Windward house new york (33 risultati)

soft cover, name in the corner of the first end paper, 179 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches, very good + book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile fiction.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. (1933), 4to, xviii, 200pp, profusely illustrated. Extremities worn, scuffing to top two inches of backstrip, moderate soiling, Fair, contents G. From the foreword: "In the following pages, Mr. Smith gives the reader much valuable information on methods of applying intensive game management. He, himself, has practiced these methods in the state of New York for many years and speaks with experience and authority. Those who contemplate developing shooting grounds under such licensed shooting preserve laws as have been recently enacted in a number of progressive states will welcome such a helpful work.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 4to, illustrated, 200 pgs., no writing or notes on pages. Bound in green cloth, light staining on spine, wrapped in a very good dust jacket. Some light soiling on spine jacket, otherwise good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition color photographic softcover wraps. Contents include: Introduction; Kareem Abdul Jabbar; Billy Cunningham; Walt Frazier; John Havlicek; Connie Hawkins; Elvin Hayes; Spencer Haywood; Lou Hudson, Jimmy Walker and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Here are the early lives and career highlights of nine of the greatest ABA and NBA players. Featured are: Walt Frazier, the backcourt magician who led the New York Knicks to the NBA championship.John Havlicek, the perennial "clutch" player of the Boston Celtics.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Milwaukee Bucks' super centr - a double threat on offense and defense.And Billy Cunningham, Connie Hawkins, Elvin Hayes, Spencer Haywood, Lou Hudson, and Jimmy Walker. Each of these stars has a special talent - scoring, ball-handling, defense, play-making - and each has proved he can help his team win!" - from the rear outer cover.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. First Edition Thus. First US trade paperback edition. Creasing to three corners and front edge of front panel with general wear and tear. Text block tanned, but clean with solid binding. 1st Printing. Jules Feiffer (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 186 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and some rubbing on the covers; no interior markings. Cover art by David Smiton. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Unusual stories from the world of baseball. Size: 8vo. David Smiton; (illustratore). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Green cloth with gold lettering. Reprinted from 1934 edition. very clean and nice. Paul Brown (illustratore).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good Plus. First Thus. First American Trade edition after limited edition. Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover with gilt spine lettering dull in a nearly complete Good Plus dust jacket with many small tears and tiny chips along the edges. Some scuffing. Ralph L. Boyer (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. (xviii) 200pp with copious illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations to front and spine. Handsome ownership bookplate of Windsor Holden White pasted to fep. No other inscriptions. Spine sunned and lightly crushed at extremities. Textblock and illustrations clean tight and bright. A pleasing copy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Early 20th century book on trout fishing. Introduction by George M. L. La Branche. Illustrated with drawings. Minor wear/marks. Ralph L. Boyer (illustratore). Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Printing. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 926 pages Weight Over 1 Kg. Gloria Bley Miller's Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook is one of the largest, most comprehensive and authoritative Chinese cookbooks published for the English-speaking reader. This is a book that will open your horizons to a whole, fascinating world of cooking, The thousand dishes will tempt your palate with every turn of the page. Also included are sections on Chinese cooking techniques and how to prepare and serve an authentic Chinese meal. Winner of the coveted Tastemaker Award for Excellence. Earl Thollander (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. A piece is missing fron the back and spine of the dust jacket. Ralph Boyer (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Front board a bit shaken with some staining to the spine panel. Text and photos clean and unmarked. Photographs (illustratore).

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Very good copy. Illustrated with photographs. Former owner's name dated 1935 on front free endpaper and recto of frontispiece. In addition, "In memory of Riviere Ecorces, Quebec" is written in a different hand on the front free endpaper. We acquired several such angling books that had belonged to the same owner, each with a different note remembering a fishing trip.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 126 pages with index. Illustrated with many photos of Foxhounds. Binding has slight wear and a couple of minor stains, now protected in mylar. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front free end paper. A scarce book on English foxhounds.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Original illustrated red cloth binding stamped in gilt. Spine sunned and edge wear to boards and spine ends. Small bookplate type label to pastedown (initials HW). Hinges loose with cracking at gutters, however binding is firm. Otherwise internally in very good condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for details and feel free to request further information.…

Condizione sovraccoperta: FAIR. FIRST. F / FAIR.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paul Brown (illustratore).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. xvii, 210pp., glossary, ill. Red cloth, near fine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Slight spine fading and rubbing. Introduction by David Gray. Boyer, Ralph L (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This book is bound in bright red boards with bright gilt letters on the front cover & spine. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. There is a bookseller's sticker on the bottom edge of the front end paper. The contents are clean, bright & unmarked, the binding is tight. Second printing after the 1928 Limited Edition Derrydale Press printing. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gilt titles & cover decoration; 8vo; 240pp; illustrated with drawings by Ralph Boyer plus b/w photos; pictorial dust jacket; introduction by George La Branche. "A book of practical advice by an angler of international reputation, that will help every trout fisherman." Also, contains the text "Magic Hours" which has become a Derrydale rarity. This copy in VG condition while the uncommon jacket is good with a few edge chips and light wear.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Gilt-stamped maroon cloth; 8vo; 302pp; illustrated with frontispiece photograph plus 14 other b&w photos. The first trade edition, as the book was simultaneously published by the Derrydale Press the same year. As with all Boone & Crockett publications (this being their 7th book), the content is made up from contributions from members of the club. Sporting adventures in Asia, Europe and North America with Kermit Roosevelt, Prentiss Gray, Madison Grant, Henry Shoemaker, Frederick Burnham, Charles Curtiss and others. This copy in VG condition with spine lightly sunned and titles dulled; a tad of light foxing to preliminary pages only; period inked name and date to front free endpaper o/w internally clean with all plates bright.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Frontispiece drawing of two men with caption "Can ye no say Ed'nbur-ra!" Green cloth, gilt title bright on spine and front, 237 browned pages. DJ beneath mylar, colorfully illustrated with map of Scotland as a golf course, praise for book on back. DJ worn and torn at edges and tips. Fair DJ/Near Fine book. Brown, Paul (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover bound in blue/green cloth. Overall wear/fading to boards and spine. Pages clean, binding tight. Old used price in ink on ffep.

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good -. frontis, xix, [3], 1-156 pp. Book: Some fading of spine, a small dampstain on external cloth at bottom of rear hinge area. In red linen with gilt printing over black background and a design on the spine. Spine states: Windward House. Windward House on title page, copyright 1934 date on copyright page. Printed in U.S.A. Press of Braunworth & Co. Inc. Book Manufacturers, Brooklyn New York at bottom of page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Trade edition, hardcover, the binding is shaken and sits at a lean, but continues to hold, and the book also has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, sunning to the spine and head, wear to the titling on the spine, rubbing to the cloth with faint cup rings to the back, light smudging to the edges of the text block, and spots of foxing to some pages. Overall, this is a solid, Good copy.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Good. "This novel is no ordinary book of instructions. In it you follow the adventures.of a duffer who goes to Scotland to learn by easy stages the correct principles of Golf, at every point of the game - on the Tee, on the Fairway, in the Rough and on the Green. You also absorb the Philosophy of Match Play from Tammie and The Deacon, two old time Scotch Caddies." Illustrated with 4 B&W Ink Drawings by Paul Brown. Frontis is an Illustration of an elderly Scot grasping a young gentleman's head "Can ye no say Ed'nbur-ra!" 237 Pages. Delightful Story and highly instructive. Green Cloth Cover with Gilt Lettering to spine. No inscriptions. Only a few light spots of browning to page edges, 5 pages have 2 or 3 very faint spots in the lower margin. Pages in very nice, clean condition, no inscriptions. Very light wear to edges, tiny piece of cloth missing from very bottom of spine (1/4" wide X 1/8"). Some edgewear and a little chipping to jacket, small piece of it missing fromt top of spine (see photo). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown, Paul (illustratore). …

Original Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good -. frontis, xix, [3], 1-156 pp. Book: Foxing on fore edge, endpapers, and first few leaves. Dustjacket: chips and nicks with some minor loss at corners and head and heel of spine. In blue buckram with gilt printing over black background and a design on the spine. Spine states: Garden City Publishing Company. Windward House blind stamp on bottom of rear cover. Windward House on title page, copyright 1934 date on copyright page. Printed in U.S.A. Press of Braunworth & Co. Inc. Book Manufacturers, Brooklyn New York at bottom of page. NAP shown, no other dates shown. Dustjacket: Windward House colophon logo just above Garden City Publishing Co. at bottom of spine, and a full page of ads for Windward House titles on dustjacket rear panel. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. An underground classic. A young American travels to Scotland to learn how to play golf in order to win the hand of the girl that he loves. While in Scotland his hopes and dreams change. Octavo (5.75" x 8.5"), 237 pp, publisher's decorated green cloth; front panel and spine stamped with author and title in bright orange. First edition. Touch of wear to base of spine and lower corners; corners lightly nudged although still sharp; dustjacket; binding is strong and interior mark free; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with light shelf wear to. rear panel and top/bottom of spine; spine is slightly faded but still sharp. A bright, very near-fine example. Paul Brown (illustratore). …