SEGRAVE, SIR HENRY (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Segrave, Sir Henry. The lure of speed / with a preface by the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley. Illustrated. First cheap edition. London: Hutchinson & Co., August 1932. Hardback, Good to Fair, no dustacket. Red cloth, rubbed and marked, with black frame to front. Corners bumped, spine sunned with minor damage to top. Binding good, spine a little cocked. Light foxing to endpapers. Frontispiece b/w portrait. Foxing to title page. 288pp., b/w photographs. Contents clean and bright. Small black mark to bottom edge of page block. Sir Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave (22 September 1896 13 June 1930) was an early British pioneer in land speed and water speed records. Segrave, who set three land and one water record, was the first person to hold both titles simultaneously and the first person to travel at over 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) in a land vehicle. He died in an accident in 1930 shortly after setting a new world water speed record on Windermere in the Lake District. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. None Ilustrador. The first cheap edition of this autobiographical work by Henry Segrave, retracing his career in the motoring world. The first cheap edition of this work. Henry Segrave was a pioneer in land speed and water speed records. He was the first person to hold both land speed and water speed records, and the first to travel at over two hundred miles per hour in a land vehicle. In this work, originally published two years before his accidental death in the Lake District, Segrave retraces his career as world's champion racing motorist from 1922 to 1927, with chapters dedicated to racing, the Grand Prix, his arrival in America, and sharing some observations.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and other plates of photographs. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear and some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Some fading to the spine. Previous ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor spotting to the fore edge, affecting the occasional leaf throughout, although generally the pages appear generally very clean and bright. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and other plates of photographs. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st cheap edition. Hutchinson & Co, London, UK. 1st cheap edition 1932. Hardback. 288 pp. Condition: Good with slight bending to top and bottom of spine and very minor foxing to page edges. No DW. 220x140 mm (8.75"x5.5") approx. B&W photos.

hard back. Condición: V.g. No Jacket. 1st cheap edition. 288pp. Frontis. portrait of Segrave and illustrated with 19 photos. 1st published 1928. Red cloth sunned to the spine and board edges. Sound clean copy. Neatly inscribed 'C. Nigel Mackie 1933' Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First cheap edition. Vg+++ hardback copy. Complete with jacket, the front cover of which is very good. However, the spine has sustained three large chips with chipped loss; approx size of loss in each case 2 by 1 inch, 1 by 1.5 inch, 1 by 1.8 inch. Removable protective mylar applied, for gloss and sheen. Very small chip, approx 1 by 4 cm, to footer of page 237-8. B&w photos.