Sporting from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Health and Strength [1907]. 8vo. First Edition. pp. 105, 106 advert, [8] adverts. 41 black and white photograhic and cinematograph plates, all complete. Green publisher's pictorial cloth. Some bumping and bending to boards and light wear to spine ends. There is one loose section. Professor S. K. Uyenishi, "Raku", was an instructor to The Army Gymnastic Staff, Head Quarters… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus 1903. 16mo. cci, [2], 320 pp. Full red leather, fine paper edition; gilt letteirng and devices to spine; a.e.g. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Foxing at endpapers, otherwise internally clean. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1903.

London: Stanley Paul 1959. 8vo. 159 pp. Red hardback in illustrated dust jacket (not price clipped). Slight discolouration and bumping to spine ends. Clean boards and internally. Rubbing to extremities and some wear and tear to jacket edges, particularly to spine ends. Back panel a bit marked. Plenty of black-and-white diagrams and photographic plates. The author and Davidge (writer of… Read more about this item

London: Thorsons Publishers, Ltd. 1951. Small 8vo. First edition. 112 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Chipping and very short tears to jacket. Light bumping and fading to extremities of book. Internally clean. Includes a number of black and white photographic plates illustrating aspects of rowing technique. Jacket is not price clipped. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1951.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1939. 12mo. 210, 40 [publisher's catalogue] pp. Blue cloth. Sunning to spine and slight bumping to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to edges, internally clean. Frontispiece and 31 black-and-white illustrations. A neat volume on the stroke, different types of rowing, coxing, racing and more. . Very Good. Cloth. 1939.

Berlin: Photokino-Verlag Hellmut Elsner 1937. 4to. English language. First edition. 32, 88 (plates) pp. Cloth spine and pictorial boards. Some rubbing to extremities and light scratching to boards. Internally clean. Includes techical data to the 88 photographs and an introduction to the photos by the author. . Very Good. Pictorial Boards. First Edition. 1937.

London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1889. 8vo.Illustrated. xiii, 458, [2] pp. Full maroon morocco with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, ruling and stamps to the boards including an Edinburgh Coats of Arms to the rear panel. Decorated endpapers with gilt decorated turn ins. Top edge gilt. With numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Rubbing to the spine and corners, a… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, & Co 1890. 8vo. xiv, 480 pp. Full maroon morocco with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, ruling and stamps to the boards including an Edinburgh Coats of Arms to the rear panel. Decorated endpapers with gilt decorated turn ins. Top edge gilt. With numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout by Thomas Hodge and Harry Furniss. Some rubbing… Read more about this item

London: A. D. Innes & Company 1897. 8vo. x, 346, xvi pp. Original green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine, rubbed at extremities. Small ink mark to fore-edge. Pencil owner's inscription to front pastedown (Edward Woolfe(?) | New College | Oxford | 1898). Scattered foxing. Frontis and other full-page illustrations (including one not in list… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1889. 8vo.Illustrated. xiii, 429, (2) pp. Full marroon morocco with gilt lettering and decoration to spine; ruling and gilt stamps to boards, including the Edinburgh Coats of Arms to the rear panel. Top edge gilt, gilt turn ins and decorative endpapers. With numerous engravings after Lucien Davis. Some scrates and rubbing to the leather. With… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable and Company 1897. Small 4to. First edition. 2 volumes: xiii, 510 pp. and viii , 671 pp., Full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front boards. Edges speckled. 16 plates in colour and b&w (complete) and numerous in text illustrations, alongside folding maps to the rear of both bindings. Rubbing to the spine… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton 1961. 8vo. First edition. 255 pp. Black hardback with gold lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Price clipped. Very slight sunning to tail of spine. Jacket is clean and neat. Some minor rubbing to spine ends and light creasing to top edge of back panel. Bright and clean internally. 46 black-and-white illustrations and plates. Documents the problems,… Read more about this item

London: Constable and Company Ltd 1993. Small 4to. Signed copy. 183 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Minor creasing to jacket extremities. Minimal bumping to book extremities. Signed by Gregory. Includes related ephemera inserts. Published to mark the 40th anniversay of the first ascent of Everest. Gregory was the official stills photographer and James (Jan) Morris was the Times correspondent. Includes… Read more about this item

London: G. Bell and Sons 1935. 8vo. First edition. xiii, 352 pp. Green cloth. Bumping to spine ends and extremities, scuffs to boards and sunning to spine. Mostly bright and clean internally, with the occasional page that has slight discolouration to the margins and light foxing to fore-edge. Inscription of previous owner to FFEP. Includes many high quality photographic plates… Read more about this item

Cambridge: W. P. Spalding [1887]. 4to. ix, 10-77, [2 ads.] pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and floral decoration to front board and spine; top edge gilt, others uncut. Boards quite marked and stained, light discolouration to spine and rubbing to extremities. Endpapers and fore-edge darkened and spotted, otherwise internally clean. Lots of black & white in-text decorations. A study… Read more about this item

London: Generation Yacht 2007. Large 4to. Unpaginated. White boards with blind stamped lettering. Light marks and minor scratches to boards. Internally clean. Large colour photographs of various footballers, including Wayne Rooney, Ronaldinho, and Cristiano Ronaldo. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 2007.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894 / 1895. 12mo. 2 volumes. xii, 162, [2]; viii, 197 pp. Red cloth with decorative gilt lettering to boards and spines; all edges marbled. Spines faded with some marking to boards. Internally clean. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol. 1. Black & white in-text illustrations and maps. Complete & all published in two volumes,… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock Limited 1980. 8vo. Signed presentation copy from Jim Fox. 144 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket (not price clipped). Some rubbing to jacket, with spotting to verso. Light bumping to spine ends. Internally clean. Inscription by Fox to title. 0706359828 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1980.

London: Macmillan 2013. 8vo. [xii], 404 pp. a fine first edition of this extraordinary story. A flavour of the book, precied from the blurb. An extraordinary journey of eight working-class boys in 1930s America striving for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin at the 1936 Olympics. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1977. 4to. x, 620 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in printed, price-clipped jacket. Some foxing to jacket and waterstaining at the base of its spine. Slight bumping and rubbing to book's spine ends. Foxing along fore-edge and top edge. Internally clean. Illustrated by the author. This is a heavy item and may… Read more about this item