sam rockett (7 risultati)

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 191 pp. Bound in red patterned red library buckram cloth. Ex-library copy with stamps. Extremities worn including corners and head and tail of spine. Scattered foxing, but otherwise a good copy. Illustrated by 15 pages of black and white photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece. Very good account of cross channel swimming, which remains one of the best works on the subject. Sam Rockett (1919-89) was a famous figure in Folkestone in the 1950s, assistant manager and instructor at the open air pool and training supervisor for the Daily Mail and Butlin's international Channel races, 1950-51 and 1954. KENT CHANNEL SWIMMING KENT SWIMMING CHANNEL 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED KENT.

Condizione: Good. 1956. First Edition. 191 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated jacket over blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Signed by the author in blue pen to FEP, with inscription "To Lady Waldegrave with best wishes". Includes B&W photographic plates. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Endpapers have strips of tanning caused by jacket. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Slight sunning to edges of spine. Mildly dusty joints. Book has a heavy forward lean. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket (priced 16s net) has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is a touch rubbed and marked overall. Jacket moderately foxed overall, heaviest to front panel.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Whalley, Peter (cover art); Tregillas, Henry; Rockett, Paul; Tata, Sam; Croydon, Peter; Fenyon, George; Bier, David; Arbuckle, Franklin (illustratore). First Edition. 96 pages. Features: Nice GWG apparel ad (for women) inside front cover; Two-page colour ad for Simmons mattresses; Canada should get out of the Arctic - so says Clement Attlee; White Rose service station ad; Great colour photo ad for the Chevrolet Nomad 4-door station wagon; The Sleazy World of the Call Girl; Frank Scott - the poet who fought Duplessis; The High and Mighty Mackenzie - Nile of the North; A renowned psychiatrist explains why common sense won't work with chilren; The complex riddle of missing persons; Donald Smith - the fur trader who grubstaked our nation; The Famed and Fearsome Muskellunge; Jack Kent Cooke and will Canada ever get a major league baseball team?; Nice colour photo Red Cap beer ad; Great colour ad for B-A service stations; Colour photo ad for the Renault Dauphine; Colour photo ad for Hertz features pink 1959 Powerglide Chevrolet; Sweet colour ad for the 1959 Dodge; Nice colour photo Caterpillar ad features loaded logging truck in B.C.; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe beer inside back cover features Irish setter licking lady; Coke ad on back cover features spring flowers; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 191pp including index plus 19 illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in protected unclipped dustwrapper. Author's signature to ffep. Cover a little discoloured at edges. Wrapper creased and torn at top edge with chips and small losses at extremities. Eps lightly foxed. Textblock clean tight and bright. A very good copy indeed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Brown cloth bound boards with black titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is NOT price-clipped. There is some Very light edge-wear/chipping to the dustjacket extremities. The dustjacket is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks VG Plus/Near FINE. There are some light foxing (brown) spots to the page fore-edges and to the rear endpapers, otherwise there are NO Inscriptions or other marks. 191 pp. Illustrated with b/w plates. Index. This is a Very Clean, Tight, Bright, and Crisp, 'Very Good Plus' copy of a Very Scarce Title. . "Sam Rockett was one of only nine finishers out of 24 competitors in the First Daily Mail International Channel Race of 1950, Cap Gris Nez to England, 22nd August 1950, and was the first Briton home. He wrote the still sought-after book 'It's Cold in the Channel' which is a compendium of Channel lore which still arouses great interest." (Dover Museum). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Curtin, Walter; Rockett, Paul; Tata, Sam; Long, Jack V.; Ehricht, Horst; Watt, Erik; Macpherson, Duncan (cover); Hill, James (illustratore). First Edition. 68 pages. Contents: Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover features construction of the 67-mile link between Calgary and Banff; Anticipating B.C.'s big blast at Ripple Rock; Article 1201 of the Customs Tariff makes Canadian Customs Officers Censors - in spite of themselves; Nice colour-photo ad for the 1958 Ford; The Large Family Isn't the Best Kind Now - so argues Dr. Robert Brockway; Humourous BMO full-page ad shows mad housewife, laughing daughter, and a hole where the stove sat. before mom threw it out the window!; Telephone Swindlers - how they operate and why they're seldom caught; Quebec scriptwriter Laurette Larocque-Auger - article with photos; The Coming Revolt Against Leisure; The Non-Taxable Loves of Mrs. Ollenberger (fiction); The Great Back-To-School Boom - the strongest surge in adult education the nation has ever seen; We Took Our Girls on an Arctic Vacation - Erik Watt and family attempt an eleven-hundred mile trip down the Mackenzie River to Aklavik in a 14' boat; Handsome full-page colour ad for the Buick Limited; Swiss Watch full-page ad features Norman Rockwell image of watchmaker at work; Nice one-page colour ad for Labatt's '50' Ale; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1958 Dodge features road construction scene; Colour ad for Beatty clothes washers; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features well-dressed couple in an elegant setting. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 191 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear, including head and tail of spine. Some wear to board edges with a little foxing and damp staining at lower edge and corner; otherwise a very good copy. Signed by author on title page. Loosely inserted: clippings on new book and press notice of 1989. Illustrated by 15 pages of black and white photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece. Very good account of cross channel swimming, which remains one of the best works on the subject. Sam Rockett (1919-89) was a famous figure in Folkestone in the 1950s, assistant manager and instructor at the open air pool and training supervisor for the Daily Mail and Butlin's international Channel races, 1950-51 and 1954. KENT CHANNEL SWIMMING KENT SWIMMING CHANNEL 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED KENT.