Sports & Games from Bristow and Garland

Thacker, Spink & Co. Calcutta and Simla, 1928. First edition. 8vo ( 9 x 6 inches), 295-pages plus advertisements. Original pictorial cloth. Spine faded, some foxing to prelims. otherwise overall good.

George Allen, London, 1957. First English edition. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 179-pages. Original black cloth, corners a little bumped else very good in slightly edge rubbed dust jacket; overall very good.

Wessex Cave Club, Priddy, Somerset, 2007. First (& only) edition. Very well illustrated, partly in colour. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 276-pages. Original cloth blocked in silver. Signature on front free endpaper else fine in slightly edgede curled, else very good, dust jacket. With, loosely inserted, the large folding plan of Swildon's Hole issued by the Club. Very… Ler mais sobre este item

Bigwood & Staple, Printers, Bridgwater, for the Wessex Cave Club, 1975. Limited edition being No. 199 0f 300 copies. Well illustrated from photographs. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches), unpaginated but 92-pages. Original brown grained faux leather blocked in blind, the spine vertically blocked in gilt. Overall very good indeed.

The Field & Queen (Horace Cox), n.d. [1915] First edition. Illustrations in the text. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches) 272-pages plus advertisements front and back. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt; a little tanning to prelims. overall very good. Signature on front free endpaper.

Published by Madame Brenner at Her Gymnasium, 35 Bruton Street, Berkeley Square, London, 1870. First edition (& likely only edition). 22 plates (of exercises with the Dumb Bell, with a Wand, with a Chest Expander, Jumping-Leaping - Trapeze exercises etc). 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches), 82-pages. Original bevelled green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt,… Ler mais sobre este item

William Blackwood, 1898. Plates. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 465-pages. Contemporary full crimson prize calf, sides gilt ruled enclosing gilt academic arms on upper cover. Spine gilt extra in compartments with green lettering piece, all edges marbled. Prize label on front free endpper partly scribbled out. In excellent condition & very attractive.

Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1983. Illustrations. Softback. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 312-pages. Original pictorial light card wrappers; spine sunned else very good.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1928. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (10 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 307-pages. Original purple cloth; spine faded., headband worn, some dust marking. Two pictorial bookplates on front pastedown and a name stamp. Inscription on front free endpaper.

Longmans, Green, London 1927. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 274-pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Some marking to upper cover & joint but not the spine. Endpapers tanned, contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Overall very good. Weight 2.314 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

Caxton, London, 1957. 1st reprint. Three volumes. Coloured frontispieces, b&w plates and illustrations. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: 415; 378; 363, plus substantial unpaginated index. Original faux blue morocco gilt. Very good.

Longmans, Green, London 1927. First edition. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), 274-pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Lower boards rubbed, foxing to prelims. Overall very good. Weight 2.314 kg thus extra postage will be requested.

Longman, London, 1860. 8 folding maps. 8vo (7 x 4 3/4 inches, 328-pages.Contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt enclosing the gilt armorial of Harrow School, spine gilt extra with burgundy lettering piece, all edges marbled. Damp mark to corner of portrait else very good. Prize label on front pastedown

No publisher, no place n.d. ca. 1900. Illustrations. 12mo (4 1/2 x 3 inches), 96-pages. Original blue cloth; binding bent and rubbed, internally very good. Uncommon, no copy cited by Jisc.

1905 15 x 10 inches.Chip out of base affecting the imprint. Scarce.

T.T. and J. Tegg London, 1833. [title continued]: illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions ; selected from ancient paintings ; with a copious index, by William Hone.With all the 140 engravings in the text beautifully hand coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour The title page with the original… Ler mais sobre este item

1905 15 x 10 inches. Slight surface rubbing; mounted on card.

1905 15 x 10 inches. Slight edge chips. With the leaf of descriptive text. Scarce.

Lancaster & Co. Gun & Rifle Makers, London, 1942. Tenth edition. Plates. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 207-pages. Contemporary full unlettered brown polished calf. Signature on front free endpaper.

Cresset Press, 1929. Number 97 of a Limited Edition of 650. Folding frontispiece. 8vo (8 3/4 x 7 inches), 123-pages. Original parchment backed boards. Boards damp-marked, endpapers foxed. Spine spotted and discoloured. Contemporary signature and date on front free endpaper.