walter pollock mitchell armstrong (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated guide to fencing, boxing, and wrestling from the Badminton Library series. First edition. Badminton Library. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventeen plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the sports of fencing, boxing, and wrestling. With the fencing section containing chapters on the practical instructions of the sport and singlestick. Written by Walter Herries Pollock, an English writer, poet, lecturer and journalist. With contributions from F. C. Grove and Camille Prevost. Boxing with chapters on the history of the sport, old school, and the art of boxing. Written by Edward Blair Michell, an English barrister, rower, boxer, linguist, authority on falconry and the author of books on a variety of subjects. Wrestling with chapters on Cumberland and Westmoreland, ring reminiscences, styles and systems. Written by Walter Armstrong, a British wrestler, Sporting Life writer, and esteemed match referee. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good. book.

Second Edition: Hardback, brown illustrated bds., gold titles and decs to spine, black and white titles to front bd., 140 x 195 mm., 1kg. (extra postage), 324 pp., with Index and Appendix, with a complete Bibliography of the Art (Fencing) by Egerton Castle, illustrated frontis with tissue guard and illustrated throughout with illustrations from instantaneous photographs, decorative eps., previous owner's name label on pdfep., foxing to prelims and reps., some darker marks to rear bd., light edge wear, no dw., Good+ copy. VG copy.

Half-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourth Edition. The book is finely bound in half leather, brown morocco spine and corners with five raised gilt ruled bands on the spine, gilt title lettering, top edge gilt.Marbled papered boards, and marbled endpapers. xiii, 304 pages.Illustrated with reproduced engravings ( intaglio plates and woodcuts) and photographs. " Illustrations from instantaneous photographs". 5.5 X 7.5 inches. The leather shoulder on the front board is stamped "Vancroft Farm" in gilt. and the original owner's name stamp is across the top of the fly leaf, also again on the back of one of the plates within the book.There are some very few scuffs and rubbing to the leather corners.Very good, and very clean throughout, with a very sound and solid binding.