Sports: A Reference Guide
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. Red stamped beige cloth boards, octavo, 317pp., not illustrated. Book shows mild soil to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Sports
Football Thru the Years
New York: Gridiron Publishing Company, 1940. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1940. Quarto, green cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, heavily illustrated, 114 pp, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, light age-toning to the pages and page-edges, soiling and wear to the book's covers, no dust jacket...
Spitting On Diamonds: A Spitball Pitcher's Journey To The Major Leagues, 1911-1919 (Sports and American Culture)
Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 2005, First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. A Fine, tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket.
The Table Book, of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry Makings. Antiquities and Novelties Complete History of the Year
London: Thomas Tegg, 1832. Hardcover. 1832, Edition not stated. Hardcover, green cloth. Possibly a high quality library rebinding. In Very Good+ condition. There is a book plate present to the front free end paper that indicates that this volume was at some point part of a university library rare book.....
Classic Baseball Photographs, 1869-1947
New York: Smithmark, 1999. First edition thus. Hardcover. First Smithmark edition, 1999. Large quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 182 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Life in Germany; or, Scenes, Impressions, and Every-Day Life of the Germans, including the Popular Songs, Sports and Habits of the Students of the Universities
New York: AMS Press, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. 1969, reprint of the 1849 original. Hardcover, maroon buckram. Fine copy. A facsimile reprint.
Netting Out Basketball 1936: The Remarkable Story of the McPherson Refiners, the First Team to Dunk, Zone Press, and Win the Olympic Gold Medal
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 340pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild shelfwear to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
The Sizzler: George Sisler, Baseball's Forgotten Great
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 2004, First Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with one smalls scratch on the back. Clean contents. Tight.
Our Big Game: A Book for Sportsmen and Nature Lovers
New York: Charles Scribner, 1904. Hardcover. 347 pp. w/ 16 b&w plates. Very Good- copy in green cloth, gilt decorated front board and spine, gilt titles, original yellow text blocks. No DJ. Light, general soil of cloth, illustration is unharmed; Light wear at corners and head and foot of cloth.....
A History of Yale Athletics 1840-1888: giving every contest with Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Wesleyan and others in Rowing, Foot ball (football), Base Ball (baseball), Track Athletics, Tennis
New Haven: R. M. Hurd, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 1888, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo., originalb lue cloth with title label. 134 pp., plus ad. Frontis of Yale Field and plate of the 1886 crew team, plus other in-text illustrations. Near Fine. Minor shelfwear to the extremities; clean and unmarked contents.....
The American Association on Parade, 1936, Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Minneapolis, MN: American Association on Parade, 1936. First edition. Paperback. 1936, Softcover, pictorial wraps. 102 pp. A Good+ copy: fading along spine from what looks like tape reinforcement; faint pencil signature on the front wrap; soil to rear wrap; light edgewear. Clean and unmarked contents; sound binding. The American Association.....
British Sports and Sportsmen: Sportsmen of the Past. Complete in Two Volumes
London: Sports and Sportsmen Limited, ca. 1900s. Limited ed. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. ca. 1900s. Numbered copy 888 of 1,000. Hardcover, folio, in full red leather with gilt titles, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, and dentelles. 325pp total, with tissue guarded engraved portraits of each sportsman covered. Near fine.....
Getting-Up Exercises for Men and Women (1918 poster)
Battle Creek MI: Battle Creek Sanitarium, C. 1918. Housed in a folder measuring 6.5 x 4 inches, poster folds out to 17.25 x 15.75 inches, showing young man demonstrating some exercises to do to "start the day right." Light wear and discoloration to wraps and a couple short repaired tears.....
Vintage NBA Basketball: The Pioneer Era (1946-56)--A Mostly Oral History
Indianapolis, IN: Masters Press, 1996. First printing. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, large octavo, 235pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome wrap showing mild creases to rear panel, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Baseball Guide and Record Book 1944
Saint Louis, MO: Charles C. Spink & Son, 1944. Paperback. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. c.1944. 8vo. 304pp. Very Good. Some creasing to wraps, short tear along top rear edge of wraps, occasional dogearing to pages.
Sport Pix April 1949
New York: USA Com Magazine Corp, 1949. First printing. Magazine. octavo, magazine with paper wraps, book is in very good condition with edge and corner wear, creasing to the spine and toning to the text block, 98pp.
Golf: A Good Walk & Then Some--A Quintessential History of the Game (Second revised edition)
no place: Mountain Lion Press, 2015. Second revised. Hardcover. Gilt stamped green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 476pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has mild rubbing and wear.
Golf: A Good Walk & Then Some--A Quintessential History of the Game [Inscribed by Jenchura]
no place: Mountain Lion Press, 2010. Hardcover. Inscribed by Jenchura! Gilt stamped green paper covered boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 428pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ shows same mild wear to spine ends...
Program for the Yale Princeton Football Game, November 12, 1927, with color cover by John Held Jr.
New Haven: Yale University Athletic Association, 1927. Paperback. Published 1927, stapled quarto wraps, 84 pp, illustrated throughout. VG copy with light soil to covers. Yale claimed title to being National Champions in 1927 but it was disputed, as three other colleges presented similar claims. Very rare in such nice condition.....
Bats
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1971. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 316 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed and inscribed by Davey Johnson on.....
Famous American Athletes of Today, Second Series, Revised Edition
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1943. Second printing. Hardcover. Second printing, 1943. Pictorial cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 328 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, a bit of rubbing to the edges of the covers.....
Dressing Flies for Fresh and Salt Water
Rockville Center: Freshet Press, 1973. First printing. Cream and green board in dust jacket, 192pp.
Guide and Souvenir Book for the 83rd U.S. Open Championship, Conducted by the United States Golf Association at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, PA, with Two Course Maps, Two Lists of Grouping and Starting Times, and Two Tickets
Oakmont, PA: Oakmont Country Club, 1983. Paperback. June 16-19, 1983. Paperback, 8vo. in illustrated wraps. 304pp. with advertisements and illustrations throughout. Near fine, with minor cover wear only. Includes two official course maps and guides, two lists of groupings and starting times, and two stamped admission tickets laid in. The.....
Inside Big League baseball
New York: Macmillan, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 1962, First Printing. 98 pp. Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Illustrated. Near Fine copy, no dust jacket. light wear to spine ends and corners; rear cover lightly scratched; bookseller's old price sticker on the front pastedown. Clean and unmarked contents. A lovely copy of Kahn's.....
The Book of Sumo: Sport, Spectacle, and Ritual
New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Kenrick! First edition, 1969, hardcover with purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 171pp., illustrated in b&w, laid in ephemera. Book VG+ with mild shelfwear to boards, binding tight, faint off-setting to endpapers, page 20 off-set from laid in newsclipping, otherwise.....