March Harry A (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, with UK list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. As far as I can tell, this is a very rare book. I only found one copy online and that one had some condition issues. Please find a lovely copy of: "Pro Football- Its "Ups" and "Downs" by Harry A. March. The book is bound in pebbled red boards with elaborate gilt decorations and titles on the cover. The book offers many chapters with vignettes of the early days of professional football and its players and coaches, along with vintage b&w photos. This is the second edition, dated 1939 which is part of the title on the cover. The book is inscribed on the inside of the front cover by Paul Steinberg and is featured in Chapter XXII (page 136). There is a great deal of information about the early days of Pro Football throughout the book. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are clean, perhaps a bit dust-dulled but still quite handsome and with only slight bumping to the corners and spine tips. Inside, as mentioned, there is a lengthy inscription signed by Paul Steinberg on the inside of the front endpaper. This, and the bookplate of its former owner, are the only marks I found in the book. The interior pages are of glossy paper stock and are clean and bright throughout, without toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact and the binding is tight, sound and square. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Several (illustrator).…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Years of speculation about Warburton's fate came to an end in 2002, when his remains were found with his aircraft, buried about 2 yards deep in a field near the Bavarian village of Egling an der Paar, 34 miles west of Munich. According to witnesses, the aircraft fell there on 12 April 1944, around 11:45. One of the propellers had bullet holes in it, which suggests that Warburton had been shot down. Contains 222 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubbing across the spine ends, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Harry Kirk - who was also there (see next page) With best regards Tony Spooner | November 1987'. A unique signed copy to Harry Kirk, reference is being made to the RAF's defence of the strategically important defence of the Maltese Islands. There is a typed correction laid in by Kirk as follows 'I asked Warby if he ever saw a camel train' Tony altered it to read that I asked Warby 'What was a camel train' | pp 66 has another paper laid-in 'This should read that I asked Warby if he ever saw any camel trains on his trips along the African coast' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MALTA (Maltese History).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 312 pp with double-page map and monochrome archive photographs to the centre pages. Tanning to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small tear to the bottom of the spine, not price clipped. This copy of Turncoat brings together two pilots and second world war heroes who both had remarkable escapes after being shot down. Air Commodore Sir Archibald Little Winskill and Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling. This is Crowley-Milling's copy with his printed name and address in Fakenham to the front free end paper, the address is crossed out and his new address (Henley-on-Thames) written in, presumably, in his hand. Enclosed is a typed letter to Denis from Winskill who had borrowed the book from Crowley-Milling and SIGNED 'Archie'. He has also indicated on the letter the pages in the book relevant to his story, both men appear in the index. Also enclosed are two flown covers, each one SIGNED Sir 'Archibald Little Winskill' and Air Marshal Sir 'Denis Crowley-Milling', with information cards inside each. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, 9.25 x 6", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec blue pebbled cloth, 160pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, spine ends torn, endpapers toned, prelims spotted, but still a decent copy. With contributions by Grantland Rice, Bill Corum and Paul Gallico. INSCRIBED "To Stan Fay, one of Mishigan's [sic] greatest captains" AND SIGNED BY "Cy Burton"(?). Stan Fay was the Captain of the UofM's undefeated 1933 National Champion football teams. He was then hired by Ford Motor Co. and was Harry Bennett's assistant, and left with Harry in 1945 to start their own business (which failed shortly thereafter). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9.25 x 6.25", gilt-lettered and gilt-pict blue pebbled cloth, 160pp, covers heavily rubbed, bottom of covers at spine stained, extremities bumped and fraying, endpapers toned, scattered finger soiling, some light damp spotting to title page. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, dated January 15, 1935.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in half dark brown leather covers, five raised bands to the spine with gilt title lettering, top edge gilt, marble end papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xviii] 382 printed pages of text, fold-out map to the rear. Sun fading to the spine, light foxing to the end leaves and in Very Good tight and sound condition. Smith played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Surrey, was educated, from 1886 to 1892, at Charterhouse School, one of the principal nurseries of the Association Football game, and learned many of the skills that subsequently brought him fame while boarding at the school. Smith captained the England team on at least 13, and possibly as many as 16, occasions (early records are inexact) between 1896 and 1901, winning at least eight games, possibly as many as ten, and drawing two. Smith retired from football shortly after his final international appearance and became joint headmaster at Ludgrove School, a preparatory school in Barnet recognised as one of the principal feeder institutions for Eton College. His fellow headmaster, Arthur Dunn - who had founded Ludgrove in 1892 - was another noted amateur footballer and had also played as centre-forward for England. Dunn died, aged only 41, a few months after Smith joined the school, and thereafter G. O. shared his duties with his fellow Corinthian, England captain, and great friend, William Oakley. He also taught, from 1918 at Sunningdale Preparatory School and died, aged 71, in retirement at his home in Hampshire. Ludgrove Prize Plate inside dated December 18th, 1906, SIGNED 'G. O. Smith.' Apart from the rare G. O. Smith signature, a poignant aside to the book is that the recipient student, Harry Keppel Chester, lost his life in World War 1. He was killed in action in the first GAZA Battle in 1917 and was posthumously promoted from Lieutenant to Captain H. K. Chester. His parish church, St. Mary the Virgin, in Birchanger, Essex has a marble memorial of his with the following inscription 'To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Harry Keppel Chester of this Parish, and of Kings College, Cambridge, Captain, 5th Battalion Essex Regiment, Born 18 July 1894, died 27 March 1917 of wounds received in action the previous day near Gaza, Buried at Khan Yunus, in Palestine. 'Go thy way, thy son liveth'. The Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Street, London has on view in their collection a gathering of his 1914-1917 letters, privately published in book form by his family in 1921. It is titled 'Letters from Harry Keppel Chester 1914-1917'. 218 pages. A poignant tragedy that 12 year old Harry received as his school prize 'A Boy in the Peninsular War', - killed in action - still a boy. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Football].…