Birkin Sir Henry (35 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have some wear with scuffs to spine. Content has light toning. Spotting to front pages and page ends. Owner text to end paper. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good/good, used, appears to be a 1st printing, orange colored cloth binding with dark brown text on spine, 133pp. Interior clean, no marks, light musty odor, the front free end paper appear to have been razored out and is missing. Dust jacket is rubbed, worn and torn, chip missing at head and tail of the spine, corners worn and torn. Tiny tears to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 133pp, well-illustrated, hardcover, 8vo, bound in yellow and black cloth, book in very good condition with no markings or annotations, G. T. Foulis and Co. Ltd, London, 1957.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor.   Famous autobiography of the Le Mans winning "Bentley Boy" and top line Grand Prix driver of the early 30s,  Tim Birkin. Birkin was most famous for instigating the production of the Supercharged "Blower" Bentley, a single-seater version of which he raced at Brooklands holding the outright lap record for a time. He also raced Alfa Romeo, and Maserati cars , winning Le Mans with Earl Howe in the former but burning his arm while getting into the latter. the wound went septic and he died of the septicemia at the peak of his fame in the mid 1930s. Superb book with some rather strong opinions voiced on how motor racing was being run in Britain at the time. 133 pages. This is the mid 1950s re-issue by FOULIS with  printed, but not actually illustrated,  covers rather than a jacket .  This example has a lot of wear on the spine and it's edges  and is a bit grimy on the cover, but the text pages are clean and smart. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.   Famous autobiography of the Le Mans winning "Bentley Boy" and top line Grand Prix driver of the early 30s,  Tim Birkin. Birkin was most famous for instigating the production of the Supercharged "Blower" Bentley, a single-seater version of which he raced at Brooklands holding the outright lap record for a time. He also raced Alfa Romeo, and Maserati cars , winning Le Mans with Earl Howe in the former but burning his arm while getting into the latter. the wound went septic and he died of the septicemia at the peak of his fame in the mid 1930s. Superb book with some rather strong opinions voiced on how motor racing was being run in Britain at the time. 291 pages. This is the early 1970s re-issue by FOULIS with a plain green jacket with orange title and no illustration.   This example has residue of old tape marks on the inner covers and fly leaves where a protective sleeve had been stuck on at some point (no longer present) otherwise good condition aside from a little foxing. Very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lacking Jacket. Little Sign Of Mechanical Wear But Has Foxing To Edges And Endpapers.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards and a generally faded outlook. A little age-toning to the edges of the rough-cut text block. Minor age-toning to the lining papers with a related newspaper clipping pasted in at the half-title page. The contents complete, clean and tight but with occasional marginal browning; Hardback. Green boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9" x 6ĵ" (1 kg); pp 291; Preface by Rt. Hon. the Earl Howe; 2nd edition. Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Black & white plates (4)); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203219 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Dust wrapper with loss at top front corner and top/bottom of spine, rubbing, edge and corner wear, marks/scratches, Previous owners name and date written on bottom of front cover. Boards with fading a little edge and corner wear, Top, Tail and Fore edge slightly tanned with light spotting. Gift inscription written on fep, First few pages have creased top corner, odd page with the odd mark Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any further issues, binding tight, A Good personal copy. Unclipped dust wrapper will be fitted with removable archive acetate film. **418g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE20404.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, pink buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 133pp, illus/photos, VG- (minor discolouration & rubbing to spine, light bruising & rubbing to board corners, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owners' ink markings & stamps to front eps, prev. owner's single ink stamp to title page, minor foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional minor cracking to gutters) in d/w, G+ (heavy scuffing & loss to spine & edges- tidy archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, bottom corner of rear flap torn off).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. G T Foulis, Henley-on-Thames, UK. 2nd edition (as stated0 1932. 291pp. Hardcover. 230 x 145 mm. (9" x 6"). B&W photos. Condition: Very good, with just a little wear to the top of the spine. This is the 2nd printing of the original edition of this classic book. The pages edges have not been cut, which lends it a period charm. Light foxing to the half title page. No dust jacket. There is a post-it note on the reverse of the title page explaining the writing of the book. Please see the photos of the actual item to assess its condition.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint . Foreword by Rt. Hon. the Earl Howe. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed. The boards are in good condition. There is light foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages of the book. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

G. T. Foulis & Co, London. 1945. Reprint . Harback no DW. Brown cloth boards. Illustrated in black and white. A well read copy with worn, partially faded covers and a lean to spine. Pages browned and slightly foxed.

Motoraces Book Club. 1964. First edition, thus. Hardback with DW. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Boards are slighty mottled o/w a good clean copy in slightly worn and lightly soiled wrapper.

Octavo, yellow heavy boards, black lettering to spine, 133pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & extrems with some surface loss, moderate chafing & foxing to boards, moderate splitting to hinges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light doodlings to terminals & rear eps in ink & pencil).

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. This book details the gallant adventure and endeavour of Tim Burton one of the most brilliant drivers produced by England or any other country at the time It is bound in deep green cloth with giult lettering on the spine Illustrated throughout with plates of black and white photographs Overall the book is in very good condition with some fading to the spine The pages remain clean and undamaged on the whole with only slight foxing to some The jacket is in fair condition with tearing wear and fading to the extremities pp 291nbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. THE DUST JACKET HAS A PLASTIC PROTECTIVE COVER WHICH IS RUBBED. THE JACKET IS RUBBED, THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED AND CREASED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED. THERE IS A 5CM TEAR TO THE BASE OF THE SPINE AND A SMALL TEAR TO THE TOP. THERE IS A SMALL TEAR TO THE TOP EDGE OF THE REAR JACKET. THERE IS MILD FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THE PRICE HAS BEEN CLIPPED AND THERE IS A SMALL TEAR. THE FRONT INSIDE BOARD HAS A SMALL STICKER TO THE BASE. THERE IS A PENNED NAME AND ADDRESS TO THE FFEP. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Full Throttle by Sir Henry Birkin. Publisher: G T Foulis & Co, 1957. SCARCE. Very good hardback with no jacket. Yellow cloth boards have marks, rubbing and bumping. No inscriptions. Binding firm, light foxing and marks - mainly to endpapers. 133 pages, illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Full Throttle by Sir Henry Birkin. Publisher: G T Foulis & Co, no date (circa 1946). SCARCE. Very good hardback with torn jacket. Orange cloth boards have minor compression to spine ends. Small inscription to ffep. Binding firm, light foxing and marks - mainly to endpapers. Jacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with some loss to top edge, and repaired tears. 133 pages, illustrated.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and full-page illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, crisp, clean copy.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover book ,early edition, carries the Brooklands Track apology. No date except for dated apology 1932. 291 pages with illustrations. " Tim" Birkins's motor racing experiences and deeds in this classic of motor racing literature. Racing in the days of Brooklands, Bentleys and rolled up shirt sleeves! Although undated , the volume includes the apology for any perceived critisisms of the Brooklands track and it's proprietors dated 1st Dec 1932. Birkin sadly died as a result of a burn to his arm from coming in contact with a hot exaust pipe. He is buried in Blakeney Churchyard, North Norfolk where he had a home. A Very Good copy,no dustjacket. The covers slightly faded but tight, no inscriptions. Pictures available.