Racing Chasing by Watson Alfred E T (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. J Sturgess (illustrator). 4th Edition. Fourth edition thoroughly revised. Usual Badminton Library format of brown decorative top cover with the same to the spine, Bumping and fraying to cloth at top and bottom of the spine. Slight creasing to corners otherwise good. Bookplate for the Royal Artillery Institute, Woolwich. Library stamps with on end papers, front and rear. and top of preface page with the same wording.Hinges weakening but still secure. Beautiful lithograph print, by Sturgess, of a race as frontis. Damp staining at top of prelims and first few pages, and some slight foxing throughout. Internally apart from the faults as describe a tight copy. A good reading copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 126pp. Magazine disbound from a compilation but without external cover or end page ads. Pages 379 to 504 complete present. 9 x 6 inch. Unfolded. Some light foxing but otherwise good and clean, no deliberate marks. Pages still bound together. Main articles listed in title line. See my other listing for other issues and complete volumes, please ask seller for a quote for shipping multiples.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Fourth edition. 6 x 7 3/4 inches. xii, 439 pages. Condition is Very Good; wear to spine ends, leather torn at top of spine edge 2 inches, light to moderate foxing on pages, text unmarked, binding tight. Sport RGR.

Hard Cover. Fourth edition thoroughly revised. VERY GOOD+. CLEAN BROWN CLOTH PICTORIAL BOARDS AND SPINE WITH LIGHT WEAR AT SPINE ENDS. BINDING TIGHT. HINGES STRONG. TEXT FINE. VERY LIGHT OWNER NAME.

Illustrated Brown Cloth. Condition: Good. J Sturgess (illustrator). Fourth Edition. THE BADMINTON LIBRARY OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES Fourth edition, thoroughly revised, xii, 439pp, illustrated with black & white drawings in the text, colour frontispiece plate has tissue, patterned endpapers with neat bookplate to pastedown, pale foxing to edges and throughout internally, illustrated brown cloth with white and black, fold marks to front endpaper and title page otherwise a good sound copy. Size: 7.75 x 5.25 Inches. Sports.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. J. Sturgess (illustrator). Condition Notes: A touch faded at the spine. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Pages a touch age-toned with scattered spotting, more so to the start and end; Hardback. Decorative Brown boards with gilt & black titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 7œ" x 5œ" (1.3 kg); pp (xii) 440; Index; In the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes series; Includes: 4pp. publisher's list; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece (tissue-guarded); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197708 ||.

Full Emerald Green Morocco. Condition: Moderate Corner and Edge Wear. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Covers with gilt floral bordersPanelled spine with red spine leather label, gilt designs. Marbled endpapers and free edges. Front hing weakened but intact. Spine extremities worn. Color frontispiece and many text drawings in black and white. From the "Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes". A comprehensive look at both horse sports. 440pp. Size: Octavo.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dark blue 1/2 leather, light brown cloth, bordered and lettered in gilt, with front cover emblem and top text block edge in gilt. xii,419 pp., color frontis., many illus. in text. Leather shows several closed tears with minor loss along spine panel, which is somewhat discolored by age, with mild rubbing to front joint and corners. Firm binding, clean interior beyond light foxing to frontis. tissue guard and a few spots on the frontis. itself. Former owner's book plate mounted on front pastedown. Spine panel wear suggests Good only, otherwise solid VG or better. Size: 8vo - over 7Ÿ" - 9Ÿ" tall. Book.

hardback, 8vo, xii,419pp, colour frontis., numerous b/w illustrations, owner's bookplate on endpaper, slight browning, otherwise clean and sound, brown cloth pictorial, slightly rubbed, Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sturgess (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Racing by The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire & W. G Craven and Steeple-Chasing by Arthur Coventry & Alfred E T Watson. Half-bound in dark green leather with dark green cloth sides. 5 raised bands and gilt title to spine with all edges bright gilt. Marbled endpapers and neat prev owner inscription on preliminary page. Corners rubbed and edges scuffed with weak front hinge. Inside pages are clean and tight. 419pp. incl. tissue-guarded colour frontispiece and numerous b/w ills.

19x14 cm. Original brown illustrated cloth, back cover waterstained, light rubbing at bottom edge. Badminton Library edition. Fourth edition. xxii, 439 pp., colored frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. H.M. Brock. Charles Brock et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. Octavo. 344 pages. 16 plates and 36 illustrations in the text. Faint ownership signature in pencil to the front and rear endpapers. Spine darkened and sporadic spotting, more especially to the first and last few leaves. Top edge untrimmed. A tight copy. n.b not to be confused with the Badminton Library edition which is differently illustrated.

[first edition] 344pp ills.[b/w] G (beige cloth w.black dec.stamp to top board,rubbed and stained w.spine browned,bumps and wear to extrems.,black eps,paper separation at ep gutter and barely attached,prelims.and content edges foxed,spine cracked and shaky).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Uncommon First edition 1897 hardcover offering in moderately soiled cream cloth covered boards with brown title and drawing of a jockey on racehorse being led from the paddock as onlookers gaze including a local 'Bobby' in the foreground. Book corners and spine ends rubbed w/loss of cloth. Gilt spine title dull, vertical crease on spine cloth. Solid black endpapers with two good hinges and vintage bookstore sticker at foot of fep. No names or tears seen in the tight 344pp text which is browned but not brittle and has some heavily foxed pages scattered throughout. Spine crack at page 144 but no loose leaves. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 15 other full page b/w plates plus 36 line drawings within the text by a fine group of sporting artists. See pix or ask for them. A compilation work by Watson made up of some stories previously published in his first two works:'Sketches in the Hunting Field' and "Race Course and Covert Side' along with stories published in the 'Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News' during the years he was editor there.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Longmans, Green 1897. Spine worn with text mostly dulled/rubbed away, spine tips chipped, one corner heavily bumped. Pages yellowed with frequent foxing. Ink owner signature to title page, note to rear endpaper. Binding serviceable with some cracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Third Edition, coloured frontis, xii + 419pp, very well-illustrated, hardcover, 8vo, expertly re-bound by Stephen Conway in half blue black morocco with orange cloth boards, raised bands, gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered, very good condition with no markings or annotations, Longmans, Green And Co Ltd, London, 1889.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fourth edition. Contemporarily rebound in green morocco and marbled papercovered boards. Some modest and rubbing and wear at the extremities, a nice very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. This is a UK SECOND EDITION hardcover published by Longmans Green & Co in 1887. The book is Very Good with straight spine, sharp corners and firm but rubbed spine ends. The binding is tight with heavily toned page edges and overall clean text block with foxing present occasionally, which does not affect legibility. The front end papers are toned with a book plate for the Wallasey Central Conservative Club glued to the inside board. The book has 419 pages including index and is illustrated throughout in black and white with a colour frontispiece. The title page confirms the SECOND EDITION and year published as 1887. Wonderfully, a orevious owner has laid in a cutting from The Times newspaper dated January 6th 1890, which includes an article of "The Rules of Racing and the Stud Book".

Condition: Extremities worn, a good copy. Edition : 4th edition revised, publisher?s decorated cloth, pictorial spine, lettering in white, black and gold., Size : 12mo, Illustrated by J. Sturgess, with many illustrations with a colour frontis., 437pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good. J Sturgess (illustrator). The third edition of this work concerning racing and steeple-chasing from the Badminton Library series, with illustrations by John Sturgess. The third edition of this work, a comprehensive guide to racing and steeplechasing. In the Badminton Library series, a sporting project aiming to cover all major sports and pastimes, edited by Henry Somerset.The racing part was written by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire and W G Craven, while the steeple-chasing part was written by Arthur Coventry and Alfred E T Watson. With a general history and the development of the two sports, and chapters focused on rules, races, betting, and more.Illustrated in text throughout by John Sturgess.A special copy signed Charles Kemeys-Tynte April 1892, Eton College, and A C James. Tynte was a British aristocrat and Justice of the Peace, son of Halswell Milborne Kemeys-Tynte and 8th Baron Wharton JP. This volume is heavily inscribed to the front free endpaper and its verso, to the imprint page, and the verso of the title page with much information on some horse races. Some interesting entries such as 'On Aug 25 1804 Captain William Flint (White) beat Mrs. Thornton riding side saddle in a dress of buffalo leopard colour, blue sleeves and cap over the Knavsmire. Much unpleasantness followed - Col. Thornton applied in the King Bench for a criminal information against Captain Flint for challenging him to a duel and for horsewhipping him on the race ground at York the summer after the match took place.' In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with minor shelf wear and some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, minor soiling to the boards. Previous ownership signature Charles Kemeys-Tynte April 1892, Eton College, and A C James. With previous owners' inscriptions to the front free endpaper and its verso, to the imprint page, and the verso of the title page with much information on some horse races. Internally, firmly bound. With some offsetting to the lower margin possibly due to a minor damp damage. Illustrated in text throughout by John Sturgess. Good. book.

Condition: Very good. 1889, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., third edition, ppxii + 419, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations by J. Sturgess, brown pictorial cloth with lettering on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Revised. 4TH edition. Chips to top and bottom of spine. In the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson. Illustrated brown cloth with slight wear to corners and darkening to spine. Front and rear hinge pulling slightly. Owner's name on free front endpaper 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Sturgess John (illustrator). Third Edition. Half black leather over tan boards. Gilt titles to spine which has damage to head , piece missing from tail and is very rubbed.Corners bumped. Foxing to first title page o/w internally in the main clean and bright. Coloured frontis.56 illustrations by Sturgess.419pp.

XII,419 S. mit 1 farb. lith. Front., Holzstichvign. a.d. Titel u. zahlr. Illustr. in Holzstich v. J.Sturgess. Illustr. Oln., min. berieben u. bestoßen, erste u. letzte Bl. etw. stockfl. - The Badminton Library.

1893, fourth edition, Badminton Library, ppxii + 439, black and white illustrations with a coloured frontispiece, half blue morocco, orange cloth, de-luxe binding. Spine faded and worn, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. WATSON, Alfred E.T. [344] pp. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1897 7 3/4" x 5 3/4" Illustrations by C. E. Brock, H. M. Brock, G. H. Jalland, Harington Bird & G. D. Giles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, W. G. Craven, Arthur Coventry, and Alfred E. T. Watson [419] pp. Little, Brown, and Co 1886 7 3/4" x 5 7/8".

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Second Edition. viiipp; 419pp. A charming copy of this second edition from The Badminton Library. Decoraative cloth boards with gitl embossed authors names and vignette of a horses head to the spine. There is a prize presentation bookplate to the front paste down from Wellingboro' Lawn Tennis Tournament, August 5th, 1889 - Gentlemen's Singles Handicap First Prize, Basil L. Thompson. Numerous sketches throughout illustrate the text and a colour frontispiece plate as called for. There are bumps to the head and tail of the spine and three board corners are a little turned in. Slight splitting to the front and rear inner hinges - the boards are firm and tight. Some foxing to the upper fore edges and the rear blank page. There is a short tear of 1 cm to the head of the title page, now expertly repaired and a slight chip adjacent to the tear. Clean and tight. A very good well preserved, bright tight copy.

London & Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Orig. pictorial full cloth. Small stamp on tissue guard and first leaf. XII,440 pp., coloured frontispiece. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.