gilbert floyd (4 Ergebnisse)

Couverture souple. Zustand: Comme neuf.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Fransioli, Thomas Jr.; Rackow, Leo; Keller, Roswell;Darling, Gilbert; Chase, Francis; O'Halloran, Tom; Davis, Floyd; Grusstar,Gordon; (illustrator). First Edition. 78 pages. Articles: Get Off Route 25 - Charles F. Kettering teaches that a great challenge lies off the traveled highway; Young Man; The Life and Times of Sears, Roebuck (part 1 of 4); Collier's Sectional All-Star Teams; The King's Man - Charlie Campbell is considered a top unofficial 'ambassador' to the US; West from Fifth Avenue - article with sensational photos of Collier's new Manhattan headquarters and their million-a-day Ohio press; Payoff in Berlin (conclusion of "My 4-years war with the reds). Fiction: Cinderella Rides Again (part 1 of 5); The Ward Heeler and the Lady; Shooting Party; Don't You Cry for Me; Fifty of the Blue; Valley of the Tyrant. Includes these nice ads: Studebaker trucks (inside front cover); Bell telephone; Congress Playing Cards - featuring Mme. Lilly Dache; Zenith tvs, radios and phonographs; Columbia motorcycles; Good Year; Elgin watches; 1950 Ford cars; Samsonite luggate (color centerfold); Pall Mall cigarettes; Movie "Prince of Foxes"; New York Central Railroad; Schlitz beer; Blatz beer - featuring Pat Harder, 1948's most valuable player/star fullback of the Chicago Cardinals; Budweiser; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features Fred Astaire. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, December 3, 1949 Get Off Route 25 - Charles F. Kettering teaches that a great challenge lies off the traveled highway; Young Man; The Life and Times of Sears, Roebuck (part 1 of 4); Collier's Sectional All-Star Te.

1st edition. Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson. The Isthmian Library No.2. Contents: I. Of Cycles and Cyclists; II.The Cycle in Society, by Mrs F.Harcourt Williamson; III.On the Choice of a Machine; IV.On the Choice of a Machine (continued); V.How to Keep a Machine in Good Order; VI.The Humours of Cycling by Gilbert Floyd; VII.On Pneumatic Tyres and the Methods of Repairing Them; VIII.How to Ride; IX.On Touring and the Tourist's Outfit; X.Rides Round London by C.P.Sisley; XI.on Racing and Training; XII.On Clubs, Cycling Institutions, and Literature Devoted to the Sport; XIII.On Tandems, Multicycles, Machines of Peculiar Design, and Motor Cycles; XIV.How to Build a Bicycle. Pp.400/9(publisher's catalogue), black & white frontispiece +15 further black & white plates, occasional silhouette style vignette illustrations, gift message to inner front endpaper "To William Windsor with Lady Morgan's best wishes for a very happy New Year, Xmas 1899", owner's initials to front free endpaper, slight cracking to inner front hinge but holding firm, staining to closed top edge of pages (not affecting pages internally. Dark green pebbled cloth, gilt title and Isthmian Library motif (two naked wrestlers) to front board, gilt title to spine, minor wear to top and tail of spine and small bumps to corner tips. A lovely copy of a scarce book. G+.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Stanley Berkeley; Maud Goodman et al. (illustrator). Two volumes of the profusely illustrated 'Harmsworth Magazine', with illustrations by the noted Arthur Rackham and 'Volume One' featuring Winston Churchill's 'Man Overboard!'. Two volumes of the 'Harmsworth Magazine', volumes one and two.Illustrated with monochrome full page and vignette illustrations from a host of celebrated artists such as the noted Arthur Rackham, one of the most important illustrators of his time.In the publisher's original cloth.This set of volumes of the 'Harmsworth Magazine' features a collection of short stories, poetry and artwork by a host of important artists and writers such as Arthur Rackham. 'Volume One' is particularly of note as it includes Winston Churchill's first ever published short story, 'Man Overboard!'. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with a slight lean to 'Volume One' and bumping and slight wear to the extremities. Light offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and clean pages. Near Fine. book.