Skating by Heathcote (69 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Minor blemishes to boards. Binding solid, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1892 Hard Cover. xiv, 464 pp. Engraved frontispiece and plates, numerous diagrams throughout text. Includes: Skating: Introduction; The Origin and Development of Skating; First P…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Previous owner's inked inscription on reverse of front end paper. Clean and tidy throughout, and firm. 1894 Second Edition of the 1892 original, with numerous corrections and additions. Charles Whymper and Captain…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. With Contributions on Curling (Rev John Kerr), Tobogganing (Ormond Hake), Ice-Sailing (Henry A. Buck), Bandy (C. G. Tebbutt) Condition: Fair; edge-wear to the boards, no DJ. Corners are bumped. The edges are dust-toned due to age. Mild foxing and tanning. Rough-cut text block edges. Totles on the spin…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Large page hardcover, limited from a run of 250 books, this volume is copy 128 as marked by the limitation page. No dust jacket, book is in a plastic protector. Book shows some shelf & handling wear, including some edge wear. Pages are slightly worn on their edges, interiors are intact with unmarked t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto 506 pp with numerous litho. reproductions. Bound in the publishers' half morocco to orange cloth boards. Top edge gilt, with other edges untrimmed. This is the LARGE PAPER LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies. The book is worn externally with slight loss to the bottom of the sp…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. xv + 464pp, including index, very well illustrated with b/w plates and text drawings, some occasional foxing, bound in original brown pictorial boards of the Badminton Library, boards slightly marked o/w in very good condition, Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 19…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Series: Badminton Library. xv 464p original half calf binding with gilt arms to front, spine expertly repaired with cloth spine and new title label, many illustrations throughout, plenty of skating, inserted in a newspaper clipping Roxana Waterson about Skating in the Fens (1981) Language: Englis…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. (Ref.KK3 ) Light brown cloth boards with black and white titles to front and black decoration. Gilt titles and design to spine. Apart from author's names and figure-skating drawing on spine, titles are faded away. Front cover titles are partially faded due to scuffing. Some small stains to…

Hardcover. Illustrated brown cloth boards, silver and black lettering along with gilt lettering and gilt design on spine; illustrated end papers, bw frontispiece with protective guard, bw illustrated title page; xiv, 464 pp, bw illustrations throughout. From The Badminton library of sports and pastimes series. With contributions…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. (The Badminton Library). Second edition. With contributions on Curling (Rev. John Kerr), Toboganning (Ormond Hake), Ice-Sailing (Henry A. Buck), Bandy (C.G. Tebbutt. xv[i]+464p. 11 black & white plates including frontispiece with tissue guard, and o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1892. Plates and text illustrations throughout. Some foxing in places. Edges dusty and slightly foxed. Publishers highly decorated brown cloth lightly rubbed around the edges. Some very light marking, else very good copy. In The Badminton Library series of sp…

Condition: Very Good. The book features an original gilt-decorated pictorial brown cloth hardcover, although the gilt has faded and is not as vibrant as it once was. There is some wear along the edges, as well as surface blemishes on the covers. However, overall, the book is in very good condition. The spine remains intact, with…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive guide to the sport of skating, covering both its history and practical application. The author traces the development of skating from its origins as a utilitarian mode of transport to its present-day status as a popular recreational activity. The book also…