Percy Longhurst (43 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Book size about 5 by 7 inches with some 64 pages. Bound in green cloth with black lettering. Illustrated with line drawings throughout. One of 'Warne's Recreation Books'. Covers moderately soiled; light wear through and bumping at the tips. GOOD.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No edition or date stated. Publication of 64 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. Good+ Mint colored soft cover with dark green text on front cover with graphics. Pages are crisp and square. Outer covers show some slight wear and rubbing around edges. Previous owners sticker on inside on front cover at the top. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Condition: Very good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original pictorial soft covers.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Contents clean internally.Illustrated with 11 fugure drawings.Nice collector's copy,small 8vo 64pp undated But Circa 1928.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ninth Edition. 64 pages, b/w illustrations, old name on front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ninth edition. not dated but c.1950. pp.110 plus one page of adverts. Illustrated with drawinfs showing the various moves. Pictorial paper covers with closed tear at front and chips to corners and fore edge. Spine reinforced with brown paper tape. some light spotting to first and last pages. Otherwise pages clean and binding firm. Overall a fair to poor copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Scarce guide to Wrestling, with numerous b/w images along the edges that can be flicked through quickly, animating the instruction. No DJ. Rubbing to edges with splitting to joints. . Light marking and toning to covers. Rear end-paper torn and final page detached and fixed in with previous owner's tape repair. Flip-images still functional. Fair overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Saville Lumley et al (illustrator). Hbk in pictorial boards; art deco cover; vg-; boy racing on bike on cover; a little wear/rubbing to spine ends & cover corners, but not much considering age of book; sepia illustrated endpapers; colour frontis; 3 further colour plates cracking between title page & frontis; nice clean, sound copy; vg-; excess P&P outside UK due to weight; ; Big Book for Boys; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. UK paperback. Tenth edition. 110pp. Undated, but ca 1951. Uncommon. A decent example of a fragile production. Some paperwear at spine ends, some grubbiness to pictorial covers and a few nicks to edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Poor. 8th Edition. pgs.110 clean tight copy white covers wit black and orange showing 2/6 NET and 2 men one one floor other on top extended by leg and arms creases down front cover, small piece missing lower front right corner, top/bottom spines 1" pieces missing showing text blocks, tears to spine hinges on back cover at top/bottom spines, binding is weak but at present all still attached no date in book.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards. Thick 8vo. 9'' x 7''. Contains 13 boys' school stories, the first story being Millingen's Mascot by Robert Leighton. Monochrome illustraions throughout, 4 [of 5] colour plates with the frontispiece missing, repaired splits to the spine ends, contents in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Circa 1930s. Red Pictorial cover showing red indians on horses. Rubbed to corners. No ownership marks. Colour plates and b/w illustrations. A little foxing to plate's margins. 100 pages clean and tight. CONTENTS:- THE GAME OF HIS LIFE by Alan Ross Warwick. THE SURPRISE OF HIS LIFE byReg. G. Thomas. WEDGEWOOD'S MASCOT byRowland Walker. HARE OR HERO by Edwin Wooton, THE DECISION by Percy Longhurst, PLAY THE GAME, BIXBY I by Ronald S. Lyons. A ROD IN PICKLE by Alfred Judd. THE RETURN MATCH by Frank Sidney. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustwrapper. 1st Edition. Bound in green cloth with black lettering. Chapters on Cumberland & Westmorland style and Graeco-Roman Style.

Paperback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. ; Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954 ; OCLC: 34219087 ; LC: GV965 ; green and beige cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Bob Jones was an Atlanta lawyer who also happened to become one of the best golfers who ever lived. His ultimate achievement came in 1930, when he became first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam. He promptly retired from competitive golf, returned to his law practice and founded Augusta National Golf Club-the site of the annual Masters Tournament ; Contents: Short stories -- The clicking of Cuthbert / P G Wodehouse -- Mr. Frisbie / Ring Lardner -- The sweet shot / E. C. Bentley -- The Ooley-cow / Charles E. Van Loan -- Golf is a nice friendly game / Paul Gallico -- Cartoons -- The spirit of the game -- reminiscence, comment, history and humor -- The links of Leith / Tobias Smollett -- The birth of the Linksland Courses / Sir Guy Campbell -- Some of the humor of golf / A. J. Balfour -- Hints to golfers of riper years / Horace C. Hutchinson -- How to go about buying a putter / John L. Low -- The old apple tree gang / H. B. Martin -- Across the street from the County Club / Francis Ouimet -- Golf in four acts / George Ade -- Caddying at Edgewater / Chick Evans -- Mr. Dooley on golf / Finley Peter Dunne -- Merion--First visit / Robert T. Jones, O. B. Keeler -- How I kept my wait down / Walter Hagen -- On Diegeling / Bernard Darwin -- The prospect for 1930 / Grnatland Rice -- Two niblicks / Bernard Darwin -- The fabulous Commodore Hear / Grantland RIce -- Golfers with a past / Noel F. Busch -- The Dr. Livingstone of gold / Harry Robert -- Francis drives himself in / S. L. McKinlay -- The Hong Kong Golf Club / Christopher Rand -- Watching my wife / John L. Hulteng -- Le Bing et le golf / Art Buchwald -- The Golfomaniac / Stephen leacock -- Golfmanship / Stephen Potter -- Great players, historic moments -- The triumvirate /Bernard Darwin -- The first United States amateur championship -- How I won the British amateur championship / Walter J. Travis -- 1913, the United States open championship / Henry Leach -- Walter Hagen--my hero, my rival / Gene Sarazen -- Hagen at Hoylake / Bernard Darwin -- 28 holes in 100 strokes / Gene Sarazen -- Little, at Prestwick and St. Anne's / Peter Lawless -- Failure of a mission / Henry Longhurst -- Guldahl wins the Masters / William D Richardson -- Nelson at his peak / Arthur Mann -- The affluent hillbilly / Bob Harlow -- Pinehurst and a Ryder Cup match / Henry Longhurst -- Perfection at Oakmount / Philip W Wrenn -- The greatest year of my life / Ben Hogan, Gene Gregston -- Walker Cup matches--the full parade / John P. English -- The Babe comes back / Al Laney -- The Masters' voices -- Their views on theory, technique, learning and playing -- The importance of style / Willie Park -- Styles and methods, then and now / Henry Cotton -- The grip holds your swing together / Tommy Armour -- How Hogan picks his clubs / Jimmy Demaret -- The woods / Sam Snead -- Playing the irons / Robert T. Jones, and G. B. Keeler -- Putting / Bobby Locke -- It takes brains to play golf / Gene Sarazen -- Discoveries that helped my golf game most / Byron Nelson -- Golf fashions, not fundamentals, change / Horton Smith -- Tournement golf / Robert Jones -- The controlled Golf swing / Percy Boomer -- Golf's greatest teacher / Herb Graffin -- Golf course architecture -- From St. Andrews to the modern American courses / Robert Trent Jones ; ownership stamp, a few scuffs, else VG. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. London: Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, 1929. Informative book on ju jitsu , 64 pages in bright clean condition, many B/w illustrations, all present as published plus very informative text, NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated card covers are bright and clean, little rubbed to bottom of spine. no date in book but believed to be around 1930s possibly first issue in this form but cannot be sure. A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES CAN BE TAKEN ON REQUEST . Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 18.5 x 12.5 Cms. Card Covers.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth, lettered in black. Slight rub to cloth along lower front joint, minor thumbing to flyleaves. 1st ed. Color pictorial dust jacket VG with modest surface soiling, a few small chips along spine panel, now in mylar. [viii],88 pp., illus. w/ b&w photos in the manner of a "flip book." Nicely preserved, very scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. London: Frederick Warne and Co Ltd, 1929. Informative on wrestling, 64 pages in very bright clean condition, many B/w illustrations, all present as published plus very informative text, NO dustwrapper, outer illustrated card covers are bright and clean, little rubbed to bottom of spine. Only date in book is 1929 possibly first issue in this form. A very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES CAN BE TAKEN ON REQUEST . Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 18.5 x 12.5 Cms. Card Covers.

Condition: Good. Publisher's original green and cream card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains 64 printed pages of text with simple monochrome illustrations throughout. The bottom half the card covering the spine is missing, without any ownership markings and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Boxing].

A general guide to Ju-Jutsu. Part of the series of Warne's "Recreation" Books. Paperback. Small 8vo. 64pp + 2pp of publisher's adverts at front and rear. Illustrated card covers. Very good condition.