Archive for September, 2008

Golf Rules Illustrated: Revised to January 1980

Text is clean and whole, covers scuffed and corners bent.

Add to Your Golf Power

Top of boards sunned, dw chipped top and bottom with fading to spine. DW price clipped. Otherwise a very clean copy with firm binding.

Golf: The Great Clubmakers

Clean unread copy in a minimally scuffed dw.

The Playfair Book of Cricket Records

Two gift inscriptions in ink on front fep. Boards marked and scuffed, corners bumped but text is clean and whole with secure binding.

Harlequin Story: The History of the Harlequin Football Club

Text clean and binding tight. Past owner’s name in ink on front fep. Thirteen signatures in ink on half-title page. Top and bottom edges of boards sunned. DW chipped and torn at top and bottom edges; pieces missing at top edge.

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1998

Clean neat condition, minimal marking to fore edges of pages.

Dick Seaman: Racing Motorist

Text clean and whole, endpapers and fore edges of pages foxed. Binding secure but lower corners of boards bumped. DW has soiled spine, chipping, and tears especially to top and bottom of spine.

Road Star Hat Trick: Being an Account of Two Seasons of B. Bira


The Art of William Dobell

Stain on title page, last few pages have suffered insect damage but text is unharmed. Boards marked at edges, corners frayed and spine worn on edges. Binding is firm and plates and text are unmarked.

Ons Visse

“Uit die Natuur”. From the series of radio talks by Prof JLB Smith originally broadcast on the SABC in 1965″

Ou Vierpoot: Die Verhaal van die Selakant

Account of the discovery of the Coelacanth, translated from the English edition. Clean copy, firm binding in a slightly chipped dw.

Palekh: Icon Painting

Presentation inscription in ink on half-title page. Otherwise a fine copy in a fine dw.

Kaapstadse Trienniale 1991 = Cape Town Triennial

Light general scuffng to covers; a neat clean copy.