J B Emtage (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Emtage, J. B. Ski fever / pictures by Lewis Baumer. First edition. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1936.Hardback, VG, no dustjacket. Cream cloth, bumped to corners, a little grubby to boards, spine tanned. Blue illustration to front, blue lettering to spine. Binding strong. Light tanning to endpapers. Gift inscription to ffep. Frontispiece b/w cartoon. xii, 10pp., b/w cartoons. Contents clean and bright. James Bernard De Courcey Emtage (14 February 1902 - 12 August 1995) was a Barbadian writer, who published as J. B. Emtage. This was his first book. Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer (8 August 1870 - 25 October 1963) was best known as an English cartoonist who worked for more than fifty years for the British magazine Punch, from 1897. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Lewis Baumer (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. "Portions" appeared in Punch. xiii, 109 p. 19 cm. B&w illustrations by Baumer originally in Punch. Grey cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jackethas price-clipped front flap, chips and tears to edges and spine ends, darkened spine, tear in rear panel, soiling. Book itself has spots on cloth, darkened spine head. Ink signature front free endpaper, some foxing to interior and text block edges. Not just ski-ing but skating, lugeing, bobbing, ice-hockey, curling, training, etc. Much humour on such subjects as avalanche burial, blonde and brunette skis, the use of flasks in ski-jumping, how to get your own skis from the ski-truck, snake-fur braces, the truth about wax, and so on.…

First edition. DW. xiii, 109pp. Illustrated throughout. Boards very slightly soiled, extremities slightly rubbed. Prelims slightly foxed, inner hinge visible. Wrapper foxed, spine sunned, lacking portions from head and tail, slightly affecting text o/w VG+/VG+.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - comic / Lolita erotic first novel by this West Indian writer of considerable talent - Commonwealth literature - fine in vg to near fine price clipped dj, 3 little closed tears rear panel - nice bright copy of a scarce book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …