Bells life (6 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 88 pages. C J M Carter / School-ship for the Breakers" / W A Connell "Bells And Other Relics" / J H Isherwood"Hamburg-Amerika Liner 'Furst Bismarck' Of 1890" / Barbara Hinds "Saga Of The 'San Rafael'" / John D Rogers "Christmas Memories" / F G Whitnall "Lionel Lukin: Inventor of the Life-boat" / W A Laxon "The Blue Emu at Sea" (2) / John Young "Group Order For Dutch Owners" / E W Argyle "More Norfolk Island Issues" / Capt. N A Holmberg "Last Voyage of the 'Favell' (8) (SL#49).…

hardback, 8vo, iv,432pp, title page, Contents and Introduction detached, slight browning, contents otherwise clean and sound, owner's bookplate on endpaper, half-leather binding, worn, front board detached, lacks half the spine backstrip; Fair condition.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Gilt titles on red cloth boards which have marks, age darkening to spine which has a 3 inch separation. internally there is a subscription library plate to front endpaper, age toning to closed edges, endpapers and slightly to page margins, else unmarked. 313 pages + 6 pages of advertisements. Illustrations in the text. Edited by 'Ephemera' of Bell's Life in London' whose advertisement is to front, together with a sketch of Walton's life. Not dated but new books from the catalogue to rear are from early 1880's. 2 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

First edition. xxvi + 582pp. Original flexible linen green covers with gilt pictorial decoration to upper cover. No inscriptions. VG.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 'New Edition'. 1853. Contemporaneous grey cloth binding with embossed floral designs front and rear, gilt titles and floral decs to spine. B/w pictorial title pages and frontispiece (engraving). xiv, 326 pp. B/w illustrations from engravings throughout. Clean and bright with only light occasionel foxing to edges. No inscriptions. Attractive binding glossy and all sound, including the joints. A splendid copy in original binding. VG+.…

Leather. Condición: Very Good. A smart copy of this account of the battles for the Boxing Championship as issued in "Bell's Life in London" and "Boxiana." An account of the battles for the boxing championship, with details of celebrated prize battles from the days of Figg and Broughton to the middle of the nineteenth century. With chapters on early champions, Jem Belcher, Tom Cribb, Jem Ward, Caunt and Bendigo, Jack Scroggins, Dick Curtis, Ned Adams, and many more. Compiled from articles in "Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle" an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886, and "Boxiana" a series of prizefighting articles written by the English sportswriter and journalist Pierce Egan, and part-published by George Smeeton in the 1810s. Bound in quarter brown calf with green cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good. None (ilustrador). book.…