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Stoeger Arms Corp. Catalogue for gun, camping and hunting enthusiasts. Includes 64 pages of "Anglers Bible" at the rear. Edge-wear to come of the pages. 544 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. Condition: Fair to good. Binding: Softcover. Edge-wear with some creasing to extremities. 3cm tear to spine footer. 1cm tears to spine header. Handling marks to covers.… Ler mais sobre este item

Simondium Publishers (Pty) Ltd. The author's story of the first journey down the Unsindusi, the forming of the Natal Canoe Club and the beginning of the famous Maritzburg to Durban canoe marathon. River route maps as end papers. Fold out map at the rear. 147 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair. Dust jacket: Poor.… Ler mais sobre este item

Western Province Cricket Club. No. 93 of a Limited De Luxe edtion. A history of the Western Province Cricket Club. 32 illustrations. Light foxing to prelims. 159 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. De Lux Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Poor. Lacks header and footer. Detached piece of the mid-spine section. Edge-wear and creasing. Rubbing… Ler mais sobre este item

Motor Racing Publications. A standard work of reference to all who aspire to fame in the exciting and dangerous sports of all time. Bookseller's label on front fixed end paper. Some light foxing to front and rear prelims. Foxing to all edges. Numerous b&w photographs and illustrations. Maps of the chief circuits at the rear. 125 Pages. Contents clean… Ler mais sobre este item

C Struik. The story of South African Mountaineering. From early travellers to the tough young climbers of today. Special attention to South African women who participate in this sport as well as the role of the Mountain Club of South Africa in rescue operations. Colour and b&w photographs. Some toning and foxing to feps. 176 Pages. Contents clean and… Ler mais sobre este item

Atkinson & Partners. Number 60 of 500 copies. Lavishly produced in a full pebbled morocco binding with gilt titles, ruling and dentilles. Crimson and gold marbled endpapers. Very good condition with the lightest signs of edgewear and age toning. Heavy book.

Methuen & Co., 1923. New spine with original pictorial paper covered boards. Some old tape marks and scuffing to the boards. Wear to the corners. Gift inscription to the fep, repair to the gutter. A tight and presentable first edition of this golfing classic.

Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. A yachtsman's guide to the Aegean and mediterranean coasts of Turkey with the island of Cyprus. Maps ports and bays with b&w photographs. Small bookseller's label on front fep. 245 pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 3rd Edition. Condition: Very good. Binding: Hardcover. Mild edge-wear.

Don Nelson. Two volumes bound in faux green leather with raised bands to the spines, housed in a green slipcase. Both volumes signed by the authors and Danie Craven for former politician Jannie Momberg and numbered 561 of 1000 de luxe copies

Sampson Low, Marston, 1897. The first book devoted to South African sports, and a mine of information relating to late 19th century activity in the sports covered. Wear to the spine, previous owners name and tipped in note to the fep.

Victor Gollancz Ltd. Biography of an extreme mountaineer. Messner was the leader of the first pair to climb Everest without oxygen and then K2 as well as the first solo climb of Nanga Parbat without oxygen. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. b&w photographs. 180 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust… Ler mais sobre este item

Heinemann. From personal diaries, the author has vividly and authentically reconstructed his famous climbs. Previous owner's name on front fep. 266 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair to good. Tide mark to the lower edge. Some light edge-wear to extremities. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with some light evidence of insect nibbling.… Ler mais sobre este item

Kaye & Ward. The dramatic account how Everest was surmounted by the author without the use of artificial oxygen. Previous owner's name on the front fep. Numerous b&w and colour photographs. 254 Pages. contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Good-. Mild edge-wear. Sunning to spine. Foxing to verso. Hardcover. Orange boards.

J P van der Walt en Seun. Language: Afrikaans. The author shares a behind the scenes look at the circumstances which surrounded the South African rugby players during their 1969/70 tour in English. Scattered foxing. 143 Pages. Binding sound. 2nd Edition. Condition: Good-. Dust jacket: Good-. Mild edge-wear. Some light rubbing and abrasions. Foxing to the verso… Ler mais sobre este item

Sampson Low, Marston & Company . Cloth spine with illustrated boards. Title page and frontis missing. Some foxing and minor tide mark to the prelims. Tightly bound. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover

Afrikaanse Pers, 1955. Danie Craven's analysis of the 1955 Lions Rugby tour to South Africa. The tour was drawn 2 all. Previous owner's bookplate and some light general wear. The dustjacket is split with some loss to the edged and tape repairs. First edition Condition: Good, Jacket conditon: Poor Hardcover

Geoff Milburn and the Climber's Club. Helyg, the Climbers' Club cottage in the Ogwen Valley was the first successful climber's hut in Britain. Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Helyg this book includes the writings of many of the famous climbers of the era between the two world wars. Inscription on the first free end paper. Previous owner's name on… Ler mais sobre este item

J C Juta and Co.. The M.C.C tour of South Africa 1905/1906. All plates present. Fold out b&w photograph of Newlands Ground, Cape Town as frontispiece. Splitting to the end papers. Age toning to the front and rear prelims. Light Foxing throughout. 233 Pages. Binding still firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Red cloth boards… Ler mais sobre este item

Buren Publishers (Pty) Ltd. Two books inscribed by Lionel Wilson who was a famous Springbok full-back to Dawid de Villiers. Sold as a pair. B&w photographs. Book 1: Light edge-wear and soiling to boards. Edge-wear, toning and some foxing to dust-jacket. Foxing to end-papers with toning and foxing to all edges. Book 2: Light edge-wear. Foxing to prelims… Ler mais sobre este item

Robinson, Vause & Co.. Original limp red cloth wraps with reinforced spine. Japanese tissue repairs to the first three pages. Advertisements to inside front and back wraps. One leaf ads. With Japanese tissue repairs to front followed by one page ad. and three printed photographs of cricket teams with tissue repairs. Contents, preface and 182 pages with two black… Ler mais sobre este item