BOWYER Alison

Delia Smith. The Biography. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Andre Deutsch,, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettewred in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 4934

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sporting, cookery, cooking, gastronomy, food, delia smith, alison bowyer,

BOY SCOUTS ASSOCIATION.

Fundamentals of the Scout Method. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS: A RARE SURVIVAL

Boy Scouts International Bureau,, n.d. [c.1940]. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45812

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, pastimes, scouting, scouts, boy scouts

BRADLEY Graham

The Wayward Lad. The Autobiography of Graham Bradley with Steve Taylor. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Greenwater,, [2000]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON BLANK PRELIMINARY

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Book number: 26996

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

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BRIERCLIFFE Harold

Cycling's Touring Guides. [Complete set in original wrappers.] COMPLETE SET OF THE 'TEMPLE' TOURING GUIDES

Temple Press,, [1947-1950]. 6 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, covers of third volume loose but present and wanting backstrip, else a remarkably bright, clean set. With trade advertisements at front and rear of each volume. The set comprises No. 1: Northern England (1947); No. 2: Wales (1947); No. 3: Scottish Highlands (1948); No. 4: South-West England (1948); No. 5: The Midlands (1949); No. 6: Southern England (1950). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 44872

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, cycling, briercliffe, harold briercliffe, cycling touring guides, cycling magazine

BRIGHAM Richard

Guns and Goshawks. Country Life and Country Sports. Illustrated by Alan Langford. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Blandford Press,, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 28669

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, sporting, field sports, hunting, shooting, falconry, goshawks

BROOKE Brigadier Geoffrey

Lonsdale Library Volume I. Horsemanship. A Practical Book of Horsemanship. [With Veterinary Notes by Col. A G. Todd.] New and Revised Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Seeley Service,, [1959]. 8vo., with frontispiece and very numerous plates; original series binding of brown buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, brown top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with mounted illustrations (repeated from text) on upper panel and backstrip. Expanded and revised version of the original edition of 1929.

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Book number: 42540

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, sporting, lonsdale library, horses, horsemanship, hunting, geoffrey brooke

BROTHERTON Harry

Tench. How to Catch Them. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Herbert Jenkins,, [1956]. Sm. 8vo., Second Impression, with diagrams in the text, initial leaves lightly spotted; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, fore-edge moderately browned else a bright, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1954. Published in Jenkins' sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series.

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Book number: 48812

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, fishing, tench, how to catch them, harry brotherton

BROWN T. Graham

The First Ascent of Mont Blanc. Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Alpine Club. With a Foreword by Sir John Hunt. FIRST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1957. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates and double-page map, contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Scholarly examination of the controversy surroung the first ascent. Incudes detailed chronological history 1762-1854. Neate *120.

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Book number: 38921

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, mont blanc, gavin de berr, graham brown, sir john hunt

BROWN Jane

Lanning Roper and his Gardens. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, [1987]. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers, inscription on front free endpaper verso; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly sunned at edges else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 20632

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: gardening, horticulture, lanning roper, garden design, landscape, jane brown

BROWN & POLSON LTD

Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and 'Raisley' Cookery. NEAR FINE COPY

Brown & Polson,, n.d. [c.1920]. 8vo., First Edition, with 2pp of plates of utensils; original yellow cloth, upper board with pictorial paper label, yapped edges, a near fine copy. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.

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Book number: 24039

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

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BROWN Jane

The Omnipotent Magician. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Chapmans,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46455

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: gardening, horticulture, capability brown, landscapes, landscape gardening

BROWN Jane

The Omnipotent Magician. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Chapmans,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46456

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: gardening, horticulture, capability brown, landscapes, landscape gardening

BROWNE Captain L. S.

History of the English Turf 1904-1930. Supplementary to History of the English Turf by Sir T.A. Cook. FINE COPY

Virtue,, 1931. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and very numerous fine portraits and plates throughout; original brown faux-morocco cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, green edges, green endpapers, a fine copy., A sequel worthy of its illustrious predecessor. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 31872

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, sporting, horses, turf, horse-racing, horse racing, racing, steeplechasing, steeplechase

BROWNING Robert

A History of Golf. The Royal and Ancient Game. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Dent,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 7 pages of coloured plates and 32 monochrome plates, half-title lightly browned; original green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter chipped and frayed with minor loss at edges. A detailed and studious history, particularly of the early years, and a cornerstone of any golfing collection.

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Book number: 37726

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

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BULLOCK Mrs. H.

The Williamsburg Art of Cookery [Thirteenth Printing]. he Williamsburg Art of Cookery [Thirteenth Printing].

[Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg VA,, 1966]. 8vo., Thirteenth Impression thus, with a frontispiece; patterned boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt, sprinkled edges, a near fine copy complete with publisher's wrap-around band. Fine copy of this wide-ranging collection of old and new Virginia recipes. The book is styled as a facsimile of the first American cookery book: Park's 'Compleat Housewife' of 1742.

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Book number: 18958

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

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