BAILEY Philip

Who's Who of Cricketers. A complete Who's Who of all Cricketers who have played First-Class Cricket in England, with full Career Records. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Newnes [with] Association of Cricket Statisticians,, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, neat but lengthy inscription on front free endpaper; green buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 32872

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, sporting, cricket

BARKER Kathleen Frances

Dog Days. With Drawings [by the Author] in Colour and Black & White. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Heinemann,, [1938]. 4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 62 full-page monochrome illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, beige endpapers, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46754

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, pastimes, dogs, kathleen barker

BARKER Ralph

The Last Blue Mountain. With a Foreword by Sir John Hunt. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus,, 1959. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss at rear panel and two short closed tears. The story of the ill-fated 1957 expedition on Haramosh in the Karakorum. SCARCE. Neate 58.

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Book number: 37540

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mstock, mountaineering, climbing, christian bonington, r. barker, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, last, blue, mountain

BARNES (ed.) M.

The Mountain World 1958/59. English Version edited by Malcolm Barnes. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, 1958. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped and frayed at edges.

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Book number: 24041

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, mountain world, m. barnes, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, mountain, world, 1958/59

BARNES, ed. Malcolm

The Mountain World 1955. English Version. Edited by Malcolm Barnes. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Allen & Unwin,, 1955. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates (a number double-page) throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly frayed dustwrapper.

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Book number: 38925

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine, himalayas, hinalaya, mountain world

BASHFORD Sir Henry Howarth

Fisherman's Progress. NEAR FINE COPY

Constable,, [1946]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy. Fishing for salmon and trout in Norway, Scotland and Hampshire. VERY SCARCE. Hampton p.35.

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Book number: 17534

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, fishing, fly-fishing, salmon, trout, bashford, henry howarth bashford

BATES L. Vernon

Artificial Flies. How To Tie Them. [How to Catch Them series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Herbert Jenkins,, [1956]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, the latter moderately age-soiled and with neat but yellowed tape repairs. A scarce title in the much sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series.

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Book number: 21164

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, fishing, fly fishing, artificial flies, sports, sporting, l.v. bates, sports, pastimes, angling, artificial, flies

BATTISCOMBE Georgina

English Picnics. [CBC Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Country Book Club,, 1951. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 37978

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, picnics, english picnics, english cooking, battiscombe, georgina battiscombe, cbc, country book club

BAVERSTOCK L.

Brook Trout. How To Catch Them. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Herbert Jenkins,, [1961]. Sm. 8vo., Second Impression, with diagrams in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in pictorial price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed with minor loss at edges. First published in 1958. Published in Jenkins' much sought-after 'How to Catch Them' series.

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Book number: 19847

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: angling, fishing, fly-fishing, trout, brook trout, how to catch them, l. baverstock, sports, pastimes, angling, brook, trout

BAYNE-POWELL Rosamond

Housekeeping in the Eighteenth Century.

John Murray,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8 and a full-page illustration in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition.

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Book number: 13707

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, cooking, recipes, housekeeping, domestic service, rosamond bayne-powell, sports, pastimes, cookery, gastronomy, housekeeping, the, eighteenth, century

BEATY-POWNALL S.

Breakfast and Lunch Dishes. The 'Queen' Cookery Books No. 8. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

Horace Cox,, 1904. 8vo., Second Edition, with advertisements in the text; olive boards printed in red and blue, covers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy.

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Book number: 38009

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, beaty-pownall, breakfast dishes, lunch dishes, queen cookery books

BECKFORD Peter

Thoughts on Hunting in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN SIGNED BUMPUS BINDING

Sherwood Neely & Jones, Paternoster-Row,, [1820]. 8vo., with engraved frontispiece, engraved title, numerous fine engraved illustrations (a number by Bewick) in the text and and double-page engraved plan, preliminaries lightly spotted, some sidelining and occasional annotation in a neat contemporary hand; handsomely bound in red straight-grain half morocco BY BUMPUS, marbled boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, remarkably crisp copy. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Beckford's famous collection of twenty-four extended letters was first published in 1781. 'The corner-stone of a huntsman's library' (Gee).

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Book number: 45807

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: sports, pastimes, field sports, hunting, fox-hunting, beckford, peter beckford, bindings, bumpus

BEETON] [Mrs. Isabella

All About Cookery. A Collection of Practical Recipes arranged in Alphabetical Order and fully illustrated. Sixty-First Thousand. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Ward Lock & Tyler,, [c.1873]. 8vo., Sixty-First Thousand, with numerous line illustrations and plans in the text, some light and occasional spotting; original maroon cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt and blocked in black, yellow advertisement endpapers, joints very lightly rubbed, one gathering slightly proud else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 10pp publisher's catalogue at end, and trade advertisements in the text. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 38297

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Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, recipes, beeton, mrs beeton, isabella beeton

BEETON Mrs. [Isabella]

Beeton's Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book. A Practical and Useful Guide for all Mistresses and Servants. Entirely New Edition, revised and greatly enlarged. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Ward Lock & Co.,, n.d. [c.1900]. 8vo., with large folding coloured frontispiece, 7 fine coloured plates and 26 plates in monochrome, advertisement endpapers and title mildly age-soiled, some mild and inoffensive foxing (primarily marginal) throughout; original dark green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, firm copy. Complete with front and rear advertisement endpapers, and 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Isabella Beeton's final work, the 'Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery' was first published in 1865 and is second in importance only to 'Household Management'. Following her death in the same year, her husband's publishing house of S.O. Beeton was acquired by Ward Lock & Tyler [subsequently Ward Lock] who naturally set about reissuing all the 'Beeton' cookery titles. The 'Dictionary' was retitled initially the 'Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book' and from 1907 'Mrs. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery'. See Driver, p.102 and our own bibliography (in progress).

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Book number: 49398

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Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, beeton, mrs beeton, every-day cookery, everyday cookery

BEETON Mrs. Isabella

The Book of Household Management, comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid [etc]. Also Sanitary, Medical and Legal Memoranda. With a History all Things connected with Home Life and Comfort. Entirely New [Second] Edition, Revised and Corrected, with new coloured Engravings. Two Hundred and Eighty-Ninth Thousand. REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED, BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Ward Lock & Co,, [c.1869]. 8vo., Two Hundred and Eighty-Ninth Thousand, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 11 coloured plates and very numerous engraved illustrations in the text; green cloth, green roan back lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy in later nineteenth-century binding. Remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy of a later printing of the New [Second] Edition. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 47798

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: cookery, gastronomy, beeton, mrs beeton, isabella beeton, domestic service, servants, kitchen, household management