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London: The Fireside Press / W. Foulsham & Co. [1955]. 8vo. xxiii, 304 pp., Gilt decorated hardcover with pictorial jacket. Jacket is price clipped with tears to the spine ends and internal repairs in tape. Boards clean with bumping and small split to the spine end. Binding firm and internally clean with illustrations in black and white. Foreword by Bernard Darwin and preface by Bobby Jones. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1955.

London: George Routledge and Sons N.d. [c. 1870's]. 8vo. 272 pp. Dark blue leather spine over boards. Birdsall binding. Spine gilt-lettered with gilt initials to upper corner of front board. All edges marbled. Slight wear to head and foot of spine. Foxing to endpapers and prelims. Coloured frontis and in-text illustrations. VG . Very Good. Leather Spine. Third Edition. 1870.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1943. Large 8vo.Illustrated. i-xiii, 13-540 pp. Red hardcover boards with blind-stamped device on front board and gilt lettering on spine, illustrated endpapers. Black and white in-text illustrations throughout by Lynn Bogue Hunt, as well as 16 colour plates (including a frontispiece), some painted, some photographed. Spine faded and slightly rubbed at ends; boards have scattered minor marks. Occasional spotting on early few pages, optherwise internally clean. . Good. Hardcover. 1943.

London: Macmillan 2013. 8vo. [xii], 404 pp. a fine first edition of this extraordinary story. A flavour of the book, precied from the blurb. An extraordinary journey of eight working-class boys in 1930s America striving for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin at the 1936 Olympics. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others. The backdrop of the Great Depression, The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive. Now made into a film. 9780230763845 . Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. 2013.

London: Sports and Sportsmen, Ltd. N.d. [c. 1920's]. Folio. This is copy no. 623 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. xiv, 491 pp. Large thick folio. Full dark red morocco with gilt lettering to front board. Raised bands to spine with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Minor marks to boards. Internally clean. Title-page in red & black. Tissue-guarded full-page photogravures. Numerous in-text illustrations. In Near Fine condition. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. Limited Edition. 1912.

London: British Sports and Sportsmen 1911. Folio. In 2 volumes. This is copy no. 559 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. xv, 272; ix, 273-620 pp. Large thick folios. Full dark red morocco with gilt lettering to front boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt decoration & lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to spines. Internally clean. Title-pages in red & black. Tissue-guarded full-page photogravure portraits. In-text illustrations. In Near Fine condition. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1912.

London: Putnam 1934. 4to. This is copy no. 213 of an edition limited to 250 copies signed by the author, the artist and the owner of Brown Jack. Quarter parchment-paper over green cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Bevelled edges. Slight darkening to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. . Good. Parchment Paper Spine. Limited Numbered Edition. 1934.

London: Working Title 1998. 4to. 118 pp. Script print-out in a 'Working Title' binder. Some marks to wrappings, internally clean. Feature film script for the unproduced movie 'Busby Babes', about the famous 1950s Manchester United squad trained by Matt Busby, many of whom died in the Munich air disaster of 1958. The film was apparently not greenlit after the surviving members and families of the victims were disgruntled about the lack of their involvement in the film. Written by Debbie Horsfield, who went on to create and write Poldark, Cutting It, and All the Small Things. . Very Good. Wraps. 1998.

Cambridge: W. P. Spalding [1887]. 4to. ix, 10-77, [2 ads.] pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and floral decoration to front board and spine; top edge gilt, others uncut. Boards quite marked and stained, light discolouration to spine and rubbing to extremities. Endpapers and fore-edge darkened and spotted, otherwise internally clean. Lots of black & white in-text decorations. A study of the Cam river and rowing at the University of Cambridge. . Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1887.

London: The Caravan 1949. Small 8vo. 252 pp. Colour illustrated boards. Minor wear to spine ends, but generally very clean and bright. Internally clean. A manual for caravans, with many contemporary advertisments. Numerous black & white illustrations throughout. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards. New and Revised Edition. 1949.

London: George Bell and Sons 1908. Small 8vo.Illustrated. viii, 120 pp. Red cloth with black lettering and illustrations to boards. Illustrations throughout. Boards somewhat grubbied and rubbed at spine and edges. Foxing to endpapers and extremities, otherwise clean internally. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1903.

London: Cassell & Company 1891. 8vo. 224, [16] pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black decoration to boards. All edges gilt. With frontis and in text illustrations. Cloth faded and marked with rubbing to spine and corners. Light spotting. . Good. Cloth. 1891.

London: John Murray 1837. 8vo.Illustrated. First edition in book form. xvii, 301 pp. Contemporary green diced calf. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and red leather title label. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to spine and boards marked. Heavy spotting to frontis & title-page, also affecting other plates. Frontis portrait engraving by D. Maclise. Thirteen full-page engravings by Henry Alken. First published in Quarterly Review. Binding firm. . Very Good. Full Diced Calf. First Edition Thus. 1837.

London: John Murray 1870. 8vo. xviii., [2], 277 pp. A Hatchards binding of full red polished calf, with dark green morocco title labels. Extra gilt to the spine, with hunting devices. Two gilt lines to the boards, and gilt inner-dentelles. A gift inscription on the front pastedown from Raymond Greene (Graeme's brother) to M? Bentwicke. . Near Fine. Full Calf. New Edition. 1870.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894 / 1895. 12mo. 2 volumes. xii, 162, [2]; viii, 197 pp. Red cloth with decorative gilt lettering to boards and spines; all edges marbled. Spines faded with some marking to boards. Internally clean. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol. 1. Black & white in-text illustrations and maps. Complete & all published in two volumes, first edition, 1894-5. Small octavo (15.5 x 11.5cm). The first guidebook to British rock-climbing. Part 3, Scotland, was planned but never published. With a total of 56 line illustrations & 14 plans. With the contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of P. Maurice Beechcroft. Vg. [Neate S107; Alpine Club Lib. Cat. 292]� . Very Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. First Editions. 1894.

London: Country Life Limited 1932. 8vo. ix, 171 pp. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket chipped & edgeworn with long tear to rear panel, but now preserved in a clear plastic sleeve. Spotting to fore-edge. Club bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Illustrations and photographic plates. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1932.

London: Country Life Limited 1932. 8vo. x, 171 pp. Publisher's blue, pictorial cloth. Some bubbling to the spine and slight marks to the boards. Spotting to the extremities, otherwise clean. Lacking front free endpaper. Illustrated in black and white with both diagrams and photographic plates. . Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1932.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited [c. 1900s]. 8vo. [2], viii, 268, [2] pp. Green cloth boards with decorative illustrations in yellow and brown. Slight rubbing to joints and spine ends. Loosening to front hinge. First book in The Anglers' Library, edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell and F. G. Aflalo. Adverts to front and rear. Illustrated throghout in black & white. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1900.

London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1931. 4to.Illustrated. 224 pp., Blue publishers, gilt decorated cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Minor rubbing to the boards and binding firm. The dust jacket has faded on the spine and is slightly marked and torn, with a 5 cm tear to the front and loss to the spine. Fresh internally and illustrated throughout with black and white in text illustrations and tissue guarded, colour plates by Arthur Rackham and the first edition with his illustrations. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1931.

London: Alfred and Son N.d. [c. 1878]. 8vo. viii, 84, (11) pp. Publisher's original colour pictorial boards. Boards quite edgeworn and spine cloth torn & worn. Adverts to rear board. Full-page and in-text illustrations. Eleven pages of adverts at rear. Sections loose but binding holding. A Fair to Good reading copy. . Fair. Boards. New Edition. 1878.