An Operator (23 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding tight, pages unmarked except for penciled price on flyleaf. One page is loose that may have been a frontispiece. Otherwise binding is tight. Cover boards are good but spine has patches rubbed raw. Slipcase is rough with some fraying and detached boards, and peeling off. Your purchase benefits…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near Fine ; Very Good. Slipcase. 1972 Imprint Society. Limited Edition of 1950 signed numbered copies; this is number 1663. Signed by the illustrator. Oversize hardcover, 7 x 10.25 inches, is half-bound in brown leather over light brown paper-covered board with dark brown d…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st. 1st Limited, Numbered edition, #1817 of 1950 copies in this limited, signed edition; 136 clean, unmarked pages, extra etching laid-in very good slipcase w/moderate wear at top seam; Foreward by George Plimpton. Contains remarks on Pugilism in Engla…

Leather. Limited Edition. 136p. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. A hardcover book with a brown leather spine and printed paper-covered boards. Corners lightly bumped and leather barely rubbed. Interior clean and binding tight. Includes a detached plate. Limited edition; one of 1,950 copies signed by the artist, Randy Jones. A collecti…

Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. One of 1950 copies signed by artist (this copy unnumbered), with original etching laid in. A very good copy in original brown leather over boards (slight wear; some dampstaining to edges of endpapers; no slipcase). Contents: Introduction Cursory remarks on the origin, rise and p…

1st edition - limited to 1950 copies. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked leather over decorated cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages; Physical descripti…

1st edition - limited to 1950 copies. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked leather over decorated cloth-backed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 136 pages; Physical descripti…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Limited/Numbered. xv,136pp, bw ills. Original brown & black patterned cloth with brown leather spine. Very slight rubbing at corners and spine extremeties. Lacks the laid in signed etching. Signed and but not numbered (/1950) on limitation page (colophon) by the artist (Randy Jones). These writings w…

Leatherbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. 1st. 1st Limited, signed edition, of 1950 copies in this limited, Illustrator signed edition; 136 clean, unmarked pages;, 1/2 brown leather w/decortrive boards, moderte wear at tips; owner's notes on copyright page; selections from memoirs of Thomas Hickman, memoirs of Tom…

Condition: fair, ex-lib. Limited Edition. First Thus? Printing. 136 pages. Illus., #77 of 1950 copies printed for the Imprint Society, usual library markings, spine worn. Signed by the illustrator. Selections from a 2-vol. work originally published in 1826; authorship attributed to Jonathan Badcock or to Pierce Egan. Foreword by…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book is in excellent condition, with small mark at spine, also upper leather portion of front cover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Book is protected in clear plast…

New edition. With a foreword by George Plimpton & etchings & drawings by Randy Jones. No.698 of an edition limited to 1950 copies, with limitation signed by artist. Patterned boards, with brown leather spine. Bookplate on front free end paper; binding tight; gilt on spine bright; slipcase rather battered Used - Good. VG hardback…

A handsome limited-edition reprint of selected boxing writings from 'The Fancy', the sporting volumes first published in 1828, nicely illustrated with specially commissioned modern prints evoking the times and events described in the text which includes memoirs of Cribb, Molineux and others. 8vo. 136pp. Original cloth-covered bo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. According to Hartley (1514), this was published in 55 parts between 1821 - 1826 and in two volumes. It is largely descriptions of the leading fighters and fights of the old prize ring with memoirs of the likes of Cribb, Belcher, Randall, Donnelly, Scroggins, Molineux and many other. Also…