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114 pages. Features: Tribute to Tunnicliffe; Numbers 1 to 32 London (great photos of address numbers); The Appeal of Blue Peter; Four Paws for Freedom; London's Keystone Personalities; Charles Ledger - Adventurer Extraordinary; Belloc in Love; Mechanical Music in the West Country; Back to the Peacock Days of Cricket; History in Wax; A Penchant for Pin Cushions; The Man of the Mask; The Noble Chianti; Marianne North - the travels of a happy artist; Winter in Old Russia; Childhood in the 19th Century; and more. Average wear. Sticker removal mark in upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great issue. Book
Pages 77 - 120. Features: Photos of Hatfield, Lord Salisbury's Great Mansion where Elizabeth Tudor spent her youth; Photos taken aboard the S.S. United States; Great aerial photo of the S.S. United States entering Southampton Docks at the end of her transatlantic record-setting maiden run from New York; Rumania's Foreign Minister Mme. Anna Pauker is number one in the ranks of women communists; Interesting page of illustrations present a new technique of radar navigation which optically weds the radar picture to the actual chart; Photos of demonstration of underwater radio transmission; The houses of the iron age in Ultima Thule-Jarlshof excavations; Great photos show how Iron Age Shetlanders lived; The Army's university at Shrivenham; Scenes at the military college of Science; Photos of General Eisenhower - the Republican's candidate - and some possible Democrat candidates; Fantastic centerfold photo of the Republican convention which selected General Eisenhower as Republican Presidential candidate; Photos of personalities of the week, including open golf champion Bobby Locke and D.J. Hulbert, hero of the Eton v. Harrow cricket match; Photo of the U.S. battleship Missouri in Portland Harbour; Dr. Hewlett Johnson supports claims of germ warfare on the Chinese by the U.S.; Nice ad for the Humber 8-seater Pullman Limousine on back cover; and more. Back cover loose but present. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Sensational ad for Chas. Baker & Co's inside front cover for Correct College and School Outfits features young lad in top hat and older youth in bowler hat with walking stick; Title page illustration of British troops defending a home on the railway near Marcelcave; General Fochs - The Allied Leader (article); Ludi Humaniores - A Please for Cricket (article); Great Guns - Monster Cannon of Days Gone By (article); Page of photos of personalities of the hour includes Brig.-General Guy Livinston, Major-General Sir Hugh Trenchard, Lieut.-General Sir David Henderson, The Earl of Derby, M. Clemenceau, Viscount Milner, Austen Chamberlain, Baron Burian and Lord Bertie; G.K. Chesterton discusses 'My Mission to London' by Prince Lichnowsky; Half-page photo of British sailors on the deck of a Monitor behind her 6-inch gun; Excellent half-page photo from a Spanish mail-steamer off Cadiz which has been stopped by a U-boat which appears surfaced in the background with many crew members visible; Photos of scenes in Greece, France, Flanders, and London; Photos of curiosities of the war - a steel German sniper's mask, Canadian troops fixing detonators of Mills bombs in their trench, etc.; The Effects of Wind in Air Fighting (article); One-page illustration entitled "The New Battle of the Somme - British Troops Stemming the German Flood"; Article about Typhoid Fever; One-page illustration entitled "Our Fighting Retreat From Armentieres - The Five Days Defence of Erquinghem; Two pages of photos of troops where some of the fiercest fighting has taken place, and elsewhere in the front line; Centrefold image of a British field artillery battery in close action, with gas-masked gunners; Aided by "Reds" and "Whites" - Our Petrograd Embassy (8 photos); Where Germany Profits by Civil War - five photos from Finland and the Aalands; Roll of Honour - photos of 21 officers including Leiut.-Col. N.B. Elliott-Cooper who died of wounds; Photo of "The Women of Pervyse" - The Baroness T'Serclaes and Miss Mairi Chisholm have maintained a concealed dressing-station since the early days of the war; Photo of the automatic mono-wheel stretcher-carrier (like an extended wheelbarrow) which allows a single troop to move an immobile commrade; Nice two-colour Greys Cigarette ad on back cover features the woman trooper, Mrs. Christian Davis who fought in three battles and died in 1739; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
32 pages. Features: Children and Dogs Amuse Each Other; Britain Without Sign-posts; Cover photo of Mrs. Michael Menzies (the former Kay Stammers) playing tennis; Some Candidates for the New Derby - Photos of 11 fine horses; Wilfred Taylor - Broadcasting the Derby; Sport Lives On; Rapier Sums Up the New Derby; Winchester Avoid Defeat by the M.C.C. (cricket news); Derbys and Oaks of the Last War - photos of winning horses from 1915-1918; Now is the time to know something about a rifle - Sir Pelham Warner changes his bat for a gun - brief article with 13 photos; Bombay Hunt's Gymkhana (near Bombay) - 13 photos; How They Race at Beersheeba - six photos of camel racing in Palestine; Stowe Too Strong for Bedford - 14 cricket photos with brief captions; Roehampton Sunday - six photos of the Red Cross Lawn Tennis Tournament, including photos of Murray Deloford, Mrs. Frank Strawson, Miss G.M. Harvey, and Rosemary Thomas; Photos of theatre stars Evelyn Laye and Robert Helpmann (in drag); Movie news and photos; Centuries Plentiful in Public Schools Cricket; Sergeant Braddock rejoins marines at age 52; Openings along coverfold, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy example of this vintage wartime issue Book
130 pages, illustrated, index, small repairs to jacket rear, page edges tanned. eng
1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. VG/VG. One public library stamp, and date label on the rear endpaper. 12091. eng
Proof copy, 132 pages, illustrated, foxing to page edges, previous owner name on front cover and front endpaper. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 160pp. The story of the 1981 Cornhill Test when Ian Botham came back from a bad period in his career to receive the accolade of 'The Greatest Test Innings Ever' for his staggering second century at Old Trafford.
141 pages, illustrated, (World of Sport Library). eng
80 pages, includes articles on Lord Hawke, Les Fleetwood-Smith and Frank Smailes. eng
Volume 17 number 3, 100 pages, light wear to the covers. eng
Volume 13, number 4. 76 pages, special issue on wicket keepers including articles on Wally Grout and Paul Gibb. eng
72 pages, includes articles on Subhash Gupte and Charles Palmer. eng
72 pages, includes articles on Alf Valentine and Sourav Ganguly. eng
72 pages, includes articles on Ted McDonald and Shane Warne. eng
72 pages, includes articles on Ted McDonald and Shane Warne. eng
72 pages, special issue on Sussex cricket. eng
100 pages, special issue celebrating the diamond jubilee of the Cricket Society. eng
72 pages, includes articles on Frank Tyson and Mushtaq Ali. eng
82 pages, includes articles on Len Hutton and Bob Taylor. eng
76 pages, illustratedi, includes articles on Mike Gatting, Sunil Gavasker, C.L.R. James and Frank Worrell. eng
Lots of information on the activities of the Household Brigade in 1876. Page edges gilt. 314 pages. Four portrait engravings. Wear to top/base of spine and cover corners.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 274pp. A collection of the finest cricket writings by a host renowned sportsmen to John Cleese.
8vo., Fourth Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and very numerous full-page photographs in the text, free endpapers browned, contemporary pencilled inscription on free endpapers; original blue ribbed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition.
VG/VG hardback. clean tidy copy. 1 sticker to ffep. internally the odd small tarnish marks.
