Sydney Smith Foreword (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. crisp clean w/light shelfwear/edgewear - may have remainder mark Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Moderate scuffs, soils and edge wear; typical library marks; an adequate reference copy. 140 pages. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. (1959) 318 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ b/w plates. …

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Former Library book. (medicine, forensic medicine ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First UK Edition. Lovely 1st British edition green cloth hardcover with dull but legible gilt titles on backstrip. Very light color loss at lightly bumped tips. No fraying. Name, two small bits of cello tape glue remnants and vintage bookstore sticker on frt pastedown from Sydney R. Smith Sporting Books Canaan, NY (Sydney Smith composed the Bibliography). Illustrated with b/w photos and art reproductions. A few check marks and some tidy marginalia in Bibliography in rear of book. An important reference that covers the subject and history of sporting books from 1373 through 1950. 443 pp. This book give biographical essays describing the lives and work of the most significant sporting authors of the British Isles and North America. The essays are arranged chronologically beginning with Edward, Duke of York (The Master of Game) and George Turbervile. The bulk of entries concern the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and all but a handful of the then extant authors were born in the nineteenth century. Notables include William Somerville, Peter Beckford, Charles Apperley ("Nimrod"), R.S. Surtees, Thomas Smith, F.P. Delme Radcliffe, William Henry Herbert ("Frank Forester"), Lord North, E.OE. Somerville, et al.…

Condition: (fair). 1916 292 pages illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Red cloth, hardback book, with gilt title, which sits in oval shape, block black box, positioned nicely at the top of the spine. The book is in good condition, normal wear and marks apply, consistent with use and age. Dust jacket included, not price clipped, rather worn and torn on the top section of the spine and back of the jacket. 320 pages all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in good, readable order. This book is a remarkable, entertaining autobiography by Sidney Smith, the foremost authority on forensic medicine in Great Britain, if not the world. A fascinating and intriguing read. Also worth preserving for future generations.…

Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). 1916 292 pages illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 318pp. to include the Index. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine Clean and without inscription or other marks within. Foxing to the paper stock foredges. A very good reading copy. Black & White photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In 2 dust jackets, light green over glassine. Light normal age/use wear. 443 pages, illustrated. Book.

Hardcover. Third Revised Edition. pp. viii, 316. 8vo. Green cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Negligible shelfwear, ink name and date to corner of ffep else text-block clean and clear of any marks with tight, sound binding; very good+. "This book is intended as a laboratory manual for all chemists who have to deal with cases of poisoning. It is devised as a practical handbook.".…

443 pp including index, quarto, tinted end-papers, b&w plates, small illustration on upper board, mint copy in green, cloth boards. This book previously owned by Orton Sutherland Hintze, a renowned New Zealand journalist / fisherman 1907 - 1985 - author of 'Trout of Taupo' [1955] - Nickname 'Budge'.

Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 443 pages. Fine in near fine dustwrapper. Tiny tears on dustwrapper edges. With sixteen illustrations.

First Edition thus. "Newly illustrated by vintage photographs" One of 500 copies, set in Miller Display Oblong 4to Fine copy, as new, in slipcase. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Simon Lawrence to Ian and Valerie Rogerson Rogerson 57 Blue blind-stamped cloth ("T.E.S."), spine with printed label, by Smith Settle.…

First edition, signed limited edition of Smith's account of the relationship between the Migrant Ministry and National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s farmworkers' movement. Octavo, original publisher's red velvet with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel. Singed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith on the signature page. In fine condition. Chavez states in his foreword: "Obviously the churches have been close to labor's struggles and have supported the cause of labor in many times and places during the past 100 years. But in this instance, one specific arm of the church - the Migrant Ministry - stood with us, pickets with us, marched with us, lived with us from the first days of our strike in Delano until the battle was won. It is a great story in the history of labor and in the history of the church. Syd Smith, who was himself one of the key figures in this story, has done a service for us all by analyzing and recording these events." This historic alliance which was forged between the faith community and the farm workers under the leadership of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union of America resulted in the nationwide grape boycott and improvements in the conditions and pay of the migrant farm workers.…

Condition: New.