Search Results: Authors starting with S from Snookerybooks

Greenwich, Conn.: Railroad Monographs, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 x 280mm. 70 + 6pp. illus. Saddle-stitched, staples rusted. Loosely inserted four folded maps all crisp and undamaged.

Kaapstad: Nasionale Boekhandel, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Boards clean. DJ a little rubbed along edges. 101pp. illus. + b/w plates + colour frontis. Binding tight. Signed by CR Swart, South African State President, to ffep.

Pretoria: RGN - HSRC, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. 49pp unmarked and seemingly unread.

New York: American Universities Field Staff, 1959. Hardcover. Good. Ex-lib with usual trappings. 20pp A4-size report bound in thick card boards with red tape backing. Outer edge of pages proud of boards rubbed and worn.

Tilburg: R K Jongensweeshuis, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Ex-lib with usual trappings. 102pp. unmarked but has been exposed to damp storage conditions with some staining but no adhesion. Top of spine scuffed with 1cm loss. Yapp-edged wraps. Still altogether serviceable. Scarce title.

Johannesburg: Voortrekkerpers, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. No. 88 of an unspecified number. Boards clean but sl. cocked. Rubbing to spine ends. Ex-lib with usual treatments. Plain endpapers. Small loss at top of spine. Prev owner's name to ffep. 111pp. sl. age-toned but unmarked and unfoxed.

Johannesburg: Afrikaanse Pers, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The boards are undamaged but faded as are the gilt spine titling and upper board crest. There is a ring mark over the crest. Plain blue endpapers. Some insect nibbling to ffep. Bit of light foxing to prelims. Tissue-protected frontis. Binding tight. 491pp. + [xxvii] illus. and incl. maps. Light stain to bottom edge of textblock and some spotting to the other two edges. Contents very largely undiscoloured with just a little bit of occasional sporadic spotting. No markings.

Kaapstad: De Nationale Pers, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Die Burgerleeskring reeks. Boards a little shelfworn with corners turned. Spine ends scuffed. Plain endpapers. Prev owner's name to half-title. Frontis. + 335pp. unmarked and undiscoloured + b/w plates. Binding very good. VG volume for age.

Kaapstad: De Nationale Pers, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 10e Verbeterde en Vermeerderde Druk. Boards shelfrubbed and worn. Bottom corners bumped and very rubbed. Spine sl. faded. Crack at title page and back joint tender but binding holding if sl. loose. Prev. owners' names to both pastedowns and to prelims. Contains very useful "Bladwyser vir Plaasname". 409pp undiscoloured and unmarked apart from a prev. owner's name to p. 157. Contains maps, illus. + b/w plates incl. frontis.

Pretoria, 1912. Hardcover. Good. Agtste druk. Gilt titling to spine. The boards are shelfrubbed and discoloured and there is a diagonal crease across the top outer corner of the front where the board has been bent. The corners are sl. turned and rubbed and the spine ends gently crushed. The front joint is tender, with some of the netting visible, but not cracked. The prev owner's name is faintly written to the front pastedown and to the bfep verso. The ffep and the half-title page bear the same person's rubber stamp. Patterned endpapers. The last leaf and the two back endpaper leaves have a vertical closed tear of 4-5cm immediately adj. to the spine base. Binding good. 334pp unmarked and undiscoloured. No publisher info.

Pretoria, 1911. Hardcover. Good. 7de druk. 334pp. unmarked. Plain green endpapers. No prev ownership marks. The title page is coming adrift. The spine gilt is faded and the boards are very rubbed and marked with scuffing at the spine ends.

London.: Pickering & Inglis, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Reprint. Boards clean, bit of rubbing to spine. Bookseller label to front pastedown. The clipped dw is worn, torn, and chipped at the edges and has been repaired with clear masking tape. Prize cert. tipped-in to ffep. 128pp. unmarked.

Heidelberg, Transvaal: Author, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. DJ Brodart protected. Boards lightly rubbed along edges. Small, neat prev owner's stamp to title page. 261pp. illus. unmarked apart from a handful of entries in the index which are highlighted. Binding tight. Loosely inserted a relevant newspaper article. Very scarce.

London: Adam & Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. First published in 1874 this is the "New Edition with Additions". Bevelled edges with blindstamped borders and gilt illus. and titling to front board and spine. Top outer corners rubbed. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper removed. Frontis. with tissue protection. Tissue foxed. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown. 324pp. unmarked and undiscoloured. Fold-out map facing p. 324. Binding tight. Nice copy.

4: Wm. C Brown Co., 1974. Soft cover. Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Laminated wraps. 61pp double-col.

University of Madras, 1976. Soft cover. Very Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Laminated wraps. 36pp unmarked.

New York: Praeger, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards sl. rubbed to extremities. 327pp bright and clean.

Ontario: Paideia Press, 1981. Soft cover. Fine. 124pp. illus.

Ontario: Paideia Press, 1981. Soft cover. Fine. 124pp. lightly tanned.

Author, 2016. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. New. 270pp. + a family tree.