Sports & Pastimes
London, Ward, Lock & Co., [1929]..
'New and Revised Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket.
Transportative jacket artwork on this vintage guide to car maintenance.
Sports & Pastimes
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Land speed record holder, adventurer, treasure hunter and avid motor racer Sir Malcolm Campbell recounts his exciting life.
Sports & Pastimes
Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
London & Edinburgh, Gurney & Jackson, 1921.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.
Chapman narrates his expedition from Khartoum to Uganda via the White Nile, detailing hunts from gazelle in Sudan to elephant near the Zeraf River. His adventures also include encounters with buffalo, hippo, and rhino near the Blue and Dinder Rivers.
Sports & Pastimes
Being an account of one season of B. Bira, the racing motorist.
London & Watford, Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, Printed for Private Circulation only, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket.
The continued motor-racing adventures of Prince Chula's cousin Prince Birabongse Bhanudej (aka "B. Bira").
Sports & Pastimes
Foreword by Henry Maxwell
London & Watford, Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, Printed for Private Circulation only, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
"One notable book Prince Chula wrote in 1935, "Wheels At Speed," recorded his cousin Bira's first try as a race-car driver. The book was originally intended as a book for only friends and family, but after a few copies went public, interest in the book, increased. Publishers G. T. Foulis re-issued the book ten years after it was first written. MG aficionados will enjoy Wheels at Speed." Wikipedia.
Sports & Pastimes
Some lessons in the science of shot gun shooting
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5s.
A practical guide to guns and shooting, by one of London's then leading gunsmiths. Scarce in the dust-jacket.
Sports & Pastimes
Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, 1897.
First edition. 8vo. Blind-stamped 'with the author's compliments' to title-page. Original green cloth, gilt.
Seemingly scarce book on horses and horse-training from the Punjab.
Sports & Pastimes
London, Will Goldston, [1921].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in gilt. Dust-jacket.
The first edition of this comprehensive work on the ventriloquist's art, by a then leading British proponent of the artform. Scarce in the jacket.
Sports & Pastimes
London, Putnam, 1935.
First English edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket.
Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. Uncommon in the jacket.
Sports & Pastimes
London, Longmans, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, price sticker of 15/- to inside flap.
A very good first edition of this uncommon cookery book, "not merely a collection of recipes, but a compendium of useful information on every aspect of cookery. No Nigerian home should be without it." (jacket). The pink here is fresh and bright in the main.