Search Results: Sports from Purpora Books

London: Hart-davis MacGibbon, 1975. Paper tanned and small ink price top of front free endpaper; dust jacket is bright. The true story of how the third daughter of a poor Aborigine sheep-shearer became a world champion tennis player at the age of nineteen and a millionairess; 191 pages plus 16 pages of B/W photo illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1953. Some spotty discolouration of pale blue cloth boards; dust jacket is price-clipped, faded on spine panel and has a 1/4" tear top of rear panel. Portraits of the greatest football players of all time, including Tom Harmon, Doak Walker, Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Four Horsemen and others; 214 pages.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Faber, 1971. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. 170 pages with index, colour frontispiece, plus 16 B&W plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Hyperion, 1997. 290 pages with index plus 16 pages of B&W illustrations from photos. . Second Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

London: Blackie & Son, 1937. Bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner name top of front free endpaper, and very faint quarter-sized stain on verso of front free endpaper; dust jacket has 2" tear top of front flap fold and a 1" tear top of front spine fold. With "Moving" Pictures; 88 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Crown, 1950. Full-sized magazine, 180 pages including the covers. Covers have creases and wear at spine ends, and there is small spots of foxing inside the front cover along the fore edge and on next few pages. From the introduction "Shooting is more than a sport . . . it's a grand American tradition . . .". With illustrations of many types of guns and bullets.. First Edition. Magazine. Good Plus..

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1951. Bound in tannish green cloth with red lettering on spine. Ends of spine crimped; internally clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Dust jacket is not price-clipped, has significant wear to ends of spine panel, rubbing along folds of spine panel, and other creases and short tears. Of The Young Sportsman's Library. 184 pages.. Second Edition (Revised). Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Peter Biegel .