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Baseball, fishing, hunting and golf have the most books. Skiing, boxing, mountain climbing and horse racing have smaller groups. Expect team histories, player stories and how-to books.



 

Picking Winners: A Horseplayer's Guide by: Beyer, Andrew

Softcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages. Charts throughout. Light edgewear to covers and spine, light soiling to page edges. Record # 603172
Price: $12.00 

 

Seattle Slew


Cady, Steve/Barton Silverman

New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 142 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603585


Price: $13.00 

 

Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL by: Feinstein, John

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 501 pages, 6 pages of color photos, full color photo on front of dust jacket. Book and dustjacket in excellent condition. Record # 603767
Price: $12.00 

 

Playing Pro Football to Win by: Unitas, John

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 165 pages, 8 pages of b&w photographs, color photograph on front rear of dust jacket, black cloth bound cover with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped with wear on edges and chipping on spine; otherwise a tight copy. Record # 603779
Price: $12.00 

 

Miller's Classic Motorcycles Price Guide 1998-1999 Vol. V by: Walker, Mick

Hardcover. Kent, Miller's, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. Record # 604175
Price: $12.00 

 

Fasig's Tales of the Turf with Memoir in Which is Included a History of the Cleveland Driving Park, a Review of the Grand Circuit, How the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland Was Started, and a Sketch of Fasig's Sale


Gocher, W.H.<

Hardcover. Hartford, W.H. Gocher, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages. Previous owners inscription and stamping on front and rear endpapers. Light rubbing to covers. Corners bumped. Memoirs of harness racing through the last half of the nineteenth century.

Record # 604572


Price: $19.00 

 

Early Percussion Firearms


Winant, Lewis

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza, Reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 292 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows wear, with small tears and chipping. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606922


Price: $15.00 

 

Tauromachy - The Story of the Corrida


Gyenes, Juan/Enrique Llovet

Hardcover. Paris, Art Et Industrie, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and full color tipped-in plates. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607724


Price: $20.00 

 

Green Mountain Boys of Summer - Vermonters in the Major Leagues 1882-1993


Simon (Editor), Tom

Softcover. Shelburne, New England Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609192


Price: $25.00 

 

Farewell to Sport


Gallico, Paul

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Blurb from dust jacket flap glued to front endpaper. Previous owners name on prelim. page. Light fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609277


Price: $30.00 

 

Path of the Paddle - An Illustrated Guide to the Art of Canoeing


Mason, Bill

Softcover. Toronto, Key Porter Books, Reprint, 1988, Book: Good, 200 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Some soiling and fading to covers. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 609291


Price: $18.00 

 

Champions - Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes


Littlefield, Bill

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 3rd Printing, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. INSCRIBED BY BILL LITTLEFIELD ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Bernie Fuchs. First edition, 3rd printing. Vermont Council on the Humanities stamp at bottom edge of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609754


Price: $25.00 

 

Race Apart - The History of The Grand National, A


Green, Reg

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609808


Price: $15.00 

 

Sharpening and Knife Making


Watson, Jim

Softcover. West Chester, Schiffer, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Book shows standard light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610126


Price: $13.00 

 

Broken Spoke, The


Gorey, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Full color and black & white illustrations by Edward Gorey. Price clipped dust jacket shows light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610269


Price: $44.00 

 

Compleat Angler, The


Walton, Izaak

Hardcover. Boston, Le Roy Phillips, Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 232 pages plus 8 pages of ads. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on cover and spine. Illustrated with 13 full color plates by W. Lee Hankey. Light foxing to some pages. Dust jacket missing chunk at top of spine - chipping and closed tears along edges.

Record # 610465


Price: $100.00 

 

Nathaniel Curry & Brother - Price List 1884


Curry, Nathaniel

Softcover. Berkeley, Paradox Press, Reprint/Facsimile, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Softcover. Facsimile edition of the N. Curry & Brother 1884 Price List. Black & white illustrations of firearms of the era. Abrasion at top of rear cover (Dime size) that has scarred inner pages to page 42. Clean, unmarked text/illustrations. Red pen mark at right edge of front cover - approx. 1.5".

Record # 611436


Price: $25.00 

 

Great Lawn Tennis Players - Their Methods Illustrated


Beldam, George W./P. A. Vaile

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1st, 1905, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with many black & white photographs. Slight gap between pages 160-161. Fraying, areas of wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine, hinge cloth exposed in 2 spots on covers - approximately 2" in each case. A good reference copy.

Record # 611617


Price: $75.00 

 

Tropic of Baseball - Baseball in the Dominican Republic, The


Ruck, Rob

Hardcover. Westport, Meckler, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611767


Price: $15.00 

 

Ghosts of Everest - The Search for Mallory & Irvine


Hemmleb, Jochen/Larry A. Johnson/Eric R. Simonson

Hardcover. Seattle, The Mountaineers Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611809


Price: $13.00 

 

Attack on Everest


Macintyre, Neil

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. , 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 172 pages. Hardcover. Flap from original dust jacket laid-in. Dime size faded stains on edges of pages 80-83. Brick colored cloth covers with title on spine and front in dark blue. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611923


Price: $63.00 

 

75th Anniversary of the National League


Jay Publishing

Hardcover. Jay Publishing, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Chipping, wear along edges/repair to paper at top of spine. Previous owners score notation in ink on front endpaper. Good.

Record # 612326


Price: $13.00 

 

Waterfowl Gunner's Book - An Anthology, The


Williamson (Editor), F. Phillips/William C. Steinkraus/Donald Shoffstall

Hardcover. Clinton, Amwell Press, Reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Trade hardbound edition. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Donald Shoffstall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612684


Price: $31.00 

 

I Go A-Fishing


Prime, W. C.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 365 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. A few pages with minor marginalia in pencil. Slight cock to spine. Rubbing to cover corners, head and foot of spine. Bump to bottom right corner of front cover.

Record # 613129


Price: $63.00 

 

Yukon Alone - The World's Toughest Adventure Race by: Balzar, John

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613716
Price: $12.00 

 

Cincinnati Reds - An Informal History, The


Allen, Lee

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 302 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 15 pages of black & white photographs. Moisture wrinkling to top half inch of spine cloth. A few pages with light moisture staining to very top edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, staining, previous owners repair with paper at top of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614199


Price: $38.00 

 

Frank Forester's Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen


Forester, Frank

Hardcover. West Virginia, Westvaco Corporation, Reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Hardcover. Olive cloth boards with gilt decoration, gilt titles to spine & ribbon marker. Illustrated slipcase with sunfading, detail of Woodcock Shooting, by John Bumstead, 1869. Profusely illustrated in b/w by John Bumstead, Frank Forester among others. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750221


Price: $23.00 

 

Iditarod Spirit


Heacox, Kim

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751341


Price: $25.00 

 

Meteorology For Glider Pilots


Wallington, C. E.

Hardcover. London, UK, John Murray, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Light toning to pages throughout. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Dust jacket with toning & wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751525


Price: $19.00 

 

Baseball History: An Annual of Original Baseball Research


Levine, Peter

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Meckler Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 166 pages, b&w photos, publisher's card laid in, very clean, tight copy, like new.

Record # 801182


Price: $10.00 

 

Baseball: 100 Classic Moments in the History of the Game by: Wallace, Joseph

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st U.S., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w and color photos from photo archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, very clean, tight copy, like new. Record # 801190
Price: $12.00 

 

Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men Behind the Ball


Edwards, William H.

Hardcover. New York, Moffat, Yard and Co, 3rd, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Contains black & white photographs. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 801748


Price: $26.00 

 

Golf Courses of the PGA Tour


Peper, George

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Foreword by Deane R. Beman, Commissioner of PGA Tour. Color photography by Brian D. Morgan, James Moriarty and Anthony Roberts. Maps by Elizabeth Peper. Spine slightly cocked.

Record # 801810


Price: $15.00 

 

Fenway: An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox by: Golenbock, Peter

Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages including index. Illustrated with b&w Photographs. The dust jacket is in great condition with minor signs of wear. The front endpages have a cut otherwise great copy. Record # 802496
Price: $12.00 

 

Steve Colgate on Sailing by: Colgate, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton Company, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Edited by Marcia Wiley. B/W illustrations. Pages, covers and dust jacket very clean. Record # 802706
Price: $12.00 

 

Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of NASCAR Legend Curtis Turner by: Edelstein, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Overlook Press, 1st, 2005, Dust Jacket: Good, 334 pages. B/W photographs. Blue covers with silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket lightly soiled otherwise clean. Record # 802868
Price: $12.00 

 

No-Hitter: The Complete Story of Baseball's Most Exciting Feat - The No-Hit Game


Pepe, Phil

Hardcover. New York, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1968, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gilt lettering on spine. Price-clip, wear to edges of dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 803279


Price: $10.00 

 

Education of a Horseplayer, The


Lewin, Sam

Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1969, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, green cloth cover with small black pictorial to front cover and black lettering to spine, green pictorial dust jacket. Wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 803280


Price: $10.00 

 

Fishing in Canada


N/A

Softcover. Canada, Canadian National Railways, na, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vintage travel brochure. Fold-out map in rear. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light shelf wear to covers.

Record # 803321


Price: $19.00 

 

Dog Watch, The by: Co-Editors: S. A. E. Strom & T. E. Goldfinch

Softcover. Austrailia, Shiplovers' Society of Victoria Austrailia, 31, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Front cover dirt spots. Back cover and spine foxing. Pages foxed. B&w photographs. Record # 803367
Price: $12.00 

 

Magnificent Yankees, The


Meany, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Part of the Big League Baseball Library. 4 b/w photos at front of book. Top edge stained brown. Light brown cloth with dark brown pictorial on front and dark brown lettering and decoration on spine. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Record # 803467


Price: $19.00 

 

Trout and Salmon


n/a

Hardcover. New York, Lyons, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Black cloth, silver lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket has minor shelf wear. Previous owner's ink stamp front fly leaf. Color photography by R. Valentine Atkinson.

Record # 803705


Price: $19.00 

 

Revenge of the Fishgod, The: Angling Adventures Around the World


von Essen, Carl

Hardcover. Forest Dale VT, Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Green cloth, gilt. Green pictorial dj. Map end papers.

Record # 803903


Price: $10.00 

 

Oceanographic Ships: For & Aft by: Nelson, Stewart B.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Blue rubbed cloth. Ex-lib with usual markings. Black & white photographs throughout. Record # 803970
Price: $12.00 

 

Story of American Hunting and Firearms, The by: Editors of Outdoor Life

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, Reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 172 pages. Good pictorial, price clipped dust jacket with tanned spine and repair marks in very good brown slipcase. 14 full color plates by Ralph Crosby Smith and many black & white illustrations by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. Record # 803975
Price: $12.00 

 

Great American Baseball Scrapbook, The by: Suehsdorf, A. D.

Hardcover. New York, Rutledge/Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Color photographs throughout. Very good pictorial dust jacket with price sticker. Record # 803984
Price: $12.00 

 

Smooth Moves: Juking, Jamming, Hooking & Slamming, Basketball's Plays, Players, Action & Style


Gentile, Derek

Hardcover. New York, Leventhal , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Rubber boards made to resemble basketball. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 804282


Price: $13.00 

 

Floating Harpsichord, The: One Sailors Log and Manuals for Solo-Sailing and Solo-Medicine by: Strykers, Peter H.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Record # 804300
Price: $12.00 

 

World's Best Golf, The: A Spectacular Guided Tour of the Greatest Golf Courses in the World


Davis, William H.

Hardcover. Connecticut, Golf Digest, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Blue covers, silver titles to blue cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket, profusely illustrated with beautiful full-color photographs by Stephen Szurlej and Brian Morgan, accompanying descriptions, contents organized under headings titled United States, Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Canada, Far East, Mexico and The Caribbean. Light rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; a very beautiful, neat, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 807114


Price: $25.00 

 

Rock for Climbing


Milner, C. Douglas

Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, na, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Well illustrated in b&w photographs depicting men in the act of rock climbing. Includes in -depth description of the sport. Black cloth bound, with silver lettering. In very good condition, pages clean. Small previous owner's name in pen on front endpaper.

Record # 807642


Price: $20.00 

 

I Think I'll Get One Hundred: Thirty Years of Whitetail Deer Hunting with Shotgun, Rifle and Bow


Cole, Harold

Hardcover. USA, Harold Cole Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Tan cloth covers, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering. Light soiling to cover edges, rubbing and light edgewear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808229


Price: $40.00 

 

GOLF CLUBMAKING AND REPAIR.


Paul, Carl

Hardcover. Austin, Paul Associates, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 539 pages, b&w illustrations. Small tears to dust jacket, spine slightly wrinkled. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 809175


Price: $30.00 

 

Story of Pro Football, The


Roberts, Howard

Hardcover. New York , Rand McNally McNally, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear, chipping, tanning to dust jacket, sunning to spine, previous owner's inscription on front end paper, else a neat, tight copy.

Record # 810141


Price: $12.00 

 

Target Archery, With a History of the Sport in America


Elmer, Robert P.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages plus index, b&w photographs and illustrations. Maroon covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Dark maroon top edge. Light rubbing to cover corners; crease to spine. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850984


Price: $75.00 

 

North American Head Hunting


Fitz, Grancel

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Foxing to top edge. Yellowing to inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850990


Price: $20.00 

 

Official 1991-92 New York Knicks Yearbook


n/a

Softcover. Westport, CT, Professional Team Publications, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear to wrappers, small tear to top of rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851429


Price: $25.00 

 

Wine, Women & Toros!: The Fiesta de Toros in the Culture of Spain


Kehoe, Vincent J-R

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket; small piece missing from rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851440


Price: $15.00 

 

Wine, Women & Toros!: The Fiesta de Toros in the Culture of Spain


Kehoe, Vincent J-R

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Edge wear, rubbing, creases to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851441


Price: $15.00 

 

Complete Angler, The


Major, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Lovell, Coryell & Co., ca. 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light rubbing to cover corners, chipping to top and bottom of faded spine. Ex-lib w/ bookplate inside front cover and sticker on bottom of spine. Light soiling to top edge. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851447


Price: $30.00 

 

Sportsmen's Encyclopedia


Bruette, William A.

Softcover. New York, Forest and Stream, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. B&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Minor wear and rubbing to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851611


Price: $28.00 

 

Valley of Zermatt and the Matterhorn, The : A Guide


Whymper, Edward

Softcover. England, Swindon Press Ltd, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages plus advertisements. B&w illustrations and maps. Previous owner

Price: $20.00 

 

Olympics 1976


Miller, Edward

Softcover. Burlington, VT, Common Sense Publishing Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Light wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851990


Price: $12.00 

 

Viewers Guide to the 1984 Summer Olympics


n/a

Softcover. Danbury, CT, Grolier Enterprises Inc, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Newspaper clippings with results laid in. Pencil markings. Some soiling to cover.

Record # 852013


Price: $12.00 

 

Mont Blanc and the Seven Valleys: Translated and Adapted by Roland le Grand with the Cooperation of Wilfrid Noyce


Frison-Roche, Roger, Pierre Tairraz

Hardcover. France, Arthaud, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages, with map laid-in. Minor dust jacket edge wear. Minor yellowing along dust jacket back cover edge. Otherwise, in very clean condition. With 169 helogravure illustrations. Protective clear dust jacket cover.

Record # 852267


Price: $80.00 

 

Ballplayers, The: Baseball's Ultimate Biographical Reference.


Shatzkin (ed), Mike

Hardcover. New York , Arbor House William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1230 pages. Oversized black cloth cover, gilt lettering, light wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Picture editors are Mark Rucker & John Thorn. Created and developed by Mike Shatzkin & Jim Charlton. Faint smudge on fore edge, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy. Very comprehensive.

Record # 853082


Price: $35.00 

 

Modern Fly Dressings for the Practical Angler


Jorgensen, Poul

Hardcover. New York , Winchester Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Photographs by the author. Introduction by Lefty Kreh. Preface by Art Lee. 224 pages. Black cloth cover, light wear to edges and corners. Dust jacket has small pieces missing on top edge. Many b&w illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 853159


Price: $20.00 

 

Currents & Eddies


Schaldach, William J.

Hardcover. New York , A. S. Barnes and Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Red cloth cover, bumped corners, light wear. Dust jacket is price clipped, has wear and tearing to edges and corners. Front flyleaf is missing. Beautiful color and b&w illustrations throughout. Inside is very clean and bright. A nice copy.

Record # 853255


Price: $40.00 

 

Sense of Where You Are - A Profile of William Warren Bradley, A


McPhee, John

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. Author's first book. Pages are age toned. Black & white photo section with a degree of damp wrinkling to the upper third of pages. Stain at top edge of rear inside cover. Black cloth cover, spine cloth heavily faded. No dust jacket. Unmarked text. Good.

Record # 853265


Price: $70.00 

 

Bullfight


Buckley, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages, b&w photographs by the author throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, minor edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853876


Price: $20.00 

 

Sporting Journeys in Asia and Africa


Crowe, Philip K.

Hardcover. Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages, b&w photos. Limited ed. 1/2500 copies. Green cloth, no dust jacket. clean, tight copy.

Record # 854709


Price: $15.00 

 

Polo Association Year Book 1923


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Polo Association, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages, illustrated throughout, gilt title and decoration on front cover. Light edge wear and rub, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854747


Price: $30.00 

 

North American Big Game: A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club


Ely, Alfred, H. E. Anthony, R. R. M. Carpenter

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 533 pages, with black & white photo plates, illustrations, and charts. Gilt moose and title on coper brown cloth board. Compiled by the Committee on Records of North American Big Game, with Alfred Ely as Chairman at time of publication. Light corner and spine edge wear, light browning along page edges, faint foxing on top edge, otherwise, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 854858


Price: $150.00 

 

Assault on Mount Everest 1922, The


Bruce, Brigadier-General Hon. C. G.

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, with black & white photo plates and two pull-out maps in rear. Gilt titles on blue cloth board. All plates intact and bright. Light corner bumps and edge wear, spine edge fray, binding cracked on front endpaper but no loose pages. Some faint spotting on top edge and light edge brown. Overall, clean and bright copy.

Record # 854859


Price: $350.00 

 

English Sporting Guns and Accessories


Hastings, Macdonald

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock & Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, with photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and faint foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 854900


Price: $15.00 

 

Notes on Fishing and Selected Fishing Prose and Poetry


Aksakov, Sergei

Hardcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855577


Price: $38.00 

 

Fishing Flues and Fly Trying: American Insects, Including Nymphs and Crustaceans


Blades, William F.

Hardcover. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Color frontispiece. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. B&W illustrations throughout. Previous owner

Price: $38.00 

 

American Fish-Culture: Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout; The Culture of Salmon, Shad and Other Fishes.


Norris, Thaddeus

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Gilt lettering along spine. B&W frontispiece. Boards are torn around edges. Foxing throughout. Small crack to spine.

Record # 855711


Price: $50.00 

 

American Trout Fishing


Gordon, Theodore

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Borzoi, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages. Some b&w illustrations. Shelf wear/rubbing to dust jacket. Remainder spray, top edge. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855713


Price: $19.00 

 

Fly Fisher's Life, A: The Art and Mechanics of Fly Fishing


Ritz, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 285 pages. B&W photos and illustrations. Green cloth boards have some tinting to top edge. Ex-libris sticker on front fly leaf. Newspaper clipping on author taped to back end paper. Dust jacket has some cracks and rubbing in broadart. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855716


Price: $25.00 

 

Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball


Spink, J. G. Taylor

Hardcover. New York , Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 7th printing, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages, b&w photos. Light wear, rubbing and sunning to dust jacket. Book itself is very good.

Record # 856030


Price: $25.00 

 

Guns of the Old West


Chapel, Charles Edward

Hardcover. Fairfax, VA, National Rifle Association, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, illustrated throughout in b&x. Red embossed faux leather with gilt title and decor, all edges gilt, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856316


Price: $15.00 

 

Negro Leagues Book, The


Clark (eds.), Dick, Larry Lester

Softcover. Cleveland, OH, The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages. Black-and-white photos throughout. Light edgewear. Minor creasing to spine. Damp stain on front cover and first few pages. Tiny indentation on rear cover and last pages. Very faint odor. Good, unmarked copy.

Record # 856422


Price: $15.00 

 

History of Golf In New York's Capital Region, The


Lonnstrom , Douglas A.

Softcover. Albany NY, CML Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 857460


Price: $19.00 

 

Encyclopedia of Tennis: 100 Years of Great Players and Events


Robertson, Max

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857500


Price: $19.00 

 

Contemplative Angler, The by: Wall , Roy

Hardcover. New York, Van Rees Press , reprint, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w decoration to cover. Dust jacket priced clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857507
Price: $12.00 

 

Gun Rod and Saddle: A Record of Personal Experiences


Gillmore, Parker

Hardcover. London, Gibbings and Co., 2nd, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, blue cloth covers with black and gilt design. An ex-library but aside from spine stickers and bookplate, a remarkably clean, tight copy. Doesn't appear to be a circulating copy.

Record # 900185


Price: $22.00 

 

Reel Baseball: Baseball's Golden Era, The Way America Witnessed It- In The Movie Newsreels


Krantz, Les

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Baseball's golden era, profusely illustrated. Forward by Yogi Berra. Includes a DVD featuring original baseball newsreels. Edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951211


Price: $15.00 

 

Thirty Years of Championship Golf


Sarazen, Gene

Hardcover. NY, Classics of Golf, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket. Reprint of classic golf biography. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951280


Price: $24.00 

 

Tunney: Boxing's Greatest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey


Cavanaugh, Jack

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 471 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of the famed boxer. Slightly soiled copy edges. Rubbing to dust jacket, edgewear to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951282


Price: $19.00 

 

Modern Fresh and Salt Water Fly Fishing


Waterman, Charles F.

Hardcover. New York, Winchester Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A practical, authoritative look at fly fishing. Mild rubbing and fading to dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf. Many black-and-white photos and illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951718


Price: $19.00 

 

Complete Book of Outdoor Survival


Fears, J. Wayne

Hardcover. New York, Outdoor Life Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 484 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. How to handle the full range of outdoor survival crises. Mild rubbing, fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951719


Price: $38.00 

 

Racing Game, The: A vigorous and fruitful study of a unique social world, exploring the abstraction of game theory principles from detailed observations, subjective probability and the role of information in an interactional framework

Hardcover. Chicago, Aldine Publishing Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Tight copy with light rubbing and wear to dust jacket.

Record # 2233369


Price: $15.00 

 

Baseball: A Literary Anthology


Dawidoff, Nicholas

Hardcover. New York, The Library of America, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 721 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Literary baseball anthology. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450072


Price: $13.00 

 

John G. Alden and His Yacht Designs


Carrick, Robert W./Richard Henderson

Hardcover. Camden, ME, International Marine Publishing Company, First Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 445 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Faint, thin line of sunfade to board edges. Inside is very clean & profusely illustrated. Dust jacket with light toning, sunfade to spine edge & small tears to edges. Tight binding, clean copy.

Record # 6670129


Price: $44.00 

 

Orvis Story, The


Hogan, Austin and Paul Schullery

Softcover. Manchester, VT, The Orvis Company, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Scratch to spine. Minor wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851571


Price: $50.00