albert e knight (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1956 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1956 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1972. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($5.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: A couple short closed tears to jacket (particularly on front panel, as pictured). Sci-Fi.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. This book is in fair condition.Small name plate inside cover. No dust cover.

8vo. pp xiv, 545. Original publisher's dark brown imitation leather covered boards with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Chapters grouped in 9 sections, reflecting the structure of the twelfth annual conference of the 'Law of the Sea Institute', 1979. May show some slight shelfwear but content clean and unread. Very good indeed.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this illustrated guide to cricket from professional cricketer Albert Ernest Knight. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifty images across forty-two plates and numerous in-text images. A detailed commentary on the game of cricket, its history, and development. Providing guides to batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy, and umpiring, as well as references to the rules of the game. Knight also includes chapters on cricket on farther shores, being mostly the Australian game, and the problems associated with modern cricket. With biographical sketches of important players of the past and present. Written by Albert Ernest Knight, an English professional cricket player. His most important contribution to the game is considered to be this book which Sir Derek Birley, in his A Social History of English Cricket, described as "a masterpiece of its kind, stuffed full of learned observations in weighty prose". With forty leaves of publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and marks to the boards. Light fading to the spine and board edges. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting and the odd small handling mark. The odd ink mark or annotation with a contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good. book.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Cordrey, Earl; Auerbach-Levy; Michael; Monet, Dorothy;Meyers, Morse; Bischoff, H.E.; Guise, Vincent; Cooper, Mario; (illustrator). First Edition. 82 pages. Articles: The Battle of the Bench - conflict in the U.S. Supreme Court; Guam, Sweet Guam - servicemen's wives love it; The Superhorses are Ours - How the U.S. Army acquired Germany's finest equine bloodstock - article with color photos; Hard-Luck Kid - Jack Kramer should be tops in US Amateur tennis for 1946; Rio Grande - River of Death - Murder and robbery often are the fate of Mexicans who cross her; Traveling Light - Vera Maxwell suggests compact wardrobes for all climates; China Doll - Rose Martin and her foster mother Mary Lo-Sam -Moi; Photo and write-up of test pilot Jack Woolams of Bell Aircraft who is aiming for 1,000 mph! Fiction: The Warning Bell; Bachelor Apartment; The Watchers; The Dory; Sleep, My Love; Alone. Ads include: Studebaker; U.S. Army; Vaseline Hair Tonic; Nash cars; Bell Telephone; GE Light Bulbs - featuring photo of Fred Allen; Trailways bus lines; Ford cars (with mountie in illustration); Oldsmobile cars; Texaco; Waterman's ink; Car Nu with Fibber McGee and Molly color cartoon; Pepsi cartoon ad; Caterpillar color photo ad showing new subdivision construction with dozers and scraper; Kaiser and Frazer cars; Pennzoil; Lee tires; Canada Dry; Blatz beer; Camel cigarettes ad on back cover features photo of smoking doctor. Above-average external wear. 2"x2" piece missing from bottom corner of front cover. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, August 17, 1946 Illegal Immigration Webacks Mexico Border Patrol The Battle of the Bench - conflict in the U.S. Supreme Court; Guam, Sweet Guam - servicemen's wives love it; The Superhorses are Ours - How the U.S. Army acquired Germany.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Wigfull, W.E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Evison, G. Henry; Somerfield, Thomas; Rountree, Harry; Jackson, A.E. (illustrator). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Retribution - how a worthless son was punished on a ship circa 1902; My Experiences in Uganda - Mrs. Hubert G. Knight describes housekeeping in the heart of Africa where she also accompanied her husband on hunting trips to wild parts of Uganda; The Lost "Luck" - an important family talisman is lost and finally recovered in White Russia; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth - Part III - J. Campbell Besley continue their dangerous journey, with interesting photos; Pat Ryan's Eldorado - L.W.A. MacArthur, F.G.S., recounts how a gang of rogues imposed upon a credulous Irish farmer; The Wonder-Lake of Trinidad - Pitch Lake - a seemingly bottomless lake of asphalt - article with photos; A Tough Ten Minutes - un uncommonly nasty predicament in River Falls, Wisconsin in 1902 involving Harry Owen; A Pressed Man - an amusing story of the early days of the Australian Light Horse; In Search of Adventure - Part V - the story of a chequered cruise, including photo of ocean graveyard Middleton Reef and 2,000 tons of coal burned by the French to prevent their capture by the Germans; The Fishermen's Republic - a photo-illustrated visit to the tiny Republic of Noli, founded before Rome; "Ways That Are Dark" - Former Straits Settlements public official J.R. Innes describes the cunning and audacity of the Chinese criminal; Photo of a large "Kelek", a raft of inflated goatskins, on the Euphrates; Photo of members of the I.W.W. being water-cannoned in San Diego; and more. pp. 8 [ads], 99-190, 10-32 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.