Frank percy smith (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. circa 1927. Good condition with no wrapper. Pictorial boards show children stroking horse to front cover, both riding horse to spine, yellow titles. 8 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. First story is Joan Visits a Farm. 128 pages. 8.5 x 7". A chunky volume of stories and rhymes. Covers darkened and grubby. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Front edge of spine cracked. Large ink inscription to verso of frontis. A few hinges cracked so binding feels weak. Some light foxing and an odd mark to contents. One plate is MISSING and one partially detached. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Cowell, Cyril & Adams, Frank & Tempest, Margaret & Cobb, Ruth & Cowham, Hilda & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. xx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. ; Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954 ; OCLC: 34219087 ; LC: GV965 ; green and beige cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Bob Jones was an Atlanta lawyer who also happened to become one of the best golfers who ever lived. His ultimate achievement came in 1930, when he became first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam. He promptly retired from competitive golf, returned to his law practice and founded Augusta National Golf Club-the site of the annual Masters Tournament ; Contents: Short stories -- The clicking of Cuthbert / P G Wodehouse -- Mr. Frisbie / Ring Lardner -- The sweet shot / E. C. Bentley -- The Ooley-cow / Charles E. Van Loan -- Golf is a nice friendly game / Paul Gallico -- Cartoons -- The spirit of the game -- reminiscence, comment, history and humor -- The links of Leith / Tobias Smollett -- The birth of the Linksland Courses / Sir Guy Campbell -- Some of the humor of golf / A. J. Balfour -- Hints to golfers of riper years / Horace C. Hutchinson -- How to go about buying a putter / John L. Low -- The old apple tree gang / H. B. Martin -- Across the street from the County Club / Francis Ouimet -- Golf in four acts / George Ade -- Caddying at Edgewater / Chick Evans -- Mr. Dooley on golf / Finley Peter Dunne -- Merion--First visit / Robert T. Jones, O. B. Keeler -- How I kept my wait down / Walter Hagen -- On Diegeling / Bernard Darwin -- The prospect for 1930 / Grnatland Rice -- Two niblicks / Bernard Darwin -- The fabulous Commodore Hear / Grantland RIce -- Golfers with a past / Noel F. Busch -- The Dr. Livingstone of gold / Harry Robert -- Francis drives himself in / S. L. McKinlay -- The Hong Kong Golf Club / Christopher Rand -- Watching my wife / John L. Hulteng -- Le Bing et le golf / Art Buchwald -- The Golfomaniac / Stephen leacock -- Golfmanship / Stephen Potter -- Great players, historic moments -- The triumvirate /Bernard Darwin -- The first United States amateur championship -- How I won the British amateur championship / Walter J. Travis -- 1913, the United States open championship / Henry Leach -- Walter Hagen--my hero, my rival / Gene Sarazen -- Hagen at Hoylake / Bernard Darwin -- 28 holes in 100 strokes / Gene Sarazen -- Little, at Prestwick and St. Anne's / Peter Lawless -- Failure of a mission / Henry Longhurst -- Guldahl wins the Masters / William D Richardson -- Nelson at his peak / Arthur Mann -- The affluent hillbilly / Bob Harlow -- Pinehurst and a Ryder Cup match / Henry Longhurst -- Perfection at Oakmount / Philip W Wrenn -- The greatest year of my life / Ben Hogan, Gene Gregston -- Walker Cup matches--the full parade / John P. English -- The Babe comes back / Al Laney -- The Masters' voices -- Their views on theory, technique, learning and playing -- The importance of style / Willie Park -- Styles and methods, then and now / Henry Cotton -- The grip holds your swing together / Tommy Armour -- How Hogan picks his clubs / Jimmy Demaret -- The woods / Sam Snead -- Playing the irons / Robert T. Jones, and G. B. Keeler -- Putting / Bobby Locke -- It takes brains to play golf / Gene Sarazen -- Discoveries that helped my golf game most / Byron Nelson -- Golf fashions, not fundamentals, change / Horton Smith -- Tournement golf / Robert Jones -- The controlled Golf swing / Percy Boomer -- Golf's greatest teacher / Herb Graffin -- Golf course architecture -- From St. Andrews to the modern American courses / Robert Trent Jones ; ownership stamp, a few scuffs, else VG. Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of North-East Surrey. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, thirty-one in-text images, a map, and a folding map. Collated complete. A detailed history of man in North-East Surrey, with commentary on the sequence of races in Britain, neolithic England and neolithic Surrey, burials and barrows, camps, connection, tools and implements. Written by Walter Johnson, an American historian and professor, and William Wright, an English historian. With a chapter on flint by B. C. Polkinghorne. Illustrated by Sydney Harrowing, a British artist, and Frank Percy Smith, a British naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. Sydney Harrowing; Frank Percy Smith (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: New. IM ZEICHEN DER KRALLEN Vor 50 Jahren debuetierte ein heissbluetiger Mutant mit furchterregenden Klauen. Im Kreis der X-Men und auf eigene Faust eroberte der Beste seines Fachs die Herzen der Fans in Comic und Film. Doch was er am besten kann, ist nicht schoen. .

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. An uncommon first edition of this detailed work on etching and its adjacent practices by members of The Print Society. The first edition of this work.Uncommon.With 10 monochrome plates including a frontispiece etching by Frank Brangwyn, and 5 vignette diagrams illustrating standard artistic printing methods. Collated complete. Includes errata slip at the Foreword (pp.8-9) and advertisements to the rear, as well as two copies of advertisements for subscription to The Bookplate Magazine titled 'The Bookplate Magazine during 1921'. Each of these advertisements feature a front page illustration titled 'Fallitur Hora Legendo'. This is a greatly informative work on etching and its adjacent practices created by members of The Print Society, with sections dedicated to exploring dry point, aquatint, and mezzotint. In the publisher's original quarter linen cloth binding. Externally, smart with just one noticeable mark to the rear board and some dulling to the colour of both boards at the edges, as well as to the spine. Slight bumping to the top corners. Some spotting and toning to the fore edges. Internally, firmly bound with a few scattered spots and light toning throughout, but otherwise pages bright and clean. One small annotation, not affecting readability (pp. 144). Very Good Indeed. Multiple, inc. Frank Brangwyn, E. H. Hubbard, Percy Smith, Hugh Paton, Leslie M. Ward. (illustrator). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 90 pages. Fiction: Jealosy (part 1 of 4); That Samba Dress; The Pawn; The Music Stops; The Pipe; Navy Gal. Articles: Truman's Troubled Year; India's Crisis - famine and 100 millioln Muslims create a hard problem for the British government; 70,000 to One! (conclusion) - adventures on New Britain; Surgery can save 'Blue Children'; Are Baseball Managers Necessary?; Guy Madison; Big Business in Ham Radio; Rainy Day Fashions. Ads include: Ford Trucks; Gaines Dog Meal; Lord Calvert ad features photo portrait of author Stuart Cloete; New York Centra Railroad; Jayson Sportswear; Goebel Beer; Lucky Strike (back cover). Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Price, Garrett (cover); Karger-Pix, George; Klett, Walter; Kling, Wendell; Hill, Homer; Kortner, Al; Leason, Percy; Brown, Elmore; Engstead, John (illustrator).…