Annual Of The Grand National Curling Club Of The United States For 1869 -

Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha Press. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. 198 pages: 11 x 11 in.: 3: Signed by Author: KB#005232: Book is SIGNED BY AUTHOR/EDITOR LAWRENCE WELLS on Title Page; Confirmed by him directly. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Corners of covers are very slightly rubbed; otherwise covers and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt). Special Thanks were extended by the author to CLAUDE FELTON of University of Georgia for his important help in obtaining the historical information and photos. .

Australia, 1952. Card Menu (4 sides). Farewell Dinner to Members of the Rowing Section of the Australian Rowing Team at The Hermitage Sydney, Friday May 30, 1952. Given by Members of earlier Crews to have rowed at Henley on Thames. 27 handwritten signatures on Menu, including those of previous Australian Rowing crews. Menu also contains the signatures of 13 members of the Australian Olympic Rowing Team for the Helsinki Games. Notable signatures include Mervyn Wood, who was the flagbearer for Australia at the Games and who also won a Silver medal in the Mens Single Skulls Event. Also, signatures of David Anderson, Philip Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Thomas Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Robert Tinning and Geoffrey Williamson who were part of the Bronze medal winning Australian eights. Front of menu features handwritten name of W. J. Dixon (Bill) who was one of the hosts, having competed for Australia at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Card. Very… Read More

New York: Lewis Copeland Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Text is clean. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Spine cloth wrinkled and spine lettering faded. Light wrinkle to cloth on back cover. NAP. Dates on title page and copyright page match. ; Bernarr MacFadden was a pioneer in the field of modern health and sports, coming a generation before Jack Lalane and Charles Atlas. MacFadden was beginning to build his health empire by the early 1900's. He paved the way for much of what the fitness culture takes as normal today. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950. First edition. From the library of Eric Roberts, famed climber who died in an avalanche while climbing Annapurna. Illustrated with excellent black and white photographs plus a frontispiece and full page drawings by H. G. Willink. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered on the spine in black, in the dustjacket with artwork by H. G. Willink. xii, 214pp. A very good, fresh and attractive copy, the dustjacket with a little wear at the edges and some minor general mellowing. FIRST EDITION, AND ONLY THE THIRD ENTRY IN THE "NEW ALPINE LIBRARY" SERIES. "No library of books on Alpine Climbing would be complete without a contribution from Lord Schuster, whose 'Peaks and Pleasant Pastures' is among the very best books ever written about mountaineering. Lord Schuster shares with Mr. Leo Amery, as Mr. Arnold Lunn reminds us in his introduction to this volume, the distinction of having been president both of the Alpine Club and of the Ski Club of Great Britain. His… Read More

Birmingham, AL: New Life Art. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 9780967596303 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edgewear; Signed and inscribed by Chris Fowler and Payne Stewart ; Color Illustrations; 200 pages .

College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2006. Third Printing. Hardcover. 1585444723 . Book is Very Good + (plus). Signed inscriptions by both Dat Nguyen and Rusty Burson on front end page. Clean and unmarked text. Tight and sturdy binding. Very light bumping and wear to cover corners and edges. DJ is very good + (plus) . Very slight bumping and wear to DJ cover corners and edges. ; [SIGNED by BOTH Authors]; B&W photographs; 9.30 X 5.90 X 1.20 inches; 228 pages; Signed by All Authors .

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917, hardcover, 295 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good condition. Straight, tight and clean, slight spine-end and corner wear, tiny nick to bottom edge of front board and interior front hinge, page edges and endpapers age-toned, tidy original owner's name to front pastedown, in clear, glassine dustwrapper. A collection of turn of the century sports stories featuring the teams and students of Yale University. Illustrated with drawings on 4 black-&-white plates.

Madison, OH: Sunrise Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly rubbed.. 1994. Hardcover. 1881755037 . Dark green cloth housed in green paper-covered slipcase. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon page and further inscribed on the front free endpaper. Index, bibliography. " All significant American sporting book series as well as publishers that produced sporting books exclusively are discussed. Each chapter provides a brief history of a specific company and pertinent bibliographic descriptions of each title they produced." Publisher's prospectus laid in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 325 pages .

Barre, MA: Barre Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Slipcase is toned with owner name on . one side panel.. 1965. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies. Brown cloth with top edges and clear acetate jacket housed in printed cardboard slipcase. A collection of natural history and fishing stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages .

England: A Weatherby's Publication, 1996. Slipcased. Hardcover. Fine. Very minor rubbing to tips of corners; bottom rear corner ever so slightly bumped, else As New. Bottom rear of slipcase bumped. Photo is of the copy here at Barbed Wire Books.