alec whitcher (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1946. Reprinted. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Zustand: Fair. 1948. First Edition. 229 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed by the author. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with even toning and writing on the ffep. Good DJ with some chips/tears, spotting and marks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition, First Impression. Featuring Walter Hammond, Maurice Tate, Patsy Hendren, J.W.Morton, A.E.Knight, Don Welsh and Sam Cowen from the Worlds of Soccer, Cricket, Athletics and Boxing. 229pp illustrated in black and white. Ownership signature to the half title. Profits from the original sale of this book devoted to the Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Interesting and idiosyncratic musings on the game, with chapters on crowds, the off-side rule, Sir Frederick Wall, the 1944 Cup Final (south), war-time matches, club colours, and a section on each of the main "clubs of the South". The author was an amateur player and a Director of Brighton & Hove Albion. Fifth edition, first published 1944. 8vo. 145pp + [2] Portrait frontis (of the author), 3 plates, cartoons in the text by Reg Carter. Dust-wrapper, sl edgewear. A very good copy. [Seddon, A67].

General sports books with much on cricket, athletics, football and boxing, including features on Hammond, Tate, Hendren, Billy Wells etc. Much of interest on Sussex county cricket club and Brighton and Hove Albion F.C., to which the profits of the book will go. 8vo. 232pp. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed but still very good.

Interesting and idiosyncratic musings on the game, with chapters on crowds, the off-side rule, Sir Frederick Wall, the 1944 Cup Final (south), war-time matches, club colours, and a section on each of the main "clubs of the South". The author was an amateur player and a Director of Brighton & Hove Albion. First edition. 8vo. 145pp + [2] Portrait frontis (of the author), 3 plates, cartoons in the text by Reg Carter. Owner's name and address to pastedown. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Very good condition. Presentation signed copy from the author, dated 1944. [Seddon, A67].