crombie chas (9 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fair. Crombie, Chas. (Illustrator) Ilustrador. Edges of some cards and corners damaged with small losses. 9 colour postcards joined by perforations in a green oblong thin card cover which has mild darkening to back, light wear to covers' corners. Postcards clean and in nice condition. Undated - looks 1980's.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Chas Crombie Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 1st printing (n.d. 1906). 19pp (including 8 colour plates). Original quarter red cloth and red paper covered boards with black decorative titles and colour pictorial plate mounted to upper board. FAIR copy, almost disbound, lacking backstrip and amateurishly tape-repaired along spine, soiling and toning to front cover, tape-repaired again at both hinges, some pages loose, contemporary ink inscription on ffep, some minor foxing and staining to pages, but all plates remain present and bright with just some fraying to fore edges.

Original Wraps. Condición: Good. Crombie, Chas. Ilustrador. Oblong format, complete with 9 postcards, as called for, colors still bright. Cards still attached and unused, housed in the original stiff paper covers, with humorous descriptions for each card. Foxing to the back side of the postcards.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Crombie's humorous chromolithographs on the laws of cricket, published by Perrier. Oblong folio (37 x 27.5cm). 12 plates + chromo advert leaf for Perrier. Loose in case, the boards edgeworn and marked. Great Western Hotel Cardiff written on front board, childish scrawl to front cover and inside front and back covers (not affecting plates). Three plates with spot below illustration. From our large stock of cricket books and publications.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. Whitaker, W.G.; Bates, Leo; Soper, G.; Gillett, F.; Robinson, T.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Lane, Harry; Crombie, Chas; Tennant, Dudley Ilustrador. First Edition. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Fair. Wood, Stanley L.; Pearse, Alfred; Brock, R.H.; Crombie, Chas.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Waddell, J. Ilustrador. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Oblong 4to. The delightful color plates by Charles Crombie have brilliant colors, with the images in perfect condition, each with the postcard-sized Perrier labels mounted on rear (the mounting rippled the margins of each plate as in all copies seen). Original dark green cloth over green printed boards (some rubbing to binding; light ex-library markings). Description:Color Plates.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. CHAS. or Charles CROMBIE Ilustrador. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustjacket ISSUED ,UNDATED EARLY ,First Edition. VG/GOOD, NOJACKET, In original OBLONG paper covered boards. In GOOD condition with some minor wear and tear externally but internally a very good condition with FOXING. Oblong 4to Grey Boards TITLED IN RED & BLACK with wear edges & tears wear Along Cvr Spine , TEARS chips CVR SPINE AREA Oversized 14 3/4 X 10 3/4 IN. , Charles E Crombie, of whom little appears to be known, is now best remembered for the 3 books of cartoons he drew for the Perrier water company, based on texts from the The Laws of Cricket, Golf and Motoring.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Wide 4to. Title Page + 12 colour plates + colour advertisement plate for Perrier. Title page has the Perrier colour logo in top corner, rear of each plate has the colour Perrier cartouche. Original buff/tan pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, black lettering+ comical drawing of batsman in top hat hitting ball with three fielders on front + signature author on front. Covers slight dustiness, rub bottom of spine, very faint shelf knock front bottom corner. Contents slight browning to title page else clean & tight & unfoxed. ***. with Perrier logos and extra colour advertisement plates - the hallmarks of true first edition. Attractive copy. VG+/F- boards & contents.