Thomas Dow Richardson (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1938 (1930) 2nd revised edition. 240pp. Fair/None. Blue cloth boards with some nibbles/a little loss to spine, a little rubbing/bumping to edges/spine, minor scuffing/soiling. Contents generally clean and tight but for minor soiling. Lits of figure skating positions to endpapers front & back. B&W photos throughout. A treatise on modern figure skating by Thomas Dow 'Tyke' Richardson (1887-1971), British competitive pair skater with his wife Mildred. Together they represented Britain at the 1924 Winter Olympics.…

1st ed. A tidy hardback in tight binding; dust jacket chipped at edges. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good+ dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good+ dust jacket.

All forms of ice skating are covered, including descriptions of the recognised medal tests. Small 8vo. 111pp. 8 b/w photographic plates. Orig. cloth, sl. soiled. Ownership inscription on front endpaper. Foxing to prelims. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Revised 2nd Edition. 8vo, xv + pp240 with a preface by Sir Samuel Hoare plus b/w frontis photo of the author and a further 27 b/w photographic plates. Hardcover no dust jacket. Handsomely rebound in full dark blue leather with 5 raised bands and gilt decorations & titles to spine and tooled gilt borders to boards in lovely near fine condition. Inside marbled endpapers with previous owners name to half title page, otherwise all pages and plates in excellent clean and bright condition. An excellent copy beautifully bound.…

All forms of ice skating are covered, including descriptions of the recognised medal tests. Small 8vo. 111pp. 8 b/w photographic plates. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition.

Classic work on free skating, first published 1930, with a preface by Sir Samuel Hoare. Second edition, revised. Sq.8vo. xv + 240pp. Portrait frontis. 89 illust., 31 diags. Original dust-wrapper, rubbed with some closed tears and 2cm section missing from head of spine. Internally very good.