Sport and Sporting

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 First printing of the stated first edition, green boards with gilt-lettered spine, 260pp. Boldly signed directly on the front-free endpage by defensive lineman Reggie White #92 (1961-2004) and quarterback Brett Favre #4; sale includes 2 certificates of authenticity, one from a registered sports authenticator, the other from the auctioneer from whom the item was purchased. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

William Blackwood & Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First. Hard Cover. 2" copper-colored stain to bottom right edge, front board. Edgewear to extremities, but overall binding sturdy, corners very lightly bumped. Foxing to front endpapers. Inner pages and photos bright and unmarked. Top-edge gilt, rough-cut pages. Frontis photo, 9 color illust. 30 full-page photo illust. Contents include: Early References to Golf At St. Andrews, First Competition, Method of Scoring, A Tariff for Payment of Caddies, Ownership of the Links, The Open Championship .

William Luscombe Publisher Limited. London.,1974. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo.(10.2 x 7.4 inches). Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, some in colour. Finely bound in recent leather binding of full red morocco. Spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Single ruled gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt. A lovely copy of this classic book.:

Country Life,Ltd.London. 1926. FIRST EDITION.8vo.(8.5 x 7 inches).Decorated initial letters to each chapter.A very good copy in a fine early binding by Bumpus of London.Half tan calf,spine with raised bands and twin light and dark brown labels,gilt.Marbled paper on boards.Circular brown calf label,with owners initials,on front board.Marbled endpapers.Top edge gilt,others untrimmed.Previous owners small neat inscription "C.M.H from K.M.H" on front blank endpaper.Some minor rubbing to extremities but overall a very good copy of this interesting book.In the introduction the author reveals his thoughts on dining. "Really intense and progressive people count the calories in carrots and the vitamins in veal and advise us to live on raw cabbage.This book is not for them,but for the bad lots who openly admit that they like the pleasures of the table and who enjoy life".

London: Stanley Paul and Co, 1960. 235 pages. B/w frontispiece and many b/w photo plates. Original red boards with rules, titling and publisher's device on the spine. The book itself is bright, crisp and flawless. The price-clipped dustwrapper, which is lightly worn and chipped at extremities, is without the usual sunning of the red spine. Rare. NOTE: The entire lower panel (rear cover) of the dustwrapper is an advertisement for Percy Cerutty's book Athletics: How To Become a Champion. The words "2nd impression" which appear at the bottom of that advertisement refer to Cerutty's book, not to My World on Wheels!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

London: George Newnes Limited, 1896. Complete in 6 parts, 140 pages, all pages illustrated. 15 Athletics, 6 Billiards, 6 Chess, 13 Cricket, 34 Cycling, 38 Football (Rugby and Soccer), 18 Golf, 4 Lawn Tennis, 4 Sculling, 2 Skating. A Who’s Who of Victorian British Sports, resplendant with their penny-farthing bikes and racing models, etc.Bound in magazine form.One magazine slight chipped on edges, staples rusty, covers in very good condition. Internally, rust marks sligtly showing on inner margin. Pages in very good clean condition. Very rare in parts. F. First Edition. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hutchinson & Co. London. 1911. REVISED EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with "forty-eight illustrations almost entirely from photographs specially taken for the work". Some foxing throughout, mostly to the margins, but still a very good, tight and square copy in the publishers green cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and illustrations to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt.

This is a scarce, bound volume of POLO magazine ("The Magazine for Horsemen") that contains 8 issues from January to August, 1931 with wonderfully illustrated color covers. "Volume V" is printed on the spine. Red, hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine (and the name "J.L. Lundean" in gilt at the base of the spine). Published by Quigley Publishing Company in the United States. The magazine was "obtainable by subscription only." Oversized - the volume measures 14 1/8" tall x 10 1/4" wide. "Hunting ~ Steeplechasing ~ Horseshows" - contents include general horsemanship, horse show results, sailing, steeplechase, polo and foxhunting, with many illustrations from photographs and drawings. The issues include great illustrated advertisements (some in color) for companies such as Brooks Brothers Clothing, Duesenberg, Abercrombie & Fitch, Izod, A.G. Spalding & Bros., Johnston & Murphy Shoe, Firestone, Fortune Magazine, and many more.The following 8 issues are included:VOLUME… Read More

South Africa: KC Publications, 1989 Limited Edition 578/1000. Signed by approximately 130 top rugby players. Abundant biographies and photographs. A collector's item. ---------- Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 8" Wide By 12"Tall

Hardcover no DJ. Spine is sunned. Book a bit sprung. There are 25 color plates on card. Please see photos.

In as new condition inside and out. DJ is not clipped. Name of bookshop label, Henry Sotheran Ltd stuck inside first page. See photos

Very good + copy of Strutt's classic study of medieval English games, sports, festival recreations and performances. First published in 1801 and reprinted many times in both quarto and octavo editions. First quarto edition with hand-coloured lithographs of the annotated edition by William Hone of 1830.Profusely illustrated with charming figures excerpted from illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, the Bodleian, Harleian and Royal libraries, etc.Joseph Strutt (1749-1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer famous for his work on the history of English costume and sports.William Hone (1780-1842), was an English writer, satirist and bookseller.Contains all forms of mental and physical recreation, from archery to bell-ringing, football to apple-bobbing, chess to bear-baiting, acrobatics to golf, jousting to gambling, opera to maypole dancing.With 140 b/w engravings in the text, and the same 140 illustrations reproduced on 40 finely hand-coloured, lithographed plates (frontispiece… Read More

Very good copy of Henry Rene d'Allemagne's classic history of sports and games of skill.With 100 lithographic and heliogravure plates (30 hand-coloured, many tinted) and 328 illustrations in the text. Games described include hoops, kite-flying, stilt-walking, spinning tops, hide-and-seek, darts, archery, carousels, bilboquet (cup and ball), the diabolo (Chinese yo-yo), tennis, golf, billiards, boules or petanque, wrestling, dancing, gymnastics, acrobatics, etc. The illustrations are facsimile heliogravures of ancient illuminated manuscripts, engravings, woodcuts and prints from the medieval era to the 19th century.Text in French.Henry-Rene d'Allemagne (1863-1950), was librarian at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal in Paris, an archivist, historian and specialist in decorative arts. He published books on many unusual subjects such as games, ancient locksmithing, illumination, playing cards, etc.Some browning to the decorative colour pictorial boards, t.e.g., marble endpapers, interior clean and bright with… Read More

Signed on the dust jacket cover. Display with your other Sports memorabilia. Book Like New with the exception of wear to the top of the boards at spine, covered by the dust jacket. Dust jacket has some movement marks and a slight crinkle at top of spine. Ships in a box with tracking.

Whitman Publishing Co. , 1938. Softcover. Good. 0x0x0. Collectible first edition, first printing of 1937 All-American Soap Box Derby and International champion Bobby Ballard's How to Build a Soap Box Racer: Blueprints, Construction Details, Helps and Hints. Published near the dawn of the soap box derby era, Ballard's how-to includes detailed instructions for building the Ballard car, blueprints and numerous photos of the then 12-year-old Ballard. Also includes an 11" x 8 1/2" sheet of additional instructions (presumably issued with the booklet) and a 1938 red, white and blue 8" x 5 1/2" Soap Box Derby entrant badge - Class A - with a Chevrolet logo along bottom edge. Topics include Tools and Materials, The Frame of the Car, The Axles, The Sections of the Body, The Brake, Assembling and Placing the Sections, Steering Gear and Covering the Body of the Car. Ballard was later a long-time inventor - among his accomplishments were the automobile rain switch and heated seat - he… Read More