Sisley C P (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hinges tender. Browning to end papers and previous owner stamp and inscription to preliminaries. Includes a note on West Cornwall Clycling letterhead. On page 275 there is an intreguing note in manuscript and a small cutting regardiing a world title in 1904. Light edge-wear and overall a good copy that presents well. …

Condition: Wie neu. 13 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 400 pages with numerous photographic plates and text-illustrations / humorous woodcuts (the photographs show for example Victorian cyclists in Hyde Park / Photograph of a group of Cyclysts after a "Gymkana" / Professional Cycling Race past the Grand Stand by the Wall Brothers, St.Kilda / Military Cyclist tilting at the Ring, etc.). Hardcover [publisher's original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and design on front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional minor foxing. Very rare, early publication on cycling in the victorian society ! [The Isthmian Library - No.2] Includes, for example, the following chapters: The Cycle in Society by Mrs. F. Harcourt Williamson / The Humours of Cycling by Gilbert Floyd / Rides round London by C.P. Sisley / On Tandems,Multicycles, Machines of Peculiar Design, and Motor Cycles etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth which has some fading but the Gilt lettering still visible. Light foxing and c lightly cocked.Tight binding. Frontispiece, 400 pages with numerous photographic plates and text-illustrations / humorous woodcuts (the photographs show for example Victorian cyclists in Hyde Park / Photograph of a group of Cyclysts after a "Gymkana" / Professional Cycling Race past the Grand Stand by the Wall Brothers, St.Kilda / Military Cyclist tilting at the Ring, etc.). Hardcover [publisher's original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and design on front board.…