compartment Bands And Double Rules Gilt Etc. Two Morocco Spine Labels On Each Volume Top One Dark Green Bottom One Black Each Fine Gilt Brilliant. Marbled Boards Endpapers And Edges Of Page Block. Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates With Unusual Delicacy Of Color Detail. Bindings Refurbished And Refreshed Even Color Throughout; Boards Worn Along Edges. Slight Foxing To Pages Medium To Heavy Foxing Of B/W Plates Slight Foxing With A Small Foxing Spot Or Two On Colored Plates. Calligraphic Inscription To Lovell James Hamlin From William Bentley Dated Christmas 1868. Blackie & Son Limited hardcover
1867ref. 1401867 1st edition Later binding. Looks as if a bookplate has been removed from inside front cover. Previous owner's name and date on title page. Rest very good. See photos. Will require etra postage outside UK Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1868ref. 113637Bernard Quaritch 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x0x9. 1868 Quaritch second issue in beautiful decorated and beveled original boards. Tight and unmarked very small blems to bottom of boards. Very light sporadic fox spotting to text. oversized and overweight. E61 Please email for photos. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1867ref. 000167London England: Bernard Quaritch 1867. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. #297/300 copies in Limited Edition; spine and corners of covers worn; with 106 plates of which 32 are chromolithographs; folio. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1868ref. 36356London: Bernard Quaritch 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Issue. Preceded by a short account of the Origin of the Alphabet and of the successive methods of recording events before the invention of printing. Includes chapters on ancient writing methods the earliest Roman records manuscript and block books from the middle ages the origin in the West of moveable type Gutenberg Fust and Schoiffher the printing press in Italy and South of Europe Printing in France Printing in Flanders and Holland Spain and Portugal the advent of the press in England illustrations of the art of printing and more. Illustrated with 100 fac-similies in photolithography all plates are present but are not bound in numerical order. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over grey pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Ex-library with an embossed stamp to the title page and a sticker to the spine. Wear and rubbing to joines edges of boards and corners. Bumping to corners. Large scuff to rear board. Marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature in pen to front free endpaper. Clean and bright overall with toning to margins occasional spots of foxing and occasional smudge marks to margins. Folio. 216 pages plus plates. BOB/020623. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1868ref. 003977London UK: Bernard Quaritch 1868. Hardcover. Very Good/N/A. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Second Issue. 214pp plus 106 facsimile photolithographic plates of which 25 are coloured. In a later library binding of red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine and boards overlaid with original cloth binding. Large folio. Gently rubbed spine ends; shelf number. Evidence of some page repairs performed pre- or during rebinding. Overall a lovely volume outstanding for the colour plates. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1867ref. 4465London: Bernard Quaritch 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Nice copy in the original full dark red leather binding five raised bands all edges gilt. Minor shelfwear to the edges and a surface split in the back board gutter but no splits. Leather darkened. Completely flexible boards strong and tight binding which is unusual for this book. Light spotting in text seemingly as always. Strong VG. Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1924ref. 355490714129London: Oxford University Press 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. A History of Tennis Oxford: Oxford University Press 1924. First UK Edition. In Two Volumes. Illustrated with numerous plates and a large folding chart at rear of volume II. Bound in blind-panelled navy open weave buckram titled in gilt at the spine. The definitive history of Real Tennis 'La Paume' in two volumes. Both volumes are in fine condition in the VERY RARE ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPERS. Copies in D/W are almost un-heardof and I can find no other examples on sale at this time. The D/W on Volume I is in VG condition with a couple of closed tears and some inevitable browning to the spine. It is though complete. The D/W on Volume II is in good only condition as it is missing a large piece approximately half of the back panel. The back panel has no text on it so archival restoration would not be un-duly difficult. Supposedly limited to 820 copies the actual limitation is probably much smaller as it is rumoured that 100 were pulped in 1929 and perhaps as many as 380 copies were pulped in 1932. For the 2 Volumes in their Original Publishers Dust Wrappers Oxford University Press hardcover
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ref. 0852241119.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 64242726Edinburgh University Press . Papeback. New. pp. 272 1st Edition Edinburgh University Press unknown
1991ref. 77793London: Duckworth 1991. 4to.Facsimile. Facsimile. xx 587 pp. Illustrated with many b/w plates. Beautifully bound in a recent half green morocco with gilt lettering and devices to spine. First published in 1924 by Oxford University Press. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0715623796 . Near Fine. Half Morocco. 1991. Duckworth 1991 unknown
1991ref. 80704London: Duckworth 1991. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Light spotting to top hard edge. Light tanning and dampstaining to closed edges. Light shelf wear to boards. Hard. Good Plus. 4to. Duckworth Hardcover
1924ref. 129278London: Oxford University Press 1924. In two volumes. Pp. xvi282last blankx283-580 coloured frontispiece with tissue guard Volume I plus 128 black & white plates including the frontispiece to Volume II 2 folding tables appendices index; impl. 8vo; rebound in later dark green half morocco the spines lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands dark green cloth boards; a.e.g. others uncut Volume I partly unopened; later endpapers; a few tiny edge splits or chips occasional minor pencilled marginalia a little light foxing and soiling; Oxford University Press London 1924. First edition limitation not stated. Apparently limited to about 800 copies of which nearly half were subsequently pulped according to records in the Oxford University Press archive. A comprehensive history of the game including sections on the Literature of Tennis Laws of Tennis Construction of Courts etc. Oxford University Press unknown
1924ref. 316809Oxford: Oxford University Press 1924. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher's blue buckram. With front pictorial dust wrapper for each volume laid in. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. The standard work on the history of court tennis. The archive of the Oxford University Press reveals that in 1932 some 380 sets of the edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer to 420. Whitman p. 28; Henderson p. 208 Oxford University Press unknown
1918ref. 696641918. Gettysburg Complier Print 1918. Gettysburg Complier Print 1918. Detailed History of the Bankruptcy Clause Noel F. Regis. A History of the Bankruptcy Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America. Gettysburg: Gettysburg Complier Print 1918. 210 pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to extremities small label reading "Th. Am. 18. 233" to front cover some darkening to spine internally fresh. $250. A doctoral dissertation submitted to the Catholic University of America. It provides a comparatively full account of colonial bankruptcy legislation and practice and discussion of the topic in the Constitutional Convention. The latter half of the dissertation summarizes the four successive bankruptcy statutes of the United States enacted before 1918. unknown
ref. 1016528183.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1988ref. Q-1555211461Book Sales 1988-03-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Book Sales hardcover
1965ref. 90434Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press 1965. (10), 371 Seiten. Mit einigen Illustrationen. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].