Moss Major T (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 12mo. A good copy with minor tilt to spine in cream dw with browning to edges and wear and some tears to spine top & tail. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1934 First edition. Size octavo, 31 pages plus index and trade advertisements. Yellow cloth covered boards with brown titles to the front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition good, corners and edges rubbed, covers grubby, previous owner's name to front end-paper, some spots to first and last few pages else contents clean, with diagrams and photos printed on glossy paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. 32 pages + 1930s advertisements. No dustjacket. Marked yellow-cream hardback binding with grubby finger marks to front board, spine browned. Ink writing dated October 1946. Page-edges a bit foxed and quite yellowed o/w pages clean and sound .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG First Edition, second impression in a VG unclipped DJ.fading to board edges, spine and spine ends, clean, square & tight book, PO name to fep, light wear to DJ edges.

[Later printing]. "The contents . are drawn from 'Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives & Badminton,' Edited by Lord Aberdare ." Illustrated with photographs and diagrams showing grips, strokes and shots." Publisher's black lettered yellow cloth lightly soiled but still bright; contents excellent; shop inkstamp on front end-paper; 8 pp. publisher's and equipment ads at rear. Photo-pictorial (players with shot diagram) dust wrapper lettered and ruled in red; price-clipped with "4/6" price sticker on flap; light wear, including a few short closed tears at edges and spine ends, and small chip at top rear; rear panel with a hint of dusting. A near fine copy. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1938 Later Printing. VG/VG. 1938 later printing in d/w price clipped, publishers price sticker on front fold flap. (First published in 1934). Not dated, (1938 date printed at bottom of last page of text, page (32). Illustrated with photographs and line-diagrams. An instruction book which teaches not only strokes, but tactics and the finer points which will enable you to turn your strokes into 'winners'. With Appendixes. Previous owner signature on front endpaper; bruising to one corner; d/w has a short edge tear (19mm), and small losses to head and tail of spine and corners of the d/w; d/w rear panel has some dusting and spotting; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a 1938 later printing in UNCOMMON d/w. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, grey title to the spine and to the upper panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 31 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Mottling to the panels, ghosting to the end papers and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Squash].…

Tennis instructional written "for The Lawn Tennis Association" from elementary techniques through to exercises for practice. 1st edition. 8vo.124pp. plus 22 pages of studio photographs. Internally clean and bright. In the original light blue cloth boards, a little stained. Dustwrapper nice and square, a little rubbed and marked with small 1cm square chip from head of spine. Review copy, publisher's compliments slip laid in.…

Nice early squash instructional from the Lonsdale Library series. 1st edition. 8vo. 32pp + ads. 8 plates + diags. Light foxing. Dustwrapper. Good condition.

Third edition of the popular work by the respected tennis coach, who takes the pioneering approach of identifying common errors and offers solutions in terms of positioning, strokes, tactics and more, with explanatory drawings throughout text. 8vo. 47pp. Paperback. Minor wear to covers. A good copy.

Condition: Very Good. Flicker-pictures (though it doesn't advertise them as such). Small octavo blue cloth (spine sunned/tips slightly worn) 124pp. Linocut bookplate and name on FEP with bookseller's stamp of Lillywhite the sports outfitters of Picadilly Circus. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An illustrated first edition of this work on racket sports by 'The Lonsdale Library' edited by Lord Aberdare. A first edition of the work.In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper.With a frontispiece, vignettes and 39 plates. Collated complete.This work is volume XVI from 'The Lonsdale Library' and is a comprehensive work on Racket sports with copious illustrations and photographs throughout. This work had been edited by athlete Lord Aberdare and written by E. M. Baerlein, Captain J. Tomkinson, E. Snell, Major T. Moss, David Egerton, John Armitage and Sir George A. Thomas, Bart.Publisher's advertisements to the front. In the publisher's original cloth. No dust wrapper. Externally very smart with light bumping to the extremities resulting in minor rubbing and the odd mark to the boards, heavier to the spine. Very minimal offsetting to the front and rear free end papers. Internally firmly bound with offsetting to the front blanks and rear index page. Scattered spotting to the odd page and to the fore edge. Age toning to the top edge. Very Good Indeed. none stated (illustrator). book.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 150.