Captain S Duff Taylor (8 results)

Condition: Fair. 1930. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and photographic plates. Pages are lightly tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, exposing netting. Binding is slightly loose however pages and plates remains firmly attached. Faint pencil markings to front endpaper. Plates are lightly tanned. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Heavy markings and staining to front board and spine. Gilt lettering is darkened.…

Condition: Good. 1930. No edition stated. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Part of The Lonsdale Library series. Volume VIII. Orange cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white plates. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are noticeably tanned with minor foxing throughout. Heavier tanning to towards start and end of the book. Pencil mark to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters with exposed netting in few places. Plates are moderately tanned with some foxing. Binding is shaky. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surface. Small scratches and stain to both boards. Moderate sunning to spine with visible crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a Good Copy of this book in original brown cloth boards with leather spine lettered in gilt.No Dust-Jacket.This copy is ex library with one stamp to the blank endpaper and with tape remnant marks to the front board and rear endpapers.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Complete with 67 illustrations.8vo 254pp [1951].…

First separate edition. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton and published in 1930." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. Original bright yellow cloth, lettered in black, now a touch dusty at edges; small spot on front, another on rear; internally excellent. White photo-pictorial (Diana Kingsmill free skating) dust jacket, lettered in red and black; publisher's "4/6" sticker overlaying original "2/6" price on front; minor wear at corners, with short closed tear at top front; lightly dusty, especially along front fore edge. A near fine copy.…

Later printing. "The contents of this volume are drawn from 'Winter Sports' edited by the Hon. Neville Lytton, in the Lonsdale Library." Illustrated with skating diagrams, and photographic plates of the author and others; includes sections on figure, free and pair skating, as well as acrobatic skating and ice hockey. A fine copy in original bright yellow cloth lettered in black; corners bumped. Two unused Spanish stamps on front endpaper; contents otherwise bright, tight and clean. Near fine white photo-pictorial (the author?) dust jacket lettered in red and black, now tanned at spine but with none of the usual dusting; top edge of rear faintly creased, a few tiny closed tears; some wear to top of spine, with no loss; publisher's "12s/60p" sticker over original price of "6/-".…

Comprehensive illustrated ice skating primer, covering figure skating, free-skating, racing etc. 8vo. 68pp. including diagrams in-text throughout. Plus 8 pages of photos and 6 pages of publishers' adverts to rear. Internally very good, clean and bright. Small, ink, previous owner's inscription to front free end paper. Yellow cloth covered boards in the original pictorial dustwrapper, a little foxed, rubbed and with a few chips to the extremities, else very good condition.…

First edition. With instructional photographs of the author, sans skates. Original blue card covers with photopictorial (the author in motion) onlay (with two small abrasions thereon); covers spotted and soiled, with minor fading to top edge and spine; head of spine creased. Contents a bit thumbed, but tight in binding. A very good copy of an unusual 16 pp. booklet. …

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy octavo. 70pp., b/w pls., index.