John Hislop Skeaping (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Skeaping, John (illustrator). First Edition. A good+ copy of the apparent first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement), lacking a dust-jacket. Previous owner's name in ink with address stamp to front endpaper; purchase information in ink to rear endpaper, with short newspaper articles pasted to endpapers (front and rear. Else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine. Moderate wear to the green cloth binding, with the gilt lettering on the spine quite faded.

Good plus or better, light general wear, corners lightly bumped. Cloth Worn, soiled jacket with tears and chips. Prev owner's name on front fly. Pages browned, endpapers foxed. Friday, December 18, 2009 12:27:08 PM.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. Black & White Illustrations, Color Plates (illustrator). Reprint. London, UK: Hutchinson. Good/Good. (1954). Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 256 pp., Dj rubbed, frayed, price-clipped, writing on ffe, bumped .

Hard Cover. First U.S. Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE (SLIGHT SHELF WEAR TO BOTTOM EDGE) IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET WTH ORIGINAL $7.50 PRICE AND ONE CLOSED TEAR ON FRONT PANEL.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 256 pp; End pages foxed ret of book is fine. Remains a Very nice attractive book in dust jacket with edge tear and a 3 inch chip out of the top of the spine. A nice clean book with great color illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. John Skeaping (illustrator). 1st Edition. Excellent colour illustrations throughout from Skeaping in this racing classic. Light toning and very occasional foxing, but in general good order throughout. Light wear to green boards. D/j distressed . This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 256pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. John Skeaping (illustrator). (1954) 256 pp. Original green paper covered boards, very bright and clean. Spine ends a bit bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Toning from paper that was once laid-in (?) to half-title page. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and few closed tears to edges. Tiny chip to bottom edge of front panel near spine. Price clipped. Illust. w/ color and b/w drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Skeaping, John (illustrator). First Edition. Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Boards have remnants of sticky tape on upper and lower edges where blurb flaps were adhered. Spine rubbed at head/foot. Cracks in front and rear hinges. Coloured frontis detached and laid in. Pages 47-53 detached and laid in. B/w illustration at rear detached and laid in. Clean text and b/w illustrations.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (horse racing, steeplechasing, horsemanship ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Skeaping, John (illustrator). Large 8vo in very good condition, in dark green cloth, with slight wear to cloth at spine ends and small nick on top edge of back board. Front flap of dust jacket is laid in, with short description and price. Undated. Some foxing on endpapers. Light green top edge. Eight one-sided color plates, with lots of black and white sketches and diagrams. 255 pp. Sports & Recreation, Steeplechasing, Horsemanship, Horses, Horse-back riding, Education.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good Dj. John Skeaping (illustrator). First Published. Foxing to outside edges of the pages, D/j protected by a plastic cover but has left a few cello marks but the cover complete and not torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback book in fair condition with many illustrations by John Skeaping , the outer cover has faded on the spine but the pages are intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. John Skeaping (illustrator). This is a clean and tight copy with some light feint foxing to the page edges. Presented in an unclipped wrapper with worn corners and edge. Illustrated with drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback copy in green boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in removable protective clear sleeve. 249pp. B/w photographs and diagrams. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (40/5).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. John Skeaping (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is a trifle dusty to the back panel but is still in near fine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This book contains a selection of John Hislop's articles on horseracing originally published in the Observer when he joined the staff just after the war. They cover every aspect of racing from breeding and the General Stud Book. National Hunt Racing including a piece by the author written immediately after he rode in the Grand National. These authoritative pieces are perfectly complimented by specially commissioned drawings by the celebrated equestrian artist John Skeaping. Ref ZZ 5.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. John Skeaping (illustrator). [1951] 256 pp. Original dark green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and several short tears to edges. Approx. 1" closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel near spine. Tiny chip to top edge of front panel; small chip near bottom corner of rear panel. Illust. w/ color plates and b/w drawings. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1970 EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Skeaping (illustrator). Hislop, John.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine with silver horse and jockey illustration to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 208 printed pages of text with monochrome drawings throughout. Lower spine end scuffed, foxing to the free end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow nicks to the spine ends, shelf rubs to the rear panel, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Horse Racing].

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Skeaping John (illustrator). Language: English. Steeplechasing, 23.5 x 16 cm, 256 pp, including 8 illustrations in colour, very good condition 0.