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199657095Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press 1996. Second printing. 8vo pp. 89. In Spanish and English on facing pages. Paper wraps. About as new. Curbstone Press unknown books
1952W171BDLondon: Cassell & Co. 1952. Dark green cloth with gilt spine titling. Brown spine label is chipped with some loss of material. Gift inscription on ffep. Joints splitting end papers and edges soiled. Fine detailed history with many color and monchrome plates. Contributing authors are among the best British commentators on golf. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Cassell & Co. Hardcover books
192728010924London: The Nonesuch Press 1927. Second impression. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper litho on board. Twenty 20 full page color illustration. Rhyming text verso facing illustration. The adventures of Mr. Tootleoo and Mrs Cockyollybird on land sea and in the air. Measures 7 3/4"" x 10 1/2"". The Nonesuch Press books
1934GG818-097London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. xii 247 pp. Half-title prefatory note by Bernard Darwin; text clean unmarked. Black-stamped green cloth; binding square and tight light rubbing at spine hinges light shelf wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscriptions on front free end paper. GG818-097. Very Good. This book is a important artifact by the inventor of golf journalism Bernard Darwin. Darwin was the grandson of the great naturalist Charles Darwin. For forty-five years Bernard Darwin wrote reports on golf for The Times of London and the weekly Country Life. According to Herbert Warren Wind "We are simply very lucky that a man of his high talent was so smitten by golf that he wrote endlessly about it." This volume contains Darwin's ruminations on golf heroes tales from the links and first-person recollections from a storied career. REFERENCE: Golf World Hall of Fame online resource. Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover books
19619018561Michigan: Michigan State University 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth covered boards spine stamped in gilt. Some shelfwear to dust jacket at the edges and extremities. Appendix bibliography index. <br/><br/> Michigan State University hardcover books
B23320-NLovell Coryell & Co. Collectible - Acceptable. No date but 'preface to the 2nd edition' is dated 1874 title page states 'new edition revised and augmented complete in one volume'. Burgundy cloth w/gilt. Corners bumped and lightly worn. Spine ends are a bit ragged. Ink owner name to fep w/date of 1935. Interior is clean and sound pages are browned. Waterstain to top edge of text block and a bit on fore edge. No dust jacket. Lovell, Coryell & Co hardcover books
B21814-ND. Appleton and Company. Collectible - Acceptable. 1868 Appleton early US edition brown cloth edgewear wear to corners and spine heel about 1 3/4 inch of backstrip at spine head is missing tears to backstrip at sides front hinge cracked owner stamp to front pastedown pencil notes to page opposite half-title owner name in pencil to title page foxing and pencil underlining to some pages pencil arrows in some margins o/w clean hinge cracked in a couple of places but binding still sound diagram opposite p108 is in very good condition no dust jacket photo on Amazon shows frontis of Darwin - our copy does not have a frontis not sure if it ever did. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1893W1020CDNew York: D. Appleton and Company 1893. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and rules and boards decorated in black and blindstamped. Damp staining on edges and pre and postliminaries. A good reading copy of an important Darwin work. First American Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. D. Appleton and Company Hardcover books
18692002020London: John Murray 1869. 5th. very good. Fifth edition tenth thousand as stated on title page and copyright page. Book very good repair at front and rear gutters. Page 29/30 missing. Comes with custom-made slipcase. John Murray unknown books
200224042002. COON Darwin E. ALCATRAZ: THE TRUE END OF THE LINE. Sacrament CA: New Desmas Press 2002. 8vo. printed wraps. First Edition. Signed by Coon on the half-title page along with his prisoner number and the years he was incarcerated in Alcatraz 1959-1963. An autobiography of the life and times of former inmate Darwin Coon. Coon also served time in the Iowa Training School for Boys the California Youth Authority the Federal Reformatory in El Reno Oklahoma the Nevada State Penitentiary in Carson City and the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Coon was among the last prisoners to leave Alcatraz when it closed. Fine. $10.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
187318366Cambridge: Riverside Press. Very Good. 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers spotted mottled; some staining to contents; light foxing; Good; first edition . Riverside Press hardcover books
1896002387S.-Peterburg St. Petersburg: Tipografiia A. A. Porokhovshchikova 1896. Late 19th-century Edition. Very good. Late 19th-century edition; 8 1/2 x 6; pp. 3 6-232 2 I-XXIV; rebound in 1/4 cloth and marbled paper over boards; small rubbed spots to corners; thin strip from remnants of original wraps along hinge on title page and a few scattered spots; illustrated with 24 wood-engraved plates; very good condition. A beautifully-illustrated edition of Darwin's work on the domestication of animals and plants it was first published in Russian in November of 1867 two months before the actual English-language edition as the translator - philosopher and paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevskii - had personally corresponded with Darwin and had translated and prepared the text for the Russian publication well in advance. No copies in OCLC or in the trade as of December 2018. Tipografiia A. A. Porokhovshchikova hardcover books
1903205843New York: Longmans 1903. hardcover. very good. 114 pages. Slim 8vo gilt-lettered maroon cloth; ex-library copy with several small plates lower front corner bumped. London: Longmans 1903. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/> Longmans unknown books
1912RDARJOU00BCD. Appleton and Company 1912. Very Good. Darwin Charles. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle Round the World. Naturalist's Voyage Round the World . New York: D. Appleton and Company 1912. 512pp. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt stamped titles. Book condition: Very good with light soiling on rear cover. A very clean and tight copy of an early Twentieth Century edition of a great work of natural history. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
192268590London: Mills & Boon 1922. First edition of this collection of Darwin's golf columns from The London Times. Octavo original cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Bernard Darwin on the front free endpaper "To G.M. from the author with his best regards. Sept. 1922." It was customary for Darwin to sign "from the author" which denoted a personal affiliation with the recipient. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. "It has been said that Darwin's writings established the standards for golf reporting against which all others are measured" D&J. Murdoch 178; D&M 13880; D&J D4000. Mills & Boon hardcover books
1920319900London: Country Life Ltd 1920. First trade edition. Illustrated with 14 of 18 mounted color plates. Title page printed in green. 19 3 pp. With tipped in instructions to those wishing to frame the plates at end. 1 vols. Folio. Original green cloth-backed decorated boards title label on upper board cord ties. Some rubbing to extremities foxing to text leaves else very good plus with bright plates. First trade edition. Illustrated with 14 of 18 mounted color plates. Title page printed in green. 19 3 pp. With tipped in instructions to those wishing to frame the plates at end. 1 vols. Folio. Donovan & Murdoch 13890 Country Life Ltd unknown books
19849020590London: Souvenir 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and extremities of dust jacket else fine. <br/><br/> Souvenir hardcover books
291321hardcover. 28 illus. 8 in color. 48pp. 8vo blue pictorial boards. London: Collins 1947. vg<br/><br/> unknown books
1933117034London: Duckworth 1933. First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper. The grandson of British Naturalist Charles Darwin golf writer and amateur golfer Bernard Darwin was an authority on Charles Dickens. When Oxford Press issued all classics by Dickens around 1940 each with a foreword by a Dickensian scholar Darwin was chosen to contribute the foreword to The Pickwick Papers. Duckworth hardcover books
194865225London: Collins 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. With Illustrations by Elinor Darwin. London: Collins 1948. First edition. The grandson of British naturalist Charles Darwin Bernard Darwin 1876-1961 was an accomplished amateur golfer who covered the sport for The Times from 1907 to 1953 and for Country Life from 1907 to 1961 becoming the first writer ever to cover golf on a daily basis rather than as an occasional feature. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2005. In the twenty-nine essays in this collection Darwin elaborates on such varied topics as his boyhood attachment to tin soldiers his "fundamentalist's" faith in Sherlockiana his affection for small railroad junctions situated thrillingly close to some favorite golf links the "restful excitement" of watching a cricket match and the pleasures of a day spent in bed. Signed by Darwin on the title page. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding with gilt titles. The spine is touch sun faded. Some light edgewear to the dust jacket with a bit of mild foxing to the rear panel and flap; otherwise very good. Collins hardcover books
1947275483London: Country Life 1947. hardcover. very good. Illustrated including three in color. 94pp. thin 8vo green & yellow cloth edges untrimmed. London: Country Life 1947. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Country Life unknown books
199936992n.p.: Ailsa Inc. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0940889498 . Foreword by Sidney Kahn. A reprint of the 1926 Sidgwick and Jackson edition. Near fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket as issued thus. . Ailsa, Inc. hardcover books
19869017415Ailsa 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original blue quarter cloth and blue cloth boards cover and spine stamped in red and blue. Illustrated throughout. <br/><br/> Ailsa hardcover books
198520848n.p.: Ailsa Inc. Near Fine. 1985. Hardcover. A reprint of the 1944 Chatto & Windus edition. Near fine in blue cloth. No dust jacket. . Ailsa, Inc. hardcover books
198828342Pownal:: Storey Communications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0882664859 . Illustrations by Harry Rountree. A facsimile of the 1910 edition. First printing thus. Foxing on top edge else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Storey Communications, hardcover books
